Joined on 11/26/09
Not a bad monitor
Pros: I have one of these at work, the guy before me must have bought it. It has a clear, bright picture. Excellent contrast. Small formfactor (thin thin thin). Vesa mount on the back. Sturdy enough base.
Cons: Labels. Yeah, I know it's LED backlit and 1080p, I don't need the largest label on the thing to tell me that every time I look at it. A little SE99 graffiti remover takes it off though. Sometimes the inputs are wonky and it doesn't want to detect them right.
Overall Review: I work at a school district and a fairly recent hire. This was on my desk when I came in, along with the previous guy's laptop with him still logged in. Its a fine monitor, fairly cheap. I like it more than my HANNSpree back at home, wish I could swap them out.
Magic Smoke
Pros: -Beefy feeling -Fits in normal case -Not too much of a wire mess
Cons: -Magic smoke after a couple hours
Overall Review: I got one of these power supplies to replace a 320 watt Dell power supply in a computer. I had to put the old SATA connectors from the Dell supply onto this one to make it all fit right, but that's more a fault of Dell than anything. I was working on the machine, and suddenly I smell something burning. I look down and it's billowing smoke out the back. Probably will not buy again
I love this mousepad
Pros: -Smooth surface -Great grip on the bottom -Huge surface area -Neutral color
Cons: -Expensive
Overall Review: Well, when I bought this it was the only hard mousepad I could find. I was using a very nice soft mousepad, and after a few months my hand started breaking out in a terrible rash just on the areas that were in contact with the mousepad for hours a day. So when I bought this, I was looking for something that I wouldn't be allergic to! I didn't want to get something that was going to be foam rubber. What a strange requirement for a mousepad! Well, at the time this was the only one that met that requirement. The surface is a hard plastic, my mouse glides effortlessly across it and tracks very well. And best of all, I'm not allergic to it! I do a lot of computer repair work, and I can actually comfotably fit two mice on this pad. My main one for my computer, and one for another person's computer. Or, I can clear it off and have a huge space to move my mouse over when gaming. Well, looking at Razer's website today, they sell more hard pads than they do soft ones, so having a hard pad must offer some other advantages I wasn't even thinking about when I bought it. One thing is certain, I'm not going back to a traditional mousepad. At work I have just a 1sq foot piece of leather, and that makes a great mousepad too. But not as good as this! I would recommend one of Razer's hard pads over a soft one any day.
Basic motherboard
Pros: Simple Easy install Nice BIOS Does everything a basic computer needs Good build quality
Cons: One screw hole didn't line up Owner's manual is on the CD - hard to read if this is your only computer
Overall Review: I got this motherboard along with an A4-5300, some cheap RAM and the bottom end Corsair power supply to rebuild someone's old Compaq that quit. This board is really basic, offering only the bare essentials to get up and running. Which, for the purpose that this was being used for, is perfectly fine. This was going to people who were using an old Compaq with an Athalon II and the onboard graphics, which the A4 surpasses easily. I used the old Compaq case, and the single header for the front lights/buttons went right onto this board without modification. One of the screw holes didn't line up, but the rest did, not sure why that was. The standoff in the case was just off the edge of the board and the screw hole was about an inch away. Other than that, everything snapped together really easilly, it was up and running in half an hour or so.
OK speakers
Pros: Sound OK, for what they are: cheap speakers Using in some stage monitor cabinets, they get the job done.
Cons: None really. They do what they're advertized to do, nothing more, nothing less.
Overall Review: Bought these somewhere else, but not as car subs! They were being sold as pro-audio speakers. Well, same price, same product, and indeed I am using them as pro-audio speakers. They replaced the blown drivers in some cheap monitor wedges, and they work fine. They do the job. They're not fantastic, but they do sound better than the original drivers. They can't do 500 watts RMS. They can do 250 RMS and 500 peak. Keep that in mind! The cabinates I have them in are rated at 150 continuous and 250 peak, and I usually drive them with a 250 watt amp, so I'm not worried. As for a sub... they only go down to like, 50Hz... I know people were using them as bass amp speakers and guitar amp speakers.. I just can't imagine they'd work well for that. I'd like to see something with a lower frequency response for a sub.
Nice case!
Pros: -Sleek design - looks great anywhere! -Well constructed - I heard Lian Li cases were nice, but this blows me away -Well designed - Standard components in a logical and useable formfactor -Very compatible - Mine came with a USB 3.0 motherboard header instead of pass-through cables and an adapter to adapt a 2.0 header to the 3.0 connector.
Cons: -Long cables - I was able to wrap the USB, audio, and button cables almost all the way around the top of my motherboard then down and along the front before connecting them! -Bright lights - Might be a con for some, but the blue lighs are BRIGHT -A few loose bits - A Western Digital Scorpio Black hard drive seems to make the 5.25" drive bay cover vibrate with no drive in there, used a peice of tape to hold it -Tiny screws - and lots of them
Overall Review: Well, I've built only two machines in this formfactor, this being the second. The first went into a Foxconn case and it was very simple and nice. But, I wanted to use an ATI 6770 video card I had and I don't trust little cheapo power supplies after having countless Dell ones explode and die. This case fit the bill, and it looks great doing it! Just beware, it's cable management up the whazoo and not a whole lot of points to tie down to. I ended up wrapping zip ties around the motherboard standoffs to hold up the USB and audio cables that had to wrap around the top of the board to take up the slack in them. Also, a modular power supply is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! I used a Corsair CX430 power supply, which is not modular, and it only adds to the cable management party.