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Anthony G.

Anthony G.

Joined on 01/29/04

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Fantastic, silent low profile cooler

SILVERSTONE NT07-1156 90mm CPU Cooler
SILVERSTONE NT07-1156 90mm CPU Cooler

Pros: - Completely silent on low setting (not sure why you'd ever use high?) - Copper core / overall thing feels very solid - Moves a lot more air/keeps CPU cooler than stock Intel fan

Cons: - If I had to nitpick on something - the pushpins don't have that sweet spot "click" that you hear with stock Intel fan. That doesn't really make the installation any harder just something I noticed.

Overall Review: This little fan is amazing. I have H55N-USB3 Core I3 with Thermaltake Element Q Case so naturally I was limited in my CPU fan selection - anything higher than Intel stock fan wouldn't fit. Also anything wider or longer also wouldn't fit. On the other hand Intel's stock fan was way too loud - not great for an HTPC. I've considered a number of slim fans including Scythe Shuriken, Thermaltake Slim X3(who I had good luck with before), and Dynatron K2. Was a bit worried with this one being able to move enough air on low. As soon as I installed this thing fears went away - watching any MKV file or playing a Bluray disk CPU has yet to get above 40C - and this is in a Mini ATX case with very limited airflow. This product exceeded my expectations by a wide margin.

11/11/2010
Most Critical Review

terrible quality

Konnet Charge & Sync Cables For iPhone / iPod KN-8251
Konnet Charge & Sync Cables For iPhone / iPod KN-8251

Pros: One black, one white - I guess it looks nicer for charging IPhone than standard white cable.

Cons: terrible build quality for the price

Overall Review: These cables are some of the most expensive IPod/IPhone USB cables out there. I purchased it from newegg with expectation that they'd at least be durable. Big mistake. After a week of use the IPhone connector jack chassis on the black cable came apart - literally. It still works, just in disassembled fashion with wires sticking out. In 8 years of using various IPod cables, I've never seen anything like it. This cable seems to be the IPhone equivalent of Monster cables. Stay away.

Great hardware RAID for the price

ORICO Aluminum 5 Bay USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Enclosure Support 80TB for 2.5/3.5 inch HDD SSD Multi-Bay Hard Drive Case for Enterprise Data Storage Built-in 150W Power No Raid
ORICO Aluminum 5 Bay USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Enclosure Support 80TB for 2.5/3.5 inch HDD SSD Multi-Bay Hard Drive Case for Enterprise Data Storage Built-in 150W Power No Raid

Pros: - Screwless/toolless disk installation, comes very handy during hot swapping - Easy to setup - Sleep/park function is extremely useful -

Cons: - Fan is very loud. If you use this as your primary storage bay I'd consider replacing it - Software download from their website is very very slow.

Overall Review: I love this product for the price. I bought this to have cheap backup for my Synology 1512+ and it performs admirably for this function. It's basically a no-thrills hardware RAID / JBOD and it does the job. Fan is extremely loud but since this enclosure is only ON once a week (during scheduled backups) it stays in hibernation most of the time with hard drives in parked mode. Honestly for $159 I don't think anyone can complain.

12/17/2017

Not very quiet

Vantec Stealth 60mm Double Ball Bearing Silent Case Fan - Model SF6025L
Vantec Stealth 60mm Double Ball Bearing Silent Case Fan - Model SF6025L

Pros: - Fairly cheap - Adapter for MOLEX is appreciated - Good packaging

Cons: - Very loud

Overall Review: I bought this hoping that it'd be a little on the quiet side, while it's quite the opposite. It's much louder than even my Core I3 CPU fan. If you are looking for quiet, look elsewhere.

Style over function

Logitech diNovo Edge 2-Tone 84 Normal Keys 9 Function Keys Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard
Logitech diNovo Edge 2-Tone 84 Normal Keys 9 Function Keys Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard

Pros: - Looks Fantastic - Rechargeable - Volume control is very handy

Cons: - Very big (a lot of space is wasted by borders) - Very poor build quality (see below) - Touchpad feels like afterthought, doesn't work too well.

Overall Review: I purchased this for use with my HTPC, this thing never saw much serious use. I.e. occasional click on the file here and there, and typing a web address every now and then. Yet after a year and a half it's already falling apart. Spacebar started getting stuck so I took it apart - it appears the plastic assembly inside the spacebar became damaged. The same is true for a few keys other keys. Touchpad on this keyboard is one of the worst I've ever used. While owning this product it was a constant struggle to use. It's not multi touch so it doesn't support any types of gestures. That leaves the border for scrolling purposes - a job that a circular border doesn't perform very well. In most cases scrolling is too much of a hassle.

OK product but very unstable.

Media Center Programmable LCD
Media Center Programmable LCD

Pros: Fairly cheap for this time of item. Bright.

Cons: - Caused randoom reboots on my PC - The display is hard to read due to small letters and contrast issues

Overall Review: Since I installed this item into my PC I started experienced fairly frequent and unexplainable reboots. I first wasn't sure what was going on. I suspected everything from power supply unit to video card. It just never occured to me a monitoring appliance can wreck so much havok. Then the other day I unplugged this LCD in an act of desperation and reboots have stopped. I had the latest drivers for this so I'm not enirely sure what the deal was - the PC just bounced with no errors in Vista (I don't have reboot on errors option check in System Settings)