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Robert F.

Robert F.

Joined on 08/31/04

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Most Favorable Review

SX110 is da bomb

Canon PowerShot SX110 IS Black 9.0 MP 10X Optical Zoom Digital Camera
Canon PowerShot SX110 IS Black 9.0 MP 10X Optical Zoom Digital Camera

Pros: I have now owned this camera for a couple of months now and thought I should make a comment. Takes great pictures but more important you will now have a 10x in your pocket. Even if you own pro gear you should have one of these just to have with you just in case that perfect shot comes along.

Cons: still havent met a super model yet.

Overall Review: I went out the other day and took this camera just as a second thought and took some great shoots. Even if I had a $1,200 DSLR I wouldnt have taken it because its not something I could just jam in my pocktet coat pocket.

Most Critical Review

Samsung lost me as fan

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD322GJ/U 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD322GJ/U 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Its very fast and was silent for about a month. Will be RMAing if possible or will become a nice paper weight. I never had hard drive problems in 20 years of ownership now two issues in two months.

Cons: Vibration problem others are talking about. Just started vibrating the other day and hasnt stopped. I thought others should be aware of this problem with this drive. Maybe they are supposed to do this but it didnt at first. In fact i put my hand on it when it was running and no vibration. now I can feel it through the case.

Overall Review: I just ordered a WD 500 gig enterprise class to replace it. That vibration is not acceptable to me and scares me because im not so religious about backing stuff up. I went with Enterprise class WD with 1.2 million hours average before failure model. For 30 bucks more i get piece of mind knowing my data is there. Just had a toshiba hard drive fail in my new laptop and what a pain that was being without a laptop for 3 weeks while warranty work was done.

Nice bang for the buck

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition - Phenom II X4 Deneb Quad-Core 3.2 GHz Socket AM3 125W Processor - HDZ955FBGMBOX
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition - Phenom II X4 Deneb Quad-Core 3.2 GHz Socket AM3 125W Processor - HDZ955FBGMBOX

Pros: Upgraded from a athlon 3 core running at 3.2. I upgraded only because of some cpu intensive games other than that no need to upgrade. I purchased an after market cooler because of all the other reviews saying you should. I changed the multiplier so its running at 3.6 with no voltage increases. I did not try to run it with a voltage increase because there is no need and dont want to worry about heat.

Cons: My only real complaint is it runs a lot hotter than my 3 core. My 3 core would never get over 42 with stock cooler. This puppy runs up to 54 with an after market cooler in intensive gaming. Suprisingly running super Pi to 8 million places it only goes to 46 haha. In normal operation idles around 35. Its winter now so Im concerned in summer it may inch up to 60 when all 4 cores are being taxed.

Overall Review: I didnt get a large after market cooler as its a micro case so with a bigger cooler im sure it would run cooler. Its a 92mm scythe. All in all its a nice bang for the buck but to be honest wouldnt notice the difference except in cpu intensive gaming. Sins of a solar empire with 5 computer opponents and maybe 60 worlds and dozens of fleets is the only thing that I really notice this chip really shows how much more powerful it is than my old chip.

I have now built 3 of these

BIOSTAR A880G+ AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
BIOSTAR A880G+ AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: I have built three systems with this board now. I must say its a nice product for the money and I'm surprised about some bad responses because I have built over 20 systems with Biostar boards and never had a problem? Bang for the buck hard to beat.

Cons: Wish it had the overclocking features of the TA series

Overall Review: This board with 3 core AMD unlocked to 4 cores is an unbeatable value. For less than 400 bucks you can build a nice system with 5770 video card which I have yet to find a game that it wont play well. Even if it wont unlock the 3 core it still games great. We live in a time where you can get tons of power for chump change. I will never pay 200 plus for a processor as long as AMD is in business.

Great Budget Processor

AMD Athlon II X2 245 - Athlon II X2 Regor Dual-Core 2.9 GHz Socket AM3 65W Desktop Processor - ADX245OCGMBOX
AMD Athlon II X2 245 - Athlon II X2 Regor Dual-Core 2.9 GHz Socket AM3 65W Desktop Processor - ADX245OCGMBOX

Pros: Put this with 2 gigs of 1366 ram and biostar 880 micro board together for my parents. Upgraded from single core 1.6ghz sempron with 512k of ram. Used the old case and wow what difference 150 dollars worth of parts makes. I also bought them a 21.5 inch wide screen monitor cause they were complaining about how hard it is to see small print on 17 . Windows 7 has great adjustments for poor sighted people by the way. Cost Chip 60 bucks New Board 60 bucks 2 gigs ram 30 bucks Total 150 bucks

Cons: If i had it to do over again I would have put 4 gigs of ram in because they bought windows 7 after I upgraded.

Overall Review: Works great on 1920x1280 resolution with 880x board. Its probably 3 times faster than their 5+ year old machine. Plays older games fine too. You can bring new life to older systems for chump change and wait for even better technology to come along. Take this cheap CPU and upgrade older systems ;-)

Update to Earlier post

Acronis True Image Home 2011
Acronis True Image Home 2011

Pros: nothing. now a have a nice box with non activated software

Cons: Dont purchase this software if you have a problem its your problem and new egg will not refund or exhange it for any reason.

Overall Review: acronis support is awful. You may want to think twice in buying software from New Egg with the return policy they have. Even if you receive a blank disk its your problem not theirs.