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Duane W.

Duane W.

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Most Favorable Review

Good OS

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit

Pros: A solid OS. It's not Windows 8.

Cons: My only gripe with Windows is not being able to transfer your User folders to another drive/partition without going through some major hoops. With the prevalence of SSDs you'd think they'd do something about this.

Most Critical Review

A bit loud

COOLER MASTER R4-S2S-124K-GP Silent Case Fan (4-Pack)
COOLER MASTER R4-S2S-124K-GP Silent Case Fan (4-Pack)

Pros: -It's a great price for 4 fans -It moves air

Cons: -Loud

Overall Review: These are fine for moving air but I installed all 4 on one of my kid's PCs. They do the job but are too noisy for me. It doesn't seem to bother her though. I'm thinking of removing 2. Four fans was overkill anyway.

10/10/2014

Awesome laptop!

MSI GE Series - 17.3" FHD - Intel Core i7-5700HQ - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M - 16GB Memory DDR3L 1600 - - Windows 10 Home 64-Bit  (9S7-179111-242 )
MSI GE Series - 17.3" FHD - Intel Core i7-5700HQ - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M - 16GB Memory DDR3L 1600 - - Windows 10 Home 64-Bit (9S7-179111-242 )

Pros: - Very powerful - Nice keyboard - Decent screen - Good build qulity

Cons: - Loud fans. - Still runs a bit hot - Doesn't make me coffee.

Overall Review: I’ve had this laptop for about a week now and I love it. I previously used a Sager NP 8170 which was 4 years old. It still works but it was time for an upgrade and I was looking for one a bit lighter since I travel with it. At less than $1300 with rebate this laptop is a bargain. I am currently playing Assassin’s Creed Unity which requires quite a bit of power to play at max settings. I am very near max settings with a few minor tweaks including low AA. It plays nearly as smoothly as on my desktop which has and R9 290 GPU. The screen is good but not great with a bit of light bleeding on the edges. The keyboard is very nice with very little flex in the keyboard. It also has nearly unlimited color selection. The laptop does run hot when playing but nothing to be concerned about and the fans are a bit loud but I general game with a headset anyway. The speakers are very nice for a laptop. The sound is nice although they are still laptop speakers. The construction quality is good with the only exception being the DVD drive which is flimsy. I would prefer it not even being there so there would be a second 2.5” slot. The design is nice. It’s got some pizazz without being over the top. A couple of quirky things to take note of: For some reason the single HD is partitioned in 2. Nothing major but not what I would have done. I like to set the trackpad to disable when there is an external mouse connected. For some reason I cannot do this. When I click the box the trackpad disables whether there is an external mouse connected or not. Yes these are nitpicky things and that those are really the only problems I have with this machine.

It's a hard drive

WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD10EZEX
WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD10EZEX

Pros: -It works fine. -It's a hard drive and it successfully stores my zeros and ones.

Cons: -None

10/10/2014

A beast

GIGABYTE Radeon R9 290 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card GV-R929OC-4GD
GIGABYTE Radeon R9 290 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card GV-R929OC-4GD

Pros: -Plays everything on ultra with very high frame rates. -This card is a beast and should last me for awhile.

Cons: -None

Overall Review: I bought this card for a new gaming build and I have not been disappointed. It plays all the games I throw at it on ultra settings without a problem. I am currently playing Shadow of Mordor with the Ultra pack. The specs for the Ultra pack say it requires 6GB VRAM. This card has 4GB and I still average over 70 FPS.

10/10/2014

Looks cool and it's quiet

Corsair Air Series AF140 140mm Red LED Quiet Edition High Airflow Fan (CO-9050017-RLED )
Corsair Air Series AF140 140mm Red LED Quiet Edition High Airflow Fan (CO-9050017-RLED )

Pros: -Moves a lot of air -Very Quiet

Cons: None

Overall Review: I bought this too replace a bad fan on my case. It works great and is quieter than the stock fan. Move more air too. It's more expensive than other fans but you get what you pay for.

10/10/2014