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Chris B.

Chris B.

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Most Favorable Review

2 Years and still going.

LOGITECH - COMPUTER ACCESSORIES H800 USB Connector Supra-aural Bluetooth Wireless Headset
LOGITECH - COMPUTER ACCESSORIES H800 USB Connector Supra-aural Bluetooth Wireless Headset

Pros: Hands down the best all around headset I've owned, trust me, I've tried to replace them. That said, I suppose I'll just address some of the negative feedback with my experience: Build quality: They're plastic, but I've /ragequit swiped them off my head and tossed them on many occasions, so wouldn't call them, "flimsy." Maybe light feels cheap to some? I dunno. After all this time and heavy use, the foam is still intact and healthy (both top of the head and ears). Range: The reviewers complaining about range are right(ish). I found that if I had LOS to the receiver the range was for sure 35 (maybe 40?) ft. When I moved my setup to a corner that's farther away from my bedroom door I lost a good amount of that range, but rectified the issue with a USB extension and a tack. I can be in my garage 3 walls over and use them perfectly fine, so maybe the other reviewers are plugging them in the back of their towers against a wall? Again, I got nothing. Audio issues: I have had the occasional issue where everyone tells me my audio is crackling, but pulling the USB receiver and plugging it back in always fixed it. Although for the record we all seem to have that problem off and on in Steam chat. Audio quality: It's cerainly acceptable in my opinion. Bass response is a little weak, and mid can be a little drowned out, but over all it's fine. I'm assuming these sacrifices are to keep cost lower, weight lower, and battery life excellent. Battery life: 2+ years now and I'm still getting the full 6 hours out of them (which amazes me even). I've only ever used the included charging cable for fear of messing up the battery, so maybe that's a factor. Bluetooth: BT has always worked fantastic for me (better than the dongle even). I have the set paired to my cell phone so I can use it while I'm milling around the house. Two different phones now, and all I have to do is click it over to BT and the phone picks it right up. Audio quality over BT seems really good as well. Range is about the same as the dongle, but so long as I leave my cellphone in a central-ish location, I never seem to have any major issues. Drivers: I have no idea, I've never installed any, they've always worked perfectly fine plug and play for me. Comfort: I don't know if I just have a fat or skinny head, but these things fit very nicely. I suppose they may come off if one were to whip ones hair, but other than that, they seem pretty snug. Also, I do spend about 4 to 6 hours gaming every other day or so, and I use them constantly for my phone, and they don't get uncomfortable (granted that's just my opinion). I don't know if some of the reviewers simply lack a good understanding of wireless devices, or I'm just silly lucky, but I haven't personally experienced any of the issues listed in any of the low reviews personally. It may sound wacky, but after buying this headset and setting it up to work with my PC / phone, I have no idea how I lived without it. Great buy (in m

Cons: Honestly I haven't really had any cons. Again, the only thing that's really happened is the occasional complaint that my voice is breaking up on Steam; but I again stress the fact that this happens to everyone in my regular group I play with intermittently, and is fixed by pulling the dongle and plugging it back in. Also worth mentioning: this has never happened to me on Skype, and has yet to happen via BT. I suppose they could use some fancy lights or something? Although with my gloss monitors that could get annoying really fast. So no, no lights. That actually brings to mind my only real gripe: The charge / on indicator being on the bottom of the headset is useless. The few times I've run it down to beeping dead (the point where it starts beeping and being all demanding that you plug it in), I've been totally unaware of the little green light becoming a little red light. If I could talk Logitech into one change, it would be a light on one side or the other so you'd be more prone to notice your battery life when you're up and moving around at least (passing mirrors and assorted shiny things and what-not).

Overall Review: I won't bother listing them all (and never bothered to leave reviews on them), but I really have tried to replace these on several occasions. Sometimes I get bit by the old, "I want something new," bug, and like everyone else try to replace something that isn't broken. The simplest way I can summarize the outcome is like this: My mother has a really nice plantronics headset now, my father has a pretty sweet sony set, my son has a skull candy set, and my wife insisted on her own H800. Although the one set I tried that no one has was the Turtle Beach PX5. MAN those things are garbage. I mean zero range, interference like mad, they take batteries (really TB? really?), they actually feel cheap especially considering their size, and they were really expensive. Granted someone somewhere probably pines over them like I do my H800, but I don't know what that person did differently. Maybe the didn't have any other electronics in their house? I got nothing.

Most Critical Review

Nope, nope, nope.

Turtle Beach Ear Force PX5 Programmable Bluetooth Wireless 7.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound Headset
Turtle Beach Ear Force PX5 Programmable Bluetooth Wireless 7.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound Headset

Pros: They look pretty rad.

Cons: EVERYTHING. Range: pathetic, 10 feet if you're super lucky; also seemed to get horrible interference from anything electronic, much less wireless. With the giant box receiver I really didn't think this was going to be a problem. Think you're going to get around the glaring reception issues with BT? Wrong! You're only going to get audio out of one ear, and in poor quality. Batteries? Like pull them out and change them Batteries? TB ... I am disappoint. They do feel really, really, really, really, really, cheap. Like they are somehow made out of the worst plastic in the universe.

Overall Review: If I given the choice between TB and being stabbed, I'd need a doctor. I am stupefied at how truly pathetic this product is. I'm not one to really go out of my way to write negative reviews, but gooooood-ness, these are wretched. The sad thing is: I must have spent a good 3 hours of my life (that I'll be wishing for on my deathbed) trying to get these train wrecks working. After hearing all these nice things about TB? UGH, I need to go delete some friends off FB now, because they have made themselves known as enemies. I hope you go bankrupt TB, I truly mean that.

Good stuff.

BIOSTAR H61MGC LGA 1155 Intel H61 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
BIOSTAR H61MGC LGA 1155 Intel H61 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: I didn't have to update bios or anything, was using g620 sandy, popped in an ivy i5, no issues.

Cons: Don't plan on using your pcie 1x slot with a double slot GPU, they put it under the 16x for some silly reason.

Overall Review: For the price it's exactly what it should be.

12/25/2012

Using it right now

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: Gaming is actually possible, and the Atom @ 2Ghz is a good performer compared to it's single core 1.6 incarnation. I'll go over some of the game performance (other thoughts) later. This board is truly revolutionary, and I recommend it to anyone for a media machine, or a light weight gaming rig. It's awesome.

Cons: The optional CPU fan (non optional if you run @ 2Ghz) is loud and doesn't feature any speed control. For shame Zotac. The VGA port is poorly anchored, so I feel safer using the HDMI or the DVI instead.

Overall Review: I'm using the universal M350, with 4 GB corsair ram, 320G sata II hd, and an upgraded antenna. I used the Bios to set the FSB to 667 forcing 2Ghz on the processor, and allocated 512 ram to the GPU. This thing is pretty awesome. Killing Floor is perfectly playable @ 30-40 FPS WoW on low settings averages 50 FPS The Witcher was unplayable (surprise) CSS and TF2 were both good, dipping only as low as 35 FPS with a good amount of action going on.

Flat out Awesome

Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 - Core 2 Duo Wolfdale Dual-Core 2.8 GHz LGA 775 65W Desktop Processor - BX80571E7400
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 - Core 2 Duo Wolfdale Dual-Core 2.8 GHz LGA 775 65W Desktop Processor - BX80571E7400

Pros: For the price, I don't feel there is any better. Over shadowed my kuma I got 2 weeks prior with zero effort.

Cons: Stock cooler is pretty lame

Overall Review: INTEL: make a better stock cooler for the love of (deity of your choice here)!!!

Good, price too high

Galaxy GeForce 9600 GT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Low Profile Ready Video Card 96GFF6VIFCXU
Galaxy GeForce 9600 GT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Low Profile Ready Video Card 96GFF6VIFCXU

Pros: Good card, good performance (other thoughts)

Cons: This card runs hot due to poor thermal planning. I have my case open (the card sits at the top of the case) and it's still hot. The fan is HORRIBLE kinds of loud, I expect more for such an insanely high priced 9600. The cooling in general is just sad. Shame on Galaxy for sucking at the thermal side of this card. It had potential.

Overall Review: Trust me on this, go with the Radeon alternatives in the same price range or lower. They really are better cards than this guy, and quite a few of them don't need 6pin. I used this to upgrade the heck out of an Acer x1700. In hind site I wish I would have used a Radeon for about 1/3 the price @ better specs. I wish I didn't buy just because it said Nvidia. Teaches me huh?

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Great service

Dead board but seller made it right immediately. May have messed up my timeline on a repair, but customer service was top notch.

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