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Andrew G.

Andrew G.

Joined on 03/14/04

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Most Favorable Review

Works great for 3TB drives

Rosewill RC-216 PCI Express eSATA II x 2 / ATA 133 x1 RAID 0/1/0+1/JBOD mode Controller Card
Rosewill RC-216 PCI Express eSATA II x 2 / ATA 133 x1 RAID 0/1/0+1/JBOD mode Controller Card

Pros: I used this card as a bandaid for an old Nvidia (2007 vintage) motherboard that had a 2TB limit on the SATA drives. This allows me to see the full 3TB on my 2 new 3TB drives, and now I don't have to build a new HTPC for another couple years.

Cons: It has 4 ports, two internal SATA and 2 external eSATA. But you can only use 2 ports at a time, and they are configured with jumpers. I was fairly certain this was the case after reading the description, however once I got the card it was quite clear. Of course, 4 active SATA ports would be preferred; but not enough to dock an egg as I suspected this was the case anyhow.

Overall Review: Great card, I was transferring from one drive to the next at close to 100MB/sec.

Most Critical Review

Failed after a couple hours

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Low Profile Video Card ZT-P10510E-10L
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Low Profile Video Card ZT-P10510E-10L

Pros: Low profile, quiet, good power clip for small systems

Cons: Failed after running fine for a couple of hours. Tried it in another system, and the card was dead.

Overall Review: First Zotac experience ever, and first attempt at an Nvidia product in many years. Not impressed. Newegg can take some blame here too. I want to warn people that Newegg sent me a card that had obviously been previously sold and installed, package was missing contents and the card was not packaged properly. Card should have been sold as a refurb. This didn't do more than annoy me at first, but then after the card died I wondered if it had been previously damaged, or was damaged due to improper re-packaging (lack of anti-static bag). Tried the card in 2 systems, and one of the systems had to have the power supply replaced to come back up after the card was removed. The card killed a power supply too.

Best 460/560 I have run

GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 Gaming OC 4GB, GV-RX560GAMING OC-4GD
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 Gaming OC 4GB, GV-RX560GAMING OC-4GD

Pros: All 460/560 cards fall into the same performance range, but this is by far the quietest and coolest I have running.

Cons: Doesn't have 1080ti performance levels for ~100 bucks.

Overall Review: I put 460/560 cards in my Ryzen builds that are used for office work, light CAD, engineering ect.. One of our machines (Solidworks station) is running a WX5100 Pro card, and the 460s handle 3d as well as the 5100 does..

Surprisingly Awesome

Hot-selling keyboard For  Rii mini i12 ultra slim wireless keyboard with touchpad QWERTY Multifunction for HTPC PC Smart TV
Hot-selling keyboard For Rii mini i12 ultra slim wireless keyboard with touchpad QWERTY Multifunction for HTPC PC Smart TV

Pros: Rechargeable internal battery (charges over USB) Compact Well built. Good range

Cons: Track pad could be more sensitive

Overall Review: I have 2 of these set up on HTPCs. Will likle ybuy some more for other systems that are not used as workstations or regular PCs. This interface is perfect for computers that are not used for heavy typing, and you just want a compact all in one solution. No mouse to keep track of, no batteries to change, nothing at all to deal with....

Good, but don't love it

MSI Radeon RX 560 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express x16 (Uses x8) CrossFireX Support Video Card RX 560 AERO ITX 4G OC
MSI Radeon RX 560 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express x16 (Uses x8) CrossFireX Support Video Card RX 560 AERO ITX 4G OC

Pros: RX560 4Gb is the bang-for-the-buck champ for light gaming and HTPC; esp right now.

Cons: This card runs hot, and needs to run the fan at a higher speed pretty much anytime there is any GPU loading. Definitely an MSI design issue vs an RX560 issue as I have an XFX card in another machine with almost the exact same configuration (short card, single fan, RX560, 4Gb) and it runs much cooler; with far less noise.

Overall Review: All that being said, with as hot as it runs I haven't had a single crash. I just don't like the noise. Probably will change the card out when the prices of RX580s returns to planet earth; and stick this in my server as a 24/7 miner where I won't care how loud it the fan is. Maybe I'll get my money back. Someday. For now it's fine in my HTPC; even with the annoying fan.

Great card for CAD

Radeon Pro WX 5100 100-505940 8GB 256-bit GDDR5 Workstation Video Card
Radeon Pro WX 5100 100-505940 8GB 256-bit GDDR5 Workstation Video Card

Pros: Put in a Ryzen Solidworks station that is used to design parts, and send them to an SLA printer for high resolution prints. Machine also runs circuitboard design software, and a few other CAD interfaces. Card handles everything and it's 4K monitor great, and runs very quiet. I ran a 24hour burn in on the card and even maxed out it didn't get too hot, loud, ect. Great MEch workstation.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Driver rescission is worth taking this step vs using a consumer level card in the workstation. CAD software doesn't necessary run faster, but I don't see any of the rendering errors I would typically see in a consumer level card.