Joined on 02/06/06
What more could you want?
Pros: Very nice powered sub for the money. Hooked it up to my 55in Vizio TV and the sound range for watching my movies is so much wider. the TV has great sound but its missing a lot on the low end that this sub fills in for. Watching movies is now one step closer to a theater experience :) I love that it has a built in crossover with 2 different level ranges and it also has a gain knob.
Cons: none that Ive noticed so far
Most Unreliable HDDs Ive owned
Pros: They were on sale when I bought em. That about the only good thing I have to say about these.
Cons: I bought 2 of these 12 months and 1 week ago. The first one failed after maybe 6 or 7 months and the second one just failed today. If that wasnt bad enough when I called Toshiba to get an RMA on the drives I got transferred back and forth between 3 different departments about 8 different times before I finally got ahold of someone who took responsibility for it. All three departments kept saying that they didnt deal with this particular model of hard drive. Turns out the first number I called was apparently the correct one O_o. Then to add insult to insult to injury the company wanted me to pay for the return shipping of the defective item. I got news for you Toshiba and every other manufacturer, If I buy your product and the stupid thing fails within the warranty period then you better sack up and make it right. Its not my fault the drives died premature deaths. Ive been an IT professional since the early 90s so dont try and put your terrible manufacturing quality problems on me. Im not paying for your mistakes. I'll pay for my mistakes which in this case was buying these terrible drives but warranty returns are no my responsibility. If you try and make it my responsibility then youve just lot a customer. I almost always stick to WD and Seagate for my HDDs and now Im paying for going against my own better judgement for the sake of trying to save some money. BUYER BEWARE!!!
Overall Review: Toshiba's customer service sucks as bad as these HHDs
Great fans for the money.
Pros: lots of air flow
Cons: cabling is too short and they all have 4 pin connectors. Not a big deal but depending on the build you may need some fan extensions. I had 3 pin extensions which I had to cut the surround off of one side. Not a huge deal if you have the right parts/tools. Also very loud at max speed.
Overall Review: The fans move tons of air but they are also very loud at max speed. I have them wired up to a 6/9/12V fan speed switch thats built in to my case and on the 9V setting they are fine and the 6V is pretty quiet imo. The 12V setting is too much though for 6 of these things and Im pretty tolerant of fan noise. Normally Ive used Corsair or Fractal fans. I feel like the move more air than both of those brands and they are also louder. They are also less expensive than both of those brands.. The feel of these fans seems decent quality but not quite to the same level of Corsair or Fractal. Doesnt miss is by a lot and they are supposed to have fluid dynamic bearings in them so if they last even just 60-80% of the 10+ years lifespan I get out of the other two brands then they are worth it. I feel like these are great fans for the money.
What a flop
Pros: If it was functional then Id say pros would be 10 sata ports.
Cons: Doesnt work.
Overall Review: I wanted to like this but only 1 of the 3 drives I had plugged in to it would show up in Windows. Put the old 4 port card back in and worked. Sending this junk back.
Love this monitor
Pros: This monitor is a massive upgrade over the standard workstation monitor that I have been using for years. Resolutions is much nicer than 1080p. Colors look very very good and rich. I also love 170 Hertz refresh rate and low response time. Asus makes really good quality products I'm really disappointed with any of them
Overall Review: You need this monitor in your life :)
Total Junk
Pros: cheap
Cons: flimsy, no support for long GPUs, screws strip really easily.
Overall Review: Ive worked with my fair share of cheap computer cases over the years building systems for people and most of the cheap cases are ok for the money but this thing here is probably the worst cheap case Ive ever worked with. Three screws holes have already stripped out from being hand tightened and one of them is one of the thumb screws so I wasnt even using a screw driver for that one. Its also the first mid-sized ATX case that Ive run across that has issues with extended GPUs. In the past Ive never had a problem with that in mid or full size ATX cases. Its so cheap that when my customer saw it and I explained the problems with it (he was warned in advance that the case he wanted was very cheap and could be problematic because of that) he decided to just say scrap it and order me a better case. Thats pretty bad when a user who is on an extremely tight budget and knew in advance he was ordering a lot of cheap parts say "scrap it and buy a different one" thats a pretty bad case right there. :(
Terrible customer service
BUYER BEWARE! This company will make you pay for return shipping and charge you a 15% restocking fee even if the item is defective. I will never buy any items from these people again. Im not even sure why newegg allows cut rate sellers on their site in the first place. Ive never had this kind of issue when buying directly from newegg.