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Nicholas L.

Nicholas L.

Joined on 05/02/05

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Most Favorable Review

Best. Case. Ever.

Antec Twelve Hundred V3 Black Steel ATX Full Tower Unbeatable Gaming Case
Antec Twelve Hundred V3 Black Steel ATX Full Tower Unbeatable Gaming Case

Pros: The airflow in this case is awesome. Actually awesome is an understatement. Probably one of the best airflow cases out there. Plus you have tons of room. There's a place on the backside where you can run your cables behind the motherboard. Tons of room for adding hard drives and other devices that fit in a 5.25 or 3.5 bay. It's very customizable and looks pretty sweet.

Cons: Lots of the parts inside can only be replaced by going through antec. If you mess up your left side panel trying to install a window then you are going to go through hell to try to get a replacement. I ended up playing like $50 for a side panel that took me over a month to find...

Overall Review: Treat it well and it will treat you well in return. Mutilate the side panel and you will pay dearly.

Most Critical Review
Seagate Expansion 3TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive
Seagate Expansion 3TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive

Pros: 3 TB and USB 3.0. Except for one issue (see cons) it's a pretty high quality external HDD.

Cons: No power button/switch. It shuts off with inactivity then you have to unplug it and plug it back in to make it turn back on. It comes with software that addresses this issue but I didn't install because I don't like unnecessary software. External HDDs should be plug and play (no required software) imo.

Overall Review: If I could do it over I would not buy this because the power switch thing really annoys me.

UEFI is incredibly restrictive

SAPPHIRE Radeon R9 290X 8GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100361-8GL
SAPPHIRE Radeon R9 290X 8GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100361-8GL

Pros: This card is unusable for me.

Cons: If you only run windows 8 then my complaint won't affect you much AT THIS POINT IN TIME. However, if you like to run other operating systems such as Linux (SteamOS is Linux by the way) then having UEFI in your graphics card is going to mess your world up. There is no benefit from having a UEFI graphics card. Zero. None. It will not give you any extra fps. Wel there is one benefitl.... and it's only if you are Microsoft and you are paying companies to make hardware that only works with WINDOWS!!! Please do not contribute to Microsoft's attempt to kill off the small community maintained operating systems like Linux.

It's pretty slow but I didn't buy it for speed reasons

LaCie MosKeyto 131174 32 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive
LaCie MosKeyto 131174 32 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive

Pros: It's really small and it holds a lot of a data. From what I've heard it's more reliable than other usb drivers of similar size from other manufacturers. So far I'm inclined to believe what I've heard.

Cons: It's slow but it is usb 2.0 so what do you expect? If you want something fast go buy a usb 3.0 drive. If you want a tiny usb drive that holds a lot of data then this is probably what you want.

Overall Review: I would buy this product again if I needed another small usb that holds 32 GB.

It works even though there is a missing driver...

HighPoint RU1144A (RocketU 1144A) PCI-Express 2.0 x4 USB 3.0 Controller Card
HighPoint RU1144A (RocketU 1144A) PCI-Express 2.0 x4 USB 3.0 Controller Card

Pros: It works and it's fast.

Cons: There's a missing driver for the PLX PEX 8609. I can't find the driver anywhere and high point offers no support.

Pretty sweet

C2G 30501 FlexUSB USB 2.0 A Male to A Female Adapter - Black
C2G 30501 FlexUSB USB 2.0 A Male to A Female Adapter - Black

Pros: It does exactly what you expect it to without any problems.

Cons: I don't like the stickers with the companies logo on there but it's a pain to pull them off.