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John P.

John P.

Joined on 02/14/06

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Most Favorable Review

Great

D-Link DWL-AG530 Wireless Adapter IEEE 802.11a/b/g 32-bit PCI Up to 108Mbps Wireless Data Rates
D-Link DWL-AG530 Wireless Adapter IEEE 802.11a/b/g 32-bit PCI Up to 108Mbps Wireless Data Rates

Pros: Great Card, Picks Up stuff for blocks around, easy to install. MONSTER ANTENNA!!!!!!!!

Cons: Don't follow the instructions of you know whats good for you. Instead of installing all the junk that comes with the cd, just install the card and then navigate to the drivers section.

Overall Review: Its a great buy.

Most Critical Review

Garbage

Seagate IronWolf 6TB NAS Hard Drive 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s CMR 3.5" Internal HDD for RAID Network Attached Storage ST6000VN0033
Seagate IronWolf 6TB NAS Hard Drive 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s CMR 3.5" Internal HDD for RAID Network Attached Storage ST6000VN0033

Pros: It arrived

Cons: Failed after 4 months

Overall Review: Perhaps it was a bad run from the plant. Luckily I was able to restore data from a backup. But the drive lost everything twice.

Cheap with Buggy Drivers. First and Last MSI Purchase

MSI H110M PRO-VD PLUS LGA 1151 Intel H110 USB 3.1 Micro ATX Motherboard - Intel
MSI H110M PRO-VD PLUS LGA 1151 Intel H110 USB 3.1 Micro ATX Motherboard - Intel

Pros: Cost only $50 to help me remove MSI from my list of future suppliers.

Cons: Dead pins on PIN header (power), no USB boot whatsoever (flaky BIOS) this was even after update to latest BIOS. Finally gave up and burned a DVD. After Windows was installed, the second driver I installed (eXtensable USB driver) completely knocked out all USB ports on the board. Had to reimage the hard drive to regain input functionality since there are no PS/2 ports to recover USB mouse and keyboard support. I build computers for a living, over 400 for this company alone. I have been doing this for 15 years, this is up there for boards I won't forget. If you need a board that mostly works for $50, go ahead. But you will waste a lot of time working around sloppy QC from MSI.

Overall Review: Note to MSI: Don't do the usual "Contact us at this number" response to this feedback. The board I received was not out of the ordinary from what I'm reading. No replacement required. I don't want anything else from you guys ever again.

10/23/2017

Poor form, Asus just lost a customer.

ASUS F2A55-M LK PLUS FM2 AMD A55 (Hudson D2) Micro ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
ASUS F2A55-M LK PLUS FM2 AMD A55 (Hudson D2) Micro ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Pros: When on one of it's 2 hours working stints it is great. Just don't walk away from the desk.

Cons: Easily the worst experience I have had in my 10 years as a system builder. Purchased combo deal from Newegg, first found out that Crucial sent out a bad batch of RAM. After installing new batch had same issues. The motherboard would boot windows 7, and then after a certain amount of time go into a permanent sleep mode. This was only fixed by a hard reset. Due to the large amount of bad parts sent out, I spent several months of RMAs and part swapping, to a point that all warranties are off. It is terrible that Asus made such a lousy product and then refused to acknowledge their mistake. (As evidenced by other's reviews on this site) The first machine I ever built was back in 2004. It was an Asus board. I have been recommending Asus products to friends and companies that I work for. I will no longer make that mistake. It is a shame that they lost a 10 year customer along with all those I refer parts too.

Overall Review: Errors were never rectified. Switched power supplies. Switched RAM. Updated each component's driver to a level newer than Asus's driver page displayed.

Sucks

RiDATA Mini SPIN 1GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) EZR1G-M-Y0N
RiDATA Mini SPIN 1GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) EZR1G-M-Y0N

Pros: It looks cool

Cons: It broke more than once (I fixed by reflashing the firmware)finally broke today and lost my midterm paper.

Overall Review: Dont buy this junk. Its not worth the loss.

11/26/2006

I love this card

SAPPHIRE Radeon 9550 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Graphics Card 100577L-1
SAPPHIRE Radeon 9550 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Graphics Card 100577L-1

Pros: Arrived in 3 days, packaging was undented. Great card does everything I want it to. (I'm not an extreme gamer only a mild one)

Cons: Driver took some twiddling before the card actually had my moniter in more than 16 colors.

Overall Review: The fan look wicked at night.