Joined on 11/10/05
BEST PURCHASE EVER
Pros: Wow, this monitor is amazing. I went from a 19" CRT monitor, to this. What a huge difference it makes, especially with windows 7 beta, with the function of dragging a window to the sides for easy 50/50 comparison, i can still see EVERYTHING within the windows. For games just the increased resolution and screen space makes a HUGE difference, first game i tried was dead space, incredible in HD. Its great for photoshop too.
Cons: Only con is that there is some light bleeding at the top 1/2-1cm, and on the right side. I noticed it immediately because my wallpaper is completely black at the edges. And it was somewhat noticeable in dead space. Is this normal? Its not that big of a deal, and from other reviews it seems to be normal. Its only noticeable if that part of the screen is pitch black.
Overall Review: Newegg is amazing, as is UPS, I ordered this on tuesday around 7pm EST, and recieved it Friday at 11am. I didn't think I would get it today because the lady that receives packages in my apartment building said she wouldn't be here today due to Good Friday, but the UPS man came to my apartment to deliver it. I was so happy.
The cable gets frayed within 1 year
Pros: A really great, responsive mouse, my favorite yet except for the cable...
Cons: I bought this on 5/14/2011 and for the past week its been disconnecting for a couple seconds quite often, the cable has gotten frayed overtime. I've never had this problem before with any other mouse. Its really really annoying and really disappointed it happened to a mouse of this caliber.
Overall Review: Other than the cable going bad in just under a year's time, its a great mouse. I hope I can get it replaced without having to buy a new one, if I have to buy a new one it'll be a mouse without the meshy material on the cable.
Great motherboard! Easy install for the most part
Pros: - 6 sata ports, 4 m.2 slots, easy to install, recognized my 2 stick 64gb ram kit at 5600 with no issues
Cons: - as others mentioned, no wifi/ethernet drivers installed. I needed to install windows 11 through the audit option which I was lucky to come across, it would have been extremely frustrating if I didn't see that method in a random comment.
Overall Review: This review is for the MSI Review Rebate Program.
Absolutely horrible card
Pros: None, this card is junk.
Cons: Side by side, my macbook will average around 20mbps on speedtest,net while my PC with this horrible card installed in it will range from 1mbps to 8mbps tops.
Overall Review: I stupidly threw the box away after installing it as the internet connection at my new place was just 6mbps at first, when I upgraded to 24mbps I thought the adapter would be fine. I was wrong, junk card is junk, highly NOT recommended. Hopefully I can get my money back.
Nowhere nearly as fast as advertised
Pros: I had an OCZ vertex 2 90gb ssd that died a couple weeks ago after 15 months of use. OCZ replaced it with an agility 3 90gb ssd, so props to them for that. It says that it has a read speed of up to 525mb on sata 3 and write speed of up to 500mb. That is not true, my motherboard is the ASUS p8z68 gen3, i have the SSD plugged into a sata 3 port and it only gets up to 210mb read and 80mb write. My western digital 2tb 7200rpm sata 3 harddrive gets up to 180mb read on the sata 3 port and 140mb write speed. If it wasn't a replacement I would not have anything to do with this SSD.
Cons: Does not perform anywhere near sata3 speeds, just 210mb read speed, 80mb write speed.
Overall Review: At least if this drive dies it won't really matter now that I have the western digital 2tb harddrives installed that have a read speed almost as fast, and a faster write speed. Do not get this SSD if you want fast boot up times, get the vertex3 or a large capacity 7200rpm sata3 harddrive
Was fine for 15 months
Pros: Would load a bit faster, not as mind lovingly fast as some ppl would lead you to believe. However now that I have to load everything from my regular 7200rpm harddrive, it is a bit annoying having to wait a half second longer for certain things. But if you've never experienced an ssd before the you won't really notice the difference until u have to go back to a harddrive.
Cons: It just died tonight, hoping the rma process is fast so I can get all my settings back to normal. I have everything backed up to an external harddrive, so wasn't too horrible, but frustrating and time consuming to reinstall windows and my main programs to another harddrive.
Overall Review: Always back up your important files!