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Richard S.

Richard S.

Joined on 07/10/06

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Most Favorable Review

OK For The Price - But!

BIOSTAR H61MGC LGA 1155 Intel H61 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
BIOSTAR H61MGC LGA 1155 Intel H61 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Easy Windows 7 Install and Setup. Can't beat the price.

Cons: The on-board Lan randomly drops it connection. At first I thought that it might of been my Router or cable, but after having two other systems on the same line without dropouts, I'm pretty sure we have a problem.

Overall Review: I have removed the Lan drivers and re-installed them - Same Problem. Connected a USB Wireless Adapter to the board - No Problem. So much for the "Bug Free B3" sticker on the front of the box!

Most Critical Review

Never Will I Buy Software From This Company Again!

Roxio Creator 2012 Special Edition
Roxio Creator 2012 Special Edition

Pros: There Are No Pros With This Software - Period!

Cons: It never fails; every time I buy an updated copy of this company’s Garbage software, I have problems. Brand new computer with 2 Terabyte Drive and Roxio installer says that I don’t have enough drive space available! Let’s See – My computer says that I have 826-Gigs free, but Roxio apparently needs More free space than this, because I keep getting an error message….

Overall Review: What A Joke! Don't Waste Your Time Or Money.

12/20/2012

This Company Is Rapidly Losing It's Integrity.

Western Digital WD Green WD10EARS 1TB 5400 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital WD Green WD10EARS 1TB 5400 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: At This Time - - - - No Pros for this Junker! Click & Clack, Loss Of Data And Another Unhappy Customer.

Cons: 6 Months Ago I installed this low-grade loser drive into a customers Business machine, and with a fresh re-load of Windows, No Less - - - - - - - - - And here I sit for hours on~end trying to recover their data.

Overall Review: This will be the last time I get egg on my face Western Digital - - - - - - Seagate Drives will now be replacing any WD Drives that fail in my Clients PC's for the fiscal year of 2016... And further more - - - - - - - I will No Longer be installing any Western Digital Drives into anything that I build in the near future. Especially These Low RPM, So-Called Green Drives.

12/22/2015

Decent System For The Price

Lenovo ThinkCentre M90p Intel i7 Quad Core 2900MHz 500Gig HDD 4096mb DVD ROM Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit Desktop Computer
Lenovo ThinkCentre M90p Intel i7 Quad Core 2900MHz 500Gig HDD 4096mb DVD ROM Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit Desktop Computer

Pros: The system arrived well packed; Clean and in working order. I doubled the RAM to 8-GB and Cloned a Terabyte Drive and swapped it for the little 500 Gig unit.

Cons: The Video Driver wasn't installed and there was a fair amount of Windows updates to apply.

Overall Review: So Far - - - - - - - - - it runs pretty fast and hasn't blue screened or locked up on me yet. Over All; I am very happy with this system.

Not That Great

GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XM-D3H FM2+ / FM2 AMD A88X (Bolton D4) USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XM-D3H FM2+ / FM2 AMD A88X (Bolton D4) USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: It works - Kinda. . . . Bought this as a DIY Kit for a customer; but the lack luster performance was so bad; I was embarrassed to even give it to a paying customer.

Cons: Obvious Graphics issues, and pathetic performance when parred with the AMD A6-5400K Trinity Processor. Either this board has serious problems, or the AMD Processor is defective; I'll find out when I get time to install another CPU.

Overall Review: I ended up throwing this loser system in the closet and just started over by using a Joe~Schmo Dual-Core Intel chip. At least I was able to save the 8-GB of RAM!

Just Adequate

AMD A6-5400K - A6 Series Trinity Dual-Core 3.6 GHz Socket FM2 65W AMD Radeon HD 7540D Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic - AD540KOKHJBOX
AMD A6-5400K - A6 Series Trinity Dual-Core 3.6 GHz Socket FM2 65W AMD Radeon HD 7540D Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic - AD540KOKHJBOX

Pros: This CPU was included with a DIY kit that I purchased from Newegg last month; the kit also had a GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XM-D3H FM2+ and 8-GB HyperX Fury Black Series. The price is the plus part - - - - But performance wise; I don't think so!

Cons: With that said; I expected better performance than I am currently experiencing; either this chip stinks - - - - - or there is something seriously wrong with my DIY kit. Video performance is lackluster as far as I’m concerned, and desktop office performance is just adequate to do basic tasks.

Overall Review: I probably won't be using this Processor again; just not enough horsepower for me...