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Zachary F.

Zachary F.

Joined on 07/27/13

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Most Favorable Review

Will never use rubbing alcohol again

Arctic Silver Arcticlean Thermal material Remover & Surface Purifier ACN-60ML (2-PC-SET)
Arctic Silver Arcticlean Thermal material Remover & Surface Purifier ACN-60ML (2-PC-SET)

Pros: -Lasts for about 100-200 uses -cheap -makes rubbing alcohol look like a joke -smells like oranges

Cons: -asked for a sandwich hours ago, still haven't gotten one.

Most Critical Review

How do you even screw this up?

Rosewill 6.5-Foot USB 2.0 A Male to Micro USB B (5-Pin) Cable, Black (RC-6-USB-AM-MB-BK)
Rosewill 6.5-Foot USB 2.0 A Male to Micro USB B (5-Pin) Cable, Black (RC-6-USB-AM-MB-BK)

Pros: It does charge my phone...

Cons: The plug isn't even the right size for the micro usb standard, it just loosely slides in to my phone and falls out, the whole reason I got a replacement to my old cable was so i could use my phone while it's charging and because of this I still can't and i'm stuck using my old cable.

Overall Review: How do you even screw up a cable?

Great drive.. The end tends to smash in your pocket though

Samsung 32GB BAR (Metal) USB 3.0 Flash Drive, Speed Up to 150MB/s (MUF-32BA/AM)
Samsung 32GB BAR (Metal) USB 3.0 Flash Drive, Speed Up to 150MB/s (MUF-32BA/AM)

Pros: The loop is strong and stays on my key ring well as intended drive works well

Cons: constantly find myself bending the end back open due to it getting smashed in my pocket... unfortunately due to what a thumb drive has to be in order to work they can't really make it thicker so i'm only knocking one egg. more flexible metal at the least would have been better because it's torn on two corners now.

Overall Review: Buying another for my father i'm overall pleased.

Meh...

ASUS PB258Q Black 25" 5ms WQHD Frameless HDMI Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor AH-IPS 350 cd/m2, 2560 x 1440, 100,000,000:1 Built-in Speakers
ASUS PB258Q Black 25" 5ms WQHD Frameless HDMI Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor AH-IPS 350 cd/m2, 2560 x 1440, 100,000,000:1 Built-in Speakers

Pros: Great blacks and color pallet

Cons: vertical viewing angle is mediocre due to backlight bleed have to be 100% level with the monitor for it to look good. this monitor is worth 280 i paid for it and nothing more, the fact that it originally retailed for 400 makes me laugh. If I had a chance to do it over again I would have got a korean monitor like I originally planned UPDATE: After a year of ownership the top backlight is now failing, it flickers if things flash too brightly and even makes popping sounds... Bought a new monitor, gonna RMA this one and sell the replacement as soon as I get it this thing is terrible.

Overall Review: was hoping it would overclock like many other asus panels can.. even at 61 hz it drops frames

10/30/2016

Nearly 3 years of use here are my thoughts

Creative Sound Blaster Zx 116dB PCIe Gaming Sound Card with 600 ohm Headphone Amp and Desktop Audio Control Module
Creative Sound Blaster Zx 116dB PCIe Gaming Sound Card with 600 ohm Headphone Amp and Desktop Audio Control Module

Pros: excellent software lets me do everything I could ever want to do. The include microphone works better than any of my headset mic booms ever have If you want all of the pros just look at their marketing material there's no need to repeat it all, it's a good product and it works

Cons: I have used 4 different headsets extensively with this card over the years I've also had it in 2 different pcs with 5-6 different configurations of hardware in each and if you don't update the drivers when prompted upon install you're going to have a bad time. the most random stuff you would never think of, such as a usb wifi card, can cause an absolute meltdown of your soundcard so have everything you'll ever use plugged in when updating drivers it will detect and do it's magic to work... Listed this because this is a bit rediculous it's just a sound card. if you install new hardware and the soundcard starts flipping out uninstall and reinstall and update. output impedence is about 10ohms so it's best suited with headphones of at least 100 ohms (maybe not a con but something to note)

Overall Review: treble and mids are subdued with every headset i've used with this card takes a bit of eq tweaking but always turns out well reinstillation of drivers is necessary if you change pcie slots i've spilled coolant on it and it still works... granted my warranty now though.

5.0 ghz capable motherboard.

MSI MSI Gaming Z97-G45 Gaming LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
MSI MSI Gaming Z97-G45 Gaming LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Was able to overclock to 5.0ghz for a few hours without temps getting too crazy. was pushing 1.55V at load on an i5. My daily overclock is 4.7 @ 1.35V the board stays nice and cool at load with a 440mhz switching frequency. The board is gorgeous matches my build quite well.

Cons: Analog VRM's makes fine tuning a high overclock a PITA but if you up the switching frequency it compensates for it. Really wish it had more fan headers but oh well splitters took care of that.

Overall Review: MSI would be the number one motherboard maker if it wasn't for the contract they made to use Analog VRMs back in the day, was a good deal then, really coming back to bite them now. However MSI has managed to do some crazy voodoo magic with digital compensation for the analog vrms to make it perform very well.