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Timothy H.

Timothy H.

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Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Pros: I have the Cosmos 1000 as my personal rig but recently put a build together using this case. What a pleasure to work with. All fans have dustfilters, it came with all the optional fans. All cable management holes were pre-cut... was just awesome.

Cons: wish they would have went a bit longer and fit eATX for the extra room... it can get cramped with just atx width case

Overall Review: i have some videos up on this case at my youtube site: youtube dot com slash tjharlow

Most Critical Review

Leaf Blower Inside ??

PHILIPS 20X DVD±R DVD Burner 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2-Tone SATA Model SPD2513BD
PHILIPS 20X DVD±R DVD Burner 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2-Tone SATA Model SPD2513BD

Pros: works, nice two toned color that matched the two toned case

Cons: Seriously, so loud I thought there was a lawnmower inside the computer when I was installing windows.. wth ??

Overall Review: It's very very loud.... if I would have known I would have just got a solid black LiteOn

Corsair P128 2.5" 128GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CMFSSD-128GBG2D
Corsair P128 2.5" 128GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CMFSSD-128GBG2D

Pros: Large capacity for an SSD Super Fast ** Now supports TRIM ** I ordered mine before they supported it but I can still get it with a firmware update utility provided by corsair on thier site. They said all units being sent out now will come with Trim pre-enabled.

Cons: Still a bit expensive but average price for an SSD of the same capacity

Overall Review: Go to corsair forums and get the Trim firmware update if yours didn't come with it, also there is a thread on SSD tweaks to do in windows to increase performance.

12/23/2009

Vapor-X w00t !!

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card 100281VXSR
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card 100281VXSR

Pros: 1. Runs extremely cool. 30-34C on idle and 44-50C max while gaming for hours on stock fan speeds - I'm talking 30% fan speeds. 2. Very quiet ... not silent but not as loud as my GTX 260 which I had to bump to 80% fan speeds while gaming. 3. Graphics are smooth, significant FPS increase

Cons: 1. blows hot air from gpu into case and does not exhaust out the back of the case (non-issue if you have good case cooling) 2. Flicker on my 2nd monitor in dual monitor setup. I tried raising the idle and 2d clocks and memory as suggested but I still have this issue (this is where I have to give -1) It could be a driver issue, but more than likely it's a gpu bios issue which would require a flash, we'll see.

Overall Review: Overall I'm very satisfied with purchase. Still looking for a fix on the dual monitor flicker problem otherwise it would have been 5+ stars

12/23/2009

Redline from Mushkin is awesome!

Mushkin Enhanced Redline 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model 996746
Mushkin Enhanced Redline 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model 996746

Pros: I've used Redline DDR3 triple channel for x58 systems in two different client builds and it's some of the best RAM I've ever used. I've been waiting for this RAM to come out for a while and yesterday I called Mushkin to ask them about it. They said that the chips that perform in this very low latency range are hard to aquire and they can only produce a small amount at any time. In fact, they said that Newegg was only getting TEN units that day. I put myself on auto-notify and continuously refreshed the browser, keeping it up while doing other things. Around 11:30pm EST they finally came up and I grabed my two units (8Gb). I checked this morning when I got to work and as I expected they are sold out again. I'll respond back after my system is complete to give a run down on these DDR3 dual channel modules.

Cons: None. I can't think of one thing. Units come in two flavors of heatsinks. Frostbite is the regular heatsink and then Accent is the thick heavy heatsink. If you get Accent keep in mind that it's really thick and you can't put modules next to each other which means only one set of RAM.

Overall Review: I'm a hobbist computer builder with a site at youtube/tjharlow. I've done lots of system builds. I'll have a video review later on in the month because I'm still waiting on Silverstone Fortress 02 and looking to see how GT300 series performs before I grab a 5870.

Different than whats pictured

Vantec 2.5" / 3.5" / 5.25" SATA / IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter - Model CB-ISATAU2
Vantec 2.5" / 3.5" / 5.25" SATA / IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter - Model CB-ISATAU2

Pros: In my circle of friends and co-workers, I'm the goto guy for computer problems. This type of device makes me look like a ComputerGod. They really don't have to know it's this easy. Even if I can't recover the operation of the drive, almost 100% of the time i can recover personal data.

Cons: Not the item that is in the picture. Mine has a black cord, not the silver one that is pictured. Also the SATA data connection on mine is in an awkward position on the unit not on the side like the picture here.

Overall Review: Bottom line is that I do not know if I got the updated or outdated model of this device, but no matter what, you should always receive what your looking at, so I subtract a star for that.