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Timothy W.

Timothy W.

Joined on 01/21/10

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Most Favorable Review

Solid and attractive case

Corsair Carbide Series 400R Graphite Grey and Black ATX Mid Tower Gaming Case
Corsair Carbide Series 400R Graphite Grey and Black ATX Mid Tower Gaming Case

Pros: Spacious case with excellent cable management. Plenty of hard drive bays and 5.25" bays, 8x120mm fan vents. Solid construction, aesthetically pleasing.

Cons: 1 of the 2 USB3 ports non-functioning, same with the headphone jack. Minus an egg for those inconviences.

Overall Review: Can't say enough good things about the cable management.

Most Critical Review

Received defective

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card 03G-P4-3661-KR
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card 03G-P4-3661-KR

Pros: Attractive hardware, fan works.

Cons: I purchased a second one of the cards for SLI (my previous glowing review located below still applies for the 1st card) yet when I received my new card, it was defective. After detecting no increase in performance after installing the second card (yes, properly) I removed the original to test the new one stand-alone. The PC booted, however the screen was all green and garbled, and at a very wrong resolution. It was bad, but I was able to still able to navigate to the nvidia website to (re)download the most up to date drivers to cover my bases. This was futile and resulted in no improvement.

Overall Review: I'm out the return shipping cost, and based how long my past RMAs have taken I'll probably miss the mail-in-rebate window. Looks as if the money I saved buying the card on sale will be lost. The real kick in the pants are the quality control stickers on the box. -_- Still very satisfied with my original card.

Great RAM

CORSAIR Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Low Profile Desktop Memory Model CML8GX3M2A1600C9
CORSAIR Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Low Profile Desktop Memory Model CML8GX3M2A1600C9

Pros: Functions as it should. The low profile allows me to utilize all 4 RAM slots (ordered 2 sets).

Cons: None at this time.

Overall Review: Owned for about 4 months.

Nice Processor

Intel Core i5-3350P - Core i5 3rd Gen Ivy Bridge Quad-Core 3.1GHz (3.3GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 69W Desktop Processor - BX80637i53350P
Intel Core i5-3350P - Core i5 3rd Gen Ivy Bridge Quad-Core 3.1GHz (3.3GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 69W Desktop Processor - BX80637i53350P

Pros: Fast, cheap, mine idles at about 33C.

Cons: None at this time

Overall Review: No on-board graphics for those who are unaware. Owned for about 4 months

It is what it is

LITE-ON DVD Burner - Bulk 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS124-04
LITE-ON DVD Burner - Bulk 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS124-04

Pros: It does what it is supposed to do, nothing more, nothing less.

Cons: As noisy as any other CD/DVD optical drive.

Overall Review: Owned about 4 months.

Meets my needs

MSI Z77A-G45 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
MSI Z77A-G45 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Pros: Well built, the UEFI BIOS is awesome, no problems to speak of at the time.

Cons: Another 2 SATA ports would have been nice. Many aftermarket CPU coolers will block the RAM slots if you don't have lower profile RAM.

Overall Review: Owned about 4 months.