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Richard F.

Richard F.

Joined on 08/27/06

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review
BIOSTAR GeForce 9400 GT 512MB GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Graphics Card VN9402TS51
BIOSTAR GeForce 9400 GT 512MB GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Graphics Card VN9402TS51

Pros: nice card, looks nice, nice price along with a Mail in rebate at the time. pci x 2.0 this card works really well I'm not a wow player i play warhammer online, graphics maxed no prob with getting about 45 fps high and low of 25 fps

Cons: fan is really small and feels kind of fragile. not worth taking an egg off for. Has gold finger for SLI but does not support SLI. (mostly my fault for not reading. read other thoughts for reason why)

Overall Review: I was looking for a a card to SLI in a new system i was building. bought this card, had it setting on my desk for about 3 weeks before i picked out a mobo, didn't pay close enough attention to the card all i saw was it had the gold fingers for the SLI, so i got another card, tried over and over again but couldn't get SLI to work, started reading and come to realize that this card is NOT SLI compliant it has the gold fingers for it, but the card does not support SLI. My fault for not looking closer and reading better. And it is my first time messing around with SLI I did test this card out in my system though and it is a really nice card for its price and it did run my stuff the way i wanted it too, only it was just one card. If i was just going to build with out SLI I would have kept this card for sure.

Most Critical Review
Sunbeam Transformer IC-TR-US-BK Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case 450W Power Supply
Sunbeam Transformer IC-TR-US-BK Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case 450W Power Supply

Pros: big, cools wells thats about it

Cons: Started off good, but then ran into problems, the audio cable for the top jacks is to short, had to run it through the middle of the ram slots, under the back of the video card, and it was still tight. about 5 of the plastic rivets that hold the plexi glass in were broken off on delivery. them are the small problems. THE BIG PROBLEM was the mobo tray. the mobo tray isn't raised, and it didn't come with any spacers. It was grounding out my power supply because the solder points on the mobo was contacting the metal. Took me almost 8 hours to figure out what was wrong because i never had a mobo designed that poorly. After finding my own spacers the screws were to short then and had to use my own extras i had laying around. But after all the problems i said i was going to write a bad review warning buyers that my $20 case only lacks the looks compared to this case. On top of that there is no instructions on how to do anything with this case except for the front light

Overall Review: Even with how big it is, after getting everything installed, the mobo tray area was cluttered. they do give you an extra tie strap with a sticky stand to place somewhere, i ended up using that stand to hold up the mobo as a spacer. I cannot believe that a case could be so poorly designed as to have nothing from keeping the mobo up off the metal tray and have a short audio cable seeing how it has to go from the bottom of the mobo to the top of the case. most LGA 775 mobos have the audio pins on the far bottom by the pci slots, still a little worried that I can't use the other pci-e slot because the audio goes over it. its a toss up, lose top audio jacks if i want to SLI 2 cards or keep audio jacks on top, case is huge almost has to be put on the floor or near it, top ports are almost a must for headphones or other usb devices. just poor design, will never buy a case like this again.

Kingston 4GB Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) Flash Card W/ E-Tail clamshell Model SD4/4GBET
Kingston 4GB Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) Flash Card W/ E-Tail clamshell Model SD4/4GBET

Pros: Price for size. I pick these up when newegg has deals going on. i have about 5 or 6 of them now. and they are all still working great.

Cons: comes in 2 different packages, one with a plastic clam shell, and one with a hard plastic case. the hard plastic case is what i would like but i can't see paying an extra buck for it. some people might.

Overall Review: i can't get these any cheaper where i live. less then 10 bucks for 4gb SDHC sd card is great and name brand at that. Kingston.

enough space

ZEIKOS ZE-CA48B Black Deluxe Soft Medium Case
ZEIKOS ZE-CA48B Black Deluxe Soft Medium Case

Pros: enough space to hold my SD camcorder, all the wires for charging, my digital camera, and a 6" tripod for the digital camera. still more room left and i haven't even used the side compartments yet. Also has mesh netting on one side pocket and one big one along the whole back of the case. the one on the back has a small thing of velcro to hold it shut. can easily fit more stuff in here if needed. oh yeah, nice padding all around too. can't beat the price, picked it up for less then 15 bucks from newegg

Cons: could not get the combo deal plus use my product discount at the same time. product discount was way bigger then combo deal so i went with that and shelled out full price on the bag. not a big deal. and no reason to take an egg off.

Overall Review: not going to take an egg away for this because i don't carry anything heavy in it and i don't carry it very far so the shoulder strap is useless for me. about 2 weeks now and no problems, i don't use it much, but it does keep my stuff all in one nice little safe place. when i want it all i gotta do is grab the bag and i have everything i need to go film. I'm far from and expert, but for my needs this fit it perfectly.

pretty good

OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2P8004GK
OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2P8004GK

Pros: runs cool, has heat spreaders bought two sets of these for a total of 8 gb

Cons: price, memory is getting expensive fast still gets 5 eggs

Overall Review: runs great in my system as I'm slowly upgrading I had 2gb of kingston value ram in my machine and windows 7 gave it a 6.0 on its grading. This ram with 8gb only raised it to a 6.8 i may need to tweak my setting some but on the other hand i could easily max out the 2gb's this 8gb i can't seem to get it to run over 20% so all in all i have lots of memory left for usage even when running multiple programs and i got it for less then $200 oh plus when i bought it, it had a 15 buck mail in rebate.

SAMSUNG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model SH-S223Q LightScribe Support
SAMSUNG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model SH-S223Q LightScribe Support

Pros: fast, lightscribe, SATA

Cons: wasn't really any cons

Overall Review: I still like my other samsung IDE drive better, its only 20x on burn but for some reason it seems to run better.(might just be me and liking my old drive) still has the same features too lightscribe and all that stuff. bought this one just so i didn't have to switch out dvd's when i'm burning them