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Richard M.

Richard M.

Joined on 06/28/08

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ECS Goal3+(1.1C) AMD Sempron 3000+ 754 SiS 761 GX Micro ATX Motherboard / CPU Combo
ECS Goal3+(1.1C) AMD Sempron 3000+ 754 SiS 761 GX Micro ATX Motherboard / CPU Combo

Pros: Relatively economical purchase. The fact that the processor is included make this item very appealing to me. Never got a "bad" one and the speed is great with a Gig of RAM.

Cons: You will have to buy a cooler for this. I found them for $12.90 including shipping you can even get better ones for about $25.00 from popular auction sites.

Overall Review: Operates with DDR RAM. Everything you need is integrated but has a PCI Express video expansion slot. Another feature is a LPT port for the older printers and plenty of USB ports.

10/23/2008
Most Critical Review

like.....pffft

Western Digital Blue WD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital Blue WD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Got a DVD burner free with it, which I had to return. GO NEWEGG!!!

Cons: The first drive never made it off the work bench, OS loaded but during updates went pffft rather quickly. The one I got for the RMA lasted almost 5 days before it went PFFFT also.

Overall Review: I had to return the DVD burner this time because I chose "refund", good thing I didn't use it. I've used the WD Blue many a time before and had good luck with them. but this experience has soured me on them, I'll use WD Black until I experience problems. GO NEWEGG!!!

xp

EVGA 200 GeForce 210 1GB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Low Profile Graphics Card 01G-P3-1312-LR
EVGA 200 GeForce 210 1GB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Low Profile Graphics Card 01G-P3-1312-LR

Pros: this card works well and I found the driver for it ez enough I put it in an old XP computer I've had for years to play an old dos game once in a while

Cons: As far as working in XP it does well but but the dos program is kind of funky

Overall Review: dos programs can be funky with any computer above 98 but this computer played the dos program very well on the card that went south If you are looking for an all round good card this is a good card

11/24/2020

use the screws that come with it

EVERCOOL FAN-EC4010M12CA 40mm Case Cooling Fan
EVERCOOL FAN-EC4010M12CA 40mm Case Cooling Fan

Pros: Works well for a small fan - price is reasonable - extra connection included - new screws were also thanfully included

Cons: at this point none

Overall Review: an HP desktop was equipped with this size of fan for the CPU. I thought that was weird too. But even weirder, out of the box, often times the CPU fan would hang and an error would appear that the fan had not started. Flick it with a finger and it would run until booted up again. The customer went to hittin the side and it would sometimes start. When I heard about that I talked them into changing the fan. Since I changed it with this one, everything is now fine. Maybe they still hit if for other reasons now, I don't know, but I hope not. A HEADS UP: I first used the old screws but it would not tighten down. I looked closer and this fans screw holes were counter sunk and the old fans holes were flat on the surface thus the old screws were a mite longer. The screws that were included with the new fan were shorter and did not hit the bottom of the cooler.

Blessing if you need it

Raritan APSUSB USB to PS/2 Adapter
Raritan APSUSB USB to PS/2 Adapter

Pros: This is a great product works better than I expected

Cons: None. even if I nit-picked I could find none.

Overall Review: It's hard to believe I'm the only one who has given feedback on this item. Since desktop PC's have widely replaced the P/S2 with USB; this is the ticket. I have two of them and I have four (4) outlets on my KVM box. If my volume of work happened to pick up, I would buy another. There may be more adapters out there that would work with my KVM box, but the ones I have tried did not. This one works on these desktops PC's: DELL , HP, ASUS, Gateway,and more.

can't complain

Rosewill RC-404 - PCI Ethernet Card - 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbps, 1 x RJ45
Rosewill RC-404 - PCI Ethernet Card - 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbps, 1 x RJ45

Pros: works much faster than the on-board that has been failing for some time.

Cons: I had to change c-mos settings and update the driver to make errors in device manager go away

Overall Review: this is really not a great card for XP lovers if they don't have some technical skills.