Joined on 02/09/06
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Pros: Ordered in Christmas week and got it in 3 days! This is my second order. Uses Jasper power suppy, which seems to be missing from other Xbox's that aren't arcade bundle from what I've read. I guess that's because the arcade holiday bundle is the absolute newest xbox release.
Cons: No built in wireless. Games that come with it are for 8 year olds.
Overall Review: For those interested in the $30 Hard drive/Xbox Live Gold deal, just google "20GB hard drive and 3 months Gold subscription for $30" And you'll see links to the xbox page. But the offer expires on Jan 26. There'll probably be others, though.
Worked fine while it lasted-30 Days!!!!!
Pros: Pretty, shiny, black and burns DL.
Cons: Fails to successfully burn anything after 30 days. I mean it, LITERALLY 30 days. If I could find the box I'd ship it right back to Newegg and tell them to keep it if they can't replace it. Lite-on has no respect for it's customers. They do not support this drive because it was manufactured before December 2009; it was made in October 2009. Yep, they do NOT support this drive. No updates, no manuals, no firmware. None forthcoming.
Overall Review: Stay away from this drive, especially if you run Windows 7. It's not worth the risk of getting a bad one. Lite-on doesn't care about you any more than Philip Morris. Newegg, please deactivate this item.
Should have stuck with Phantek
Pros: Hot-swappable drive bays. Lots of room, tons of places to mount ssds, preinstalled risers. I even place my DVD drive on the bottom of the case so could use my motherboard's support disc. Still plenty of room.
Cons: Quality control is meh. Some the nubs that fit into the guide holes just fell off the first time I removed the top panel! While putting it back on another nub came loose. A nub came off one of the side panels, too! Unforgivable. The right panel (if you are facing the front of the case) does NOT sit flush at the bottom. I kept thinking I was doing something wrong so contacted support about it. Turns out it's just how it is. There should not be a gap at the bottom. Not nearly as many screws etc as Phantek provides. Not even close. Also, they're loose in a plastic bag whereas Phantek provides theirs in a well-organized container. The "manual" is horrible. Couldn't be more minimalist. Had to go to YouTube tech channels to find out several things that just aren't covered in the manual. The Hot-swappable bays are sometimes difficult to work with. I would slide the nut over to release one of the drives and sometimes it just wouldn't come out until I
Overall Review: Only reason I haven't sent this back is because I NEED to have a case for my new X570 system and I don't have the time or extra money to buy another case. I'm just not going to wait for the case to arrive back at the warehouse followed by another wait on a refund, then wait even longer for another case to arrive before I can put my system back together. I can't just can't do it. slid the nut back and forth a few times. Also, the nuts kept getting stuck and wouldn't move. Unless you are doing some major water-cooling this case is overkill for a standard ATX motherboard. I'm on a fixed income and got over-excited over this case when I saw i and that's on me. If I had a do-over I'd pick the Phanteks Eclipse P600S, 2nd choice would be the Phanteks Enthoo Luxe 2 if I wanted a place to live in and my 3rd choice would be the Lian Li O11 Dynamic despite my previous experience with the XL version.
Lots of room but won't last
Pros: Space, pretty cheap.
Cons: Worst write speed I have EVER seen regardless of file system used. Last time I will ever buy an ADATA drive of any kind! They die quickly. Tiny hole if you want to run a cord or wire through them to keep them together like a keychain.
Mosty frustrating router I've ever encountered!
Pros: Bufferbloat no longer an issue so QOS works perfectly.
Cons: When it did work the so called gigabit connection was pointless as it tanks my FIOS speed considerably. We're talking about a difference between 12MB/s and 1MM/s (yes, that's Mega BYTES). Sliced my Steam game downloads (they have major server throughput) in half (40MB/s to less than 20MB/s!Now the darn thing lost it's ability to connect to the internet! When I started seeing issues connecting to web pages I went to log into the router. I had to keep resetting my internet settings just to login successfully (kept using different default gateways for some reason, so 192.168.1.1 just would not connect a lot of the time). Finally got back into the router GUI and checked that everything was normal yet still couldn't connect to the internet. It's been a nighmare this past month. Wish to heck I could return it. I was so happy with it at first now I'm so angry at the thing I want to throw it in the trash.
Overall Review: The paper manual should have something useful to say instead of having to download a massive pdf file LOL
Sound Died in no time
Pros: Decent looking bios and has some nice connections. Certainly less trouble than any Asus board I've ever had (all had mislabeled switches or other serious physical flaws LOL).
Cons: They went cheap on the front USB header making it only 3.0 vs the rear connectors which are 3.1. WHY? Onboard sound (which sounded great) didn't last long at all. The plastic clip that locks the GPU down broke IMMEDIATELY with very little pressure. BIOS lacks many options I'm used to seeing on other gaming boards. Other issues well documented by other reviewers. The manufacturer responses show they don't actually pay attention to what many people ever write. MSI doesn't handle RMA's nearly as well as EVGA who always cover shipping for me plus they wait for my replacement to arrive BEFORE I have to ship back the original parts. Not sure why every company can't be like that.
Overall Review: Despite following many OC guides mine just can't handle more than a very, very mild OC, so obviously I lost on the production lottery of this board. Don't know why it took me so long to write a review of this board.
Better Service than Newegg LOL
I heard good things about them. But when I go a coffee maker that malfunctioned they offered to refund me no questions asked (Newegg didn't refund me the Newegg giftcard I'd used to purchase it, but that's not Dealyard's fault). Didn't even ask me to send it back to them. I wanted to use the money to buy another kind from them but they only have a couple Mr. Coffee's that make only 2 cups or so. I'll keep my eye on other stuff they sell in the future for sure. :D