cover
Mark K.

Mark K.

Joined on 08/08/03

0
0

Product Reviews
product reviews
  • 10
Most Favorable Review

Review Update from below Review

Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model 996599
Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model 996599

Pros: I contacted Mushkin as requested in my previous review. Nick was very helpful, and was able to verify that they had some issues with this memory and the NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI chipset, an odd chipset anyway. Mushkin sent me a new 2x2gb kit that tested fine with the motherboard at 5-5-5-15 2.09v 800 and 1066Mhz, as well as 4-4-4-12 800Mhz. I do not know what was different, but it worked. Waiting on a new 2x1GB kit he is sending to test that and then together, but expecting good results. Great Support from our local Colorado Company.

Cons: NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI chipset

Most Critical Review

Didnt live up to the throughput hip

Hawking Technology Dual Radio Smart Repeater (HW2R1)
Hawking Technology Dual Radio Smart Repeater (HW2R1)

Pros: Easy Setup. With an external Antenna connected to the unique separate Receive antenna port, you do end up with a broader available networks. Couldn't find another such device that works this way, a separate antenna for External WiFi and then two other antennas for Internal WiFi

Cons: The "Dual Radio" part is misleading, for I think just technology stands in the way of repeating full bandwidth. Dual-radio repeaters are interesting in theory, but unless they are on different Freq. they cannot broadcast simultaneously. The Throughput is half, I think that is just they way it ends up. Interference I would guess, 0ne 2.4ghz signal at a time, so 50%. I will live with it in the situations where I need the increased range to the source and connect direct when I am close enough But you get to have an External Antenna. Now there are the Dual Band Extenders, but you have to choose 2.4ghz in 5 ghz out or the other way. I my case, in an RV, 99% of the time it is 2.4 in and nothing I have uses 5ghz, so would need to have all new devices for it to be perfect I guess

Overall Review: Throughput is 50% of the host's, 16Mbps will be 8 through the Repeater

Didn't work for me either

SYBA 2-Port SATA 6G Card, Mini PCI-Express Form Factor, non-RAID, ASM1061 Chipset Model SD-MPE40056
SYBA 2-Port SATA 6G Card, Mini PCI-Express Form Factor, non-RAID, ASM1061 Chipset Model SD-MPE40056

Pros: Seems like a good idea

Cons: Just won't be recognized by my system. Like so many other reviews here, getting this card to work is a crapshoot. May work for you, may not for it is VERY MB / BIOS dependent. I have two mini PCIe slots, one is short, holding a Wireless card, the other held a AVerMedia TV card, which is worthless now that ClearQAM is gone for me. SO, I put mine in that slot, knowing it works. System does not recognize the existence of the card . I see here from other that you should see the cards BIOS initialize when you start the computer, I have seen this before with desktop SCSI and RAID cards when you start the computer and they load in. I tried it all, the re-seating people suggested, nothing worked. Saw nothing. Windows 7 sees nothing.

Overall Review: Don't waste your money. OR buy it, try it, Doesn't Work? send it back. It would have been a nice addition. Oh Well

Nice unit and USB3 fast.

Mediasonic HFR2-SU3S2 PRORAID Box 4 Bay Raid 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Enclosure with USB 3.0 & eSATA
Mediasonic HFR2-SU3S2 PRORAID Box 4 Bay Raid 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Enclosure with USB 3.0 & eSATA

Pros: Pretty Well put together, simple to use, setup a RAID 1 to replace my old onboard RAID 1. Everything went right in under Windows 7. Hardware RAID internal to the enclosure, JMicro. I coupled it with their own USB 3 card, but it is the same Chip as everyone else Renesas.

Cons: Haven't got any for this particular unit.

Overall Review: I wasn't aware that this level of devices are not mixed mode, guess you have to look for that term and it would cost more. I was just use to server scsi. So you can only chose ONE of the RAID Levels. So a RAID 1 mirror setup can only use 2 of the 4 bays, so buy a 2 bay. You can't move your old RAID to a differing Enclosure. You did to start with 2 drives in the enclosure and they will be initialized. Any data is lost, so you have to copy your data from old to new RAID. YOU CANNOT BOOT USB 3 FROM AN EXPANSION CARD, at least in the crop of cards that are out there. If you have onboard USB 3 this is probably.

100% Failure

Seagate Momentus XT ST750LX003 750GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache 2.5" SATA 6.0Gb/s Solid State Hybrid Drive -Bare Drive
Seagate Momentus XT ST750LX003 750GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache 2.5" SATA 6.0Gb/s Solid State Hybrid Drive -Bare Drive

Pros: WOuldn't know. It seemed a bit faster start up with it. THought maybe you had to "train" it, so I rebooted each time I updated each thing or install a software. Was not SSD speed if that is what you expect

Cons: Failed, completely, with in hours of install. No longer acessable and SeaTools reported no sectors. Going to be hard to trust after that. Went back to the basic drive

12/11/2012

noisy and HDMI doa

BenQ EP5920 1920 x 1080 DLP Home Theater Projector 1800 lumens
BenQ EP5920 1920 x 1080 DLP Home Theater Projector 1800 lumens

Pros: Bright

Cons: Real noisy image and would not sense HDMI inputs, 1 or 2. Component worked, maybe what is the noise. Going back to the Optima Hd, nicerpicture and 10000 contrast