Charles K.
Joined on 02/02/05
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Great Product but DDR3 Compatibility Misleads Consumers

Pros: Stable, overclocks well, low price.
Cons: The board technically supports 1.5v DDR3 RAM, but Intel has stated that you can and will permanently damage the internal memory controller on the Skylake chip if you use RAM at that voltage. If your intention was to buy this board and reuse the existing DDR3 RAM from your previous build, you should consider buying DDR3L RAM or just taking the plunge and going for DDR4.
Good But With Flaws

Pros: Backlighting is subtle and awesome looking. Brown switches feel nice to type on. Overall, feels like a quality keyboard and built well.
Cons: 1) I'm very reliant on the function keys of my keyboard. While this has them, they placed poorly along F1-F7, while the Fn key is all the way on the right hand side of the keyboard. This layout forces you to hold Fn with your right hand and to hit the function key of your choice with your left hand. The previous keyboard I came from had the commonly used media keys on F9-F12, allowing you to hold the function key with your thumb and to easily press the media keys with your index finger. 2) The numlock/caplock/scroll lock lights are incredibly bright if you're looking straight down at the keyboard. If you're reclined back in a chair and viewing the keyboard from an angle then it's not a problem, but for anyone sitting with proper posture looking straight down, you're in for a blinding experience. 3) I also find my pinky rubbing against the corner of the Left Control key and find it to be pretty frustrating and uncomfortable. I'm going to need to force myself to key my idle pinky someplace else.
Amazing Vacuum

Pros: Picks up things my last didn't, brush shuts itself off if something gets caught in it...which is very good for me since I have a cheap carpet where strands sometimes get pulled up. Shark could get away with selling this for over $400, that's how good it is. Cup is extremely easy to empty out without making a mess all over.
Cons: Somewhat small cup, but even in my house where I have 5 cats and a dog, I can do two rooms before needing to empty it.
Overall Review: I am a 27 year old guy who bought this as a Mother's Day gift, men are supposed to get excited over sports...not vacuums, but I can't help it with such a great item.
Amazing Quality

Pros: I honestly hadn't heard of mechanical keyboards until about a week ago. I've used them when I was a kid in the 80's, but I didn't understand anything about keyboards then. I started reading up on them and was intrigued. My main problem while deciding what to buy was whether I wanted the silent or original model. I personally like the clicking of the original, but my boyfriend sleeps over at night and will be on my PC while I try and sleep. Therefore I chose the quieter of the two. This "Silent" keyboard is not silent at all. It's not loud by any means, but it sounds more or less like a regular rubber dome keyboard. The feel and quality of the keyboard is impressive. Its fairly dense and heavy considering it's rather small. I came close to getting the Black Widow mechanical keyboard, I liked the backlighting and the function keys, but I read too many reviews of keys cracking after a fairly short time.
Cons: The only possible con I can think of is the finish of the frame. It's like a black piano finish, and will most definitely attract dust, animal hair and smudges along with any finger prints. It isn't terrible looking, but unless you wipe it down after every day it won't keep that shiny new look like when you pull it out of the box. I wanted to deduct half an egg for this but that's not possible, and I think the keyboard overall deserves to round up rather than down.
Overall Review: When I told my friends what I spent on this on the day I ordered it, they all thought I was crazy and that this was a complete waste of money. Every single one of them after using it themselves immediately understood why this was worth every penny. It's a beautiful keyboard, it's a pleasure to type on. The only downside is I'll have to buy one to use at work, because once you get used to typing on a mechanical keyboard you'll hate to use conventional rubber dome ones.
Works Great as a PC Monitor

Pros: I don't normally take the time to write reviews but someone else who wrote one claimed that using a DVI to HDMI cable would not allow you to use 1920x1080 resolution with your PC. That particular user must be doing something wrong because it works perfectly fine for me. All I had to do was hit the RATIO button a couple times to change the aspect ratio and it was fine. It's a great screen for a great price. I've own bigger TV's that I attempted to use as PC monitors and I find that 42" is really as high as you can go before 1920x1080 starts to look somewhat stretched and pixellated.
Cons: I personally could have made use of 1 more HDMI input, but 4 is really great and it's not worth complaining about.
Great Laptop, Misinformed Reviewers

Pros: This laptop is reasonably priced for what it is capable of doing. All of the latest games run at least on medium settings very smoothly, Starcraft II runs perfectly fine with most settings on High.
Cons: There is a minor amount of bloatware but it can be dealt with fairly easily.
Overall Review: I would appreciate if users would stop rating their tech knowledge as high when they really have no idea what they're talking about. Allow me to quote from wikipedia in regards to what a dedicated GPU is. "A dedicated GPU is not necessarily removable, nor does it necessarily interface with the motherboard in a standard fashion. The term "dedicated" refers to the fact that dedicated graphics cards have RAM that is dedicated to the card's use, not to the fact that most dedicated GPUs are removable. Dedicated GPUs for portable computers are most commonly interfaced through a non-standard and often proprietary slot due to size and weight constraints. Such ports may still be considered PCIe or AGP in terms of their logical host interface, even if they are not physically interchangeable with their counterparts." The 320M in this laptop is most definitely a dedicated card, there is no false advertising on NewEgg's or Asus's part at all. Please do your research when making a purchase.
