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Derek D.

Derek D.

Joined on 12/26/05

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Most Favorable Review

Well, I am impressed

Corsair Neutron Series GTX 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-N240GBGTXB-BK
Corsair Neutron Series GTX 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-N240GBGTXB-BK

Pros: Extreme step up in performance when compared to a mechanical hard drive. I was doing file transfers, rates were between 300-400. Load times for games are absolutely terrific!

Cons: No issues yet.

Overall Review: My brother in law had one and raved about it non stop. For my new build I knew i had to get one, probably the best purchase out of all the parts in my system now. His SSD is fast, however, mine doubles his even. After looking at a few reviews I believe that only the Samsung PRO can outshine this drive with a larger price tag. For 190, I couldnt go wrong.

Most Critical Review

Looks like a great AP to have

Cisco Small Business WAP4410N Wireless Access Point 802.11b/g/n up to 300Mbps/ PoE/Advanced Security
Cisco Small Business WAP4410N Wireless Access Point 802.11b/g/n up to 300Mbps/ PoE/Advanced Security

Pros: Directional antennas, superb coverage in a business environment, tons of features.

Cons: I have six of these APs, four setup and working currently. I havent had an issue with only one of these APs and I dont plan on messing with it anytime soon either. The other five have given me nothing but fits and stress. Constantly having to reboot to get the APs to fire up the wireless signal or get packets flowing again. Some start to sputter and slow down in a very major way - dropped packets and kicks random clients on the floor off the network.

Overall Review: I have tinkered with them enough to find my own stable solution which has gotten three APs back online without having to powercycle daily. A vast majority of the features have to be messed with/disabled and its basically a huge waste of time to fiddle with all the settings, trial and error JUST to get the darn things operational. Cisco has no solution to these APs and all the troubles it has. I have seen and read many threads from others with the exact same problems. Two of mine are now unusable as they just flat out drop off and never come back. This is while on BBU power as well, all APs on different channels, and then switches/fiber/BBU, all other equipment has been tested - I know its the AP. I have slowly begun to swap these out as I cant trust them. I come in to work two hours later then those on the plant floor, I need a product I can trust to be reliable so people can get their work done. I refuse to be blamed when these APs are down, just a plain waste.

Issues

SAMSUNG SSD 990 PRO 4TB, PCIe Gen4 M.2 2280, Seq. Read Speeds Up-to 7,450MB/s for High End Computing, Gaming, and Heavy Duty Workstations (MZ-V9P4T0B/AM) Non-Heatsink
SAMSUNG SSD 990 PRO 4TB, PCIe Gen4 M.2 2280, Seq. Read Speeds Up-to 7,450MB/s for High End Computing, Gaming, and Heavy Duty Workstations (MZ-V9P4T0B/AM) Non-Heatsink

Pros: Its large, thats about it.

Cons: Slow, using it for some video editing and its been giving a lot of fits lately. If you search out this drive - youll see Im not alone. Avoid.

Overall Review: Dont recomment at all.

Picture quality lacking

AOC Q27G3XMN 27" Mini LED Gaming Monitor, 2K QHD 2560x1440, 180Hz 1ms, 2X HDMI 2.0, 2X Display Port, Height Adjustable, Xbox/PS5/Switch Ready, 3-Year Zero-Bright-dot
AOC Q27G3XMN 27" Mini LED Gaming Monitor, 2K QHD 2560x1440, 180Hz 1ms, 2X HDMI 2.0, 2X Display Port, Height Adjustable, Xbox/PS5/Switch Ready, 3-Year Zero-Bright-dot

Pros: Fast frames and thats about it for me.

Cons: Compared to my old monitor, color is extremely weak. Not vibrant at all, everything is darker too. Increasing brightness messes with the pixels and if you enable HDR you lose the ability to tweak anything else in the UI. UI is also hard to navigate - worst one on a newer monitor.

Overall Review: I wouldnt recommend, find something else if you are gaming a lot. This one will have you missing stuff due to how dark it is with no way to truly correct it.

Info grab, mandatory survey

Intel Gift Game Code - Ghostrunner 2
Intel Gift Game Code - Ghostrunner 2

Pros: Free game

Cons: Collects info, misspell name so you can tell if its them. Makes you jump through hoops to activate, lame. Short activation time frame.

Overall Review: Meh

Windows 11 required

GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS ELITE X WIFI7 LGA 1700(14th,13th,12th Gen) Intel Z790 X ATX Motherboard with DDR5, 4 M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB 3.2 Type-C, Wi-Fi 7, 2.5GbE LAN, Q-Flash Plus, EZ-Latch Plus
GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS ELITE X WIFI7 LGA 1700(14th,13th,12th Gen) Intel Z790 X ATX Motherboard with DDR5, 4 M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB 3.2 Type-C, Wi-Fi 7, 2.5GbE LAN, Q-Flash Plus, EZ-Latch Plus

Pros: Looks to have great features, if you have Windows 11.

Cons: No Windows 10 support for Wifi7. Nvme secondary drive had issues showing up in bios, no sata drives were being used. Had to fiddle with it a bit to get memory speed to read correctly.

Overall Review: Would probably try a different board if I did my build again - I dont want to mess with settings for an hour to obtain my backup data from another drive. Also, no wifi upon windows install crippled setup time. This was my 2nd Aorus board, first one was for a 9700k and I loved it so it was sad this one gave me so many fits. It was also paired with a Gigabyte GPU - so far it seems ok.