Joined on 10/25/01
Good drive
Pros: Price, warranty, low noise, low heat, 5400rpm.
Cons: none so far.
Overall Review: Running without glitch for 2 years now as a replacement hdd for an ancient sony laptop.
Decent card for the money
Pros: Reasonable priced.
Cons: Signal strength is not great. Complete interruption whenever microwave is on (no other wireless computers in the house has same problem). Good for light internet usage, not for streaming multimedia content.
Great Thermal Compound
Pros: Great thermal conductibility. 2-3 degree C improvement over AS3, which is already impressive. Coupled with H60 dual fan intake cooling 3.7G phenom 2 X4 to 30 C above ambient.
Cons: 1. I have to say the official "dot method" for spreading thermal paste is not optimum for my setup. I used a sharp razor blade to spread the paste over both surfaces and achieved 4 degrees C improvement over the "dot method" 2. The 200 hour break in period is a bit annoying because it was hard to gauge the performance immediately after application.
So far not broken yet
Pros: Very reasonably priced 500 watt supply. Powering a C2D system with a GTX280 without giving up.
Cons: An 8-pin PCIe power connector would be nice.
Good cooler for a budget
Pros: Easy installation on AMD system. Beats any air cooling with a double fan intake setup. Price is very reasonable.
Cons: Tubes could be a little longer. The fan mounts on the radiator is a bit awkward and hard to take off for cleaning purposes.
Great Card for the money
Pros: Very Overclockable, low noise. Currently running at 910 core / 2050 Mem with stock cooling.
Cons: Side power connectors is highly desired.