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roger f.

roger f.

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Most Favorable Review

Antec, please read other thoughts

Antec Sonata Family Sonata Proto Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Antec Sonata Family Sonata Proto Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Pros: Lots of places to hide cables. Big plus. Slide in drive bays. 3.5” are nicely designed. Installed a Sapphire HD 7950. Barely fit. 3.5” slide in bays! Silicone rubber grommets are **Highly Effective**, especially the Antec ones. If you have never used them [esp in a multi drive] install, then you will be very happy with the reduction in noise levels. Nearly gone is the head access vibration, a very welcome change [RAID 10]. Power supply is on the top. Decent airflow with one big video card [HD 7950]. I selectivity use slot covers to tuning airflow, especially with a semi-vented video card.

Cons: Horizontal brace is riveted in place. Swapping the power supply with a larger/taller CPU cooler inplace will most likely require removing the motherboard. Nor you can install the power supply last if there is a tall CPU cooler. The brace ought to be removable in the event the power supply fails or you need to upgrade. Brace removed all is good. Repairability outweighed its utility. Door. Low utility. The 3.5” drive bays. Move down 2cm and improve airflow over the top of the top drive. A taller case taller would mitigate the problem with the brace, top 3.5” airflow and the unacceptable airflow for the bottom PCI-E video card [see below]. Not an SLI case. A bottom 2x wide video card air flow is compromised to an extreme degree. The lowest slot is about 1cm from the bottom of the case and placing a card in the lowest SLI/Crossfire slot is a very bad idea.

Overall Review: If you use more than one of the 5.25 bays you will have cabling problems. Mitigated by having a modular power supply. Hiding excess cabling in the unused 5.25 bays is the way to go. SSDs mount in the either of the front 3.5” slide-out drive bay. Why would *anyone* put the SSD at the bottom? Build-- One video card One sound card One DVD burner Modular power supply with flat cables [read pcpower modstream III] RAID 10 7200RPM drives It is really difficult to find a case that combines features that work really well. Many large cases force you tol struggle to install a modern 3D card. Antec. Please continue building cases with silicone rubber drive mounts and the slide out drive bays. Antec. Please build cases a few centimeters deeper to accommodate today's oversized video cards. Antec. Please build cases to accommodate easy removal and replacement of the power supplies.

12/17/2012
Most Critical Review

Aluminum wire

BYTECC Model SPW162-50 50 ft. CCA Speaker Wires Cable (16/2C)
BYTECC Model SPW162-50 50 ft. CCA Speaker Wires Cable (16/2C)

Pros: Conductors

Cons: Aluminum wire. See description, color, copper. Al is substantially softer than Cu and has lower electrical characteristics than copper. CCA = Copper Clad Aluminum.

Overall Review: Money not well spent. Heading for this product should read, aluminum speaker wire, colored with copper cladding.

Aluminum Wire

RCA - 16GA Speaker Wire (50 FEET)
RCA - 16GA Speaker Wire (50 FEET)

Pros: Costs less than a battleship

Cons: Aluminum wire. Possesses all the problems associated with aluminum wire.

took the bait

New Chrome Commercial 6 Layer Shelf Adjustable Steel Wire Metal Shelving Rack
New Chrome Commercial 6 Layer Shelf Adjustable Steel Wire Metal Shelving Rack

Pros: Packages arrived. If you like bait and then a switch, then order.

Cons: Not what is described. Not what is pictured. Not satisfied.

Overall Review: What you get are cheap low grade, low gauge, non triple truss, non 600lbs per shelf shelving units, plenty of run around trying to get rid of them.

Over engineered

Laiputuo Car OBDII HUD Head Up Display System Speedometer with Speed KM/Mile RPM MPH WY101
Laiputuo Car OBDII HUD Head Up Display System Speedometer with Speed KM/Mile RPM MPH WY101

Pros: Quote from product specs: "Environment temperature: -400C—+800C " It likes it hot and it likes more cold than can exist!

Cons: Will survive an apocalypse. A con because they will still be lying about like some kind of 1980's non-biodegradable plastics. Thought about docking an egg, but thought what the heck. The tree huggers will not be around to fret about Laiputuo OBDII scanners clogging the post apocalyptic Earth's lava flows.

Overall Review: It is indestructible.

1yr +

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9Q-32GBXL
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9Q-32GBXL

Pros: No problems, a year later. CL9. 32GB means lots of VMs. Got for about 180, way better than the 316 they want now.

Cons: Red. Black dissipates heat best. High memory prices

Overall Review: Got them before the memory hit bottom, but is a bargain compared to now.

10/22/2013