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Joseph M.

Joseph M.

Joined on 08/17/07

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Most Favorable Review

great monitor

ASUS VH232H Glossy Black 23" 5ms Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 ASCR 20000:1 w/Speakers & HDMI
ASUS VH232H Glossy Black 23" 5ms Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 ASCR 20000:1 w/Speakers & HDMI

Pros: No dead pixels (big sigh of relief at that) picture is Cristal clear day one so i cant speak for longevity yet. but after upgrading from a beat up 17inch this monitor is just amazing

Cons: just buy the monitor, its that good.

Overall Review: When you plug it into a hdmi port on your computer it will have a black border all around the screen, Google searching can be a pain on the topic so here it goes. for ati open up your CCC in advanced mode select desktops and displays. Right click on the monitor in the bottom part and click configure. Go to the Scaling Options tab. and move the slider to where you want it. apply and your done.

Most Critical Review
LOGISYS Computer CLK4RD 4" Red Cold Cathode Light Kit
LOGISYS Computer CLK4RD 4" Red Cold Cathode Light Kit

Pros: Cheep and it comes with an on off switch witch is a huge plus consitering it is in fact bright. very bright!

Cons: It is orange not red but the two colors are so close i dont mind much kinda makes a rainbow look in the case.

Overall Review: as someone else said the expansion slot bracket the switch is located on is weak but it can easly be removed from there and located anywhere. i plan to put it on a disk drive bay cover. The transformer case was blue. a bright blue. went with red to get away from the blue every day computer look and the box is big and blue. minor thing not a big deal at all. over all good product but should be listed as orange.

Dont rate on drm

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 PC Game
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 PC Game

Pros: each side has a lot of differences between them that can be used to the players advantage. And the feel of the game is somewhat reminiscent of the old ra and ra2 games but you also feel a strong influence from the tiberium series and gameplay elements from cnc3 are vary noticeable.

Cons: from the release there are a lot of bugs when doing the single player campaign that can cause the game to crash when you complete a mission. making it imposable to save the progress. the navy takes way to big of a roll in this one. the land and sea wars are small with week vehicles. where as a few ships in the water can take out anything on the map if used properly.

Overall Review: We all know that the drm is nearly unbearable on EA's new titles. they have gotten that message but apparently they don't care what the consumer wants. but here on the wonderful newegg isn't the point of the rating and review system to inform other people about the prospective product. so please don't rate on what we know is bad and rate based on the game.

11/10/2008

Good Starter Case

SIGMA LUNA LUNA-WB Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
SIGMA LUNA LUNA-WB Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Pros: The Aluminum is vary easy to do case mods with. aka Vary easy to work with by means of cutting and bending.

Cons: Black finish easily scrapes. door is hindged on the wrong side. the screws to hold on the front cover do not go back in without a fistfight. pci slot covers are far too thin. the buttons and leds on the front are held in with hot glue and pop out as soon as you remove the front cover. and you half to to install an intake fan witch should have been included. and yes you halfe to bend the case to put a fan in place. but it doesnt matter because it blows right on the hdd cage witch blocks almost all the air anyway. i drilled out the 5 rivits holding it in place and removed it. placed hdd in floppy mount backwords to tuck the cables in the front to try to help airflow. didnt help much. i've upgraded all the fans and added 4 more to the case 2 intake 120's in the front, and 2 intake 80's on top. and still the temps are not where i want them but vast improvement once the hdd cage was removed 7-10C. With the two 80s uptop to help airflow there is not enugf room for a longer powersupply, but

Overall Review: that is really myown fault. yes cons are extended to the other thoughts its that bad. front blue led was far to bright for a bedroom computer so i removed it and located it elseware for use as case lighting. the "tool-less" hard drive mounts have caused several cuts on my hands trying to place hard disks because there isnt enugf room. but that takes a back seat to the fact that the pins to hold them in only lock in places where the hard disk is impossable to place cables into. the sides are so then if you arnt carefull you can bend them to the point where they will not fit back into place till you bend them back with pliars to get the fit right. the guard on the front of the case by the I/O panel came bent and would not bend back so i removed it. the tool-less pci slot holders have a vary flimzy feeling to them and even just my hd2600xt will weigh it down to the point where i worry it will bend the slot it is in. I do not wish to whine just inform others of what there getting into

dont beilve the xp problems

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100218L
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100218L

Pros: Great card crossfire ready, havent tested yet but hope to real soon. cant beat the price. and CCC overclocking is perhaps too easy. runs everything on max resolution and detail amazingly. cnc3 bf2142 so on and so on.

Cons: one game excluded, the rig killer, Crysis even with the hotfix runs slow on max detail and on medium textures will not show up. and the drivers that come with the cd as mentioned by other reviews are absolute junk, vpu failures with more than one window open. go to sapphires websight and get the up to dates, hopefully a crysis fix that works soon.

Overall Review: Running xp pro sp2 and haveing no issues what so ever, dont like missing out on dx10 but defently enjoy an operating system that is stable. (not trying to start an argument about os) the card is the imporant part and it is amazing ordered a whole list of parts off newegg to build a cusom gameing pc and all parts worked flawlessly, asus mobo, amd athlon 6400 64 x2, zalman fans, gskill ram, and everything was deliverd same day on time and it all worked.