Joined on 08/11/05
Great Case, but...

Pros: 1.) The way it looks (a given). 2.)Tons of space. 3,)Incredible ventilation. 4,)With liquid cooling you can tame the nastiest Intel bacon cooker and OC the bejezus out of it. Got a P4 3,4 Prescott OC'ed to 3.98 and stable. Idle temp is ~33C!! Load temp is ~47C!!! That's impressive. FYI, waterblock is universal. I hope it works with the new upcoming M2 sockets. FX-62...Yummmm. 5.)SUPER SOLID BUILD. ALMOST no cheap parts, just the toolless plastic PCI slot clip-down mechanism. Feels cheap and doesn't accomodate all parts well or at all. And the plastic storage drawer, which is still OK. Had to screw one part in. 6.)Easy install. 7.)Did I mention how beautiful it is?
Cons: 1.)HEAVY!!! This thing weighs I think around 50lbs just by itself. 2.)Not exactly tool free. You will be using you're screwdriver quite a bit. 3.)The plastic clip down PCI slot mechanism as mentioned above. 4.)HORRIBLE instruction manual. I mean come on. When I pay 400+ for a case, I expect a nice manual. I'm talking leather-bound. It looks like they spent about 30 min. putting the thing together, doesn't tell you a thing. Newbies might have extreme difficulty. Make sure you know what you're doing, and if you don't find someone who does. Especially with the liquid cooling part, although it really isn't that hard.
Overall Review: Overall, it's a great case and I'm glad I'm bought it...but it's simply not worth the price. About one-hundred less would be totally reasonable. I have a feeling this case will keep me happy for a long time. Aside from their toolless PCI slot clips, I'm totally happy.
Another explosion

Pros: 1)Worked fine, while it lasted.
Cons: 1)It literall blew up in flames and sparks right in my face, singing my eyebrows...also took out my $300 sound card with it. Put my old 480w PSU for now and up and running again with no problems. 2)Really, didn't notice much of a difference really between this PSU and one of much lesser power and amperage. I wouldn't say my setup is running light either. Current Config: * P4 Prescott 3.4 OC'ed to 3.98 * 2 GB 512x4 Corsair XMS2 RAM @ 900MHZ * Tai-Chi case w/Liquid Cooling * ATI 1900XTX OC'ed * ex- X-Fi Fatality, dead now... * Pro-Audio Grade $900 soundcard w/breakout box connected by Firewire. * 1 DVD/CD RW combo drive * 3 HDD, RAID O * 5 USB peripheals * 3 120MM Fans with leds
Overall Review: In my opinion these burnouts and/or explosions are happening at a rate that could just be parlayed to chance or coincidence. According to this NewEgg sample alone I see an almost 10% failure rate. Just to compare, I spent about the last hour researching the site in the +$70 ramge and couldn't find any other unit that had this kind of problem. I really have no idea what could have caused this to happen, but I am very curious as all the parts seems to be well made. I build PCs for a living so I do know what I'm doing and couldn't imagine it was user error. Also, system load was VERY low. No apps were running and I was just adjusting the monitor settings when it happened. Final thought, my experience happened exactly as by the guy who wrote in that was playing FFXI. In my opinion that would suggest a manufacturing defect of some sort, so CAVEAT EMPTOR!!! Also, I'm pretty sure I followed the guidelines this time and this gets published, people need to know.
SOLID Power Supply - Great Price

Pros: - First 5 star rating out of 20+ components I've botten here. - Active PFC! (Power Factor Correction) Much smarter and efficient power distribution than passive PFC or no PFC at all. - Absolutely rock-solid output. Multimeter only showed variations of ~.8 with an ATI 1900XT Crossfire setup running F.E.A.R at max settings. - Much more quiet than previous versions. Measured 36Db at load. -
Cons: - More people should know about this excellent power supply. - I love to complain so I gotta say something. Let's see...oh I didn't really like the font in the manual. It just wasn't suiting to my eyes. :)
Overall Review: It's hard to write a PSU review, but aside from the tests I performed with help from a friend, something about this PSU just feels right. It seems like it's breathed a whole new life into my PC. Deciding on a PSU is a much more important choice than is was just a few years ago. The Silverstone ST75ZF with it's advanced features and impressively solid power output is sure to provide performance for today and tomorrow's technology.
WOW!

Pros: 1)FASSTTTTTT!!!!!! 2)Just one drive is noticeably much faster than the Raid 0 setup I was running previously with a couple of H*****i's.
Cons: 2)The noise, yes it's true. This baby makes its presence known. It's a little annoying, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. And when you're gaming it'll be a non-issue anyways.
Overall Review: Still haven't given a 5 star rating yet. This drive would've got one except for the noise. Yeah. I know it's running at 10,000 RPM, but it seems like they could have done something to lessen the noise. Also, for those that don't know this drive is the exact same version as the windowed version, just sans window and $60 cheaper. So, unless you're going for show, don't worry about it.
Seems OK so far

Pros: 1.)Modular design, use what you need. 2.)Sleek black looks. 3.)Quiet 4.)Nice black pouch for your cables included.
Cons: 1,)Modular design -efficiency loss
Overall Review: So far, this PSU is running smooth as butter. I think a lot of people, and this is just my opinionm have problems, blown units because of user error. READ THE MANUAL PEOPLE!!! If it says don't connect more than two devices to one cable...DON'T. If I was a betting man I 'd say that a least one person has bough one of these and attached three hard drives, their floppy drive, and DVD-ROM to one cable and was so puzzled when their PSU when up it smoke. Not saying anyone here, but I bet it's happened. I'll give a second review in a month after I've given this thing a good workout.
So far, so good

Pros: 1.)Overclocks like a mother. GPU=650 -690!!! RAM=775 -800x2=1600Mhz 2.)Good heat control. Love the exhaust out of the back solution. 3.)Better IQ than NVIDIA IMO. Used to be diehard NVIDIA fanboy, now have switched over to ATI. The picture just looks better and more natural to my eyes, not to mention the non-angle specific anisotropic filtering.
Cons: 1.)Just a regular old ATI card with a couple of cheap and ugly HIS stickers slapped on it. One of the part above the fan, and the other on the main plastic part. I just peeled them off and to see the much prettier ATI stock graphics. 2.)BIG, takes up two PCI slots. 3.)Catalyst Contol Center. Could be drastically improved. Especially for calibrating colors on desktop, games, and video. 4.)Overall user-interface feels clunky somehow. NVIDIA's interface was much more intuitive.
Overall Review: What can I say? The fastest card on the market for about the next three weeks. But, I'll be buying ATI from now on unless NVIDIA gets better in the IQ department.