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Gregory g.

Gregory g.

Joined on 01/30/04

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Most Favorable Review

Superb

ZALMAN VF900 – CU 2 Ball VGA Cooler
ZALMAN VF900 – CU 2 Ball VGA Cooler

Pros: I had my doubts when I bought this cooler. I got it to cool my Radeon X800 XL. But I bought it cuz it is future proof with the newer cards out there which I loved. This cooler dropped my temps dramatically from idle of 47-48 C to 35C. Better yet, I can't hear it when I have it set to medium (High gives a faint whir or air but nothing annoying). My PC has a very quiet setup so this is very impressive.

Cons: None as of yet.

Overall Review: Newegg and their fast shipping with FedEx. Try to avoid UPS if you can. FedEx always seems to get it to me a day early if they can where UPS seems to be lucky if they get it to me on time.(One 2 occaisions it got loaded on the wrong train they said and went to the wrong side of the country.)

Most Critical Review

You get what you pay for

KingSpec P3 SSD 1TB Internal 2.5" Solid State Drive 2.5 Inch SATA III 3D NAND Flash Data Storage, Speed up to 560MB/s, laptop PC Desktop compatible, Black
KingSpec P3 SSD 1TB Internal 2.5" Solid State Drive 2.5 Inch SATA III 3D NAND Flash Data Storage, Speed up to 560MB/s, laptop PC Desktop compatible, Black

Overall Review: Drive comes with a 60 day replacement warranty. This is far less than the typical 1 year warranty for SATA drives. Well, 90 days after receiving the drive, it has died. Now it makes sense. I have worked in IT for 20 years and wrote product reviews for various websites. Avoid this product and safe yourself the headache and trouble.

Good but not as adertised

Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200) Desktop Memory Model TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01
Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200) Desktop Memory Model TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01

Pros: Memory runs great at 2133 MHz. Beautiful heatspreaders. Newegg shipped it out fast. +2 Eggs for them.

Cons: The memory will not run at 2400 MHz. My board supports 2400 MHz (Gigabyte GA-F2A88XN-WIFI). I used the XMP profile but the system won't boot. Also, the XMP profile has settings slightly off from what the SPD is reported as under CPUID. (11-13-13-35 1T vs. 11-14-14-35 2T) I tried manually adjusting settings and it wouldn't work. Ensured the correct voltage was applied (It was) and still wouldn't work. Buy this memory only if you're ok with running it at 2133 MHz.

Overall Review: I have used TEAM brand RAM in the past with positive results so I felt confident going back to them. I made sure my board can handle 2400 MHz which it can. I am disappointed that this RAM can't hit the 2400 MHz speed. I paired it with an A8-7600 which LOVES faster RAM.

Meh overall

SanDisk Ultra 2.5" 240GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SDSSDH-240G-G25
SanDisk Ultra 2.5" 240GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SDSSDH-240G-G25

Pros: It's an SSD so there's that. It is quicker than a HDD.

Cons: It died on me after 8 months. It locked up one day and I rebooted the PC. No problems. The next it locked up again never to be heard from again. The drive is not recognized in any PC. It is totally dead. No shock, no virus. Just kaput.

Overall Review: It was inexpensive when I got it. But now that other drives have dropped in price I am going to look elsewhere. I am very unhappy. I expected a smaller company like SanDisk to produce a better product since they need to work harder to obtain new customers. I was wrong.

Total let down

LIAN LI CR-25B 20-in-1 USB 2.0 Black Aluminum Card Reader
LIAN LI CR-25B 20-in-1 USB 2.0 Black Aluminum Card Reader

Pros: Can be used either internally or externally. When it works, it works very well and fast.

Cons: I had gotten this unit along side a new Transcend 4GB 300x CF card. I tested the card reader with a 2GB 166x card I had lying around until my new CF card arrived and the reader worked very well. I snapped a few hundred pics over the weekend on the new card and when I went to upload the images the reader would not read the new 4GB 300X card. It would hang and then give me an error. Multiple tries got me nothing and removing and installing the unit did not help. This reader has an incompatibility with newer cards which is sad since this is where the technology is heading. I am very disappointed that no information was found listing this sort of incompatibility. Either that or I got a defective unit that only works with slower cards of smaller capacity. What are the odds of that?

Overall Review: WinXP SP2 with 2 GB of DDR2-800 RAM Intel e6420 with an Asus x38 mobo. Latest drivers. Don't bother with this unit if your looking for something that will work with newer cards.

Newegg doesn't warrnt this item for a reason

LINKSYS BEFSR41 EtherFast Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port Switch 1 x 10/100Mbps WAN Ports 4 x 10/100Mbps LAN Ports
LINKSYS BEFSR41 EtherFast Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port Switch 1 x 10/100Mbps WAN Ports 4 x 10/100Mbps LAN Ports

Pros: When it worked, it worked wonderfully as advertised.

Cons: This item arrived July 12th and died on July 20th. Ever since the cisco accquisition their quality has slipped. I owned version 2 of this router and now with v4.1 things have changed. Failure after 1 week of use and 51 minutes on the phone with outsourced tech support are things that turn me away from corporations and their products. Sadly, I will no longer purchase any more Linksys products.

Overall Review: Newegg and their fast delivery (FedEx not UPS who is very slow) always come through. I read about Linksys fail from grace but refused to believe it. Working in IT I know a thing or two about hardware. If it fails after 1 week it was never any good to start with.