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Vincente P.

Vincente P.

Joined on 04/10/06

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Most Favorable Review

Little loud

COOLER MASTER R4-S2S-12AK-GP 120mm Silent Fan 120 SI1
COOLER MASTER R4-S2S-12AK-GP 120mm Silent Fan 120 SI1

Pros: Pushes a fair amount of air into the case. If you have a relatively loud PC, you will NOT notice this fan operating.

Cons: My PC ran extraordinarily quiet before the installation of this fan. The fan is pretty quiet but it is still the loudest thing in my case by far. It sounds like a miniature elf is in my case chopping trees down with a chainsaw. If you have a very quiet PC like I once had (can hardly tell its on), then you will definitely notice a difference. The main issue is the fan vibration.

Solid Fan

ENERMAX MAGMA UCMAA12A Case Fan
ENERMAX MAGMA UCMAA12A Case Fan

Pros: Very solid fan, moves quite a lot of air and I honestly can't even hear it spinning at all. I built my PC to be very quiet yet powerful; I needed better cooling but did not want to sacrifice noise. This fan was perfect for that. Rubber tips are solid after installation and even further reduce the noise generation.

Cons: Installing the fan with the included rubber tips was much more difficult than I'd thought it'd be. I felt like I was going to snap the tips off several times while pulling them through the case.

Great Router

NETGEAR WGT624 Wireless Firewall Router IEEE 802.3/3u, IEEE 802.11b/g
NETGEAR WGT624 Wireless Firewall Router IEEE 802.3/3u, IEEE 802.11b/g

Pros: I am extremely pleased with the performance of this router. This router is a high quality product, and I have had absolutely no issues with it at all. I use tons of bandwidth all the time, playing multiplayer games with no lagg or dropped packets. I have a constant connection of "Very Good" and the router itself was easy to install and is easy to operate. It provides great bandwidth, range, and performs nearly flawless.

Cons: The customer support is nothing to be happy about. The Software that comes with it is a little buggy, but you can always just use Windows XP.

Overall Review: After reading some reviews, I was nervous to purchase this router. I'm extremely happy that I did, because it performs to the utmost of my expectation, and is an overall quality product. Don't let those reviews back you down from this router.

Good Case

Rosewill TU-155 Black 0.8mm SGCC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case with 400W(20+4 pin) Power Supply
Rosewill TU-155 Black 0.8mm SGCC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case with 400W(20+4 pin) Power Supply

Pros: This case is extreemly roomy. I easily fit all of my parts into it, as well as plenty of room to upgrade. The blue is not dull, as some posts said.

Cons: The case cooling is alright, but it has flaws. I already have all of the fan ports filed, and I still need to put in more, because the fan in the back pushes out air, but the front two fans are basically blocked by the plastic, and left a small strip of room to push out the air, which I feel is not only not sufficient, but contradictory. Buy a powerful fan for the fan port in the back. Also, the way that the styrafoam is placed on the case for shipping is pretty dumb. They used it to protect the top and bottom and not the front and back like they should.

Overall Review: I wish the CPU manifold were able to stick out further, but its mainly because my CPU fan is a peice of junk. I'm probably going to have to switch to water cooling in the near future, but only because my machine generates a lot of energy, wich you probably wont have a problem with at all unless your machine is high-end.

Amazing

POWERCOLOR X800GTO 256MB AGP Radeon X800GTO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card
POWERCOLOR X800GTO 256MB AGP Radeon X800GTO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card

Pros: This card can defenitely put out. I get 125 FPS constant on Call of Duty 2, and the card can run every new game that I've tried so far. This card is an extreemly good deal for such a bargain price.

Cons: The fan vent shoots hot air straight out to the PCI card in front of it, wich is a flaw to every single card with a fan, unless they vent it directly out of the back port of the case like the most recent cards out.

Overall Review: I upgraded from an nVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440, 64 MB, and the difference between graphics was extreemly substantial. I went from runnning COD2 on lowest everything, and getting about 20 FPS, to running COD2 on 800x600 and high everything to get 125 FPS constant. This card is great. Due to my budget I had to get this one, but if you can save up a bit more, try to get an ATi x850 PRO.

Case

Rosewill TU-155 Black 0.8mm SGCC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case with 400W(20+4 pin) Power Supply
Rosewill TU-155 Black 0.8mm SGCC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case with 400W(20+4 pin) Power Supply

Pros: This case looks really cool. The blue LED and front material make it look awesome. The case is pretty big inside, and leaves a lot of room for an upgrade.

Cons: no cons so far. You might want to add another case fan, because this case only comes with one.