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Kyle K.

Kyle K.

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Most Favorable Review

I just love it

Acer Aspire One AOA110-1722 Sapphire Blue Intel Atom N270(1.60 GHz) 8.9" WSVGA 512MB Memory 8GB SSD Netbook
Acer Aspire One AOA110-1722 Sapphire Blue Intel Atom N270(1.60 GHz) 8.9" WSVGA 512MB Memory 8GB SSD Netbook

Pros: Everything works out of the box. Quality is good. It feels better in hand than most $500 laptops. Best bargain among netbooks. If your thinking about a eee 701 get this instead, you will be glad you did. I could not expect anything more from this for the price. Keyboard is better than eee

Cons: The only real con for this laptop is that you have to totally disassemble the laptop to add ram or change the ssd. Sound is average laptop sound boomy and no range. Although I don't hear any buzzing or electrical noise.

Overall Review: Everyone thinks its a con that this has poor performance with windows. It does, but they sell a windows version and it has a hard drive for a reason. If you must install windows. Buy the fastest sd card you can and put your profile directory on it. Disable prefetching, virtual memory, system restore, indexing and make sure you format fat32, not ntfs. Thats what I have done and I'm happy with it. If you want windows save yourself the hassle and get the windows version.

Most Critical Review

Do Not trust any AM3+ MSI board

MSI 990XA-GD55 AM3+ AMD 990X + SB950 USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
MSI 990XA-GD55 AM3+ AMD 990X + SB950 USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: I have had over a dozen msi boards and have loved their features and reliability until I tried their AM3+ boards

Cons: I'm on my third MSI AM3+ board and every time the VRM's have failed and caused a no boot, no post.

Overall Review: So honestly, yes this problem is probably not msi's fault they probably just picked a bad supplier, but I keep trying to get mine replaced hoping they have found a good supplier but to no avail. So MSI do the right thing recall your MSI AM3+ boards and save your reputation, thank you

12/13/2011

Expensive, cool and fast

GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 ATX Graphics Card GV-N307TAORUS M-8GD
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 ATX Graphics Card GV-N307TAORUS M-8GD

Pros: Cool temps, lots of rgb if you like that sorta thing, huge heat sink, quiet

Cons: Power hungry, even at idle this graphic card uses 35 watts so get used to a heater in the room LCD screen requires bios like upload to put anything on it why?

Overall Review: I bought this for flight simulator and running a ultrawide 1080p, its overkill for my needs... Only afraid I wasted my money since flight Sim should have a software update and 40% speed increase coming out next month. Buying during a shortage didn't help either... What i dislike more than anything is the power usage. Power usage with two ultrawide monitors and a ryzen 5950x now pushes 200 watts idle and almost 500 at full tilt... So time for a window ac I guess

Fan's have a faint tick which at certain speeds reverberates through case and becomes LOUD

Fractal Design Define S2 Vision RGB ATX Silent Modular Dark Tint Tempered Glass Window Mid Tower Computer Case
Fractal Design Define S2 Vision RGB ATX Silent Modular Dark Tint Tempered Glass Window Mid Tower Computer Case

Pros: Looks great. It is stylish.

Cons: The fans are bad. All fans have a slight tick to them. When the fans ramp up or down, this causes an reverberation through the entire case which is really loud. Also don't mount a front radiator. I ran into not enough clearance issues to mount the fan screws due to them being fairly wide heads. But even when I did finally get it mounted you need some sort of makeshift shroud to make the air go through (and not around) the radiator with a 240/360mm radiator.

Overall Review: I bought this case because when I bought my fractal case 10 years ago I was amazed with the quality. I was amazed at the attention to detail. I was willing to spend money to have another lifetime, or at least 10 years case. But I did not read or watch the reviews, the thermal performance of this case is not great but the noise produced by this case is among the worst tested I will not buy a case again without reading/watching many reviews.

12/11/2020

Reliable

Rosewill HIVE Series, HIVE-750S, 750W Fully Modular Power Supply, 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified, Single +12V Rail, SLI & CrossFire Ready, Black
Rosewill HIVE Series, HIVE-750S, 750W Fully Modular Power Supply, 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified, Single +12V Rail, SLI & CrossFire Ready, Black

Pros: I've run about a dozen of these for bitcoin mining. So I've run them at 80% or higher of their rated specs and have not had one fail. Amazing

Cons: cables too short but they do work for me since I run caseless

Overall Review: Seasonic, PC Power cooling, Silverstone, are some of the other power supplies I've used and I have had failures for all of those.

DD-WRT support lacking

D-Link DIR-615 Wireless N300 Router, 4-Port Switch, DD-WRT Open Source support
D-Link DIR-615 Wireless N300 Router, 4-Port Switch, DD-WRT Open Source support

Pros: cheap price for n router

Cons: This router does not work as a bridge or as a repeater with dd-wrt. Which is the only reason I bought it. Oh well

Overall Review: I have no idea how the stock firmware works I've never used it

11/29/2013