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Cody F.

Cody F.

Joined on 03/18/08

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Most Favorable Review

Great SSD for the price

Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 2.5" 128GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSC-D0128SC-2100
Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 2.5" 128GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSC-D0128SC-2100

Pros: Benching off a fresh install I got an average read of 220.3MB/s, using HDTach 3. The first time I ran it I got 219.6 MB/s. This SSD makes general usage much faster and I find myself noticing that I don't have to wait for stuff to load.

Cons: I bought this at $219, then the price went up.

Overall Review: While you may get similar performance from raid, remember that raid is less reliable. SSD's also use less power, generate less heat, and make no noise. I would also like to point out that I used the Rosewill $9 adapter for the SSD and it works great. Just remember that this is a "Blue" line drive and you aren't going to get the fastest performance out of it.

Decent for the price.

Western Digital Elements 1TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Western Digital Elements 1TB Desktop External Hard Drive

Pros: Overall this is a great external drive, with just a few problems. It looks great on my desk, no flashing lights in my face and its not glossy enough to show fingerprints or dust.

Cons: This drive may be a bit slow, but thats fine since it is a back up drive that I can just set and forget. If you are going to back up 1tb with Windows 7 Backup, forget about it. It will take ages using the built in software, this is a known issue with the program. I would suggest using another program, or just backing up the necessary files.

Overall Review: An earlier comment said that is used a proprietary connector, but it does not. It uses the same mini-usb connector that cameras and other external drives use.

It Verks!

Acer P235Hbmid Black 23" 5ms HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 50000:1(ACM) Built-in Speakers
Acer P235Hbmid Black 23" 5ms HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 50000:1(ACM) Built-in Speakers

Pros: Vibrant colors, HDMI, DVI, and VGA. Vesa mount is nice too, as well as the audio in. Big, with a low pixel pitch.

Cons: This isn't a really bad con, but it has a glossy screen that would be bad in a bright environment if you has dark colors on the screen.

It Verks!

Rosewill RNX-EasyN1 Wireless-N 4.0 Dongle (1T1R) IEEE 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 Up to 150Mbps Data Rates WPA/WPA2 (AES, 64,128-WEP with shared-key authentication) WPS PIN, PBC (Hardware WPS Button) QoS-WMM
Rosewill RNX-EasyN1 Wireless-N 4.0 Dongle (1T1R) IEEE 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 Up to 150Mbps Data Rates WPA/WPA2 (AES, 64,128-WEP with shared-key authentication) WPS PIN, PBC (Hardware WPS Button) QoS-WMM

Pros: I figured I would buy this since it was on sale for $10. Plugged it in and 7 found drivers for it no problem. No need to use the ones Rosewill gives you!

Cons: May block a USB port or two on some laptops or pc's, but who doesnt have plenty these days?

Overall Review: Works great for how cheap it is.

Only a bit of trouble.

ZOTAC GF8100-A-E AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
ZOTAC GF8100-A-E AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: This board by itself is great. Small, looks good, and it has DVI out. The onboard video gets 5fps in TF2(I know it's not that demanding) at 1280*1024. That was with a 4850e+ and 2gb of Geil ram. It has support for hybrid sli, which is a bonus.

Cons: The first board had a small problem. The ethernet driver wouldn't install because it said it couldnt find the device. After multiple driver and os's, I gathered that the ethernet controller was dead. I had sent an email to Zotac support and they gave me an honest and quick reply back saying to try the drivers straight from nvidia and if those didnt work then I would need to RMA the board. When I got the new board everything worked fine.

Overall Review: I have this paired with the Xigmatek Apache Cooler and 2GB of Orange Geil ram and it looks killer

Fast enough

Kingston 2GB MicroSD Flash Card  w/ SD Adapter Model SDC/2GB
Kingston 2GB MicroSD Flash Card w/ SD Adapter Model SDC/2GB

Pros: Decent price, faster than Class 2.

Cons: ITS NOT MADE OF GOLD

Overall Review: It works and it comes with an adapter. What else do you want?

12/31/2008