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Marcus S.

Marcus S.

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Does its job

COOLMAX ZU Series ZU-600B 600 W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
COOLMAX ZU Series ZU-600B 600 W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: I bought this unit in October and it's still working just fine out of the box. Super cheap unit for 600w and it's 80 plus. My system is i7 2600k Asus P8Z68 motherboard Radeon 7870ghz 1TB 3.5 HD 120gb Corsair SSD I always wait to review a product until I receive my rebate. I filled out the appropriate paperwork and mailed it in 3 months ago and my rebate arrived today. Yeah it was a long wait but all mail in rebates take that amount of time. Quality working product, rebate received. Looking forward to buying my next CoolMax product when the time calls for one, if the price is right ;)

Cons: SLI Ready? What good video cards have only 1 PCI-Express Connector anymore? Any decent video card requires 2 power connectors and this power supply only has 2, just enough for 1 video card. The AC power cord is incredibly short and will only work if your computer is up against your wall outlet. Hardly Modular.

Overall Review: No Cons worth any egg reductions, for the price it was very worth it, I just had to use the old AC cord from my previous computer.

Most Critical Review

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Diablo III PC / Mac Game
Diablo III PC / Mac Game

Pros: The game is super easy to learn. My girlfriend of all people wanted this game and even she can play it and she never plays video games.

Cons: The game is super short and can easily be beat in a day. Wait, im supposed to keep repeating the storyline in harder difficulties to unlock my character? LOL this is WoW all over again. I was looking forward to playing with my girlfriend until her game started giving her trouble. Turns out that our d-link router kicks us out of the game every 5 mins. When I searched on the forums for answers thousands had the same problem. Blizzards suggestion was to update your routers firmware (I did that long ago) and to open your ports the same exact ports WoW uses yet my computer ran that game perfectly fine. So basically you're buying a single player game that forces you to be online only to get kicked off cause their servers suck yes it's server side not my router. I told her they would fix it withing a week for sure. A month now and still the same problem haha the only way to play this game is to direct connect my internet to the computer. What a waste of money Blizzard this is the last stra

Not bad

TOPOWER TP-1687BB-400 Black SECC 0.8mm Micro ATX Desktop Computer Case 400W SFX Power Supply
TOPOWER TP-1687BB-400 Black SECC 0.8mm Micro ATX Desktop Computer Case 400W SFX Power Supply

Pros: Case was sturdy the system wires were written out. Power supply for sufficient for what I needed it to do.

Cons: No front fan Power supply has no video card connectors.

Overall Review: Very cheap case for a budget build nothing fancy and as long as the power supply works its perfect.

Zalman 24" LCD Monitor 5 ms 1920 x 1080 D-Sub, DVI MZ240ED
Zalman 24" LCD Monitor 5 ms 1920 x 1080 D-Sub, DVI MZ240ED

Pros: Clear working monitor, colors are very clean and sharp. The design is very nice to look at. This was on sale when I bought it and the price couldn't be beat.

Cons: None

PowerColor PCS+ Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card AX7870 2GBD5-2DHPP
PowerColor PCS+ Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card AX7870 2GBD5-2DHPP

Pros: Works great, I recieved my rebate in the mail as promised. Thank you powercolor I run all my games at max settings.

Cons: Radeon Graphics cards are buggy with the games I play such as league of legends it's not just me either many are having these problems and the new drivers can't fix them yet.

ssd

Corsair Force Series 3 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F120GB3A-BK
Corsair Force Series 3 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F120GB3A-BK

Pros: Great Drive, I bought a prebuilt computer from ibuypower and this thing is really fast. It's been over a year with no issues and it's still kicking. After switching to this i'm never going back to regular HD's.

Cons: I always want my SSD to be on the latest firmware because it can make it faster and more efficient. Finding a driver for a Corsair product is a huge pain. When I did finally find the right place to download it I really didn't think I was at the right place. I was on their forum where people make posts and chat. This really didn't seem like any other website where you can find your driver on the front page or support page. Just a terrible unofficial looking place to download drivers but nothing worth taking any eggs for.

12/11/2012