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Eric C.

Eric C.

Joined on 11/28/08

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Most Favorable Review

Excellent Monitor at price. (180+Tax)

Acer GN246HL 24" Full HD 1920 x 1080 144Hz 1ms DVI HDMI VGA Immersive 3D Backlit LED Gaming Monitor
Acer GN246HL 24" Full HD 1920 x 1080 144Hz 1ms DVI HDMI VGA Immersive 3D Backlit LED Gaming Monitor

Pros: -Very easy to put together -Basically the same Monitor as the Asus vg248qe (without the speakers / Display port) because of the same panel used inside. -No Dead Pixels yet or on delivery -Easy to go into settings (nvidia control panel or what not) and change it to whatever Hertz you want to set it to up to 144 -Honestly at price I consider the best monitor I have ever bought, though it isn't as nice as a my BenQ Gsync 144hz (but that one cost twice the amount and it is only better by how the color looks), and completely blows out any of the 60hz monitors I have (including laptop).

Cons: -Mild Ghosting with slight motion blur at first while game testing on it, until I turned on ToastyX Lightstrobe (#3) custom and ran it at 120hz, which dimmed the lighting and washed the colors, but with a little color profile changing you can get it all back with no motion blur and no ghosting at all. Basically this is only a Con because it took some trial and error on color management to do this, but $180+tax, definitely not a complaint.

Overall Review: -Definitely recommend this monitor to anyone moving from a 60hz, cause it is really noticible (especially when I have to do work on my laptop) and on a budget. -Not sure why people are having trouble, but I have had none at all. (including the OnTrac Shipping, they came to my door took my signature and gave it to me 2 days from when I ordered it.) -Make sure to use the the Dual DVI-D they give you to get up to 100+hz -Getting Lightstrobe to work is probably easier with an Nvidia card, it seems some people have trouble getting it to work with an AMD Gpu.

Very Good Buy

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 Mini, ZT-P10600A-10L, 6GB GDDR5 Super Compact
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 Mini, ZT-P10600A-10L, 6GB GDDR5 Super Compact

Pros: -Above 970gtx in performance, Close to 980gtx, Mild overclock = 980gtx -Small, Idle's at 40-41 degrees C, even when my room is blazing hot -Low Energy Consumption -Built Well -Have a RX-480, beats it in every way except for Doom. -Basically a major upgrade for anything under the 900 series. -Good temps even at full load with 1 fan. (though not as good as the evga 1060gtx SC, 4-5 degree C diff) -Basically a major upgrade for anything under the 900 series. -Basically overkill for non AAA games

Cons: -Fan is kind of loud at max fan speed (if you care), (I don't; so not really a con, and I only turned it on max when trying to push the clock to ridiculous levels to see how far I can overclock) -evga 1060gtx SC 1 fan with copper pipe heatsink is slightly better at the same price with Mail in Rebate.

Overall Review: I have an RX-480, evga 1060gtx sc, and this. I do prefer the evga version because of the higher base clock (oc out of box) with copper pipe cooling (better obviously), but I like it better than the rx-480 (stupid power consumption). Also got it cheap with paypal -$25 promo code. Which puts it in the range of the cheapest 480 (200-230 dollars). Would buy another if I needed one. Have not tested on VR.

Easy

Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model TLD38G1600HC9DC01
Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model TLD38G1600HC9DC01

Pros: It's fast and overclockable.

Cons: No Cons really, I've used these for years now (abused them also by OCing) and they have not died.

External Harddrive

TOSHIBA 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive HDTP110XK3AA Black
TOSHIBA 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive HDTP110XK3AA Black

Pros: Price. Got it on Black Friday sale for cheap (bought 2), which was great for a 1TB External Usb 3.0 HD. Works as intended. Compact / USB powered, I can literally fit in my pocket. A little larger than the size of a phone. Also very light, considering I bought 2 and before opening the box I thought they only sent me one.

Cons: Made in China, which honestly doesn't mean anything anymore, considering most of this kind of stuff is made in China and are held to the Brand name standard.