Joined on 08/03/06
It is what it is
Pros: 8 Port 10/100/1000 for a decent price. After MIR and promo code it could not be beat. Auto shut off unused ports
Cons: Wall plug is kind of bulky. Doesn't interfere with other sockets on my UPS though, so.
Overall Review: Why do people complain that it's white or plastic. It's a consumer grade device, not enterprise. And flimsy? What are doing with it that it's flimsy case would compromise the unit? Driving over it, throwing it down stairs, rage-quitting a game and hurling it across a room? Seriously. And no power switch. Big deal. Rarely do switches, even enterprise class HP and Cisco switches in our data center do not have power switches. Nor did any of the Netgear/Linksys/Cisco consumer grade models either. Picky people are picky over things that don't really matter. It's a switch. Plug it in, hook up your devices and leave it be.
Nice, if it worked
Pros: Quiet, fast, burned nice when it worked.
Cons: Died after burning 2 discs, made 3 coasters then stopped working completely. Won't eject the disc even.
Overall Review: Newegg RMA rocks!
Works
Pros: So far, easy to use. UEFI is somewhat easy to navigate, just not organized well. Overclocked my 4670k to 4.6 effortlessly and stable. Also has no problem with all 4 ram slots occupied.
Cons: BIOS would not connect to internet to update. Had to download and flash via USB. Useless feature if it doesn't work. A-Tune utility is a joke. Why does it not offer the granularity that the BIOS does. And the driver update feature, who knows if it actually works. It initially detected all the devices, but didn't display current version. So I updated with the utility and now it doesn't display all the devices, nor the new driver versions. So, I really don't know what it's doing, if anything. It did reboot the machine a bunch of times. Would have been nice to know it was going to do that, nope, it just shuts down while you are in the middle of things. Since doing that driver update now Windows wants to run chkdsk at every startup. Very annoying as that increases boot time. SATA ports are also difficult to get to. X-Fast LAN utility actually slowed my connection down. Not even going to try the other ones.
Overall Review: 4670k @ 4.6 w/ H80i 2X8GB Gskill Ripjaw 1866
It burns, it read
Pros: It's quiet. It's SATA. It burns everything I've tried to burn without making any coasters.
Cons: It's no faster than the IDE part it replaced. At least I don't have to look at a nasty ribbon cable in my case anymore. Too much white print on the drive tray.
Overall Review: For the price it's an excellent unit.
Sweet
Pros: Works as advertised. Extra adaptors are nice to have for compatibility.
Cons: None
Overall Review: For a phone that's not SDHC compliant this is the best choice.
Fantabulous
Pros: Excellent cooling! Went from a TR SI-128 to this on my Q6600. At 3.5Ghz load temps dropped from 70C to 55C. That with the included fan. I slapped on a high speed Yate Loon and temps dropped to 51c at load. For the money this can't be beat!
Cons: It's tall. Make sure your case has room for it. May interfere with some mosfet, NB or RAM coolers. Also needs the bolt-thru kit to maximize performance.
Overall Review: Buy it! You won't be disappointed!