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Jason W.

Jason W.

Joined on 07/27/06

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Most Favorable Review

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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 32-bit
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 32-bit

Pros: This is to educate some people. 2 things: Don't rate this low or blame anyone for 32bit limitation. This is not new. 32 bit is a literal translation into how many Is and Os it can address, the total number is right about 4gb. 2nd, and lesser known, when you buy any copy of Win 7, the key is valid for 32 bit or 64 bit. So even if you find this post after you made the wrong purchase, so long as you can source a disk your key will work. This isn't illegal or pirating, you have purchased a legal and valid key for that level of the application (home/pro/ultimate,) Microsoft does not care if you use 32 or 64 bit.

Cons: Cost

Overall Review: video and audio codecs still have greater compatability in 32bit. Also, some apps on a 64 bit machine still launch a 32bit app. Things like Internet Explorer and media center. If this is going to be a simple system like a dedicated media center or the like, this is a good choice.

Most Critical Review

3 strikes, PNY is out.

PNY GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) 1280MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card RVCGGTX470XXB
PNY GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) 1280MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card RVCGGTX470XXB

Pros: Great card, when it works. Many features, very powerful for the price.

Cons: Only semi working on arrival. Had in system for a few days, thought everything was great... Till I tried to game on it. Screen flickers about once per minute, after a few of these occurences, framerates drop to stupid low rates.

Overall Review: I had 2 GTX465s (pny recerts) made it about 3 1/2 months (just outside there 90 day warranty) ordered the GTX470 as a replacement, now its dead two, stuck on my media PC with my high end gaming rig on the sidelines again. 100% Failure rate on 3 cards (tested in multiple machines) in 4 months, unacceptable. Now have $400 in paperweights and 1 card on its way back to new egg. No more PNY for me, and will stop recomending to people.

I want to love this.

Metallic Gear Neo Air White ATX Mid-tower High Airflow Mesh front design, 2x 120 RGB Skiron fans, RGB Controller, Black/White
Metallic Gear Neo Air White ATX Mid-tower High Airflow Mesh front design, 2x 120 RGB Skiron fans, RGB Controller, Black/White

Pros: Looks great. Construction and features really good for the price. Having assembled it I stand by my title. This is a nice case, especially for the price.

Cons: My unit does not have an RGB sync cable, nor does it appear to have a place to plug one in. I could directly daisy chain this to phanteks non digital RGB products, but their appears to be no way to sync this with my motherboard.

Overall Review: Hopefully manufacturer responds, interested to know if I got a bad unit or if this run was made like this. The manual says to plug in my 4 pin RGB header to motherboard. No such cable installed or included on my unit. Hate knocking off so many eggs for it, but considering it is one of the selling points of the case, and provides a lot of the value to this range, otherwise its just a case, I feel I have to.

Make sure you have a 3 pin RGB header

Phanteks PH-DRGBLED_CMBO_01 Digital RGB LED Combo Kit
Phanteks PH-DRGBLED_CMBO_01 Digital RGB LED Combo Kit

Pros: Great construction, good magnets, great color to its effect. As in range of color and vibrancy.

Cons: None. When used on the right system these are great.

Love it.

Phanteks PH-DRGB_SKT Digital RGB LED Starter Kit
Phanteks PH-DRGB_SKT Digital RGB LED Starter Kit

Pros: Add a digital RGB setup on a case and mobo that has none. Easy setup, have used it for a few months now and no complaints.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Purchased a Phanteks digital RGB 2 strip package for another PC without realizing the board was non digital. Expanded this to a 4 strip with ease, and the color effect is awesome.

Very poor quality QC

Asus Certified PCE-AC56 802.11ac Dual-band Wireless-AC1300 PCI-E Adapter
Asus Certified PCE-AC56 802.11ac Dual-band Wireless-AC1300 PCI-E Adapter

Pros: The one that works in my PC has been flawless for years.

Cons: This unit however is faulty... If I use it on my 5g network, it connects, gets an IP, and says it has internet. It can not actually connect to a website. If I connect it to my 2g or guest networks, it goes to websites. Sometimes. During speedtests it will sometimes drop connection mid test.

Overall Review: 2 PCs a few feet apart. Both with the same card. One works great, other works great hard wired, but not able to really use this card. Both clean installs on the same build of windows.