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Nissa R.

Nissa R.

Joined on 10/15/07

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Product Reviews
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Most Critical Review

flawed

Rosewill RH-189 3.5mm Connector Canal Earphone
Rosewill RH-189 3.5mm Connector Canal Earphone

Pros: It has decent sound quality and you can hear low frequencies with it

Cons: A flaw in the design causes the ear pieces to fall apart.

Overall Review: The left side fell apart first; when it did I had to solder the wires back on the speaker and glue the casing back together.

Not good quality

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400

Pros: Average performance ram when they work

Cons: one of the sticks went bad

Overall Review: My computer started crashing all the time after I installed this ram. I ran memtest and it reported that the ram checked out fine, but I eventually pinpointed the problem to one of the two sticks and have had no more trouble after replacing the bad stick I didn't think that I would have any problems with this ram because of all the good reviews, but I did.

Bad Luck

ASUS P5E LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard
ASUS P5E LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: It's fast and has lots of overclocking options. It booted up on the first try and worked great for a while.

Cons: after a week or two the CMOS started forgetting who it was and all the settings were set to default. Then I had to replace the on-board battery. Then the BIOS became corrupted and I tried to reflash it with the EZ flash utility. Then it would not post and I had to send it to ASUS to get the BIOS reflashed. Then when I got it back it worked for about a week and the BIOS became corrupted again. So I reflashed it again and the BIOS picture became corrupted, but it still booted up. I haven't had any problems with the board since then.

Overall Review: I replaced my old MSI board with this one because the MSI one got where it wouldn't post sometimes. When the P5E started giving me problems I was in school and I was trying to make do with it, but I eventually had to send it back when it would no longer post.(I became very angry when I had school work to do and my computer would not turn on) While I was waiting for the P5E to be repaired I put my old MSI board back in my computer. After getting it back and going through a second set of BIOS corruptions, it is now running smoothly. I guess ASUS has problems with some of these boards. I would not recommend using this board in a computer that you do work on, because you may get one of the bad ones like I did.

the gecube version

DIAMOND Viper Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 3870PE4512SB
DIAMOND Viper Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 3870PE4512SB

Pros: I have the GECUBE version of this with an ASUS P5E. It plays CRYSIS on High @ 1400x1050 and UT3 on maximum @ 1400x1050. It is also quiet.

Cons: I have had trouble getting drivers to work properly with the card. I had a Radeon X1600 before and when I installed the 3870, half of my programs like 3dmark06, GTA SA, Quicktime, and other ones didn't work. I thought that some of the old drivers were still on my computer so I reformatted it and installed all the new drivers and it still didn't work.

Overall Review: I put my X1600 in the secondary pcie slot and set it as primary display adapter and all the programs work correctly.(this is after i reformatted the computer) This may be a gecube 3870 problem, but it is no longer on newegg as of now. ASUS P5E, E6400 2.9Ghz, 3gb Corsair 800, Radeon 3870, Radeon x1600pro, XP pro 32bit