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Rudy A.

Rudy A.

Joined on 04/12/03

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Most Favorable Review

Passing Judgement

Rosewill Full Tower Gaming Computer Case, support up to HPTX MB, Support Dual PSU, come with 8 cooling Fans - BlackHawk-Ultra
Rosewill Full Tower Gaming Computer Case, support up to HPTX MB, Support Dual PSU, come with 8 cooling Fans - BlackHawk-Ultra

Pros: Huge Comes with Caster Wheels, makes it easier to move. Lots of hard drive slots for a file storage server.

Cons: Very hard to open case. You will have to cast Might and Power on yourself, then pray to Jupiter and Odin for super strength, then invite Hercules and the Hulk over and then you will be able to open this case. I bench press 5,000,000 milligrams of steel, so I'm pretty Buff.

Overall Review: Pretty good case, I love it, leaves no desire to get anything else, very future proof. Fits my H100i and even bigger. Lots of Hard drive bays. Lots of Front USB ports Might want to get a fully modular power supply. Also you will have to even out your cables on the back side of this case since space is very minimal, my NZXT 410 Tempest Elite has more room than this case if you compare. Once you get this and even out where cables go case cover slides over, otherwise you will have to force it in possibly damaging your cables in the process. Rosewill if you read this add another half an inch to the side where cables route and you will have a winner.

Most Critical Review

It Died

ADATA S510 Series 2.5" 60GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) AS510S3-60GM-C
ADATA S510 Series 2.5" 60GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) AS510S3-60GM-C

Pros: Very Fast, taught me the wonders of SSD's

Cons: Firmware Upgrades are a joke, process seems simple enough but nothing really happens. It Died, loading new Operating System on it, then it died. BIOS will not pick it up, tried it on another computer.....yep its dead.

Overall Review: I have very good things to say about SSD's, however I'm sticking with Mechanical Drives until a better manufacturer releases a Larger Capacity SSD at affordable prices, and no 300 for an SSD is not affordable for the masses.

Cheap Construction, Coil Whine

EVGA GeForce GTX 970 04G-P4-2974-KR 4GB SC GAMING w/ACX 2.0, Silent Cooling Graphics Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 04G-P4-2974-KR 4GB SC GAMING w/ACX 2.0, Silent Cooling Graphics Card

Pros: Faster and better in every way than my Gigabyte GTX 670, except in one matter. See Cons

Cons: Cheap, the card creaks and chips just holding it. Insane Coil Whine. Leave's much to be desired, it just looks like a 200 dollar card aesthetically.

Overall Review: So I ordered this card and waited for reviews to come in, while the card was in transit I read on and just got a bad feeling about this card based on the ACX 1.0 reviews and the other reviews based on the ACX 2.0 model, I had hoped I would get lucky like other reviewers on this site, but my hopes were dashed when I started to hear coil whine while I ran a few tests, I see Evga relying back saying its something in peoples computer that are causing it, however how can that be the case when my current Gigabyte GTX 670 with the Whirlwind cooler does not exhibit the same symptoms. Nothing in my rig changes other than the graphics card, in truth every single manufacturer has coil whine. from what I read its a lower count with the other manufacturers. In short I'm out cash and taking a loss, this was returned the next day to Newegg. Buy at your own risk, Im sure Evga fanboys will rate this low, but I care less about those people, Im a consumer first and foremost and I should let other consumers know what I saw based on my testing and my observations.

Still working

Seagate Desktop HDD ST4000DM000 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate Desktop HDD ST4000DM000 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Been running for 5 months without any issues.

Cons: I cant find any cons

Overall Review: Mine works, I supposed I got lucky and got a working one, seems like these seagate hard drives are a real mess. To be honest all the hard drives I bought from newegg are still working, including those 3TB that are atrociously bad, its a luck and packaging.

Yey 8 more ports

SYBA SI-PEX40071 8 Internal SATA III Ports PCI-Express Card, PCI-e x2 Slot, Specification V2.0 Plus Low Profile Bracket
SYBA SI-PEX40071 8 Internal SATA III Ports PCI-Express Card, PCI-e x2 Slot, Specification V2.0 Plus Low Profile Bracket

Pros: Very High Speed, Average of 150 MB/s to 200 MB/s on SATA III hard drives.

Cons: Will not work with other third party SATA controllers like ASMedia or another Marvell Controllers.

Overall Review: I found the installation of this card confusing as my BIOS only shows 3 out the 8 hard drives, that really got me concerned, wish they would have listed that on the manual. But upon loading its dedicated driver in Windows 7 64 bit all 8 hard drives were seen in Windows by not while posting in BIOS. I guess thats normal. I did try to get it working with a second PCIe card with an ASMedia controller but they would just fight and it would not post. Tried with my motherboards onboard Marvell controller and the same thing, they would fight for domination. So Im out 2 Sata ports on my ASMedia Card and 2 more SATA ports on my motherboard, this card picks them all up, when you buy please take this into account. All my Intel based SATA ports work just fine. Im very happy with this card as it works with no issues, transfer speeds are fast and its been solid for the last month. I would definitely recommend it, just do some research first. I have 8 3TB hard drives on this card in case you were wondering. Since I applied this to A PCIe X16 slot now my graphics runs a PCIe 3.0 x8 . This is a limitation of the Intel Chipset, if your motherboards has the tools to correct this then good otherwise if you game this might concern you, go with Intel Enthusiast platform.

Ok

Coboc Model SC-SATA3-18-LL-SL 18" SATA III 6Gb/s Data Cable w/ Latch, Silver
Coboc Model SC-SATA3-18-LL-SL 18" SATA III 6Gb/s Data Cable w/ Latch, Silver

Pros: These are ok if all you want them to do is get the job done.

Cons: Cheap but they work.

Overall Review: I bought these since I really just wanted something to work, to my surprise I like them, I did replace two of them because it would not reach from PCIe all the way to the front of my full tower, this was my fault as I didnt really measure how much I would need.