Joined on 01/17/15
Young in late 70's, Engineering Tech, retired. Worked on computers and systems from the time they came out. I have built many. HECK I can recall when the first transistor radios came out. In college (EE) I had to use a slide rule (called a slip stick), no portable, hand held scientific calculators.
Very Good the G.SKILL Flare X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) F4-3200C14D-16GFX DDR4 3200 RAM
Pros: The G.Skill Flare X (2x8GB) F4-3200C14D-16GFX ddr4 ram was easy to install and setup to get the rated 3200 speed. A few days later started having error code pop ups and reboots. I ran windows 10 memory diagonistics. 1st pass ok, 2nd pass at 75% detected problem. I swapped the ram sticks and booted into default 2400. Ran chkdsk on c:, ran sfc scannow which found corrupted files and could not repair some. Did repair of wim file, ran dism to restore health. Ran sfc /scannow again, this time it found and repaired/ replaced corrupted files. shut down set ram to 2933 speed booted and ran memory diagnostics, all is ok. Rebooted to bios and set memory to xmp file 2, rebooted and ram is running at 3200 speed. Ran memory diagonistics test and all is running fine. I added all this information because I know a lot of people run into simular problems with memory speed and it is not always the fault of the ram. In my case the memory diagnostics said it detected ram errors in 2nd pass, but after performing all the operations as I did above, the memory diagnostics shows the ram to be in perfect condition running at 3200 speed cl14. So before going to the trouble and delays of returning ram as bad, be sure to check out things as well as you can. The G.SKILL Flare X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) F4-3200C14D-16GFX DDR4 3200 RAM is fantastic ram. I hope this little review can help some of you.
Cons: I have no cons to report for this product.
Overall Review: I did a lot of research before purchasing the ram for my X470 system build because I had seen a lot of posting complaints about ram stability and speed on Ryzen cpus and am4 motherboards. My build, MSI X470 Gaming Plus ATX mb, AMD Ryzen R5 2400G apu, AMD Wraith Max Cooler, Team Group L5 LITE 3D 2.5" 240GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal ssd (entire drive for windows 10 1903). 1 tb WD Blue work hdd, 3 tb WD Red storage hdd, StarTech 4 port USB 3.0 front panel hub, LG BlueRay DVD r/w optical drive all installed in Thermaltake Versa H22 midtower case and powered with Ultra LSP 550 watt ps with AOC 23 inch display monitor. Ram installed easy into mb A2-B2 dimm sockets with minimal pressure and locked in. with only ram and cpu installed, booted into bios, ram at default 2400 speed, set axmp on to xmp file 2 and restarted into bios, ram speed now 3200. Shut system down installed Team 240 ssd that already had windows 10 installed mbr bios. Booted into bios saw ssd connected, saved and booted into windows, installed new mb drivers, system and chipset, and ethernet drivers. Rebooted and used convert mbr2gpt to convert windows 10 ssd from bios mbr to uefi gpt. Rebooted into windows and system now is uefi. Shut down and connected all other devices and hdds. Rebooted went into windows update and updated. System running stable and speedy.
27 Inch Asrock Monitor PG27QRT1B
Pros: I had an 24 Inch AOC Monitor that I have used for years, a very good monitor with good colors, I will use this on another pc setup. I wanted to go with a 27 Inch Monitor that had HDR, Free Sync and could do billions of colors, something that could work well with Windows 11. Motherboards are Asrock X570 Steel Legend with Ryzen 5 5600X cpu, Asrock Challenger Radeon RX 6600 graphics card, 2 WD SN 770 1TB NVMe SSD for OS drive and DATA drive and 32 GB DDR4 3600 Ram the other pc motherboard is an Asrock X570 Pro 4 with MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card, 2 WD SN 770 1TB NVMe SSD for OS drive and DATA drive and 32 GB DDR4 3600 Ram. I use a GiantMatrix KVM to switch between the 2 PCs. I found pretty good reviews on the Asrock PG27QRT1B Monitor and thought I would try it since I started using Asrock motherboards (good price, good updates, and very compatible with ram, SSD and Hard drives and their support that I have used a couple of times was good). The PG27QRT1B monitor HDMI hooked right up to the KVM switch HDMI port, both of the PCs recognized the new monitor. I went to the Asrock support website for the Asrock PG27QRT1B Monitor and downloaded the Manual and Setup files. I installed the files and setup went very good on both PCs. It setup to a 2560 x 1440 display. I went to youtube and played some HDR content, I tried various videos and the colors and detail was fantastic and the motion was great. I am very pleased with the purchase of this monitor from Newegg. I got what they advertised well packaged. I was amazed at how fast I received the monitor from Newegg, only about 3 days from ordering until delivered. From my experiences with this order and great product, I can surely say that I highly recommend this item to family, friends and anyone else that has a similar need as mine.
Cons: I gave this product 5 star rating because it worked beautifully for me, and Newegg's handling and shipping was fantastic. On the con side (which is very minor, maybe operator being unfamiliar with a new device). Once you get use to it, the OSD is easy to navigate and select your settings. My con is in this area. I have been unable to reduce the brightness lower on the HDR setup, it is set to 100 % and I would like to lower it some but in this mode it is grayed out. There is not much OSD help for setting the monitor up. For example they should have had instructions in the guide for lowering brightness in the OSD HDR. If an Asrock affiliated person is reading this maybe you can help me. Other than this problem this is a very superb monitor.
Overall Review: I would definitely recommend this monitor to anyone. If I have to buy another one in the future, it will probably be an Asrock monitor. Mostly good experience with this monitor. Thank you Asrock for another good product.
MSI SPATIUM M450 M.2 2280 500GB PCIe NVMe SSD
Pros: This M.2 NVMe SSD was easy to install and very speedy. Works very well in my Windows 11 desktop PCs. I have it set-up as a portable device for TOOLS storage in an ORION M.2 SSD enclosure. I will be trying it out on other systems and let you know how it performs in a future review.
Cons: None
Overall Review: Very satisfied with this MSI device as I am with my other purchased MSI devices.
Corsair CMK32GX4M2D3600C16 DDR4 32GB RAM a great upgrade.
Pros: This RAM upgrade went into an Asrock X570 Steel Legend AM4 ATX AMD motherboard " which is a replacement for my Asrock Fatal1ty X370 Gaming X motherboard. Nothing wrong with the X370, I just wanted to move up to the PCI ver 4.0 capability of the motherboard which also provided several other useful benefits. The X370 lasted several years and still going strong. Asrock support has been a great resource for me. The Corsair CMK32GX4M2D3600C16 DDR4 32GB RAM, when placed into the proper A2-B2 ram slots, and the XMP selected in the BIOS, boots up as 3600 CL 16 ram running fast and smooth and working with the system components as needed. Really helped my flight simulator program.
Cons: NONE - I will update if the need arises.
Overall Review: I definitely would recommend this product to anyone looking for reliable RAM. If I had a need for it, I would definitely purchase it again. My upgraded setup is Asrock X570 Steel Legend AM4 motherboard, AMD Ryzen 5 5600X CPU, Corsair DDR4 3600 32GB RAM, MSI AMD Radeon-RX-6500-XT-MECH-2X-4G-OC Graphics card, WD 1TB SN770 M.2 NVMe SSD, running Windows 11. Very speedy PC for playing my flight simulator and photo/video editing.
GLOTRENDS M.2 Heatsink Kits
Pros: GLOTRENDS M.2 Heatsink Kits, a 0.12inch(3mm) thick M.2 Cooling Fin for 2280 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSDs. Universal fit for 2280 M.2 SSD a fit for M.2 PCIe NVMe 3.0 SSD, Western Digital, WD_BLACK SN750 SE, WD Blue SN550, WD Green SN350 it can also be used with for M.2 PCIe NVMe 4.0 SSDs. I purchased this to go on a newly bought WD Black SN750 SE NVME M.2 1TB SSD PCIe 4.0 device. This size Cooling Effect is 5°C- 20°C with an aluminum Body Groove Design. The heat dissipation area, with 5°C- 20°C cooling effect (Varies depending on the environment temps used in). The Item Size: 2.76 x 0.87 x 0.12in, has a Net Weight: 0.28oz. It comes with thermal Pads, you have to tear off the transparent protective film of the thermal pad, otherwise there will be no thermal conductivity. The aging time of this material is stated as 1-3 years, but repeated use will accelerate the aging. Best to put it where you want it and leave it. It is a little soft, and a little elastic, but no elasticity, if you pull hard it will break. Size: 2.64x0.79x0.04 inch. The Package contained the M.2 Heatsink, Thermal Pad, 2 x Metal Clips, 2 x Rubber Bands and a Cleaning towel. I used the towel to clean the heat sink and NVME SSD surfaces that the thermal pad would be attached to. I removed the the protective plastic covering from the thermal pad and applied it. After mating the components together, I used the rubber bands to hold everything in place. I elected to use these versus the metal clips for my installation.
Cons: None that I have found at the time of this review, which has been a few months. I like to use purchased items a bit before I review them, that away I can include any related problems encountered farther down the line after installation and use.
Overall Review: I gave this little device 5 stars because I received what I ordered (no surprises), the cost is very, very affordable (way less than buying NVMe M.2 SSDs with heatsinks), the installation is very easy, and the results are worth it. I am pleased that I purchased this little device and yes, I would buy it again as the need for more arises.
Western Digital WD Black SN750 SE NVMe M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 4.0 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) WDS100T1B0E
Pros: This is another fine Western Digital drive. As you know, if you have read other of my reviews at Newegg, I had already bought a WD Black SN750 500GB PCIe NVMe M.2 drive that I use as my C: drive. I bought this Western Digital Black SN750 SE 1TB NVMe PCIe M.2 drive to install as my Work-Data D: drive. This will be installed on my MSI X470 Gaming Plus motherboard that had (2) on-board slots for M.2 M-Key PCIe NVMe SSD installation. I had already used the M.2-1 slot for the OS C: drive, so I installed it into the M.2-2 slot. I booted into the BIOS to be sure it was detected then started Windows 10. I set the disk to GPT type and formatted it. I then ran CrystalDiskMark to check out the drive, the results was as shown in photo (1) above. In my case (1585.97 read) and (1537.57 write). The drive was only working at half the rated speed. Reading in the MSI manual, I found that the M.2-2 slot only worked at PCI ver. 2.0 and not 3.0. But to the good, the manual and the BIOS also showed that this motherboard supported PCIe bifurcation (running multiple NVMe drives from a single PCIe slot). I ordered this device, a PCIe NVMe M.2 adapter for a PCIe slot. You can see my review on installation and usage of this adapter here at NewEgg. I installed the WD Black SN50 SE 1TB NVMe M.2 M-Key drive in the adapter, plugged it into PCIe 3.0 slot 1, booted into the BIOS and set all the PCI bifurcation settings to (auto). I saved the new configuration settings and rebooted the PC into Windows 10. The OS detected the new device and set everything up. You can see in photo (2) above that the Western Digital WD Black SN750 SE NVMe M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 4.0 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) WDS100T1B0E is performing now at high rated speeds as advertised. Running CrystalDiskMark again showed, in my case (3481.34 read) and (2838.22 write). This Western Digital drive is very easy to install and set up. New users, hopefully you can use some of my information to get your drive installed, set up and running so you can enjoy its speedy benefits. I also installed the Western Digital Dashboard software to check and manage my PCIe NVMe M.2 SSDs, I find it to be a very useful program.
Cons: There are no cons for this WD NVMe drive. The only problems you will likely encounter is setting the drive up for your particular motherboard. Read your manual, browse your motherboard manufacturer website and search the world wide web for helpful information related to your particular needs.
Overall Review: I definitely would recommend the Western Digital WD Black SN750 SE NVMe M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 4.0 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) WDS100T1B0E to anyone lookin for simple, speedy, reliable drive of this type. I have used many Western Digital drives and have many in use and performing admirably, some in se a few years. They also have a good warranty if you ever need to use it, I haven't so far. I would buy this particular SSD again and will be buying more Western Digital products. Yes, I am a very satisfied customer.
My purchase from Orico through Newegg
I recently purchased two of the ORICO AM2C3-G2-GY-BP M.2 NVME SSD Enclosures from Newegg. They were very well constructed and came with a very versatile cable for type C to C or type C to USB A connection with transfer speeds up to 10GB/S. Also included was two unique little silicone press-in fasteners to hold the M.2 SSD locked into the enclosure slide-in tray. I have so far used this device in a Windows 11 pc and it has worked beautifully from the first try. ORICO sold me what they advertised, so no surprises here. They shipped me their product in a very timely manner, no damage, and very well packaged. The device and its contents ( enclosure, cable, M.2 Heat Shield, Thermal pad, M.2 SSD silicone retainer screws, and Manual) are held in a black plastic packaging tray which slides into a hanging product packaging display box that is sealed with shrink-wrap. ORICO has a very usable, well designed and easy to work with M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure device and is supported on systems that are Windows, MAC OS, Linux and Android. At this time I can highly recommend the ORICO Seller at the Newegg website.
My 1st product from TE-Smart - HDMI KVM switch 2 port
I ordered the Model HKS0201A2U-USBK HDMI KVM switch through Newegg. It was shipped to me from seller TESmart. This is my 1st product from TESmart. The product was well packaged, I received it within a reasonable time, no package damage. This 2 port HDMI KVM switch is all the seller said it was. I am very satisfied and pleased that I ordered this particular product. It installs very easy and performs way above my expectations. I would definitely recommend this product and the seller. So far, I find them both to be top notch.
The seller (Sedna) an overseas company.
They delivered a new product, in good shape. The product was as described. I am well pleased with this company's product. On Newegg they state that shipping will take 8-15 days. I ordered 9-6-16 and got it on 9-21-16. It did take the 15 days with my experience. I would buy from them in the future.