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Jake C.

Jake C.

Joined on 01/15/06

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Awsome drive

Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JB 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache EIDE 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JB 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache EIDE 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Works with a softmodded xbox. Fast, cheap, reliable.

Cons: absolutely none.

Overall Review: I own several of these drives, several of the SATA version, and a few others of the caviar line. I have never had any problems with any of them. my computer has 4 of these (2 ide, 2 sata) and I have one of these in my xbox as well as one in a friend's xbox. This is the best price point for hard drives, and WD drives are awesome.

Most Critical Review

Drive failed

LITE-ON Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE DVD Burner
LITE-ON Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE DVD Burner

Pros: Was a decent drive while it worked.

Cons: Ordered this drive in Feb and the tray stopped opening a few days ago (Sep). I got it for about $xx, so it's not worth my time to RMA. I bought a samsung drive in the mean time (from newegg) and it works well.

Overall Review: Guess in this case I got what I paid for.

works

CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-6400C5
CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-6400C5

Pros: Both sticks worked on arrival (tested w/memtest86+)... both work in a machine w/an overclocked quad core.

Cons: price? seems like RAM prices are up quite a bit from a few months ago. Not this RAM nor Newegg's fault.

Overall Review: Had to fiddle with a setting in the BIOS to see more than 3.5G of RAM. Pretty easy overall though.

Desktop accessory, not replacement

HP Mini 1035NR(FT313UA#ABA) Intel Atom N270(1.60 GHz) 10.1" WSVGA 1GB Memory 60GB HDD NetBook
HP Mini 1035NR(FT313UA#ABA) Intel Atom N270(1.60 GHz) 10.1" WSVGA 1GB Memory 60GB HDD NetBook

Pros: Small, light, "Pretty"

Cons: Windows XP that came with this laptop sucked.

Overall Review: I've owned this computer for about 5 months and was having some performance issues doing normal activities. Recently, I installed Windows 7 and now it behaves more like I'd expect. I think some people don't like this machine because they expect it to be a replacement for their full-sized laptop or desktop and it's not. For sitting on the couch and reading email/remote desktop to another machine/other light computing tasks, this machine is perfect.

not bad

POWMAX FAN8CM-1 80mm Blue LED Case Cooling Fan
POWMAX FAN8CM-1 80mm Blue LED Case Cooling Fan

Pros: cheap, relatively bright, seems to move a good amount of air

Cons: only 2 wire, so doesn't report RPMs... that's a minor draw back.

Overall Review: There are fans for a little bit more that report RPMs, but if you're hooking this up to a fan bus or something, it doesn't really matter anyway.

ok

POWERCOLOR R9250128MBPCI Radeon 9250 128MB 64-bit DDR PCI Video Card
POWERCOLOR R9250128MBPCI Radeon 9250 128MB 64-bit DDR PCI Video Card

Pros: cheap

Cons: old

Overall Review: I bought this card for hardware opengl support for developing in visual studio 2005. Vast improvement over integrated video, but still shows its age compared to my nicer machine I built last year. If you're looking to play games, I wouldn't recommend this card; but, if you just need something to upgrade from integrated or if you want dual monitor support, go for it.