Joined on 02/03/05
Good, when it isnt screaming

Pros: Very strong voltages across the grid. PC Power & Cooling sends a test sheet with their power supplies to show it was tested. Nice heavy duty PS. non-modular design means less resistance through the wires, meaning a longer and stronger life for your computer.
Cons: Since day one, when playing a full screen computer game, the power supply emits a high pitched whine during certain cut scenes, and especially during windows Vista aero assessment. Issued an RMA. Spare wires can be a pain as well, but an empty 3.5 inch bay can usually double as wire storage.
Overall Review: Upon reading up on the problem, I found the whining noise is due to dying capacitors inside the power supply. If the issue is ignored, the power supply will eventually fail, taking every other componet with it. Ive always bought PC P&C power supplies, so one dud isnt going to dissuade me from buying one again. As always newegg came through with the RMA in record time.
It is an Acer...

Pros: HDMI and DVI inputs, nice glossy black exterior, 3000:1 contrast ratio. No dead pixels (yay).
Cons: Glossy screen is not something to have unless youre living in a cave with no other light source. RESPONSE TIME IS ODD. When viewing any movie or playing a game and the image pans, or the background of an entire scene moves, there is a .5ms glitching, or lag between frames (and yes, vsync is on), causing a stuttering effect, usually happening when more than half the pixels on the screen are changing quickly, making FPS gaming impossible. Best way to explain it is trying to aim and shoot a gun while at the late stages of parkinsons disease. Severe light bleed from left side, and some bleeding at the top. [As always, no height adjustment either...]
Overall Review: At first I thought it was either my video card, or my PSU that was the cause of this stuttering. Upon trying this monitor out on 5 different computers, I found the monitor itself was to blame. It may be a defect, but at least 8 other people have confirmed what I am seeing, so it isnt just my eyes. Acer has told me they have had a few calls about this issue. Hopefully Newegg will not give me a hassle since it does not have any dead pixels. For office use or browsing the internet, this thing is fine, anything besides that and this monitor in my opinion fails at delivering what I paid for.
Terrible Product

Pros: Love the size of the mouse Nice texture on the thumb area Colors are nice (well, shades)
Cons: High-pitched squeak emitted from mouse Has a horizontal pitch issue where it will randomly scroll upwards, as if a hair or piece of lint is caught inside the laser area, when there isn't anything. Switched from logitech setpoint 6.32 to their terrible, horrible, buggy, nasty, and useless piece of software called Logitech Gaming Software 8.40
Overall Review: Of all the things for logitech to do, they need to get rid of setpoint for some buggy software where you cannot disable microsoft drivers in favor of logitech ones. You can no longer adjust mouse pointer speed (or scroll speed), only set your DPI levels. You can no longer disable the horrendous side-scroll buttons, amoung other things. This software has rendered it a normal mouse, it is no longer a gaming mouse, no matter which way you look at it. I am returning it for a Razer or Microsoft mouse. Logitech support could no be bothered to answer why this change/decision was made. I would not recommend getting this mouse unless you like Logitech's laughable attempt at software, or indeed love mouse acceleration in your games with little to no control over the default Windows mouse settings.
Very reliable PSU

Pros: Extremely quiet brutal power 12v rail with 100.4 amps Black matte finish matches things nicely Nice and heavy The fan doesn't run for 10 minutes after the computer is shut off like the previous PSU I purchased.
Cons: Never been a huge fan of modular designs Some of the cords could have been slightly longer
Overall Review: This power supply has been keeping my computer running strong for over a year now. Its been powering two EVGA gtx 480 superclocked GPUs for a little over a year and an Intel 980x extreme CPU on an Asus Rampage III Extreme board with 12 gigs of ddr3-2000 Ram. I would recommend this to anyone who is thinking about SLI'ing 2 of the latest cards and fears for the safety of their hardware. I've always had PC Power & Cooling, but this was such a good deal I had to get it and haven't regretted the switch whatsoever.
The Sound of Crickets

Pros: Non-modular, means less resistance and cleaner power. Single 12-volt rail.
Cons: The 2 ball bearing in the fan is an absolute joke. I haven't owned a fan with that type of bearing that didn't sound like there was a live cricket camping out in my computer. I thought I could live with the sound, or that it would disappear after a week of medium-light usage. Unfortunately it has gotten worse. I cannot rate PC Power & Cooling's tech support, since they won't pick up the phone. An answering machine tells me to leave a message and they'll "call me back". Its been 3 days with 3 messages left to them. Apparently there's a bit of a rush at the cafeteria during my call times.
Overall Review: I foolishly built an Intel i7 980X system with two SLI'd GTX 480's along with 4 Hard drives and a dvd-rom drive to find that during a stress test, I was pulling 925watts from the wall. I didn't image I would need a 1200 watt PSU for that, but I was wrong. Don't be a Me and do the math of what components are going to pull what wattage and find the proper power supply. I cannot stand the noise from this "silencer" and am getting a refund. I am taking off 2 eggs for the unsilent ways of this PSU (for a PSU of this price range, you'd expect a nice bearing in the fan at least), and the pricing idiocy from a 950 watt to a 1200 watt PSU. I have owned PC Power & Cooling PSU's for the past 6 years and not one has died on me yet (knocks of wood). I would buy the 1200 watt Turbo-Cool, but I cannot justify the 500 bills for only 250 more watts. Ill be going with the Corsair 1200 watt for a little more "future-proofing".
To gigabit or not to gigabit....

Pros: Small, compact design. Lights do not interfere or distract whilst trying to sleep. Low power consumption. Idiot-proof HD installation.
Cons: WARNING: This unit breaches on false-advertisement... Gigabit speeds are impossible with this device. Using cat 6 paired with a DGL-4500 and changing every setting known to man still only results in around 15MB/sec transfer across LAN. Using two 1TB WD black's in raid 0 and still almost 100 T-base speeds... Tried a patch cable to eliminate router from the equation, still resulted in less than adequate speeds for my needs. Fan is slightly louder than expected. At least it is a low-pitched white noise.
Overall Review: Opened the box, plugged it in, updated to the 1.03 firmware, made sure all settings were correct, fed the NAS a 5gig file and was amazed to see only 14-16MB/sec max transfer. Turning off windows 7 DLNA, messing with every setting in windows and on NAS returned the same result. I called D-link, and they replied that I am only to expect those speeds from this type of NAS. Returned to newegg for a refund, and slapped together a computer with spare parts laying around, and bought a gigabit NIC. threw the two 1TB HDs in there and ta-da, a NAS for next to nothing. Transferring at speeds of 180MB/sec give or take to a Pentium III with 256mb of ram. This NAS is a waste of cash. Period.