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Darran H.

Darran H.

Joined on 08/05/01

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Works

Rosewill - 3-Way Coaxial Cable Splitter
Rosewill - 3-Way Coaxial Cable Splitter

Pros: Works, I can't notice any single degradation. I use an antenna for HDTV and split it between my Media Center PC and Flat Screen, so I can watch TV without the PC or through the PC.

Cons: none.

Overall Review: Cable tv is a thing of the past.

11/20/2010
Most Critical Review

Heat Sink Problems

MSI RX2600XT-T2D512EZ Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Silent Heat Pipe Video Card
MSI RX2600XT-T2D512EZ Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Silent Heat Pipe Video Card

Pros: I didn't get to use the card.

Cons: The heat sink takes up more space than it should. Most high end cards take up two PCI slots but this one is more like 2 1/2 to 3 pci slots. Which made it hard to fit into my ECS KA3MVP motherboard. It did fit but the heat sink was pressed hard into the 4 pin power plug on the MB. It would also be impossible to put a second card in the MB for crossfire as the heat sinks are larger than the gap between the cards.

Overall Review: It was hard to tell how big the heat sink was from the picture provided by new egg because there isn't a side picture. But the heat fins themselves take up 2 slots on top of the card and the card take up one slot down.

Works Great

PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB HBM2 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support ATX Graphics Card AXRX VEGA 56 8GBHBM2-3DH
PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB HBM2 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support ATX Graphics Card AXRX VEGA 56 8GBHBM2-3DH

Pros: Much faster than my r9 290x, and very affordable considering prices of new products have gone up.

Cons: I wish more games supported Directx 12.

Oh so fast.

PowerColor PCS+ Radeon R9 290X 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card AXR9 290X 4GBD5-PPDHE
PowerColor PCS+ Radeon R9 290X 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card AXR9 290X 4GBD5-PPDHE

Pros: It's just kicking but. It's about twice as fast as my 5780 running 3 monitors (eyefinity). Games run smooth. Sorry no fps numbers here but in 5870x1080 game run great. It's also a beautiful card.

Cons: I want another one.... crossfire....

Stolen game

Battlefield 3 Limited Edition PC Game
Battlefield 3 Limited Edition PC Game

Pros: would be fun if I could play it.

Cons: Origin would be the con. My account got hacked and my game was stolen. Since I didn't enter my real birth date I couldn't recover my game. (i've been older than 18 for some time now and I'm just sick of entering my birth date when ever I want to watch a game video so I entered a random date)

Overall Review: I tried to get origin to help me return the game, I even sent em a copy of my receipt from my newegg purchance, and a photo of my game disk with my manual with the game code, and my ID, but they didn't care.

works

Rosewill RC-227 PCI-Express 2.0 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card
Rosewill RC-227 PCI-Express 2.0 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card

Pros: Easy to set up a RAID 1 works

Cons: none, well I wish it could set up three drives in a raid 1 config.

Overall Review: I set up 2 Samsung F3 drives in a raid 1 config on my Asus M3a79-t deluxe motherboard because I don't trust AMD's raid drivers. Worked right away, installed windows 7 and now I have much faster boot times similar to the boot times on my work computer which uses a SSD.