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alexander d.

alexander d.

Joined on 01/13/11

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Most Favorable Review

Great value

ASUS KCMA-D8 ATX Server Motherboard Dual Socket C32 AMD SR5670 DDR3 1333/1066/800
ASUS KCMA-D8 ATX Server Motherboard Dual Socket C32 AMD SR5670 DDR3 1333/1066/800

Pros: Had VMware ESXi 5 up and running within an hour. Dual Opteron 4334, with 2x samsung registered 16g dimms, booting off USB. Works like a charm, didn't have to flash BIOS for the 4334's. Anything that ships past Oct-2011 per ASUS should be a new enough build to support 4200+ Opterons. If it has the 2001 BIOS it will support 4200 and 4300 CPUs out of the box. The 4334 (hex-core) was a steal for $200 apiece (put $30 coolers on each one). Very cost efficient.

Cons: haven't found any so more. For a budget performance server, it is running great. No issues

Most Critical Review

Used for Rocket League and CS:GO, also WoW a bit

LOGITECH G502 Proteus Core Tunable Gaming Mouse #910-004074
LOGITECH G502 Proteus Core Tunable Gaming Mouse #910-004074

Pros: Great mouse for FPS, sensitivity is great, weighted well. Once I got the driver in I was able to configure it to do what I wanted logically.

Cons: Mouse2 unreliable, does not always work. Scroll (Mouse5) is weighted and annoying how it keeps scrolling after I have released it. It would be nice if I was used to it maybe, but I have never had a mouse with this feature..

Overall Review: This mouse does not always respond to right click. I have my finger centered over it. It is 1/25 or so that it does not respond but that is enough to make it worthless for gaming for me. Also the mouse wheel spins non-stop, it is weighted, some might like this but I feel it is a bug rather than feature. Constantly scrolling in areas where I do not want to do this. Hopefully if it is replaced I can change the way this mouse5 scrolls because it is more than annoying in most games/applications. I can't think where it would be useful except for a file folder that has 1000+ items.

overheating blew this card after a year

XFX Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card HD-487A-YWFC
XFX Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card HD-487A-YWFC

Pros: Card performs well when new & stable.

Cons: For quite awhile, card ran fine, no issues except the thing running at high 70s to 82 or so celsius under load (even max underclocked!) which XFX support tells me is normal. Then after awhile games would start crashing the ATI driver which is very annoying. Pretty common problem with ATI apparently. Searched high and low for a fix or workaround. Nothing seemed to work correctly. This year the fan started making a funny noise and started to have issues with the card not being recognized in my system. I ran and got a backup card to make sure it was not something else. I got an Asus GT430 which works fine. I then upgraded from a Thermaltake Purepower 600 to a Seasonic M12II 620w Bronze 80+ psu, so I decided to try the card. It was running faster than ever but after 10 minutes or so it started to glitch. So I pulled up GPU-Z to monitor temps. It was at 113-114c then the whole machine shut off due to overheating. RMAing the card back to XFX let's see if they fix/replace it..

Overall Review: this card uses a lot of power I have read, and probably should have had a MUCH better heatsink/fan/airflow setup.. the 5xxx and 6xxx line are MUCH more efficient power-wise.