Joined on 11/23/08
They work
Pros: Refurb drives that work. Ive bought 3 totall, they all work after a month. Ive never bought refurb in the past so I dont know what to expect in the long run. The drives came very clean and packaged professionally. If it was not for the smart history (which was mostly reset) you could sell these as new for double the price and people would not know the difference
Cons: loud drives, but most HGST drives are.. its not because they are refurbs. They are known for being loud and reliable. Do not put these drives into a mission critical situation. They are refurbs and you should expect the worst.
Overall Review: HGST's reputation is the only reason I was willing to buy refurb drives. They are known for lasting the longest in tough conditions. Refurb does not mean that they were broken in the past, they might have been pulled out of production too. The way I look at it, if I am going to buy a refurbished hard drive (which is not a good idea to begin with) I mine as well buy the drives that are statistically the most reliable. Forget buying seagate refurb drives.
These work great when they stay together
Pros: For the price they work very well Fan design is nice and sturdy The cooler is not too big making it ideal for smaller systems that do not overclock but have hot chips
Cons: plastic quality
Overall Review: I have a different heatsink by the same company that had its plastic snap when I was changing CPUs. The cooler was working fantastic before this happened. I decided to buy a bigger cooler by the same company because of how well the previous one was working. Today I got the cooler and in order to install it on an AMD system I had to remove the fan in order to install the bracket to the cooler. When installing the fan, the shroud snapped right where it clips onto the heatsink. This is DAY ONE and its broken. I have some nice glue holding it together right now and it is working fine on my AMD A8 APU @ 4.4ghz. I like the coolers this company puts out but both of mine have had the plastic SNAP without much force. They need to do some serious work on them. They claim they have a 6 year warranty but their site says to go through the distributor. I did not feel like having newegg replace both coolers for a design issue. I broke the cooler and that is not newegg's fault but the company should step up and help me out. So if you are buying one of these coolers, be very careful. They work very well but the plastic is week when you are removing and installing it.
Solid after several years
Pros: Been using this PSU in a home server build for several years. It reduced my servers idle power consumption from 65 to 40 watts without ANY other hardware changes (lower wattage + gold rating). Cables plenty long for any system that only needs less than 400 watts. Quiet fan and its a standard size making replacing it (if you feel like it) very easy.
Cons: No modular option for the 360 watt version.
Overall Review: This was my first seasonic purchase. I have been using their power supplies ever sense. Their reputation is so top notch that other top of the line brands use seasonic as an oem. If you want a solid unit, go with a seasonic.
$17 is too much
Pros: I use these fans, not as good as noctua but not nearly bad enough to warrant paying extra for noctua/ I bought 3 of these for $10 each on sale. Thats is the price they should sell for. At $17 you should just pay a little more for noctua. They blow a good amount of air without making a lot of noise. You can actually feel the air moving without hearing the noise. Most fans cant do that.
Cons: Sometimes makes a little bearing noise if mounted funny. No big deal.
Overall Review: Phanteks makes good stuff, just think that $17+ is too much for these fans. $15 would be fair, but they do go on sale for $10 at times.
They work
Pros: Ive purchased a total of 4 of these from this exact seller and they all work fine.
Cons: They are probably refurb drives.
They work
Pros: Gskill ram always works for me. Ive had one bad module in the past 6-8 years that I have been buying their ram and they took care of it quickly. The Ares sticks were paired with some rip jaw ram that I also have. Usually a big no no. It did not work at first but after some uefi tweaks it started working fine. Usually a huge no no but not a big deal right now. The cost for a 16GB kit has dropped dramatically. I remember having to pay $150 for 16GB not that long ago. Low profile heatsink
Cons: If you want to be picky, you can google the difference between ripjaw and ares and see that they apparently use different components to build these sticks. I didnt dig too deep. I trust Gskill.
Overall Review: Newegg shipping was fast as usual.