Joined on 06/30/08
Flawless
Pros: Oh boy where to start with the pros, first of all I love the bios navigation of this bard allows me to navigate and get to the options I want fast for manual tweaking. Board runs nice and cool with a i5 that I've tested it with, high grade capacitors designed to stand even the test of time. The on board sound chip on this thing is phenomenal sound comes through crisp and clear. In the past I've always dismissed ASRock as a secondary and even a third choice for my purchases behind MSI and Gigabyte. But I must say with this Fatality edition ASRock had changed my mind to become perhaps my primary go to board in the future. Well done ASRock and thank you NewEgg.
Cons: Theres is not one single Con I can say about this board.
Overall Review: Ive always been an AMD sort of a guy root for the underdogs (-: so it took me sum time to used to the whole Intel thing. One thing that I dislike the most about these Intel Chip sets is that the Sockets where the CPU goes has the pins on the boards and not the CPU's. I can see ppl struggle with not bending the pins on these things as I have at one point.
S.O.S
Pros: Ive tested this little bugger on a few different platforms, 1st my desktop PC which runs Win 7 Ultimate, 2nd Toshiba laptop with Win 7ultimate, 3rd MacBookPro. Out of the 3 systems I've tested it on i found it to be most useful on the toshiba laptop. I also tested it on a Win 8 professional and Win 8.1 preview . It was significantly faster than an on board wireless which was Artheros wireless I believe. It's sturdy once you plug it in, it doesn't wiggle and it seems like its made out of pretty decent material.
Cons: I'd have to say its the lack of plug and play. From Win 7 to Win 8 and 8.1 to Mac.. The lack of plug and play really hurts this product in my opinion, other than that the product preformed admirably.
Overall Review: Make sure you read the instruction manual. On my Desktop PC I connect to the internet via a cable anyways so no points lost on that front. I generally dislike wireless as it is and this little thing failed to persuade me otherwise. All and all this is a decent wireless adapter and for the price, is not much different than cheaper versions. I tried it out on both my Macbook pro and desktop. For the macbook it was actually slower than the current adapter in my mac. On the desktop it outperformed my old one by a landslide. Then again it was a $10 so I was hoping it was going to be better. The only real complaints are the device does not feel like it is worth 60 dollars and it is not plug and play. Which isn’t to big of a deal but it sure makes thing easier.
I Love this product
Pros: Well first of all, I am connected through Quest's DSL VIA a telephone line. Which kind of sucks because I am over 2,000ft from the the main hub. So there's quite of bit of bandwidth loss by the time the signal actually reaches me. With this product, not only did my day to day web surfing speed increase by about 250kb it also lowered my ping to 5ms. Where before it was 9ms, so a substantial gain to ms which is important when it comes to online gaming.
Cons: No CONS from me.
Overall Review: I would Definitely recommend this product to anyone that uses a phone line as means of connecting to the internet. I only had two of these so I really couldn't tell you the real benefits of having it in a home network.
Tested
Pros: Wider Range Somewhat Descent price
Cons: Even tho it had a slightly wider range than stock Wifi's On the Speed side it wasn't all that noticeable than most stock's.
Overall Review: I tested it on several different laptops and a few different desktops and it worked great.Although I my self still prefer to be connected via a Ethernet cable on the main desktop that I personally use. The drivers are stable on Win 8.1, 8, 7 and XP, not once did I encounter even a slightest problem on any of the mentioned OS.
Its a WD
Pros: Where to begin Its a WD first of all and I have never had any problems with any of my WD purchases. From laptop drives to desktop drives to externals WD has always been my #1 choice... Anyways, I had some extensive time to test this puppy out, from having it in several different laptops to using it as an external drive this little drive fly's. It being a 1TB help a hole lot specially when converted to be used as an external, I currently use it as a backup to my backup's backup if that makes sense (-: I can install a Win 7 64 bit on this puppy in 7 min flat and Win 8.1 in less than 5min. Ive had a few ppl ask me if I wanted to sell them this drive and I told em flat out NOP. I said I can direct you to where they could purchase it and where else but NewEgg.com, So once they knew they always go NewEgg.
Cons: No Cons to speak of, I mean this drive has been dropped, as well as in external enclosure that was inadvertently dropped yet it still kept on chugging along (-:
Overall Review: Ive fixed quite a few laptops in my days and came across all sorts of drives. Never quite one like this my hats of to WD for designing such a elegant sturdy drive. Also I must thank the folks at Newegg's EggXpert Review Program for sending me this product, it has been a delight using it, testing it, as well as writing a review on it Thank You! I will recommend this product to all of my customers I do computer work for, as well as family and friends.
Awesome Router
Pros: This router rocks, I love being able to share all my media from a flash drive on all of my computers and mobile devices. From my gaming rig to my surfing the internet desktop back to my laptop than to my cell I had no problems with anything. Speed wise compared to my old netgear this thing eats it for lunch. I highly recommend this product to anyone.
Cons: Only con i have for this is the color, could of just left it white. No con really just personal taste.
Overall Review: I have taken this thing over my friends houses shared my media with them while thy shared amongst them selves. and everybody loved it. Kept asking me where I got it, I simply respond NewEgg baby now you know. (-: