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JOSHUA L.

JOSHUA L.

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Most Favorable Review

May or may not be malfunctioning, but no documentation or website to check.

AUBEAMTO HDMI-compatible KVM Switch 4K 60Hz 2 Port Dual Monitor USB 3.0 KVM Switch 1080P USB KVM Switcher HDMI with USB 3.0 port
AUBEAMTO HDMI-compatible KVM Switch 4K 60Hz 2 Port Dual Monitor USB 3.0 KVM Switch 1080P USB KVM Switcher HDMI with USB 3.0 port

Pros: 2:2 HDMI switch with multiple USB3 ports

Cons: Wife's device, so not sure whether accurate: - displays shut off three or four times before lunch - have no idea how to disable keyboard toggle since there's no documentation or website

Overall Review: Looks like the Keyboard and Mouse ports both trigger toggling when you press Ctrl more than once per second or two, but the other two ports work for the keyboard, and do not trigger that behavior, so hopefully nothing strange will happen if other devices are plugged into the mouse/keyboard ports.

12/22/2022
Most Critical Review

Something is seriously off here

ARCTIC COOLING Liquid Freezer 120 ACFRE00016A 120mm Liquid CPU Cooler
ARCTIC COOLING Liquid Freezer 120 ACFRE00016A 120mm Liquid CPU Cooler

Pros: Looks like a CPU cooling device. I would speculate that one would be happy with the device if they received a good unit out of the gate.

Cons: Moderate load has been running for a few hours (i5, 25%-50%), the cores are reporting 85C-100C and the fan is blowing cool. Purchased this 15 weeks ago, and currently have a second dead unit (with radiator fin damage to both sides) and no resolution in sight to show for it.

Overall Review: Radiator pump determined to be DOA. Waiting for replacement. Update: Support is underwhelming. Tickets are handled via email, and response time feels like maybe one guy working part time. I was requested to remove the pump from the CPU and boot back up during diagnostics, and after receiving a second defunct (and damaged) pump, and providing all data requested the first time around, was told that it was probably incompatible and to just plug it into the PSU. After responding to that, I was told that they mixed up devices, mine was fine, and they're sending it to Singapore for analysis. What good this does me, I have no clue. At this point I would have been better served buying a fan. UPDATE: It has been 15 weeks from start of email chain to reception of functional (like-new radiator state) of use. First I received a unit with damaged radiator fins and dead pump to boot, then another of the wrong shape that was also damaged to the point of warping, then finally something almost new that runs. It's been just over 5 months between original purchase and useful delivery date.

11/10/2016

Product not as advertised

8K HDMI 2.1 KVM Switch 2 in 1 Out, HDMI-compatible 2 Port HD USB 3.0 KVM Switcher Box for Shared Monitor Keyboard And Mouse Printer PC, Support 8K @60Hz, 4K @120Hz, Hotkey, USB 3.0 Port
8K HDMI 2.1 KVM Switch 2 in 1 Out, HDMI-compatible 2 Port HD USB 3.0 KVM Switcher Box for Shared Monitor Keyboard And Mouse Printer PC, Support 8K @60Hz, 4K @120Hz, Hotkey, USB 3.0 Port

Pros: - compact - high advertised throughput support - simple to set up

Cons: - Keyboard port only for keyboard; if you don't want tapping Ctrl too quickly to cause a toggle you lose a port. - Advertised as having adaptive EDID, but every time you toggle the inactive machine registers as the display being unplugged. This is workable on Linux, where KDE5 switches my secondary display to primary and piles the extra windows when the primary "disappears", and when toggles back the main becomes primary again and windows go back where they belong, but on Windows 10 work laptop switching away caused secondary screen to flip upside down and switch from 1440p to 1980*1200, and switching back piled everything onto the main display, so switching for a minute causes you to have to reorder all programs every single time.

Overall Review: This product would be better replaced by a USB only switch, and plugging both devices directly into display and manually switching back and forth. At least that way everything isn't trashed every time you utilize the switch.

Key feature missing and not mentioned on product

HDMI KVM Switch, 8K USB Switch 2x1 HDMI2.1 Ports + 4X USB3.0 KVM Ports, Share 2 Computers one Monitor Switch,Supports 8K 60Hz,4K 120Hz,YUV 4:4:4, HDCP 2.3, HDR 10, Hotkey
HDMI KVM Switch, 8K USB Switch 2x1 HDMI2.1 Ports + 4X USB3.0 KVM Ports, Share 2 Computers one Monitor Switch,Supports 8K 60Hz,4K 120Hz,YUV 4:4:4, HDCP 2.3, HDR 10, Hotkey

Pros: USB3.0 Compact Plenty of video bandwidth

Cons: Devices show that the display is disconnected whenever you switch away. This is a huge pain in the sitter, as all windows get moved around to any remaining displays whenever you switch, and the machines have to reconfigure themselves.

Overall Review: Switching back to my dying 4:1 until I can find a suitable replacement.

12/22/2022

Worked well, while it worked.

Enermax LIQMAX III 240 RGB, All-in-one CPU Liquid Cooler for AM4 & AM5 / LGA 1700/1200/1151, 240mm Radiator, Dual-Chamber Water Block, RGB Fan - AM5 & LGA1700 Ready
Enermax LIQMAX III 240 RGB, All-in-one CPU Liquid Cooler for AM4 & AM5 / LGA 1700/1200/1151, 240mm Radiator, Dual-Chamber Water Block, RGB Fan - AM5 & LGA1700 Ready

Pros: - Bracket mount with springnuts easy to apply - Ryzen 7 5800X (3.8GHz) would run on heavy load (almost 1600% sustained for a week) at 90°C tweaking frequencies to sustain 3.8-4.7GHz the whole time, while it worked - Long hose (a little too long for me, had to rig it not to push against the GPU)

Cons: - RGB - failed after 15 months

Overall Review: Starting two days ago, the pump started to periodically make grinding noises. Under load, CPU would throttle down to 300-500MHz (92°C), and then machine would shut itself down to save the CPU. Running nothing but Firefox right now, 2.7GHz at 50°C, one of the hoses are hot, but the radiator is cold. Looking at the other reviews, I'm not terribly optimistic about an RMA, but hoping for better.

Unreliably unreliable.

XPG SX8100 Series: 2TB PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280, 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive
XPG SX8100 Series: 2TB PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280, 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive

Pros: Decent size and speed for the cost.

Cons: Goes offline without provocation. Used it as a bcache for a raid for a little while, but it disappeared three times in three months, causing an entire RAID to become worthless (remember to take separate backups, people). Swapped out with desktop 512GiB stick, and desktop has crashed three more times now, the latest just now while I was working. There was no elevated temperature, and the only real work going on was read and write to a HDD raid (converting some video stored on the raid, written to the raid, with /tmp on a RAMDISK).

Overall Review: I'd wasted a bunch of time assuming the issue had been with a cheap Chinese NVMe>PCIe adapter I'd ordered at the same time, so outside of Newegg's return policy. Will try to reach out to the manufacturer, but not feeling confident, and will likely avoid ADATA in the future.