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Timothy H.

Timothy H.

Joined on 10/10/03

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Most Favorable Review

Not like the picture

LOGISYS FP521 All-in-one USB 2.0 Internal Card Reader
LOGISYS FP521 All-in-one USB 2.0 Internal Card Reader

Pros: Doesn't need any drivers to work under Windows XP or Vista. Good thing since no driver CD comes with the box even though the instructions mention it.

Cons: It's kind of hard to plug in a USB device to it. My USB key seems to get stuck on something requiring a bit of force for me to get it in. The power LED is always on, but I have a drive door to hide this.

Overall Review: The reader I got was NOTHING like the picture. For starters the USB port is situated vertically, not horizontally. The Logisys logo is nowhere to be seen on it -- not like I really care though. It actually looks more like the Rosewill product pictured here, and if it didn't come in a Logisys box I would've thought that's what I had. The USB connection for your mobo is not one plug, but 4! You've got 2 plugs that each have 3 pins for your power and positive and negative USB data. You also have 2 plugs with 1 pin each for your ground. Check your mobo manual to get your pins right! In case you don't have it the VCC label on the plugs is your power and goes with pins 1 and 2 on your USB headers, which are the furthest pins on the left. The ground plugs go next to the others, i.e. pins 7 and 8; only one of these pins has a pin to its right.

Most Critical Review

Let the buyer beware

Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300 16GB Unlocked Android GSM Smart Phone with S Voice / Smart Stay / Direct Call 4.8" Black
Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300 16GB Unlocked Android GSM Smart Phone with S Voice / Smart Stay / Direct Call 4.8" Black

Pros: Not going to bother here, other people have mentioned them. Yes, it is a good phone, when it's working. Read the cons.

Cons: Like many other people here I bought this phone on Newegg last year thinking I'd get a good deal. Approximately 9 months after owning it I got hit by the sudden death syndrome. Phone restarts on its own with increasing frequency, eventually it would freeze, and then freeze so long I had to remove the battery. I've sent my phone in twice for repairs and each time all they did was reflash it which is what I could've done myself. I was without the phone for a month the first time and two months the second time. Trust the many negative reviews about this phone and do not buy the I9300. If you do have it there is an app called Dummy File Generator that may help you. The theory on the freezes is a bad flash chip is written to which causes the phone to freeze. Once written to the state of the chip changes so it's less likely to freeze in the future. The Dummy File Generator app just writes as much of your memory is free to force these freezes to happen rather than it being random when you don't expect it. Note, even though I used this app I still had the freezes hence me sending it in the second time.

Overall Review: Now that carriers are letting you buy unlocked phones directly from them, go that route. At least you'll have a physical store to go to if anything goes haywire.

Excellent phone and seller

ASUS ROG Phone 5s Pro ZS676KS (GSM ONLY NO CDMA) unlocked including cooler fan | 18 GB/512 GB | Phantom Black
ASUS ROG Phone 5s Pro ZS676KS (GSM ONLY NO CDMA) unlocked including cooler fan | 18 GB/512 GB | Phantom Black

Pros: - Huge screen! Looks better than my Galaxy S9 too in terms of the actual display. You can set the 144Hz display to adaptive so it's better with battery, but yes, it looks very responsive when scrolling. It's hard to look at the screens of other phones now. - Excellent battery and battery management. I keep my phones between 3-4 years and usually have to get the battery replaced after year 2 so I've gotten conscious about battery longevity so I'm glad there's built-in software to limit the charge to 90% of the battery, and also other features to help battery health. Plus it supports 65 watt charging. I literally went from 19% to 48% in 5 minutes, or somewhere around that timeframe, really not much time at all. - Air triggers. I honestly don't even game that much to really need this phone, I just like having the best in case I need it. But these triggers have a neat function in regular use that you can set actions for the lower button on a long press or short. I have mine set to turn the flashlight on with a long press and open the camera with a short one. It's kind of neat to get a flashlight just by squeezing my phone, haha. This works even if the screen is off so it's always available. - Back screen. Honestly, who needs this, but who wouldn't want to have it! - AeroCooler. This thing actually works to keep my phone cooler when gaming. I do game, but just casual games. Nevertheless, I play long enough that normally I can feel the heat from the phone, even this one. But the cooler legitimately helps keep it cooler in my hands. It's not too loud either but you can hear the slight whir of the fan. If I had gotten the non-Pro version and knew the fan was this good I would've bought it. Plus it has a kickstand so you could use it to watch videos!

Cons: - I really can't think of any. Like I mentioned in the pros I keep my phones for a long time and only upgrade when I think I've found something better. So buying this says a lot to me. The phone is big so it's not as pocket friendly as a smaller phone, but you know that before buying so not really a con.

Overall Review: I have to give a shout-out to the seller. I was a bit nervous buying something from Taiwan but they indicated on the page it gets delivered between 1-2 weeks. I ordered on Saturday, they shipped Monday their time, it got in the U.S. Monday my time (timezone differences), cleared customs the next day with no extra fee needed, and I had the phone in my hands on Wednesday! I couldn't believe the shipping experience, it was exactly what I would expect from a seller here in the country. 5 stars here. The phone came with a U.S. style plug too so it worked without issue, I did send a message asking about this before I bought it. As to the phone. I saw a lot of mixed reviews for the regular 5, not 5s version, with people saying it wouldn't connect to their network or had bad speeds. Again, I verified the bands with my carrier T-Mobile and the phone looked compatible. Well, 5G works! This is my first 5G phone so I don't have a lot of experience with it, and I've gotten spotty speeds but I have gotten 33Mbps download which is faster than what I've gotten with 4G LTE on my Galaxy S9. All in all I have absolutely zero regrets in buying this phone from this seller. I had to change the initial language when i set the phone up to be English, but other than that it's behaved like I would expect. Google Play store is there, no Tencent games, nothing about this phone feels off from if I had bought it here in the U.S. If you're considering buying this phone, do it!

Quiet drive

Western Digital WD Green WD5000AADS 500GB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital WD Green WD5000AADS 500GB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: This drive is much quieter than I expected. I have rubber grommets on my hard drive cages but despite this I can still hear my old Seagate 120 GB when it's accessing data, not so with this drive. Not that I can really tell that much but I like that it consumes less power than other drives in Western Digital's lineup. Their spec sheets indicate this drive reads at 110 MB/s, about 3 - 16 MB/s less than other drives, but (surprisingly) faster than a few WD Blacks by 4 MB/s. Day to day though I don't do enough high capacity transfers to get anywhere near 110 MB/s, so the lower consumption won me over.

Cons: None