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Nicholas D.

Nicholas D.

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Lil Beasty

ASUS Eee PC 1215T-MU10-BK Black AMD Athlon II Neo K125(1.70 GHz) 12.1" WXGA 2GB DDR3 Memory 320GB HDD NetBook
ASUS Eee PC 1215T-MU10-BK Black AMD Athlon II Neo K125(1.70 GHz) 12.1" WXGA 2GB DDR3 Memory 320GB HDD NetBook

Pros: Ordered this bad boy and couldn't be happier! Threw a 64gb SSD in it and it tears it up! boots in 22 seconds and stuff opens instantly! The keys are good sized and don't feel cramped to type on. The screen is very bright and looks fantastic. The touchpad is excellent and not awful like most netbooks. It seems to be built very sold and I did take it completely apart to put the ssd in it and it looks sturdy and well reinforced on the inside. The speakers aren't half bad for what it is either. I have also hooked it up to my tv and it will play back a ripped blu ray movie without an issue!. Oh and it can play Left 4 dead 2 and CS Source at around 40 fps at low settings! battery life is around 6.5 hrs under normal use

Cons: Power button is a little hard to press. I have to hit it with my nail to get it to turn on. The power cord plugin is very tiny.... smaller than a headphone jack. I could see it breaking with abuse. Sometimes the battery will randomly show up as dead when you boot it and you will have to reboot it to get accurate battery life. Headphone volume when plugged in is adaquite and clear but does not get as loud as most mp3 players laptops computers exc

Overall Review: Its honestly a tad smaller than I thought it was going to be.... Its bigger than a normal netbook but not by a whole lot. There are no win 7 x64 drivers for it, and there are a few utilities that have to be installed to get the wireless and powersave buttons to work. There is also no easy flash utility built into the bios so it would have to be flashed manually if needed. Also It voids the warranty to put an SSD in it.... you have to completely disassemble it and you break the warranty seal under the keyboard when you take off the metal cover over the motherboard to get to the hard drive.

Most Critical Review

These are terrible. Please ignore the positive reviews

Cyber Acoustics CA-3602 30 Watts 2.1 3 Piece Flat Panel Design Subwoofer & Satellite Speaker System
Cyber Acoustics CA-3602 30 Watts 2.1 3 Piece Flat Panel Design Subwoofer & Satellite Speaker System

Pros: Okay bass from the sub. Very boomy with no tight punch

Cons: These speakers sound tinny and horrible. There are no mids and the high sounds they produce are harsh and awful. They are quite possibly the worst sounding set of speakers I have ever heard. The bass is strong and overdrives the speakers completely when turned up more than a little bit. It has no tightness so it is just a lot of boom.

Overall Review: Go with something from a name brand... If someone gives these a good review they are obviously not someone who cares about audio quality in the slightest and has never heard even a mediocre set of speakers. There are also many others in this price range that are going to sound loads better than these.

11/28/2011

Not compatible with AMD 9700X and B650 Motherboard

Crucial Pro 48GB (2 x 24GB) DDR5 6000 (PC5 48000) XMP 3.0 & AMD EXPO Ready Desktop Memory Model CP2K24G60C48U5
Crucial Pro 48GB (2 x 24GB) DDR5 6000 (PC5 48000) XMP 3.0 & AMD EXPO Ready Desktop Memory Model CP2K24G60C48U5

Pros: Nice low profile ram, no RGB lights, Good price

Cons: Not compatible with B650 motherboard and 9700X AMD CPU.

Overall Review: I don't think this ram is bad per se but I ordered it because it showed it was compatible with AMD and it's not at least in my build. I used a GIGABYTE B650M GAMING PLUS WIFI and an AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and the system will not post. I ordered the 6000, Maybe it would have been fine if I ordered the 5600. I ended up going with a different brand of ram.

12/25/2024

Works with XMP for my 3900x build

G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C19D-32GVRB
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C19D-32GVRB

Pros: Great price for a 32gb kit. Right in the sweet spot for speed with ryzen and runs xmp no issues with my aorus x570 elite board

Cons: None

Overall Review: I was worried about ordering this ram for my new ryzen build but it worked fine. Selected xmp profile 1 in the bios of my aorus x570 elite board and it booted no issues. Confirmed its running at 3600 with cpuz.

Seems like the best value board for zen 2

GIGABYTE X570 AORUS ELITE AMD Ryzen 3000 PCIe 4.0 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.2 AMD X570 ATX Motherboard
GIGABYTE X570 AORUS ELITE AMD Ryzen 3000 PCIe 4.0 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.2 AMD X570 ATX Motherboard

Pros: Build quality, colors, features, better vrm design than others, good included software

Cons: None so far

Overall Review: Quite pleased with this board for my 3900x build so far. It seems like it's a quality product and the included gigabyte software is pretty good. Much better than my last Asus board. Works great with xmp for my gskill ripjaws v 3600 ram out of the box. No real complaints for this one.

Slower write speed than my 8 year old flash drive it was supposed to replace

SAMSUNG 64GB BAR Plus (Metal) USB 3.1 Flash Drive, Speed Up to 300MB/s (MUF-64BE4/AM)
SAMSUNG 64GB BAR Plus (Metal) USB 3.1 Flash Drive, Speed Up to 300MB/s (MUF-64BE4/AM)

Pros: Feels solid

Cons: This gets 25MB/s write speed if you are lucky. They advertise it as "Up to 200MB/s write speed. It's slower than my 8 year old first gen USB 3 flash drive that I have had for years that does about 45MB/s

Overall Review: I absolutely would recommend looking elsewhere. This flash drive is slow and has falsely advertised speed by Samsung that is completely misleading. Shame on you.