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Ralph W.

Ralph W.

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Most Favorable Review
Intel BOXDG965RYCK LGA 775 Intel G965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel BOXDG965RYCK LGA 775 Intel G965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Good board no memory problems with 1.8 volt mem. Video works well.

Cons: Had heat problems with north bridge being very close to video card. card up to 76c with stock cooling. added a zalman cooler to card and processor and runs cool now.

Overall Review: Built 2 computers with this mb and have had no issues but no manual and heat problem. There is good manufacturer support online.

11/28/2006
Most Critical Review

OOPS

Microsoft Windows Vista 32-Bit Home Premium for System Builders Single Pack DVD
Microsoft Windows Vista 32-Bit Home Premium for System Builders Single Pack DVD

Pros: I'm not sure there are any.

Cons: Trying to set up a network to go and find drivers for MB, security, and having to sit and see a computer that would be ranked a 10 on XP ranked a 4.9 on this slow moving toad of a program. 2 gig of memory is not enough to satisfy the 50 or so programs loaded at startup. After several failures Auto Update did find a sound driver that would work that could actually be installed!

Overall Review: If vista looks for a fix for your problem and finds one and you click on download it asks if you really want to do that? It's an ok program that I participated in beta testing and the RC1 program for Ultima but I have found no new advances that are advantagous for myself.

Sweet

EVGA GeForce FX 5500 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Graphics Card 256-A8-N313-LX
EVGA GeForce FX 5500 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Graphics Card 256-A8-N313-LX

Pros: Nice cards. have bought 3 so far

Cons: Transistors are close to mount rail and or lock for PCI slot.

Overall Review: Broke one and newegg sent a replacement. Great service cause newegg rocks.

1.8 volts

Patriot 1GB DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model PSD21G8002
Patriot 1GB DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model PSD21G8002

Pros: Great price and works with Intel MB's others have had trouble with.

Cons: none

Overall Review: Purchased about 8 gigs of this stuff and no problems.

Biostar

BIOSTAR GEFORCE 6100-M9 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
BIOSTAR GEFORCE 6100-M9 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Great micro board

Cons: Had a old copy of vista home premium laying around and tried it with this board. Required down loading all drivers from web.

Overall Review: Matched with a old 2.2 AMD dual core with 1 meg cache along with a coule of gigs of memory and wow it works. CPU and mem keeps rating at a 4.9

great card

XFX GeForce 7900GS 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Support Graphics Card PVT71PUDP3
XFX GeForce 7900GS 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Support Graphics Card PVT71PUDP3

Pros: when matched with a nvidia based motherboard the support is amazing compared to ati. great gaming card for the best bang for the buck.

Cons: 2 different fan control programs depending on if nvidia mb apps are loaded. Could not control fan without this support.

Overall Review: been using with cfs 3 and out performs my x850xt slightly and can actually control fan speed without a 3rd party fan control.