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JERRY L.

JERRY L.

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Most Favorable Review

5.9 Vista performance rating

XFX GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Support Video Card PVT84GUDF3
XFX GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Support Video Card PVT84GUDF3

Pros: This card is incredible. I haven't gotten any work done this week because I spent all my time playing Quake4, UT2004 and Doom3, with ALL the video settings cranked to the max. Not a bit of a problem anywhere. The video card gets a performance rating of 5.9(aero)/5.6(gaming) in Vista-64 using the latest available nvidia drivers. Don't bother with the drivers on the cd, download newer from nvidia.

Cons: None that I can think of.

Overall Review: I saw an almost identical card for sale locally at a place that supposedly has the best buys, thanks to newegg for savings in the three-digit range.

Most Critical Review

Great until it's not!

D-Link DAP-1665 Wireless AC1200 Dual Band Gigabit Access Point
D-Link DAP-1665 Wireless AC1200 Dual Band Gigabit Access Point

Pros: Very easy setup, extreme speed, reasonable cost. That's three of the four things I want in a wireless device. The 5Ghz band doesn't have as much range as 2.4 but it's pretty good.

Cons: Unfortunately, the fourth thing I want is reliability and it's not there. I bought two of these and tested one at home and the other at the office. Both of them work great for a few days, then start randomly dropping connections. Logs look like it rebooted though the front panel lights never did anything. It will continue like this, dropping connection and clearing logs every few minutes until you physically remove power from it. Plug it back in and you're good for another day or two - and repeat.

Overall Review: I installed the newest firmware and did factory reset before trying anything else.

Very good value from a great refurbishing firm.

HP C Grade Laptop EliteBook Intel Core i5-3210M 4GB Memory 320GB HDD 14.0" Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit 8470P
HP C Grade Laptop EliteBook Intel Core i5-3210M 4GB Memory 320GB HDD 14.0" Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit 8470P

Pros: The price was definitely right. The newest laptops around here are some old Core i3 that cost eight times this much when we bought them. These will get the job done for sure.

Cons: Some scratches and dents, but what do you expect when it's sold as "C Grade" - as long as everything works I don't really care what it looks like.

Overall Review: One of the three I bought had a non-working CD-ROM drive. I contacted the company (Joy Systems) and described the problem, they sent a replacement drive via FEDEX and it turned out to be a CDRW instead, bonus! They didn't even want me to send the broken one back.

Good value, but really, this is a Server?

Lenovo ThinkServer TS130 Tower Server System Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz 2C/4T 4GB No Hard Drive 1105B2U
Lenovo ThinkServer TS130 Tower Server System Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz 2C/4T 4GB No Hard Drive 1105B2U

Pros: OK. I admit that this is a good value for the price and could be a low-end entry level server for some non-critical task.

Cons: Good luck adding more than 3 hard drives, additional network connectivity or other options, the small MicroATX form factor severely limits your choices.

Overall Review: It's frustrating to see how a marketing department twists the meanings of words, in this case the word "Server." Lenovo calls this a Server. Most Newegg customers, especially those of us who build our own stuff, would call it a low-end Micro-ATX desktop computer. In my opinion, a true server has at least one, preferably all, of these features: ability to add more processors; raid controller supporting 4 or more front-accessible hotswap drives; multiple network connections with teaming; out-of-band management access; support ridiculous amounts of ECC memory; redundant power supply. Having none of these, sorry to burst your balloon but this is a desktop-class machine. Even better abuse of the language: take basically the same machine, slap in the cheapest current Nvidia Quadro card, Lenovo calls that a ThinkStation. Don't get me wrong, Lenovo makes fantastic product; you just need to be fully aware of what it is and what the limitations are, before believing the product name assigned by marketing executives.

Updating my previous review

SNT SNT-BPSS302ATL 2 x 5.25" Bay to 3 x 3.5" Hotswap SATA/SAS HDDs 6.0 Gbps Tray-Less backplane
SNT SNT-BPSS302ATL 2 x 5.25" Bay to 3 x 3.5" Hotswap SATA/SAS HDDs 6.0 Gbps Tray-Less backplane

Pros: Works great. Easy access to three drives without having to open your computer case or remove any screws.

Cons: none at all

Overall Review: In my prior review, I questioned whether this enclosure is truly hot-swap. After much additional research, I have learned that the Adaptec 1430SA HostRAID is NOT hot-swap capable, thus it was the cause of the problems I experienced. I replaced it with an Adaptec 3405 SAS RAID controller and hot-swap works perfectly. The 1430 is several levels below 'entry level' and the only safe way to swap drives with it is with the system powered off.

It's fast!

WD Se WD4000F9YZ 4TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Datacenter Capacity HDD Bare Drive
WD Se WD4000F9YZ 4TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Datacenter Capacity HDD Bare Drive

Pros: This is an incredibly fast and huge drive. If that's what you need, this is the one you want. It's designed for heavy usage in a server environment for RAID.

Cons: Gets a little warm.

Overall Review: The specs on this and the RE4 version (WD4000FYYZ) are identical except for one less zero on one of the failure estimates. I don't care about that, the warranty is the same and it's going in a RAID array. Well worth saving $120.

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I have bought from ANTonline several times. Always good experience.

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