Joined on 05/27/02
Great case - short header wires

Pros: Wonderful looking case. Moves a TON of air. If you cant keep your system cool in this thing, you are doing something wrong. HD cages remove through the front and are secured into the case with thumb screws. HD's are mounted to the cages with long screws that have grommets between the head of the screw and the cage, to dampen and cushion vibration. Good idea. Power/Reset/USB/Firewire ports are at the top/front of the case, which makes total sense.
Cons: The header wires are terribly short. The design of the case makes the header wires go from the top/front of the case, to the middle bottom of the case because thats where almost all header connectors on the motherboard are going to be. In other cases, controls are on the front/middle of the case, so the header wires are about level with the juction on the board where they will be needed. Even though this is the situation, I think antec is using standard length header wires which are simply not long enough. They get to the board, but are taught, and therefore they are in the way of things, and are impossible to run in a correct and safe manner to keep the wires nice and clean looking. Just an awful oversight. Enough of a frustration to cause 4 eggs not 5.
Overall Review: If you are going to put a 120mm fan in the window slot, put a good fan in it. I put a cheap fan in there and its the loudest thing in the box and makes the efforts of the quality of the rest of the fans in the box worthless.
S L O W

Pros: Seems durable. Good value if you only consider mB/$
Cons: Have this formatted fat32 and this has half the speed of my 2 gig flash drive that is 5 years old. This does about 5.5 mB/s. It was shocked at how poor its performance is. Also sucks that it has no activation led to let you know when its done writing or is being accessed.
Overall Review: Look elsewhere. This thing kind of sucks.
Good, but doesn't last

Pros: Love the mouse wheel's ability to scroll with stops or free wheel. Love how you can add or decrease weight. Finally got used to the feel and loved it. Love the sensitivity adjustment buttons
Cons: One week after being out of warranty, it no longer responds. Has lights/power, but out of the blue with no system changes of any kind, it no longer tracks at all. Like the laser just stopped working right after being out of warranty. I take great care of my items. No one uses them but me, and I only use them daily for an average of an hour a day. There is no reason at all that should have caused this to happen. Very very upset with this failure.
Overall Review: I should have never strayed from Razer. I got talked into Logitech and it bit me. Grabbed my 8 year old diamondback out of the closet and got back to gaming. Shame too, I enjoyed it a lot while it worked.
Good Memory, Bad Carrier

Pros: Memory works fine with the old c0 version of this memory.
Cons: Paying this much for old memory is simply no fun
Overall Review: I used rush order processing with the egg saver shipping, ordered early on a Monday and didnt get the item until the following Monday from less than 700 miles from where it shipped. Seems pretty rediculous and inefficient to me.
Beaty and Bright

Pros: seem like high quality, changeable ear canal size pieces, improvement over stock in ear head phones for my mp3 player, makes everything quiet so mowing the grass or running the snow blower will be quieter and you wont have to play your music louder to drown it out
Cons: Seems like you took the sound you were used to, and turned up the bass and treble a few dbs. like you just moved all of the adjustments on a mixer table up 3 slots. very bright sounding, very deep bass, but not much in the middle. im not sure if i like the sound, but luckily my mp3 player has an eq in it, and i can attempt to undo the sound change from these phones
Overall Review: got these on sale for under thirty, i wouldnt pay any more for them.
GD Awesome mouse

Pros: Looks great, feels great, performs perfectly. Dual mode mouse wheel is fantastic. Side buttons are very easy to use. One of the best purchases ive ever had on here. Great piece of hardware.
Cons: I searched my mind for some, and dont really have any. If i had to put one down, the finish looks like its "burnt" or "brown" in 2 spots, but im guessing its by design.
Overall Review: The reviews and complaints about this mouse almost made me not buy it. Glad i went ahead and got it. Its a great mouse, and i have no complaints at all.