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Gregory H.

Gregory H.

Joined on 07/11/01

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Most Favorable Review

Best secondary PCI card

3D Fuzion GeForce 6200 128MB DDR PCI Graphics Card 3DFR6200P
3D Fuzion GeForce 6200 128MB DDR PCI Graphics Card 3DFR6200P

Pros: Incredible value for a GF6200, hard to go wrong at that price. Great secondary PCI card. No problem playing any video types (I use the latest NVidia driver 84.21). The fan is quiet. I use this card to output on a 1050x1680 (vertical) via DVI. The card recognized the native resolution of my monitor immediately and the driver offers rotation.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: My primary card (PCIe) is also an NVidia which may help.

Most Critical Review

Deathstar

Hitachi GST Deskstar T7K250 HDT722516DLAT80 (0A31635) 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA133 / ATA-7 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Hitachi GST Deskstar T7K250 HDT722516DLAT80 (0A31635) 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA133 / ATA-7 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Cheap

Cons: Unreliable. This is the worst drive I've ever owned. My file server slowly died in the last 2 weeks because of that HD. At first my system locked up randomly or performed very poorly (huge interrupt latency every 10 sec). Now it won't even boot (one of its partition is the OS). Fortunately I had a backup.

12/12/2006

Fast and works well with Vista

Rosewill RC-211 Silicon Image 2 port SATA II PCI Express Host Controller Card RAID 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD
Rosewill RC-211 Silicon Image 2 port SATA II PCI Express Host Controller Card RAID 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD

Pros: I bought 2 of those cards and they both work perfectly well on Vista (I did not get the changing S/N on reboot requiring a reactivation of the OS, as someone mentioned previously). I was even able to setup Vista on my Raid0 array with ease, no need to setup the OS on a different disk. I am getting a 5.9 score for HD on Vista with 2x 7200RPM SATA II drives of 250GB.

Cons: Slightly confusing about which driver to use, the right one is in the directory the directory named "SATA PCIe_Raid5_2Port" on the CD.

Overall Review: I had to copy the XP/2000/2003 driver SI3132r5 from the CD to a USB flash and then Vista setup was able to use it to recognize my RAID0 array and install itself on it. Later I received a notification that a new driver for Vista is available through Windows Update.

Can be powered via USB too

PHILIPS Full Spectrum FM Transmitter G2G302
PHILIPS Full Spectrum FM Transmitter G2G302

Comments: This transmitter can be powered by car battery or through a USB port. The orientation of the car battery plug can be adjusted. The sound quality is great(FM quality). Works well with my WMA/MP3 player and my phone. Excellent product overall.