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Joshua P.

Joshua P.

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Most Favorable Review

Now with Ice Cream Sandwich!

Le Pan II Tablet PC Qualcomm APQ8060(1.2GHz) 9.7" XGA 1GB Memory DDR2 8GB NAND Flash HDD
Le Pan II Tablet PC Qualcomm APQ8060(1.2GHz) 9.7" XGA 1GB Memory DDR2 8GB NAND Flash HDD

Pros: Cheaper than an Ipad yet with the same screen size 9.7 inch 4:3 display. Upgradable to Ice Cream Sandich as of July 18. UI is smooth with the update but the tablet was useable before ICS.

Cons: Slippery, Plastiky metalic edges feel like they are going to come off. Front Facing Camera leaves much to be expected.

Overall Review: Waited a long time for Ice Cream Sandwich, and the Upgrade process isn't what people would find the easiest though there are detailed instructions on the manufacture's site to install it.

Most Critical Review

Intel z87 Problems are no joke.

ASUS PCE-AC66 Next Generation AC Dual-Band Wireless Adapter IEEE 802.11ac, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n PCI Express Up to 1750Mbps (450/1300Mbps) Wireless Data Rates
ASUS PCE-AC66 Next Generation AC Dual-Band Wireless Adapter IEEE 802.11ac, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n PCI Express Up to 1750Mbps (450/1300Mbps) Wireless Data Rates

Pros: Had it running in a biostar ta890fxe motherboard, it worked like a dream! getting speeds on average of 550mb/s, still was just as fast when it worked with my first z87 motherboard.

Cons: Had quite a hard time with my computer not booting up, though it was my ram or video card, I was quite surprised that the problem seems to stem from this wifi card. The sad part is,the wifi card might of killed my first z87 motherboard, a Gigabyte z87-ud5h motherboard. I left the computer running for a while to talk to somebody and when I returned the computer was off and wouldn't post no matter what I did. Again I'm not sure what did my motherboard in, but I am putting this here so people can at least not be surprised when something as bad as this happens.

Overall Review: For the time being, I'm leaving out the wifi card of my computer and resorting to cat5e cables (which from my distance to my router is pegged at 100mb/s) It seems though it's not the cards fault but the new motherboards. I'm not sure though if a driver update would fix things as the problem stems from not booting up and seems to be a firmware or hardware issue. But prove me wrong!

Great for FPS gaming

Acer XG270HU omidpx 27" 2K QHD 2560 x 1440 1ms 144Hz AMD FreeSync Technology Edge-to-Edge Frameless Design DVI-D HDMI DisplayPort Built-in Speakers LED Backlit LCD Gaming Monitor
Acer XG270HU omidpx 27" 2K QHD 2560 x 1440 1ms 144Hz AMD FreeSync Technology Edge-to-Edge Frameless Design DVI-D HDMI DisplayPort Built-in Speakers LED Backlit LCD Gaming Monitor

Pros: 144hz, 1440p and with AMD Freesync!

Cons: No Vesa Mount and the power button could be a bit better. Had some issues when it went blank when opening a game, but that could have been some other issue.

Overall Review: I use this mainly for Competitive Gaming, and some light content creation. The 144hz is nice for competitive FPS games like Cs:Go and TF2 and will become noticeable especially for those who've invested a lot into these games and are really playing competitively. The Freesync is also great for those games that you aren't going to be playing at +200 FPS as they're going to make your experience a lot better.

12/14/2015

RMA'd after 3 months.

Rosewill Helios RK-9200BU - Dual LED Illuminated Mechanical Keyboard with Cherry MX Blue Switches
Rosewill Helios RK-9200BU - Dual LED Illuminated Mechanical Keyboard with Cherry MX Blue Switches

Pros: A standard full sized keyboard with Red and Green Back light. Bought it on sale. Solid, Heavy keyboard for gamers and typists.

Cons: The keyboard worked well for a while, until I noticed that the "T" key was unresponsive most of the time or would input more than one "T" I don't use the "T" key often while gaming, but when I type things with the letter "T" then it gets a bit annoying.

Overall Review: I bought an older model Rosewill Mechanical keyboard at a thrift store, it was the model that was notorious for having a lose USB socket. RMA'd the keyboard, and hopefully my replacement will be a lot better.

Doesn't want to connect to my Asus Router

ASUS PCE-AC68 AC1900 Dual-Band Wireless PCI-E Adapter
ASUS PCE-AC68 AC1900 Dual-Band Wireless PCI-E Adapter

Pros: Asus honors their RMA for those of us who bought the Asus PCE-AC66 and tried using it on a z87 motherboard.

Cons: Driver Support... The only driver available was released about 2 months ago, the one that comes with the disk. In a perfect world with perfect drivers this would be alright, but this isn't as the only driver won't allow me to connect to my router. I installed the card and was able to connect to my ASUS RT-AC66 router for the first day I had this card. But after that it was unable to connect to the server, changing the pcie slot, nor uninstalling and re-installing the driver nor playing around with adapter settings will allow me to connect back to my router.

11/18/2013

Update 5.0.7 firmware released

ADATA Premier Pro SP900 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) ASP900S3-256GM-C
ADATA Premier Pro SP900 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) ASP900S3-256GM-C

Pros: Works 6 months still after a few months with the old 5.0.2a firmware. (Your mileage may vary) Also Yay! New Firmware!

Cons: took a while to get the new firmware! and the download site was acting up!

Overall Review: Adata skipped over 5.0.4 firmware and went straight to 5.0.7. I really wanted though for 5.0.4 early because Trim was needed badly as I noticed things slowed down a bit since I got this drive last year. Though the 5.0.7 firmware apparently fixed a problem that could of plagued drives with older firmware much worse than a simple trim issue.