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James D.

James D.

Joined on 01/04/05

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Most Favorable Review

Incredible

UBIQUITI - US UAP-AC-LITE-US UNIFI AP AC LITE
UBIQUITI - US UAP-AC-LITE-US UNIFI AP AC LITE

Pros: -Tiny (much smaller than typical AP) -Signal Strength -Blows away consumer WiFi -PoE -Comes with injector -Unifi Controller

Cons: -Only a 2x2 radio -Support is chat and forum based, in the rare occurrence you'd need support -Not standard 802.3af/at POE (yet!)

Overall Review: These are plain amazing. Before this lineup you used to have to spend $200+ for a unifi AC product (the square ones). My company has installed several of these and the AC Pro models. No issues whatsoever. High density environments, you should look at the AC pro or AC HD models.

Most Critical Review

The absolute worst ever!

Microsoft Office Home and Business 2013 Product Key Card - 1 PC
Microsoft Office Home and Business 2013 Product Key Card - 1 PC

Pros: Once it is installed correctly and activated, it might actually be a nice office suite.

Cons: The activation process is a nightmare, especially for oem system builders. If you don't have the files for installation you have to "stream" the install which can take hours. The mandatory MS account binding is for the birds.

Overall Review: I build computers on a daily basis for a small company and this generation of office has been torture to me and anyone who has to deal with it. At first we were using a local support account to activate the copies but then realized they were permanently attached to that account. Now we leave it unactivated and unbound and the customer feedback on activation has been horrible as well. Like I said in the Pro's section, this may be a good functioning office suite but the process to install and activate has really put a dent in my productivity as a system builder.

Best bang for buck 750w gold unit there is.

Super Flower Leadex III 750W 80+ Gold, Three-Way ECO Mode Fanless, Silent & Cooling Mode, FDB Fan, Full Modular Power Supply, Dual Over Power Protection, SF-750F14HG
Super Flower Leadex III 750W 80+ Gold, Three-Way ECO Mode Fanless, Silent & Cooling Mode, FDB Fan, Full Modular Power Supply, Dual Over Power Protection, SF-750F14HG

Overall Review: Excellent unit. Is reviewed well by many tech sites. Superflower is a leading OEM for EVGA, Rosewill and some others. Not much to say. It's powering a 5800X and RTX 3060Ti just fine.

Now Andyson OEM

Rosewill CAPSTONE Series, CAPSTONE-750-M, 750W Semi-Modular Power Supply, 80 PLUS GOLD Certified, Single +12V Rail, SLI & CrossFire Ready, Black
Rosewill CAPSTONE Series, CAPSTONE-750-M, 750W Semi-Modular Power Supply, 80 PLUS GOLD Certified, Single +12V Rail, SLI & CrossFire Ready, Black

Pros: Sub $50 for 750w Gold with decent specs

Cons: Ketchup and Mustard 24 pin and 8 pin cables. All the modular cables are solid black.

Overall Review: This unit is now made by Andyson (not superflower or enhance). It's based off the Andyson GX platform which has a favorable Vietnamese review. Peeking inside the chassis I see some polymer solid caps and some nippon chemi-con brand electrolytic's. Primary Cap is a Hitachi rated for 105c. Appears to be mostly quality components. 5 year warranty is nice. I'll probably only stress this thing to 50-60% tops with a single Vega56. I upgraded from a 500w Rosewill Valens that ran great as well. I know people like to go EVGA and Seasonic but I have had good luck with Rosewill PSU's.

11/28/2018

Good RAM so far but typical Bait and Switch tactics

CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model CMK16GX4M2B3200C16W
CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model CMK16GX4M2B3200C16W

Pros: -Good looking -Runs well @ 2933 on B350

Cons: -Listed on MSI website QVL for B350 boards as certified @ 3200MHz and listed as Samsung. Guess what, it's not Samsung, it's Hynix. Likely why I'm stuck @ 2933 for now.

Overall Review: -Picked this stuff up as it seemed to be a popular option for Ryzen boards. I have nothing to complain about running near 3000MHz since some folks are still stuck @ 2400 and lower but I bought this under the impression that it was Samsung chips and to my surprise, it's Hynix. Hopefully it will still run @ 3200 some day with a BIOS/AMD micro-code update. This part number CMK16GX4M2B3200C16W at some point did have Samsung chips. Just the usual bait and switch tactics of the tech industry.

So far so good

Rosewill Valens Series 500W Gaming Power Supply, 80 PLUS Gold Certified, Single +12V Rail, Intel 4th Gen CPU Ready, SLI & Crossfire Ready - Valens-500
Rosewill Valens Series 500W Gaming Power Supply, 80 PLUS Gold Certified, Single +12V Rail, Intel 4th Gen CPU Ready, SLI & Crossfire Ready - Valens-500

Pros: Good basic 500w 80+ gold unit

Cons: Not modular No professional reviews on unit so quality and performance are unknown OEM is ATNG however.

Overall Review: Bought two of these when they were $30 (maybe a price error?) Thank you newegg for honoring the price. Running a Ryzen 1600 and RX470 system no issues. Sold the other to a friend who is also running it no issues.