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Arnesto S.

Arnesto S.

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The evergreen family

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5670 (Redwood) 512MB DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 Graphics Card 100287VGAL
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5670 (Redwood) 512MB DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 Graphics Card 100287VGAL

Pros: Excellent card for the price and the performance!No additional power plugs required for you to have raw GDDR5 power!I can max out majority of all my games with this baby.Resident Evil 5,Lost Planet,Devil May Cry 4 and Street Fighter 4.That's including anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering.

Cons: None so far.I cannot complain.

Overall Review: I was thinking about picking up the pny 9800 gt but it might be a little power hungry for my 400 watt psu.The geforce gt 240 was not bad either but the radeon 5670 destroys it in a benchmark battle.If you don't believe me do some research on google and gpureview.com.Keep the evergreen family gpus coming Ati!No offense to Nvidia fanboys.

Coolermaster the master of cooling!

Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus - CPU Cooler with 4 Direct Contact Heatpipes
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus - CPU Cooler with 4 Direct Contact Heatpipes

Pros: Dropped my amd phenom II x2 550 cpu temp dramatically and quiter than stock cooler!! Stock Idle:33c to 42c Hyper 212+ Idle:20c to 25c Stock Load:56c to 62c {Gaming} No overclock Hyper 212+ Load: 32c to 34c 400 mhz overlclock Direct I repeat DIRECT Heatpipe cpu shaped contact so expect low temperatures from a stock fan with no heatpipes atached.

Cons: Took over 2 hours for me to install and the instructions were kind of useless.I had to go to you-tube to watch videos on how to install it and google helped me find a site with step by step instructions.Sweat,Blood and tears was put into installing the fan on the standoffs.I emphasize on the blood because I cut myself on the heatsink I think and was bleeding.It was minor and not enough to deduct an egg.

Overall Review: I installed this baby facing up towards the 140mm fan at the top of my case and I believe that was best choice.The rear fan was a 120mm and I dont believe it would have moved that much air if I would have installed it facing that one.I can now get my game on with low temps and a quiet pc Case:Rosewill Challenger Psu:Rosewill Green 630w DDR 2 PQI 2x1Gb Gigabyte Motherboard Amd Phenom II X2 550 3.5Ghz Radeon 6850 {850 Core} {1100 Mem}

Northern Islands is here

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity     (100315L )
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity (100315L )

Pros: Easy overclocking for noobs using ccc or saphire trixx utility and plenty of horse power to play all the latest games in their full glory.Equip this baby with a Dual,quad or hexacore and your gaming pc will come to life!Or,you can equip it with a pentium 4 or lower cpu if bottlenecking is something that fasinates you and who knows,you might still get good performance in games!!

Cons: Loud fan at 100% fan speed.Luckily you dont have to hear it as long as you disable manual fan control or set your fan at a silent but cooling level.

Overall Review: Upgraded from a radeon 5670 which I purchased the same year I purchased this baby.This is my second saphire card and so far Im pleased with the results.I can play majority of games with my rig at decent settings: Amd Phenom II X2 550 Stock Radeon 6850 OC{850 Core}{1100 Memory} Asus Dvd Burner Gigabyte Motherboard PQi DDR 2 {2x1gb} Rosewill Challenger Case Rosewill Green 630w

Northern Islands is here!

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity     (100315L )
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity (100315L )

Pros: Handles many of todays games on highest settings at rosolutions of 1600x1200 and 1080p depending on the games demand and your hardware. Plenty of overclock headroom for the enthusiast and can probably match the radeon 6870 if you know what your doing. Will fit in a modern mid tower case on a micro atx motherboard. One 6 pin power connector. Easily competes with competing brands for the asking price.

Cons: Well the fan is kind of loud on full speed.Makes you think your pc is about explode in your face.

Overall Review: Ati always has tricks up their sleeve to surprise the midrange gamers and even high end gamers with their budget gpus.This card wont let the average enthusiast down with its features and ati knows this.For the price, performance and power consumption it cant be beat! My specs: Amd Phenom II X2 550 3.5 Overclock 2gb DDR 2 800Mhz PQ1 Gigabyte Motherboard Asus Dvd Burner Rosewill Challenger Case 630w Rosewill Green Psu Radeon 6850 {Stock} Windows Xp Professional 32 Bit

12/25/2010

Rosewill is the best I ever had!

Rosewill CHALLENGER ATX Mid-Tower Gaming PC Computer Case, Expansion Ready: Internal 3.5" Bays & External 5.25" Bays, 3 Pre-installed Fans with Side Fan Mount Option
Rosewill CHALLENGER ATX Mid-Tower Gaming PC Computer Case, Expansion Ready: Internal 3.5" Bays & External 5.25" Bays, 3 Pre-installed Fans with Side Fan Mount Option

Pros: Dropped my system temperature from 37c in my old case with 2 fans,to 27c with 3 fans in this case.My hard drive has yet to exceed 29c where it would hit 40c just idling and sometimes 50c during load!My cpu fan sounded like a jet plane about to take off during load in my old case and now its like a church mouse in the challenger.Cpu temps idle at 25c where it would idle at 37c in old case.Load 48c where it would hit close to 60 in the old case with stock heatsink and arctic silver 5.I now have a rosewill 630w power supply with a cool rosewill case.

Cons: Rosewill got conned for selling me this case for 39.99 with 15$ off promo code and free shipping.Suckers!

Overall Review: Rosewill are you nuts?You can be making big money off this case!It competes with the ant 300,600,900 or 5 million whatever!This case should be sold for a million dollars so regular people like me could'nt aford such high quality air cooling!Just playing Lol!Keep up the value priced products rosewill and you will always have me as your numer 1 customer!

12/22/2010

Perfect Gaming Memory

PQI TURBO 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model PQI26400-2GDB
PQI TURBO 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model PQI26400-2GDB

Pros: Increased my memory bandwidth from 5.6 gb single channel to 6.4 dual channel. {Old Games} Resident Evil 5 Runs Smoother with anti aliasing Final Fantasy XIV Benchmark Score increase by 100 Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Loads faster and I can now play with extra graphic setting Youtube videos load fast and look good on high resolution hd. Amd Phenom II X2 550 Stock 2x1 gb PQi Ram Dvd rom Gigabyte Mobo Radeon 5670 {Overclock}

Cons: Wish it was 2x2 gb for this price.Oh well.newegg is known for shell shocking good deals so maybe I'll get lucky and pick some up for cheap{Lol}

Overall Review: When I started my system the bios recognized and set the ram to unganged 800 Mhz.To those who dont know: Unganged is when each cpu core gets access to the ram independently Ganged is when the cpu cores work together instead of independently In my opinion unganged is better.Dont ask why.{LOL}

11/19/2010