cover
David B.

David B.

Joined on 12/01/06

0
0

Product Reviews
product reviews
  • 15
Most Favorable Review

Great Value for non-SLI

Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W ATX12V v2.01 SLI Ready   Power Supply
Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W ATX12V v2.01 SLI Ready Power Supply

Pros: The power supply works great with a few hard drives, a couple optical drives, any full-ATX motherboard and a Nvidia 9800GTX graphics card simultaneously.

Cons: There is no attachments left over for a second GTX card so if I want SLI I will need to replace this so-called "SLI Ready" power supply when I order a second graphics card.

Most Critical Review

Pricey little cord

StarTech.com PYO2L LP4 to 2x LP4 Power Y Splitter Cable M/F - LP4 Splitter - Molex Y Splitter - Molex Splitter
StarTech.com PYO2L LP4 to 2x LP4 Power Y Splitter Cable M/F - LP4 Splitter - Molex Y Splitter - Molex Splitter

Pros: Works.

Cons: With shipping this cord becomes pretty pricey.

Simple RAID PCI-E Card

VANTEC Add-On Card Model UGT-IS602R
VANTEC Add-On Card Model UGT-IS602R

Pros: Bios extension displays SATA bandwidth of connected drives and PCI-E bandwidth of itself. This card includes an interface to view configuration from within an operating system.

Cons: Frequently one of my two drives is not detected on bootup, making the bios extension show a nonfunctional RAID volume. Always works again on restart.

Overall Review: I don't know if this card supports TRIM over RAID like Intel RAID controllers are starting to support, and I don't want to put a huge wear on my SSD array just to test this.

Amazing jump up from HDDs!

OCZ Vertex 2 2.5" 55GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G
OCZ Vertex 2 2.5" 55GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G

Pros: Can extract 500,000 text files from zip files in under 2 minutes (compared to 5 hours that it took me with an average 7200rpm HDD). Even faster in RAID 0 (though be very careful to pick a RAID controller that supports TRIM; Intel has a newer RAID driver with TRIM support). Lower power than HDDs.

Cons: Low capacity.

Mid-range video with full HDMI audio

MSI GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card N460GTX CYCLONE 1GD5/OC
MSI GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card N460GTX CYCLONE 1GD5/OC

Pros: Good value. Nvidia 3D vision support. SLI support in case I want to add a second one of these later. Stable factory overclock even in an already warm system. Smaller than my gargantuan 9800GTX. 7.1 channel LPCM audio over HDMI or HD audio codec bit-streaming with compatible receiver.

Cons: I had to uninstall existing graphics drivers then uninstall existing sound drivers then reinstall graphics driver then reinstall sound drivers before HDMI audio would work. This card sucks a lot of wattage from your power supply. Doesn't support 3-way or 4-way SLI.

Worked Great

Transcend 1GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Laptop Memory Model JM667QSJ-1G
Transcend 1GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Laptop Memory Model JM667QSJ-1G

Pros: I fixed my Dell Inspiron E1705 stock ram with this. It also increased the speed of my laptop since I went from 533 to 667 MHz FSB.

Cons: No problems.