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Michael H.

Michael H.

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Sunpentown SD-65E 65 Pint Dehumidifier with Energy Star
Sunpentown SD-65E 65 Pint Dehumidifier with Energy Star

Pros: It comes with hose for external drain connection that is approximately 1 inch longer than needed for permanent attachment. I f you decide to use it you must cut off the excess and attach the two screws that fastens the white hose attachment to the bady of the unit. I read other people complaining about the excess. I think the excess is there on purpose. It is useful to allow a person to place a pail under it and test out the hose attachment. This worked fine for me. Keep in mind when you move the unit or for a few hours after it is turned off enough water still drains out to make a sizeable puddle. The sunpentown sd-65E pulls a l0ot of moisture out of the air quickly. It takes only 5 or 10 minutes for it to unfog my bathroom after I take a steaming hot shower with all the windows closed. It takes the humidity level down from 80+ to well under 60 in that time. In in NYC.

Cons: Not silent. When it self defrosts, it turns itself on high speed. If using the external hose connection - When moving it from room to room I suggest a small plastic bag attached with a rubber band- a quart or gallon size sandwich bag will keep your floors dry. I am very snsitive to noise and do not like to hear regular computer case fans. So I would say thison norman speed is a little noisier than a "quiet air conditioner" on high. While defrosting or on high is much louder. But I am happy I bought this unit.

Overall Review: uses about 680 Watts according to my kill a watt meter. only about 10 watts difference between low and high speed (fan). I Wish it had a timer to set for 10 minutes then automatically go off. Then it would be the perfect dehuimidifier for reducing mold in a bathroom without an exhaust vent. Does not add a lot of heat - but is enough to warm up my 61 degree 6x7' bathroom 2 degrees in about 10 minutes. Works so well and fast I recommended it to a friend with peeling paint in the bathroom from moisture.

12/26/2011

great while it worked

OCZ Vertex 2 2.5" 50GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2VTX50G
OCZ Vertex 2 2.5" 50GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2VTX50G

Pros: very fast quiet cool and low energy used. used as a boot drive. bought June of 2010 when they were using quality parts. Love the speed.

Cons: stopped working after17 months of light use without any warning. restarted my system and computer no longer sees the drive. changing sata settings cables and power cable had effect. Win7 64 bit no longer can see the ocz ssd. Now I bought the 50gb version because an engineer explained the units 50, 100, 200 have 28$ overprovisioning for more space that the drive can remap bad sectors to - behind the scenes- automatically.

Overall Review: Does anyone know of a more reliable yet fast device?

12/14/2011

Refrigerator Freezer

Sunbeam CR-CCTF 120 mm Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler,  free TX-2 Thermal Paste Included Inside
Sunbeam CR-CCTF 120 mm Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler, free TX-2 Thermal Paste Included Inside

Pros: Quiet and cool Massive heat Sink properly covers the AMD Athlon II x4 635 CPU. The stock one would only cover part of the cpu - glad I never installed it. It is 88 degrees in the room and The copper heat pipes don't even feel warrm and I have been on the internet an hour typing. The system is stock speed 2.9 withteh cpu undervolted to 1.2v and memory at 1.35V Uses a 120mm fan The included Tuniq TX-2 paste, has great reviews - Instructions say to put twice the normal amount. After 2 weeks I had to take cpu off as motherboard was bad - paste came off ok with alcohol and some rubbing. It works great. COOL Quiet Cheap HSF I LOVE IT. You almost don't need a fan Using M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 1.35v gskill ram 4 gig AMD 635 x4 1.9 CPU OCZ Vertx2 50G SSD SU The system is

Cons: If physics could be altered - would shrink the size. Know that it blows air from front to back (the way I have it installed) or back to front. So it does not blow onto the motherboard - not sure if this is a con. Must have 8" wide case (mine is and I have about half an inch (or less) when the side cover is put back on.

Overall Review: Would buy again. BRackets that hold the fan are metal and touch the top of my ram - so I wrapped 1 piece of electrical tape around them where they touch. Just to play it safe. Fins pick up a lot of dust. FAn can be removed and installed without taking cooler off of cpu.

great upgrade

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 1-Pack for System Builders
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 1-Pack for System Builders

Pros: Upgraded from very very old version. With a new system my basic DSL internet connection is now about the same speed as the cable at work. Much better than vista, not sure if xp would be faster with the same hardware- but xp does not have advanced features that support SSD Drives. Happy I went with the 64 bit Version Automatically recognized and installed most drivers

Cons: each time I have to reinstall the operating system I have to authenticate windows. Drivers are not available for old HP printers Lasejet 1012- (not Microsofts fault) Takes getting used to.

Overall Review: #1 get a VERTEX 2 SSD and boot in about 10 seconds. #2 get 4 gig of memory Using Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 OCZ VERTEX2 50g Athlon II x4 core 635 processor 2.9 Ghz Sunbeamtech core contact freezer (massive you almost dont need any fan) Gskill 1.35v memory 204B Syncmaster using 75-85 watts of electricity most of the time while on the internet.

FASTesrt Quiet bootable

OCZ Vertex 2 2.5" 50GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2VTX50G
OCZ Vertex 2 2.5" 50GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2VTX50G

Pros: All ssds are made in raw state in multiples 32 64 96 128 etc. Tech support at OCZ recc using the 50, 100 200 versions for greater space and long term reliability. This is 50 G it has 14 G available for the controller to use to remap the drive as the NANDS go bad for greater long term reliability than the 60G version (which has only 4 g ). So its a marketing thing 50G or 60G same speed but the 50 WILL LAST LONGER. All NANDS will GO BAD its a question of WHEN not if. This OCZ product has the sandforce 1200 controller (see sandforce.com). IT uses very little electricity and is cool to the touch and silent. I believe the best way to use this is to make sure that ACHI is turned on in the bios and then install windows on this drive. I was not able to install windows and make this bootable until I disconnected other hard drives when installing windows (in my system) My recommendation use Windows 7 64 bit and 4 G of memory. Windows disk performance rates = 7.5, and loads in 10 se

Cons: MORE PROs: comes with a 3.5 inch mounting bracket. Is so low power (whole system while typing on the internet with monitor and ethernet power adaptor is using 75 watts of electricity according to my kill a watt power meter - and speakers are turned off-) see below: FOR additional performance I turned off virtual memory, auto defragging, and set my hard drive to never powerdown, etc (see ocz forums)

Overall Review: Using the internet with a 20.4 inch monitor (1600x1200 syncmaster 204B) and Asus M489gtd pro/usb3 Amd 635 CPU (4 cores no level 3 cache) 4 gig 1.35v gskill ram sunbeamtech core-contact freezer with low speed fan enermax pro82+ 385W power supply and no hard drive in a 9 year old mid atx case ( may move stuff into my antec 300 case) I say buy this vertex2 or a larger one and use an external hard drive for regular backups. Newegg Rocks

Best Quality WHY to BUY - read

SAMSUNG TOC T260HD Rose   Black 25.5" 5ms HDMI Widescreen  HDTV  Monitor 300 cd/m2 DC 10000:1(1000:1)  Build in TV Tuner & Dolby Digital Surround Sound
SAMSUNG TOC T260HD Rose Black 25.5" 5ms HDMI Widescreen HDTV Monitor 300 cd/m2 DC 10000:1(1000:1) Build in TV Tuner & Dolby Digital Surround Sound

Pros: 1. 1920 x 1200 (don't buy a 1080 for data - moviesor tv ok) 2. Great Picture - Colors more vibrant than top rated panasonic 37" TV - my friend said 3. Great for monitor for a word document 73% shows 3 full pages. I would use for 2 full pages side by side and top to bottom. 4. has a full 1200 pixels top to bottom 5. EASY to use remote. 6. Boss loved it too. 7.GREAT for Monitor Great For TV

Cons: Wish it came with a HDMI cable Wish it came with a printed manual

Overall Review: Upgraded from samsung 20.4" monitor 204B with great sharpness (1600 x 1200)javascript:Biz.Feedback.RateProduct.Form.submit('display') Submit 24 inches wide. May but a second one. warm but not hot. says 1.2 Amps for electric use. Don't know in reality how much it draws or uses.