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Taylor P.

Taylor P.

Joined on 11/14/05

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Most Favorable Review

Great Case

LIAN LI Lancool PC-K58W Black 0.8 mm SECC, Plastic + Mesh ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
LIAN LI Lancool PC-K58W Black 0.8 mm SECC, Plastic + Mesh ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Pros: -Roomy! -Anti-Dust filters. -Cable managment is best I've owned. -Spots for external water cooling. -large fans, 2 120mm's and 2 140mm's total. -Awsome tooless PCI card holders. Action is smooth nd cards are held in place firmly. -Deceint drive bay tooless desigh, holder is made out of plasitc, as opposed to PCI holder which is solid metal. -PSU breathing vent on bottom also comes with dust filter.

Cons: -Have to buy aftermaket screws for mounting the top 140mm fans on this case. They come with the same anti vibration rubber sleeves that are on the fans it ships with. Search newegg for "lian li screws", often they are out of stock. If you don't want to deal with the hassel and want them all at the same time, they have a fully loaded black interior model that is slighly more expensive. I was able to jimmy-rig 2 80mm fans up there with a couple large faced screws. She works for now. WARNING! Top and front covers are easily removable for cleaning dust and working on components. NEVER CARRY THIS CASE BY THE PLASTIC PANELLING. That said, I did this and it had bad results.

Overall Review: Dropped it while moving into a new appt. Case had componets contained within it when it dropped from arm height straight to concreate. I was left with the top pannel in my left and and the front in my right with my jaw dropping to the ground. bottom left corner bent slightly, this thing must be reinforced, it's straight solid. Side planel removel was not effected, phew. There was no way this thing was going to boot. No way. Ran inside and plugged in a screen and the computer, she booted right up, been running her sience with no problems. THIS CASE IS 4 FOOT DROP APPROVED! Core i3 @ 3.6 Ghz (2.93 stock) 4gb G.SKill RIpjaws DDR-3 Ram @ 1800 (1600 stock) EVGA GTX 460 768MB 192-bit GDDR5 640gb Wester DIgital Caviar Black 7200rpm Rosewill Green 700w PSU Asus P7H55-M PRO MoBo Corsair A50 CPU Cooler Corsair AirSeries RAM Cooler Artic SIlver 5 Thermal Compound LIAN LI Lancool PC-K58W Case Philips amBX Ambient Lighting Starter Kit

Most Critical Review

Its cheap, its shows.

Rosewill RX81U-ES-25A 2.5" SATA to USB 2.0 External Enclosure
Rosewill RX81U-ES-25A 2.5" SATA to USB 2.0 External Enclosure

Pros: - Allows you to mount laptop hardrives, aka 2.5' drives via USB. -Comes witha Y type usb cable which allows for slightly improved transfer rates. (one cable is fully dedicated to transfer data while the other powers the hardrive) However a nice feature is that you dont need to have 2 slots for the drive to work, it will work of you only have one avalible, just plug in the main USB connector and not the thinner cable USB connector. You just wont get the slight performance increase. -

Cons: -Nubs that hold the case togeather wear down and make the closure feel loose and like its rattleing around. -space left for sliding the hardrive in place allows for the harddrive to slide back and disconnect from the sata connectors while still in the enclosure. A bit of rolled up tiolet paper or paper towl solved this issue for me.

Overall Review: -Over all it meets my needs and I use it heavely with my netbook and laptop's harddrives. I'm regularly opening it up and swaping out its contents.

First MSi Experiance

MSI Laptop Intel Core i3-2310M 4GB Memory 500GB HDD AMD Radeon HD 6470M 14.0" Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit FX420-002US
MSI Laptop Intel Core i3-2310M 4GB Memory 500GB HDD AMD Radeon HD 6470M 14.0" Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit FX420-002US

Pros: -Size -Keyboard Feels Solid -THX Sound is clear When I first bought this laptop I wanted a smaller form factor laptop to complement my higher powered desktop for gaming on the go and 3d modeling applications such as 3ds Max and Mudbox.

Cons: -MSi Driver support is terrible -Graphics driver has many, many issues when switched to High Power mode Upon arrival I liked the size and feel of the laptop in general, but the drivers and bloat ware were trash right from the first boot. When I go to play games, watch Netflix or use my 3d modeling applications all of them have this issue where the displayed application is offset to the left slightly and you loose about 1/2 inch of screen. This also effects the mouse pointer, which is supposed to click right where the pointer tip is, however it does not and clicks way offset also about 1/2 inch. This issue is a graphics driver problem, I've tried using an external mouse and completely re-installing windows 7, the problem has persisted for months and MSi has never updated its graphics drivers. I really should have sent the laptop back but I just figured it would be a documented problem and fixed shortly, this is not so. You are unable to update the drivers from ATI's website.

Overall Review: This problem is completely frustrating because it makes my need for accurate pointer control in modeling applications entirely unusable. The only way to get around this problem is to use the low power intel integrated graphics which is pointlessly under powered. MSi, when are you going to update your drivers? its been months and nothing, thanks for giving the customers the support they want. As other users have posted, the S-bar is frustrating, if your hating it just like I have and are reading this, uninstall it completely, your Fn buttons will still work you just wont see the visual pop-ups when you press the buttons. I really regret this purchase and MSi's quality control and product support is completely unacceptable, this will be my last purchase from this company.

Great ram

OCZ 2GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Laptop Memory Model OCZ2M8002G
OCZ 2GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Laptop Memory Model OCZ2M8002G

Pros: Owned it for 2.5 years and it wwas still running in the netbook I sold a couple days ago.

Cons: *

Overall Review: Placed it in a Asus eee pc 900HA and it worked at correct timings and speed out of the box.

EVGA FPB (Free Performance Boost) GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 768MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card 768-P3-1360-TR
EVGA FPB (Free Performance Boost) GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 768MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card 768-P3-1360-TR

Pros: Runs everything I play at max. Everything. I play alot of games. Pretty much every major title that hits PC it play. what looks good these days.....crysis 2? yeah, max. Over clocks well with evga precision or MSI afterburner. I laugh at people that get the SE version on sale these days, they have a cut down ammount of cuda cores, while this one has the full 336 cuda cores.

Cons: *

Overall Review: I'm scared to try and max out BF3, I don't think thats going to happen, mostly dude to the fact that I use a core i3, regardless of my overclock its still a dual core. NVIDIA + EVGA FOR LIFE

Green!

Rosewill Green Series RG700-S12 700W Continuous @40°C,80 PLUS Certified,Single 12V Rail,ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.91,SLI Ready,CrossFire Ready,Active PFC"Compatible with Core i7, i5" Power Supply
Rosewill Green Series RG700-S12 700W Continuous @40°C,80 PLUS Certified,Single 12V Rail,ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.91,SLI Ready,CrossFire Ready,Active PFC"Compatible with Core i7, i5" Power Supply

Pros: -It powers things! -Its quiet! -Its cool! -Likes Overclocking things (it told me so) -80+ -Non-modular (in my book its a pro)

Cons: *

Overall Review: This PSU works great. I'm using it to overclock a CPU, Ram and GPU. Ill post my specs for reference. Core i3 @ 3.6 Ghz (2.93 stock) 4gb G.SKill Ripjaws DDR-3 Ram @ 1800 (1600 stock) EVGA GTX 460 768MB 192-bit GDDR5 640gb Wester DIgital Caviar Black 7200rpm Rosewill Green 700w PSU Asus P7H55-M PRO MoBo Corsair A50 CPU Cooler Corsair AirSeries RAM Cooler Artic SIlver 5 Thermal Compound LIAN LI Lancool PC-K58W Case Philips amBX Ambient Lighting Starter Kit Creative Sound Blaster Tactic 3d Sourround Sound Headset Logitech MX310 Mouse Logitech Elite Keyboard Wireless Xbox 360 Controller for Windows 64bit