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Daniel G.

Daniel G.

Joined on 11/12/04

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Silent air cooling...

Noctua NH-U12P 120mm SSO CPU Cooler
Noctua NH-U12P 120mm SSO CPU Cooler

Pros: Its silent and keeps cpu (phenom II 920) at 40c or below on idle... Used it to build a silent pc...

Cons: It took me a bit of time to get it installed but was so happy with the results that it gets a 5. I would buy this product again since the results expecially the silence in comparison with even a water cooling system can't be beat...

Overall Review: The machine I used the cooler on makes less noise than my water cooled system or my laptops... It makes me scared sometimes because I think the fan might have stopped or something... When I check it everything is fine... and temps are great...

Most Critical Review

Worst KVM ever

IOGEAR GCS1744 4-Port Dual View KVM Switch w/Audio and USB Peripheral Sharing
IOGEAR GCS1744 4-Port Dual View KVM Switch w/Audio and USB Peripheral Sharing

Pros: None

Cons: I believe I got a defective KVM switch, however these are the issues I ran into just in case: KVM kept disconnecting the monitor Monitor would go out of sync Mouse would disconnect Monitor defaults would randomly change Resolution would randomly change to low res I was using two Dell monitors that worked well with other KVMs and 4 other computers all different configurations.

Good KVM

StarTech.com SV431DDUSB 4 Port StarView DVI/VGA USB KVM Switch with Audio
StarTech.com SV431DDUSB 4 Port StarView DVI/VGA USB KVM Switch with Audio

Pros: It works!!! High ress monitors play nice with this KVM and I noticed no picture quality issues.

Cons: High DPI mice can't be used used in mouse USB port No cables included

Overall Review: I was going to give this KVM 4 stars but the quality of the image is so good and it does it's job so well compared to the competition that I felt it deserved a 5.

Amazing board

ZOTAC IONITX-A-U Atom 330 1.6GHz Dual-Core NVIDIA ION Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU Combo
ZOTAC IONITX-A-U Atom 330 1.6GHz Dual-Core NVIDIA ION Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU Combo

Pros: This board is amazing it is almost the perfect HTPC solution (See cons). I was able to configure media center with a digital tuner to watch HDTV and it works well no issues at all. I love it. In addition I am able to play call of duty and other games while using less than 40 watts at full load. Its a great machine that is replacing a much more power hungry AMD 780G HTPC setup.

Cons: It doesn't play flash smoothly even overclocked. If they can fix this by getting adobe to add cuda support or something this will be the best HTPC setup possible.

Overall Review: I configured this with a M350 case and built a tiny system that can literally be placed just about anywhere. Also for the guy that was complaining about the product not being in stock and asking newegg to stop lying I can say they do get it but it sells out fast. I had the opportunity to buy it here and decided to wait a few minutes and it was sold out before I could buy.

Worst case I ever bought...

APEVIA X-QPACK-NW-BK/420 Black Aluminum 1.0 w/ ABS plastic front panel Micro ATX Desktop Computer Case 420W Power Supply
APEVIA X-QPACK-NW-BK/420 Black Aluminum 1.0 w/ ABS plastic front panel Micro ATX Desktop Computer Case 420W Power Supply

Pros: This case is the worst case I have worked on... The build quality is horrable. Motherboard standoffs were broken... hard drive bay was missing the place to the screw standoff...

Cons: This machine was not fun to work on... wouldnt recommend due to horrable build quality in addition to several other small issues like the missing or broken standoffs that make it a nightmare to mess with... this is probably the worst case I worked on and I have over 15 years of experience building computers...

Overall Review: Nothing good to say I would give it a zero but rating system wont allow it... I did RMA this case due to issues listed above...

It is really silent

COOLER MASTER Silent Pro M700 RS-700-AMBA-D3 700W ATX12V V2.3 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro M700 RS-700-AMBA-D3 700W ATX12V V2.3 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: This power supply is silent. I have built a lot of pc's and worked with several different power supplys and this one is the best I have used in a build by far.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I used this power supply to build a silent power house computer for gamming without water cooling... I am getting another one for a htpc since this machine makes less noise than my water cooled pc in part due to the power supply...