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John S.

John S.

Joined on 09/30/07

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Most Favorable Review

Wonderful

IOCrest SI-PEX40064 PCI-Express 2.0 Low Profile Ready SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) Controller Card
IOCrest SI-PEX40064 PCI-Express 2.0 Low Profile Ready SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) Controller Card

Pros: Plug and play in win7x64 straight into jbod no prob all 4 devices recognized and working

Cons: none, perfect for my needs

Overall Review: I have three sata II hdds and 1 bluray player hooked up to it the card is plugged into a pci express 2.0 x16 (4x actual) slot the name of this device in the device manager under the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers section is "Standard ACHI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller" -before driver installation. (so right click that and update drivers to install driver)

Most Critical Review

Pain in the..

OKGEAR GC6ATAM2 6 in. molex 4pin male to two 15pin SATA Power Cable
OKGEAR GC6ATAM2 6 in. molex 4pin male to two 15pin SATA Power Cable

Pros: I own 2. Both worked with 2 drives for some time seemingly without trouble.

Cons: Had 2 drives in my main machine running on them, drives are refurbs so when they started randomly parking their heads (HISSSSSSS) I figured it was the drives. I figured wrong. One channel per cord works fine, either plug. Two equals under volts and possible hardware damage. The drives are still kicking though.

Overall Review: Other cord was in another machine, after I put in a 2nd drive and tested some more realized the problem. Now both adapters are in 1 machine. 4 plugs, powering 2 devices. Expect more, and you might be a have some fried pcbs..

HP Officejet 3833 (K7V37A) Duplex 4800 dpi x 1200 dpi Wireless/USB Color Inkjet All-In-One Printer
HP Officejet 3833 (K7V37A) Duplex 4800 dpi x 1200 dpi Wireless/USB Color Inkjet All-In-One Printer

Pros: 40 bucks for a wireless inkjet. Easy to set-up.

Cons: HP software, or anything HP for that matter... No USB cord included

Overall Review: Do yourself a favor and get the full driver installer via HP's website and not the minimal (if you plan on or need to use both wireless and usb especially)

12/30/2016

My first i5

Intel Core i5-4690K - Core i5 4th Gen Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 88W Intel HD Graphics 4600 Desktop Processor - BX80646I54690K
Intel Core i5-4690K - Core i5 4th Gen Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 88W Intel HD Graphics 4600 Desktop Processor - BX80646I54690K

Pros: Out of the box and straight into 4.4ghz. Using MX4 and an H60 this sucker will get warm, peaking around 90c on *some* Prime95 blend sections. But in gaming (ESO) it doesn't go above 65c. Can now play ESO at full ultra settings in 2k resolution. 4k is playable until you're in a big battle / lots of stuff going on. I couldn't play at 2k ultra settings smoothly w/ the i5 if it weren't OC'd. My GPU = RX480. Mobo = Asrock Z97 Anniversary. Used Asrock's preset OC settings to reach 4.4.

Cons: Price of the unit is the same(ish) 3 years later

Overall Review: Came from an i3-4330. Which is completely great for old games & and a great cpu in general. But new games you need that clock frequency.

It works

Nippon Labs HDB-5250 3.5" HDD Plastic Bracket Black Color
Nippon Labs HDB-5250 3.5" HDD Plastic Bracket Black Color

Pros: Sturdy, lightweight

Cons: none that is the products fault. it's big. I gotta take apart a lot of my system in order to install the two units I ordered. Other smaller products may have been the wiser choice.

Overall Review: Screw holes line up with my case but they're not threaded. Had to grab the DeWalt to thread 'em. I could use zip ties to secure it otherwise. 3 big holes on the sides of the hdb-5250..

As expected

Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 2.5" 60GB SATA III 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MKNSSDCR60GB-7
Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 2.5" 60GB SATA III 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MKNSSDCR60GB-7

Pros: cheap, fast

Cons: none

Overall Review: 60 gigs is plenty for win7x64 disable hibernation disable/delete shadow copies (system restore) reduce the page file size to 512mb~2gb get a few programs like ccleaner and wisecare365 to clean the disk, run disk cleaner from the start menu after You can also change your respective internet browsers cache location to a different disk, and the windows temp directory can be done the same way I prefer the browser cache to be on the SSD though I know the cache is probably the biggest contributor to wear-n-tear on the drives.. I always change the wintemp location to a mechanical drive though. That data is only spewed onto the disk and then read once and left to take up space after it's been ran once. No need for it to go to the SSD if only used once.. happy travels..