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Chris V.

Chris V.

Joined on 01/10/06

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Most Favorable Review

finally

Linksys E4200 Maximum Performance Dual-Band N Router IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n, IEEE 802.3/3u/3ab
Linksys E4200 Maximum Performance Dual-Band N Router IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n, IEEE 802.3/3u/3ab

Pros: Highly configurable. Doesn't lock up. No antennae sticking out of the back and yet has better range than any router I tried that did.

Cons: The interface is barely changed from the 10-year old workhorse, the WRT-54G. It's a little low-tech. At the end of the day I guess it's not a big deal.

Overall Review: I have been using a D-Link Gamerlounge 4300 for like 6 years now. Fond memories even if I did have to reboot it once or twice a week. I decided to upgrade to Wireless N, so I tried the D-Link 4500... it locked up daily. I tried that Edimax junk that has the "best rating" on Newegg but it locked up HOURLY. This little powerhouse is the first one I haven't had to babysit. If I have to pay 3 figures for the pleasure then so be it.

10/29/2011
Most Critical Review

meh...

Brother HL Series HL-2040 Personal Up to 20 ppm Monochrome LPT / USB Laser Printer
Brother HL Series HL-2040 Personal Up to 20 ppm Monochrome LPT / USB Laser Printer

Pros: good print quality and speed

Cons: The paper tray has a little gear near the front. When you slide the tray in, the gear is supposed to mesh with a gear on the main chassis and lift up the paper so it can grab a piece, but sometimes when you slide in the drawer it won't mesh and it just makes a loud grinding noise and won't feed the paper. Sometimes I have to squeeze the front of the printer to get the gear to mesh.

Overall Review: Saved a few bucks over the Laserjet 1018 because of a special, and now the same special is on the 1018 so the prices are swapped. Joke's on me I guess

I don't understand

Edimax BR-6428n 802.11n/g/b Wireless Router up to 300 Mbps, with Intelligent iQoS feature for bandwith management over Media, P2P, WEB, Download, and Gaming, plus Green technology to save electricity
Edimax BR-6428n 802.11n/g/b Wireless Router up to 300 Mbps, with Intelligent iQoS feature for bandwith management over Media, P2P, WEB, Download, and Gaming, plus Green technology to save electricity

Pros: It's light, so when you throw it you won't really damage anything except the router itself.

Cons: Hard locks every 2 hours or so; the iQoS config page was not functioning; showed up with one of the antenna sockets loose, such that when you tightened the antenna it would spin the socket on the board.

Overall Review: I'm trying to replace a 5 year old D-Link 4200 so I can upgrade to Wireless N. So far I can't find a wireless router that is even acceptible. I don't understand how it's possible.

10/22/2011

Unuseable

D-Link DGL-4500 Gigabit Gaming Router 802.11a/b/g/n 2.4/5GHz Selectable Dual Band Xtreme N
D-Link DGL-4500 Gigabit Gaming Router 802.11a/b/g/n 2.4/5GHz Selectable Dual Band Xtreme N

Pros: At first it was very fast.

Cons: Hard locked multiple times a day. No DHCP, no config page, no wifi, no routing no how. Not in a hot location, not handling a large amount of traffic, no reason the performance should be this poor.

Overall Review: I got this to upgrade from the previous gen "Gamerfuel" router (4200?) because it was locking up once a day. Well I used the 4500 for a week and put the old one back, because locking up once a day was an improvement.

10/19/2011

Monster

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card GV-N570D5-13I-B
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card GV-N570D5-13I-B

Pros: This thing is a beast. I replaced a 8800GT and doubled the performance of my old Athlon 6400+. But it's not just performance, it renders beautifully too.

Cons: Like I said, this thing is a beast. I had to rearrange some hard drives and whatnot to get it to fit, I have a normal mid-tower case and it JUST fits length-wise. Also takes 2 power plugs. Luckily I didn't cheap out and got an SLI power supply last time.

Fantastic

SILVERSTONE Black Aluminum skin reinforced plastic front panel, 0.8mm SECC body MILO Series ML03B Micro ATX Media Center / HTPC Case
SILVERSTONE Black Aluminum skin reinforced plastic front panel, 0.8mm SECC body MILO Series ML03B Micro ATX Media Center / HTPC Case

Pros: Beautiful, and very high quality for the price. Fairly well designed as far as places to stash extra cable length.

Cons: The optical drive bay and the power supply are literally a half inch apart. Someone posted the stated power supply size in the comments and it helped me make the right choice.

Overall Review: Honestly it's not even as small as I thought it would be based on some of the other complaints, but the user comments kept me aware of the problems and I was well prepared with low-profile everything. Silverstone makes a modular power supply in the exact size necessary. it's called the Strider Plus. Check out Newegg item N82E16817256065.