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michael e.

michael e.

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Most Favorable Review

great drive for the price!

OCZ Agility Series 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1AGT60G
OCZ Agility Series 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1AGT60G

Pros: Faster then the OCZ solid drive it replaced. uses the Indilinx controller vs samsung on the OCZ summit. great transfer speeds for the price per size. running two agility's in raid-0 setup, no compliants with them in win7. just make sure that with vista or win7RC you are aligning the drives for best performance.

Cons: only con is it wasnt a bit more cheaper.

Overall Review: You could really consider the Agility drive over the summits. the only thing going for the summits is the 128mb of cache. which helps but not as much as you think it would. if in doubt read the reviews of SSD's at benchmarkreviews.

Most Critical Review

How does it work?

Rosewill RHB-330A USB 3.0 4 Ports Aluminum Hub
Rosewill RHB-330A USB 3.0 4 Ports Aluminum Hub

Pros: Nice little case The right amount of connections for me

Cons: Its usb 3.0 hooked to a USB 3.0 power on my pc. Everything else seems to work good, haven't tested longer then a week atm. The problem is when I use any USB mic. I have a few cheaper kits laying around. All of them when connected to this hub all have some background static according to the people I talk to in various games The moment I hook up at my computers usb 3.0 port no problems. Not sure what it could be, maybe use a power supply with it might fix it? It has a port for one, but If I only used just a usb mic. I shouldn't need to use a external power supply for. Im starting to think there is either a grouning issues in the pcb or its crosstalk from other components on the pcb.

Overall Review: Still with keeping for everything else but usb mics

12/16/2020

Best choice for HTPC

ASRock P55M Pro LGA 1156 Intel P55 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
ASRock P55M Pro LGA 1156 Intel P55 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: after buying 3 other boards at the time that have ocing options. testing each one has lead me to find this board to be the best for a HTPC setup. as it goes thru the bios startup the quickest compared to the GA-P55M-UD2 or GA-P55M-UD4. is the board im using for my HTPC right now. is a good option for ocing a 750 since HT creates a slightly higher power draw, see cons.

Cons: not really a con considering the low price of the board. tring to oc a 860 is a bit tough since the board carries a 4+1 phase for powering the CPU/IMC. ocing a i7 on this board should be kept to a minimum aroun 3.2-3.4ghz with no voltage increase.

Overall Review: for 750s ocing should be good on this board for around 3.6-3.8ghz with low volts as well. really wouldnt push it though considering the 4 phase for the cpu. this AsRock board is one of the fastest(thru bios)boards i have ever used.

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OCZ Agility Series 2.5" 30GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1AGT30G
OCZ Agility Series 2.5" 30GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1AGT30G

Pros: your numbers for raid 0 are really low. im running off the ICH10r and getting much higher read/writes then you. im stuck with a max of 128k stripe size for the ich10r. head over to ocforums and search for "[Info] SSD Reviews/Benchmarks Repository".

Cons: none

Solid PSU Peroid.

SPARKLE FSP550-60PLG 550 W EPS12V Active PFC Power Supply
SPARKLE FSP550-60PLG 550 W EPS12V Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: bought it for my backup rig. Solid rails no problems and really made by FSP. Nice and quiet, lots of cables.

Cons: non that i can think of.

Descent for the $$

XFX GeForce 7300GS 512MB(256MB on Board) GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Graphics Card PVT72GWANG
XFX GeForce 7300GS 512MB(256MB on Board) GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Graphics Card PVT72GWANG

Pros: Great cheap card for what you pay. the gpu core can oc to around 625mhz before i get problems.

Cons: the only one is that the fan on the card is little loud for such a low power card. Mem is already maxed out so no ocing there.

Overall Review: spend he extra cash and get the 7600/gt