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Shawn B.

Shawn B.

Joined on 02/15/04

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Most Favorable Review

Give me more ^_^

BIOSTAR TForce TF8200 A2+ AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
BIOSTAR TForce TF8200 A2+ AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Well, I don't know where to start. The overclocking ability is wonderful and the way it protects itself is great. I read all the specs and thought I would have to see but it really does what it says. Its quiet and cool. I am overclocking on the v8 option with my 2.4 amdx2 and getting 2.77 and the sys is only goes to about 34°c with the rosewill case. Before i go any higher i would feel safer getting another casefan.

Cons: The graphics card is a good card but not a gaming card. It is 512m but will not max out games like Oblivion.

Most Critical Review

Good starter Tab for my six yearold

Taipad 7D 7" Tablet - Cortex A9, 800x480 Capacitive, Android 4.1, Multi-Touch, Build-in 4GB, 0.3M Camera (White)
Taipad 7D 7" Tablet - Cortex A9, 800x480 Capacitive, Android 4.1, Multi-Touch, Build-in 4GB, 0.3M Camera (White)

Pros: Price - 60 bucks is pretty good for a starter tab

Cons: There is just something odd about the backlight. I kinda hurts my eyes. Reminds me of a mix of an old style backlight with a security screen. With the gig of free disk space it fills up pretty fast even moving installs to sdcard. With it filling up fast it bogs and gets slow. I did run a 720 movie that worked well only from sdcard. If streaming it kinda stops for a while to buffer. The charger is like a longer version of my Android phone charger but my android charger is too short to fit in plug.

Overall Review: I am a little disappointed with the tablet but like I said...its for my 6 year old son. He is only going to be using it for games and movies.

12/22/2013

Awsome Processor

AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition - Phenom II X2 Callisto Dual-Core 3.1 GHz Socket AM3 80W None Integrated Graphics Processor - HDZ550WFGIBOX
AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition - Phenom II X2 Callisto Dual-Core 3.1 GHz Socket AM3 80W None Integrated Graphics Processor - HDZ550WFGIBOX

Pros: I was lucky...I was able to unlock all four cores right out of box and stable.

Cons: I have an after market cooler that I had from the processor before I switched to this one which seems to need more cooling than the original phenom2x4. 5 case fans and an after market cpu fan and heatsink and still gets to 70c with prime. Though I don't use any programs on a daily basis that causes the temp to go above 60c the heating doesn't bother me too much as long as I don't need to test with prime which still costed it an egg.

Overall Review: With heating a problem I will not be overclocking this beyond the 3.1ghz until I find a worthy cooler. The processor has a pretty good speed by its self just with all four cores unlocked. Windows rates it a 7.3.

Good Card

MSI GeForce GTX 260 896MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card N260GTX-T2D896-OCv2
MSI GeForce GTX 260 896MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card N260GTX-T2D896-OCv2

Pros: Runs Crysis on full with no bogs.

Cons: Its been 3 years and been working fine until a week ago when i started getting glitches and lockups. Contacted MSI and they told me that the card was going out to send it in for repair since it was on the final year of the warranty which is only $45 +shipping. SLI Support has been discontinued in the windows operating system Also, this is a massive card in size. If you are running a highend computer with air only cooling i would find a smaller card. This card stretches from the back to actually rubbing against the harddrive bays. Heat....with most amd processors they have a temp max of 70c and this card dumps the hot air into the case rather then intake from outside and dumping to outside. I have 6 fans venting my board and am running around 60c when playing. Thats not much leeway. Also cannot update the drivers with out getting conflicts

Overall Review: Overall....I am disappointed in this card in size, cost, and sli ability.

Great Card

MSI GeForce GTX 260 896MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card N260GTX-T2D896-OCv2
MSI GeForce GTX 260 896MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card N260GTX-T2D896-OCv2

Pros: I have this running hybrid sli with my geforce 8200 and it runs Crysis fully maxed and running smoothly. For those that play Guildwars, I had the fps at 300 ^_^

Cons: Running Crysis at 70-75c until i installed EVGA Precision tool and cranked the fan to 75% now it runs at 60c with Crysis. As everyone says this thing is the size of a tank. I have a full sized tower with all the harddrive slots full and had to move 2 to where the floppy bays are. I cant say when i bought this is was a good price. I bought this card here and the day it got to my house it dropped by 40 and still has the rebate.

Overall Review: I would recommend this to anyone just make sure your case will work and the case temp is low. I have 5 case fans in mine so the mobo runs at 28c idle and is not a prob.