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Karsten W.

Karsten W.

Joined on 05/24/09

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Most Favorable Review

Well priced, no distortion

Nippon Labs 6 ft. Premium 3.5mm Audio Stereo Speaker Extension 6ft Cable M/F Model SPC-6MF 6 feet
Nippon Labs 6 ft. Premium 3.5mm Audio Stereo Speaker Extension 6ft Cable M/F Model SPC-6MF 6 feet

Pros: The end plug itself is built pretty well, I see no problems after roughly 1000 "change-outs" of plugs.

Cons: Get something slightly longer if you were considering it. Also the contacts for the female connection provide a mostly solid connection, but not the best I've heard.

Overall Review: For what your paying, a basic cord that will get the job done on a 99% confidence interval! (haha)

Great form factor, above average performance

LaCie iamaKey 4GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive 130869
LaCie iamaKey 4GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive 130869

Pros: This thing is very well constructed which I cannot say about my previous 6 thumb drives. I expected a loose fitting or was even skeptical at first about the exposed "small" plug, but this fits very snuggly and can lift my 7 other keys easily. I already managed to drop it off my balcony showing my roommate onto the cement: no stratches or loss in performance.

Cons: This isn't the fastest piece of hardware out there, but honestly if you are the type that needs incredible performance, get a portable hard drive.

Overall Review: Read write is as advertised on large files and slower on multiple small files (which is expected). After formatting this to FAT32 with 8k Allocation Unit Size, the unit's speed improved with smaller files. No idea if this works for all drives, but unfortunately I've broken all my other drives so I do not have any benchmarks. Writing my backed up files from my old flash at ~1.2GB took about :55. Hope this helps, and at this price, this IS worth your money. Durability and the "anti-lose-your-data-keyring-feature" make this by far the lowest price and the highest quality drive to date for me.

10/25/2010

Does the job well

Tuniq TX-2 Cooling Thermal Compound
Tuniq TX-2 Cooling Thermal Compound

Pros: Kept a "non-overclocked" happy at 36 degrees Celsuis, 2 degrees lower than the included paste on the stock Intel 775 fan.

Cons: The opening for the paste is kinda big and the stuff flies out. I feel I have wasted half the paste I applied due to me scraping it off with wax paper and tossing it...

Overall Review: Its thermal paste, non-conductive, does the job, affordable, buy it. Also don't buy Arctic Silver, they are the Monster Cable rip-off of thermal grease.

Great RAM

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK

Pros: Runs great, other reviewers are correct on speeds and voltage. Oh and baby blue is nice with LED's.

Cons: The price? I bought these two packs at half the price a year ago, my guess is Newegg increased the price after they won the "Customer Bandwagon" award. Who knows, could have been a nice sale I got lucky on, I do not remember.

Overall Review: The price is actually a bit steep, but you get what you pay for and this is quality memory that has been proven reliable.

Varied Setting

Rosewill RFA-120-K - 120mm Computer Case Cooling Fan with LP4 Adapter - Sleeve Bearing, Silent
Rosewill RFA-120-K - 120mm Computer Case Cooling Fan with LP4 Adapter - Sleeve Bearing, Silent

Pros: An immense amount of air output. Using just 4 watts this fan is completely silent yet it outputs more air than my other 120mm fans that produce some noise.

Cons: Running at 12 watts this sounds like a jet engine. 8 watts is a bit better without much change in speed it seems.

Overall Review: If you are obsessed with silent fan operation and willing to find the "adapter" or solder it to run of just 4 watts, you will not be disappointed. This fan also makes a great desk fan with one of those old DC wall plug bricks. (small size and same amount of air as a normal plug fan!)

Excellent Card, don't be fooled and buy the new repackaged twin

XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card PVT98WYDFH
XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card PVT98WYDFH

Pros: -Energy Efficient Core requiring 141 watts for the card -Excellent Graphics for non SLI, for those of you that care... runs wow excellently. -For the price/chipset performance ratio: 6/5 stars.

Cons: -Big, well not a Con for me but pay attention to your board. Some boards will have the ram or other important components within "range" of this beast. Make sure you have the 9" required when inserting.

Overall Review: -Remember to get latest drivers, not necessarily all the bulky NVIDIA addons, just the drivers will do. -Windows Vista x64 works on boot with this card zero problems. After a simple driver update and reboot, the NVIDIA drivers work as expected. -Dont overclock PCIe, that's just stupid. -Make sure you have at least a 600 watt PSU and a 6 port power hookup for this card. If you plan on running two of these, which is stupid for the extra 5-8 frames (whatever the specs, its not worth the money!), be sure to get at least a 750 watt PSU. A 500 watt PSU will have trouble powering the following as I experienced: 4GB ram, core 2 duo at 3GHZ (65 watt 45 nm), one HD, one optical drive, and this card. It is important to note on your PSU how many 12v rails you have for your processor two: having a 2x2 single 12v rail may indicate its time for a change in PSU. -NVIDIA quality for ATI price, no its not crysis fullscreen, but a great quality card for those who are just behind the $-curve.