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Brock U.

Brock U.

Joined on 01/16/13

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Most Favorable Review

Sound good but be prepared to catch them

SONY MDRXB300 3.5mm Gold-Plated Connector Supra-aural Extra Bass Headphone
SONY MDRXB300 3.5mm Gold-Plated Connector Supra-aural Extra Bass Headphone

Pros: Very strong bass Good sound Great value Most comfortuable headphones I've ever used Tangle free flat cord They look pretty nice

Cons: Super slippery and fall off your head easily

Overall Review: These headphones have a very warm sound to them, which is very pleasing. They're really great for music and I do enjoy all genres on them. You can throw as much bass at them as you like. The low end nature can make explosions and sound effects in games and movies spectacular but that might not be desirable for most people in a game. Then there's the issue of them falling off your head. I only use them at my computer because I'm just so sick of them falling on the ground because I tilted my head slightly or catching them while I'm trying to do dishes or what have you. However paired with a SoundBlaster Recon 3D they never fail to put a smile on my face right up until they fall off...

Most Critical Review

It's okay but I don't recommend it

Microsoft Windows 8 64-bit (Full Version)
Microsoft Windows 8 64-bit (Full Version)

Pros: Installed all my drivers instantly Slightly faster then Windows 7 The 'corners' feature has proven really useful Metro looks nice and has some great apps (key word being some) The music app is a masterpeice besides only playing a song at a time if you don't select "Play All" - there's probably a better way, see other thoughts Multimonitor management is excellent

Cons: Will not allow user accounts to be stored on secondary drive Have to install Classic Shell to make the desktop like Windows 7 and therefor usable Metro Apps don't like to run on portrait monitors The simplist of tasks is overly complicated now Aero has been removed from desktop to make it visual flow better which it doesn't, visual coheasion is quite poor and it will always feel like 2 operating systems running within eachother.

Overall Review: I'm quite conflicted by this OS. Though I have come to really like it I'm hard pressed to find a reason why people should upgrade to it or choose it over Windows 7. For an experienced user like myself there was a challenging and confusing learning curve. I've picked up every OS, even Ubuntu 7 years ago easier then Windows 8. You eventually learn that you have to think like you're using a tablet because Microsoft designed this OS for tablets. I don't really know what they put their time into it seems they've just tried to use Windows to boost Windows Phone adoption but if I sat most of my freinds or family infront of Windows 8 they would be completely lost, frustrated, even to shut down your computer now is a burried feature. This all leads to my main point that it's a troll of an OS. I have only heard one person say they'd like to try Windows 8 and no one is actually comfortuable with the new interface. If they left Windows 7 untouched and put Metro over top it would be the best OS getting better, but the way Microsoft did it they made the best OS worse and then added a new interface over top. At the end of the day I could care less if my computer had 8 or 7, and with how complicated 8 is I don't recommend it to anyone.

Great little card with no overclocking

ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 2060 Twin Fan 6GB GDDR6 192-bit Gaming Graphics Card, Super Compact, IceStorm 2.0, ZT-T20600F-10M
ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 2060 Twin Fan 6GB GDDR6 192-bit Gaming Graphics Card, Super Compact, IceStorm 2.0, ZT-T20600F-10M

Pros: - Small - Inexpensive - Looks good and comes with a shroud - Boosts to 1875 without much issue on it's own

Cons: - The VBIOS has a locked power target and vcore, the card is already power limited at stock so... no overclocking, but apparently the AMP version has it - Makes this weird high-pitched noise when under load. My 380x did as well but it was much quieter (do note my PC is <2 feet from my ear and has no side panel

Overall Review: To anyone not wanting to overclock this is a great card. Personally I felt that the (at the time, I bought mine at launch) extra $70 for the next cheapest model that was in stock wasn't worth it. Now knowing those models are 5-10% faster (potentially) and that there's other GPUs near MSRP that might be overclockable I'd say I would have gone for a different card. Still happy with my purchase though, and I'm sure someone will find a way to flash the AMP VBIOS onto these cards. As for the Turing arch, it's great. A little pricey because of the enormous die sizes needed for the RT and Tensor cores but still. Those additions make it a great entry-level workstation and machine learning card. This one runs the same temps, boost clocks, and so forth as almost every other model and the fans are quiet because they don't have to work hard. Add in Freesync and you've got a really great package here. That said I miss AMD's software and drivers as they were easier to navigate, more useful for my use cases, and there were less little errors. Plus nVidia GPUs struggle running HDMI and displayport at the same time, unless everything goes through displayport.

Great price

Corsair Force LE 2.5" 240GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F240GBLEB/RF2
Corsair Force LE 2.5" 240GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F240GBLEB/RF2

Pros: Price

Cons: Probably not the fastest SSD out there

Overall Review: To be honest I was only worried with getting some cheap SSD storage, speed is irrelivant beyond the SSD vs. HDD speeds. Solid choice for a budget drive.

The Best Way to Light a PC

NZXT AC-HUEPS-M1, HUE+ Smart RGB Color Changing Digitally Controlled LED PC Lighting (Black)
NZXT AC-HUEPS-M1, HUE+ Smart RGB Color Changing Digitally Controlled LED PC Lighting (Black)

Pros: Well made Well packaged Comes with plenty of extension cables Plugs directly into the motherboard All cables are black Great magnets Lighting quality is good CAM software doesn't need an online account! (it's also pretty good)

Cons: It's expensive but worth it for the bling factor

Overall Review: I've owned a couple cheap kits in the past and they never lived longer then a week. I just installed this yesterday so durability is up in the air but I'm very impressed and happy. The two lighting channels is also a really nice touch! I may even add some NZXT RGB fans in the future.

A very solid device

VisionTek Charge and Sync Aluminum USB 3.0 7 Port Hub (900725)
VisionTek Charge and Sync Aluminum USB 3.0 7 Port Hub (900725)

Pros: Aluminum construction USB 3 Comes with charger Many charging ports for devices

Cons: Charging ports are charge only Power brick is enormous

Overall Review: I don't know if there's lots to say about a USB hub. I got mine on sale and am very happy with it, even if it's only seen minimal use so far. It charges my phone fast, and is built very well. I'll update if anything goes wrong but I've never had a USB hub die so I expect this to last a long while.