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Stephan R.

Stephan R.

Joined on 03/09/04

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Most Favorable Review

Not Entirely As Pictured

Intel 622AN.HMWWB Wireless Adapter 6200 Centrino Advanced-N Mini PCI Express Up to 300Mbps Wireless Data Rates
Intel 622AN.HMWWB Wireless Adapter 6200 Centrino Advanced-N Mini PCI Express Up to 300Mbps Wireless Data Rates

Pros: Extremely easy to install.

Cons: Just came in plastic "blister" pack. No driver disk or hold down screw. Needed network connection to install driver. Not a major deal.

Overall Review: Antennas would be a nice addition

Most Critical Review

Good Card... when it's working

Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe - Quad-tuner Card for Watching Digital Cable TV on the PC, PCI-Express x1 Interface
Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe - Quad-tuner Card for Watching Digital Cable TV on the PC, PCI-Express x1 Interface

Pros: Record 4 HD channels at once. Reasonable support. Ability to put more than one card in a PC for even more channels.

Cons: The unit gets warm, almost reaches Ceton's maximum recommended temp of 65C. You may need to look into external cooling. Random issues with tuners disappearing (possible card resetting) while watching TV. All of the sudden it will stop playback and blue screen (NOT BSOD) saying "viewing or listening conflict." Any recordings are immediately stopped and in a couple minutes the card begins working again. Had a problems with the card and had to RMA the cards 2 times so far. The first time the card would not get carrier lock and the second time the small coax connection broke.

Excellent

Archgon USB 3.0 Slot-loading Aluminum External Blu-ray Burner Model MD-3102G-U3BDRW w/Cyberlink BD Solution
Archgon USB 3.0 Slot-loading Aluminum External Blu-ray Burner Model MD-3102G-U3BDRW w/Cyberlink BD Solution

Pros: USB 3, Blu-Ray reader and writer, DVD reader and writer, bundled media software to watch movies. Unit feels solidly built.

Cons: Some laptops may require 2 usb ports for extra power.

Overall Review: I purchased this unit to be able to watch movies while traveling and it completely works as expected. I have yet to burn any discs using this product.

Avoid

Ceton InfiniTV 6 ETH – Six-Tuner CableCARD Ethernet Network Tuner for Win7 and Win8 PC 5504-DCT06EX-ETH
Ceton InfiniTV 6 ETH – Six-Tuner CableCARD Ethernet Network Tuner for Win7 and Win8 PC 5504-DCT06EX-ETH

Pros: 6 tuners in external enclosure, gigabit ethernet

Cons: No DLNA support. Constant problems "Service Unavailable", "Subscription Required" and "Tuner or Viewing Conflict" errors. About 5 to 20 seconds to change the channel.

Overall Review: I spent over 6 months fighting with the aforementioned error messages. I have opened may support tickets and played musical firmwares. It feels as though I payed a significant amount of money to beta test this product. This product was not worth the purchase price, it has cost me so much more in time troubleshooting the problems that eventually they blamed on the cable card. I swiftly got rid of this tuner but kept the cable card and it is running like a champ.

Stay Away!

Team Xtreem DARK 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TXDD1024M1066HC5DC-D
Team Xtreem DARK 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TXDD1024M1066HC5DC-D

Pros: Its cheap.

Cons: The ram is sold as 1066 but the SPD is programmed for 800. This ram is to be overclocked to run at 1066 not to run natively at 1066. Quote from a super moderator in their forums, "Base on compatibility issue. We usually write in the SPD of JEDEC standard content.Therefore, It always showed 5-5-5-16 unless manually setting in BIOS."