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james p.

james p.

Joined on 06/17/05

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Most Favorable Review

DON'T BE AFRAID

Patriot Viper 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model PVT36G1600ELK
Patriot Viper 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model PVT36G1600ELK

Pros: I installed the Ram and set the timing and guess what it works great. I ram prime95 for 12 hours with eight little workers showing no problems mon. runs at 1600 as promised. Another great product from Patriot. Listen patriot has a great support team and can direct you to screen shots on there site where you can see what settings and timings should be set to.

Cons: I wish I installed it sooner. I read all the reviews and pondered returning the memory. Then thought to myself that there are a lot of dumb people in the world and maybe they all got together and bought this Ram at once.

Overall Review: I really wish that people writing these bad reviews knew what they were doing. Honestly I read all these reviews and thought to myself how could any company like Patriot willingly provide a product that doesn't work to Newegg. Do yourself a favor all you nubes, you know who you are. Only install (1) stick 2gigs then download all the windows updates including servicepac 1. (windows 64 bit) Make sure that your motherboard supports 1600 speed memory. Enter the bios set your timing, shut it down and unplug your box, install the other 4 gigs and guess what it works! To the rest of you don't be afraid it works.

12/29/2008
Most Critical Review

Piece of 3

ASUS Sabertooth X58 LGA 1366 Intel X58 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
ASUS Sabertooth X58 LGA 1366 Intel X58 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: When it worked it was Sweet. Never had an issue. Nice lay out industrial design. all the features i had wanted for my HTPC.

Cons: i have had it with ASUS their support people are arrogant and unresponsive. The two mother boards they sent me for replacement RMA were not tested adequately. i called to complain about the 2nd motherboard with memory slot dead and was told it was my hardware. Replace my hardware. I was not born yesterday i had the mother board on the bench with 16ea 2gig modules of memory corsair, patriot, g skill 2 different power supplies and ordered another from newegg to make sure it wasn't me. Changed 3 processors 920 -950 980X they all work in my other machines i have 460gtx (2) 550 gtx and (2) 280 graphic cards (3) new Samsung hard drives. I then installed all in random orders had bad memory middle slot could not operate in triple channel configuration. only duel channel worked. tried entering memory settings manually ran Intel processor tool checked memory on my Rampage extreme board. hard drive boots my rampage no problem. All video cards work fine on my Rampage. My days of buying ASUS

Overall Review: ASUS support is a joke. Now i know how they get around a 5 year warranty they don't honor it. They keep sending you junk until you finally give up as i have. i will not purchase another item from ASUS. Newegg rocks!

Not what I was expecting

Crucial MX100 2.5" 512GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT512MX100SSD1
Crucial MX100 2.5" 512GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT512MX100SSD1

Pros: The price point was very appealing 30 dollars less than the only other competitor I would have chosen. Nice packaging and some what reliable read, write, much slower than advertised speeds.

Cons: Speeds nowhere near what are published in reviews. I thought I was upgrading to a faster drive than my now 3 year old 830 Samsung 256. Boy was I wrong my boot time increased by more than 30 seconds. I e-mail support at Crucial and was sent some canned response for my slow speeds. I am not happy with the M100 drive. I'm hoping that Crucial will release a firmware update to increase the horrible boot times. Test platform Rampage extreme 4 second generation motherboard i7 4930K 4.5 ghz 16 gigs of 1866 G-Skill Lg blueray OD (1) WD 1tb Black 1000W Corsair 80plus PS Settings Crucial on AHCI SATA bus interface set on SATA 3 I switched cables three different times and used both SATA 3 ports No difference in recorded speeds. Well below by as much as 190 MBS per second. The expected Random read speed of 550 mb per second. Recorded 367 fastest. Random Write speed was far worst barely breaking the 300 mbs per second. like 290 -309 Expected speeds of 500 mbs per second. recorded fastest 319. So obviously I was duped!!! Or received some bad silicone!!

Overall Review: I guess the old adage is true. You truly get what you pay for. I will chock this one up to my mother told me so, if it sounds to good to be true it usually is. Do your selves a favor and spend the extra few bucks. Now thinking of it I should have posted a short video with a screen shot of the diagnostic and real world benchmarks of the drive. I will provide the information on another review shortly.

Lot all my data

Seagate Central STCG4000100 4TB Cloud Storage System
Seagate Central STCG4000100 4TB Cloud Storage System

Pros: It was easy to set up and straight forward to use thought it was a good solution to stream my films around the house worked great for a while.

Cons: One day when I was copying my daughters camera files onto the drive it stopped functioning. I thought it was the power adaptor because the light would not turn on so I ordered another adaptor. Still nothing so I pressed on the little reset button a half dozen times and called support, did all of the trouble shooting and it was dead. So i asked if the data recovery was covered under the warranty. No it isn't I tore apart the Drive to get to the hard drive to see if my data was still there and to my surprise the drive is inaccessible so i have lost all of my data that includes 140 1940 - 1976 movies that i painstakingly converted from VCR to mp4. 100s of hours of work gone I was in the process of burning them to blue ray and only had 20 recorded.

Overall Review: Thank you Seagate for you piece of garbage if I had known I would only gotten 6 months of service from your product I would have chosen WD. I have many of their proratable 1tb drives that i have used for years without issue. You will not be on my Christmas list this winter

SLI Sweetness

MSI GeForce GTX 680 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card N680GTX-PM2D2GD5
MSI GeForce GTX 680 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card N680GTX-PM2D2GD5

Pros: I now know video bliss i am so impressed with theses cards. i don't think that I've ever been more happy. All games suddenly seem to really pop more detail crisper edges great explosions smoke looks almost real. Stunning moving from (2) 480s i so happy i waited to upgrade to these cards. So quite, runs really cool, great 3D mark scores Over Clocks like crazy i recommend anyone looking pull the trigger you know you want one.

Cons: doesn't make pop corn very well

Overall Review: Got my second card a month ago

SAY WHAT ?

Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1866 (PC3 15000) Desktop Memory Model PXD38G1866ELK
Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1866 (PC3 15000) Desktop Memory Model PXD38G1866ELK

Pros: This is great ram for an intel chip i7 generation 2 or 3. i love this stuff over clocks like crazy. 7.8 on windows 7 system rating. Great value for great ram. i bought this ram at another vendor with a outstanding rebate. i don't think its an ADM part.

Cons: Reading all these bad reviews from ADM noobs really blows. The ram is over clocked? Try bumping the clock speed on your processor to hit 1866. If that doesn't work then your mother board doesn't support the rated speed.

Overall Review: Patriot Memory has been around a long time. i personally use their ram on most of my new builds with out an issue. If i ever had an issue i would go to their site and look up the mother board and clock enter the value and BAM guess what it works. i'm going to purchase another 8 gigs of this ram for my new build no matter what these knuckle heads write Don't be afraid Patriot has a great RMA department to go with a great product.