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Blake N.

Blake N.

Joined on 01/09/08

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Awesome BUY!

ASUS 15.4" Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 4GB Memory Windows Vista Home Premium
ASUS 15.4" Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 4GB Memory Windows Vista Home Premium

Pros: Overall I had a really great experience with this laptop. Bought for school and the net, but found myself playing games on it and it plays well! -Pretty fast for price -Awesome features(face recognition software and others) -Love the rock solid design and looks Slick & Nice! -Great Portability and LOVE the mouse and case it comes with. Small and light for travels. -Plays all my games perfectly from Starcraft to Warcraft3(Dota) and from Counter Strike Source(40-60fps on High) to COD4 (30-45fps on high and 45-60fps on Medium) -Speakers are Good enough for listening to music in my room, which I am quite surprised how loud it is for its price. -Screen looks nice and bright. -Love the number of ports(but wish it had a HDMI) and the Wifi is actually good! -Gets BARELY warm!(I mean I spent 5-6hours on it playing CS:S and it was never noticeably warm at all, but when you check the vent it kinda warm, but doesnt bother you at all also runs perfectly. -Great buy for PRICE!

Cons: -Some Bloatware(But easily removed in 10-15mins. Office trial took the longest) -When moving the screen below 50-60degrees makes it automatically go on stand by which is kinda annoying for me, but for some others like my sister not that annoying. -Kinda slow at first because of the Bloatware, but after uninstalling it, its way faster but still get jumps from 10% to 40% and oddly to 80% CPU usage from doing nothing. -Ctrl key and Fn key are switched, which makes cs difficult but got used to it fast. -Kinda slow when multi-tasking but handles it very well when you learn how to use it. -Now I am just nit-picking lol. So overall the Cons are minamal at worst. So buyer don't worry its a great laptop for portability and power.

Overall Review: Man I am really happy with what I bought. Cheap and powerful is all I need since I am a poor college student. Had to use Fin-Aid for this lol.

Great Card

HIS Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card H587FN1GD
HIS Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card H587FN1GD

Pros: -Great performance, runs all my games at max with awesome fps(Starcraft2, Mass Effect 2, MW2, and Dawn of War 2 with barely any frame drops also League of Legends but any PC can run it fine) -Never reached above 53c -Beats my old 4870x2 by 5-15 fps

Cons: -A little loud at 60% fan speed(but thats all you need) -idle card gets to 40-42C doing nothing at 50% fan speed (but max temp on heavy gaming is about 52-53C) -A bit big(but I have a cooler master haf so it doesnt matter much)

Overall Review: Overall its a great card, but a little worried about the warranty... Its only 2 years... but besides that its a awesome card. Free Modern Warfare 2 so it makes up for it. Only sometimes in SC2 single player I get frame drops that are noticeable, but it only did it 1-3 times during the mission(I replayed that mission twice and it didn't it again so I forgive it).

AWESOME CASE

Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced Blue Edition - High Air Flow Full Tower Computer Case with USB 3.0 and All-Black Interior
Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced Blue Edition - High Air Flow Full Tower Computer Case with USB 3.0 and All-Black Interior

Pros: LOTS of Space, easy to clean, and quiet!

Cons: fans arent really that powerful and heavy as hell.

Overall Review: Overall I love it just for the Space and the Blue LED is icying on the cake!

Awesome!

ASUS VH226H Black 21.5" HDMI Widescreen 16:9 Full HD 1080P LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 ASCR 12000:1 (1000:1) Built in Speakers
ASUS VH226H Black 21.5" HDMI Widescreen 16:9 Full HD 1080P LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 ASCR 12000:1 (1000:1) Built in Speakers

Pros: Great Moniter, No dead pixel, Great picture. Pretty Much an awesome moniter.

Cons: A bit bright on the black colors but its all good. And takes a while to correct the display.

Overall Review: Dunno how to make the Letters and display look clear unless I go in to a game and get out. Its no biggy but kinda annoying.

AWESOME!

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100251SR
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100251SR

Pros: Great card and not that big.

Cons: Hot, and when I turn up the fan to cool it down, it gets nosie, but other then that its awesome crysis at ultra and 4x AA but some issues with screen tearing but all good now.

11/27/2008