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Brian B.

Brian B.

Joined on 05/20/06

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Most Favorable Review

Great Product for Custom Installations

Media Center Programmable LCD
Media Center Programmable LCD

Pros: The Display is nice and bright, The software features a Lot of different things you can customize to have it display, From the Current date and time, to your OS to your Temperatures and Fan speeds, CPU usage, Hard drive space remaining, whether or not you have new email. Literally hundreds of functions can be displayed. If you use your PC to play music, this will show a graphic EQ with title song and other info. I am really happy I bought this product.

Cons: #1. Plugin for power connector was exceptionally short and the USB cable is not very long. (Acceptable but could have been longer) #2. Software and drivers had to be downloaded. (It warned of this but still should have come with a CD) #3. The manual was a little bit, well um "Little" you needed to go to the web site to get additional information.

Overall Review: The temperature sensors, Fan speed sensors, Voltage core, etc. need the program Speedfan to be installed and running to work. This supports Winamp and Media Center and I am running it in Vista 32bit. I did a custom install into a Cosmos 1000. I installed this right into the bezel rather than filling a 5 1'4 inch slot. I want to link or show images but am afraid this post will not be accepted if I do so I may add another review with links to see if they let them be displayed.

10/23/2008

Great Performance LAcking in Durability

Scythe SY1225SL12SH "Slipstream" Case Fan
Scythe SY1225SL12SH "Slipstream" Case Fan

Pros: These babies move air. They are loud but hey if you are looking at these in the first place, you are not worried so much about that. 120mm Very high CFM, these are not for people that buy Compaq's in the first place :) Also the price is very nice.

Cons: Great performance for the first year, after that I had 3 fail in a short time. Purchase date was 10/17/2008 I noticed 3 not working at the same time when I noticed on 8/03/09 that my system temps went up 18c under full load because they were out.

Overall Review: Great fans, Great performance, Durability not as nice as I would like. I am not one to clean the fan blades every month, in fact I don't do anythign to them till I notice them not working, but still not the longest life. I know they are under $10.00 but I wish they had a long life version for $18.00 that would last a few years.

Great Product

ARCTIC COOLING ACCEL X8800 Fluid Dynamic VGA Cooler
ARCTIC COOLING ACCEL X8800 Fluid Dynamic VGA Cooler

Pros: Great Product. Installation Instruction were easy to understand. Installation went Very smooth. Having the instructions tell you to use a pencil eraser to remove old Heat sink film, and explaining things well enough so you were not left wondering if you did this correctly was outstanding. Performance. I was running benchmark programs, Stress Test programs. Futuremark, etc. and with the overclocking I was doing I was getting it to goto over 70 degrees Celcius and it would cause problems. Certain games ran my Stock Evga 8800 GTX card extremely Hot. Everquest 2, Oblivion, etc. I would sometimes have my machine lock the video up it ran so hot which is why I bought this cooler in the first place. I was not expecti8ng miracle. But I got them. Stock Temps are now in the 40's MAX temps never go over 73 with the core clocked all the way to 636 from 576 stock. I never go over 60 degrees UNLESS I am benchmarking and even then it only goes to 64 max. Impressive for air cooling.

Cons: the extra slot cover it comes with to add extra cooling was enough to let dust into your computer. I would have appreciated it more if it had been a slot with a cleanable filter. Basically you get an extra PCI card slot cover with cutouts for extra air intake, but the slots are larege enough to let dust in. You can modify this easily enough but I had to work hard to even come up with a con. this cooler is great. Better than Zalman for the 8800 GTX and Ultra because there is no extra item needed to use it. what you need is included. why pay for the extra cooler when this will do what the Zalman does for less cost. and actualy I am getting 4 degrees less temps at full load and 6 degree sless at idol. (Clecius reading of course) YES 6 degrees celcius less than the zalman at idol.

Overall Review: if you got the 8800 GTX or Ulta. Get this. you will be VERY Happy. Install time was less than 30 minutes. Easy to understand and perform. You get a full new set of screws, etc so you could actualy resell or reuse the stock cooler on some other card with all tyhe parts from it. this has a full new set of everything. nothing needed off the old cooler. Screws, or anything. this has it all.

Worked Great

TDK 8.5GB 8X DVD+R DL 25 Packs Spindle Disc Model 48973
TDK 8.5GB 8X DVD+R DL 25 Packs Spindle Disc Model 48973

Pros: Very good disks, I have used these in 2 different DVD DL Burners with great success. I have a LG Black 6X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 40X CD-ROM SATA Internal Combo LG Blu-ray/HD DVD-ROM & 16X DVD±R DVD Burner Model GGC-H20L - OEM * http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136154 * and I also have a SAMSUNG Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe - OEM * http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151154 * I use these for Xbox360 backups and for general Data disks. I have never had a problem or made a disk that did not work *Coaster* I only wish I had bought more since I like the very plain look of these disks and the ability to write on the disks with a marker almost anywhere. Not much Logo to interfere.

Cons: None

Happy owner

LOGISYS Computer LNSBL 12" Blue Liquid Neon Thunder Pattern LED Light
LOGISYS Computer LNSBL 12" Blue Liquid Neon Thunder Pattern LED Light

Pros: I was very happy with this product. The light was bright and had a great look to it. The rhythm/pattern was very nice, much better than a light that simply lights up plain. The Product was well made. Not flimsy at all. It had Dark blue Plastic ends with a large flat surface to help you mount it.

Cons: Would have been nice if they made the ugly blue supply for this thing UV Reactive rather than just a dull ugly blue.

10/23/2008

Works perfect if you know where and how to use it

BYTECC USB2-6AA-W White USB 2.0 Type A Male to Type A Male
BYTECC USB2-6AA-W White USB 2.0 Type A Male to Type A Male

Pros: The cable does exactly what it is intended to do. Connects 2 devices with Female USB connectors together. I used this to connect my one computer directly into a USB hub, I also hooked a second computer to the hub in the same way. Then I hooked a UPS Battery Backup System to the hub, now when Power goes out, The UPS tells both computers to shutdown via this "Jump Rope" Cable.

Cons: People don't seem to have enough knowledge about these poor abused cables.