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Hon L.

Hon L.

Joined on 06/09/10

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Most Favorable Review

Works great.

Nippon Labs 6 ft. USB cable A/Male to A/Female extension USB 6ft cable Model USB-6-MF 6 feet
Nippon Labs 6 ft. USB cable A/Male to A/Female extension USB 6ft cable Model USB-6-MF 6 feet

Pros: It's cheap and it works; how can I ask for more?

Cons: None.

Most Critical Review

Look for a better one.

Phillips Wireless 2.4 GHz Gamepad
Phillips Wireless 2.4 GHz Gamepad

Pros: I got this when it was on discount.

Cons: The rubber tactile grips on the sides are very cheap looking. They are poorly cut and do not feel good. The d-pad, start/select and the 4 buttons requires too much force to press. They tire my fingers if I play more intensive games that requires button mashing. The receiver is a bit big. It might block your other usb ports if they're close together. I bought an usb extension cable just for that. Now comes the main problem and the reason I rated this product only 2 eggs out of 5. This controller is unresponsive. It can recognize only about one press per second. Those of you who plays shooters know that's not enough. The second problem is that every 3 seconds or so, it will not respond to input for about half a second. That's a very frustrating problem.

Overall Review: I immediately bought another controller because the poor performance of this one is not acceptable for me. Pay a little more money and get a good wireless controller. I'm not allowed to mention other brand, but here on Newegg does offer good wireless controller. Hit the back button on your browser and look for named brand. Pay attention to user reviews that mention "good responsiveness." If you do decide to get this, it requires 3 AAA batteries which are not included.

Nice mouse.

GIGABYTE GM-M6880 Metal Black 1 x Wheel USB Wired Laser 1600 dpi Gaming Mouse
GIGABYTE GM-M6880 Metal Black 1 x Wheel USB Wired Laser 1600 dpi Gaming Mouse

Pros: This five-buttons laser mouse comes at a good price point. The shape and the rubber grip feels comfortable to my hand. The dpi switch is very useful for me because I don't have to keep adjusting the pointer speed between the mouse and trackpad on my nettop.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I have another mouse that comes with adjustable weights. And this mouse does feel a bit too light to me. But I wouldn't count it as a con since that mouse cost more than twice of this.

Great product

LITE-ON 24X DVD Writer 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS-324-98B
LITE-ON 24X DVD Writer 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS-324-98B

Pros: The price point is very good. It makes very little noise when spinning. It's not OEM so it comes with SATA cable and mounting screws.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: It also come with one of the Nero burning software. I don't remember which one since I use my own. But it's still nice that it comes with it.

It's a butterfly!

ZEROtherm BTF90 92mm Silent UFO CPU Cooler
ZEROtherm BTF90 92mm Silent UFO CPU Cooler

Pros: It's a butterfly with a red led fan on its tail and I love it! Ahem. Now for the more technical review. The reason I got this was the stock heat sink that came with my Athlon 64 x2 6000+ (windsor) isn't that good at cooling and it is very loud when under load. I leave the fan on full all the time and the noise level is about the same as the stock heat sink when not under load. As for temperature, 40 to 45 C idle and 55 to 60 C under full load. That's about 10 to 15 C better than my stock heat sink. That is on a hot summer day without turning air conditioner on.

Cons: The heat sink is kind of large. I had to move my RAM to another slot to make it fit if I want the fan to blow to the top of the case. My motherboard is M2N-SLI Deluxe.

Suits my needs.

ASUS RT-N12 Wireless Broadband Router SuperSpeedN 802.11b/g/n up to 300Mbps/ Open Source DD-WRT Support
ASUS RT-N12 Wireless Broadband Router SuperSpeedN 802.11b/g/n up to 300Mbps/ Open Source DD-WRT Support

Pros: I wanted an inexpensive wireless bridge and decided to give this a try since it dd-wrt supports it. It was very easy to flash dd-wrt on it and I didn't even need to install any asus flashing program on my computer. Holding the restore button when plugging in the power will allow you to access the firmware update page from your web browser. So far, I'm getting good signal to my main router.

Cons: For some strange reason, this router becomes unresponsive and requires a power cycle everyday at around 6PM. Turning on connection watchdog seems to fixed the problem. I'm guessing this is a problem with dd-wrt so I am not deducting any eggs.