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AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 1.8 GHz (ADA3000BPBOX) AMD Processor in a Box (PIB): AMD strikes again!

Sat, 5 Nov 2005 18:27:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Intro Well, I've been an AMD fan since the Slot A Athlon XP. I had prev owned an Athlon XP 2000+, Barton XP 2600+(prob one of THE best cpu's to overclock), and prev an Athlon 64 3000+ (socket 754). I was due for another upgrade since i wanted...

Can it deliver a pc home theater experience?

Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:27:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Intro Well, as my other reviews/epinions show, i'm a multimedia junkie. most of my upgrades for my pc usually are to enhance this experience. I had previously owned the Altec Lansing 4.1 set (looked very stylish and had decent sound but not...

Is this the movie junkies dream lcd? for this junkie it is!

Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:15:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - -Intro- Well... i'm an lcd junkie and just geek junkie... this last jan i went out and bought a 19" Hyundai LCD and loved it, my previous lcd was only a 15" so the jump to 19" was amazing!. however, after updating my htpc to windows mce...

(color) ahh... good all in one or not good at all?

Mon, 26 Jul 2004 02:35:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Well, i finally did it. changed providers and got a new cell phone (got the 1st gen color display phone 2yrs ago). The US sucks for cool phones, or atleast in MN. But i wanted a phone that could do everything that my electronic life involves: email,...

AMD Athlon XP 2600+, 2.13 GHz (axda2600bbox) Processor: still a p4 killer? or just hyped?

Tue, 11 May 2004 01:18:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - well, i've kind of been a fan of AMD since the advent of the athlon xp socket a line... had an athlon xp slot a before then. so this might be a more biased review but i'll be up front. installation: like any cpu, just get that heatsink on! i am using...

Ah.. nforce2 ultra 400 and affordablity...

Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:57:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - i think i'm an upgrade-holic.. decided to upgrade my motherboard and processor... my cheap and reliable ecs k7s5a pro board just wasn't fast enough and my athlon xp2000 to slow... so i decided to back to the nforce2 chipset since i like the built in...

Too Cheap for what you get??

Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:49:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Well... i was one of those suckers that splurged with the advent of the second generation 2.4 speed dvd burners.. bought an HP DVD200i for $320ish.. time to upgrade... i realized with this upgrade i did want to have the option of writing to ALL...

My First "Real" Laptop, worth it?

Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:05:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Well. I've had a laptop before, but that was back in 1997, i got my Toshiba Satellite with a nice ole 133mhz processor and 2GB harddrive. However, times have changed quite a bit in the laptop market since then. Integrated ATI or Nvidia 3D graphics...

a phat flat or just flat?

Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:03:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Flat panel LCDs. they were the must-have geek accessory of 2002. I admit it, i had to get one too!

I checked around and after seeing the crazy high prices for a 15in LCD, i decided to go with the RAD-5. It was decently priced ($320 on ebay...

P4 Killer or just a wanna be??

Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:16:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - I've tasted both flavors in the CPU wars, Pentiums and Athlons. I owned an Pentium 133mhz cpu, then got an Athlon Thunderbird 950MHZ, then a AMD Athlon XP 1600+ and was due for another upgrade and was torn between:

a 2.0GHZ P4 or a Athlon XP...

XBOX, for real or just another system?

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:25:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Well. The console wars were heating up when i purchased this bad boy. I was torn between a PS2 or an XBOX (gamecube, yea right, nintendo lost their edge when they failed to get cd/dvd based system out w/the N64)

I loved the PS2 for the fact that...

Dazzle DVD Complete Complete package (DM-10000): Is it complete?

Mon, 3 Mar 2003 02:46:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Well. I've had my dvd burner for about 4 months or so and i have basically mastered everything i've wanted to do with it (dvd backup and xbox game backups) but only one thing remained for me to do:

author my own custom movie menus and movies...

Fast and Cheap?

Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:18:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Well. This is the hard drive i used to build my current system off of.

My currents system:

athlon xp 2000

asus a7n266-vm mobo

20gb wd2000bb HD

100gb wd special ed. (8mb cache!) HD

hp dvd200i dvd r/ rw burner

I...

Microsoft Windows XP Professional (E85-00086) For PC: To XP or not.... that is a good question!

Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:07:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Windows XP, based off of NT. We all know by now about the whole activation thing with XP. But besides that annoying feature, is this new OS offering by Microsoft worth the extra $?

I was using Windows 98SE before upgrading so i had lots of...

Compaq iPAQ H3635 Pocket PC: Fast and Nice, worth the pennys?

Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:50:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Well. I admit it.. I am a tech geek.. i gotta have the newest and best thing... so i bought one of these bad boys last year on ebay. So was it worth the hefty price?

Included:

-iPaq 3635

-USB Sync Cradle/Ac power adapter/charger...

Color Palm III, worth it?

Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:39:28 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - I actually bought this PDA a year ago but then upgraded to an Ipaq 3600 series and then downgraded to it again :-)

The main reason i downgraded back to this PDA was the fact that i have so many programs for it and they are very productive...

LG LX5350: Small, stylish, colorful!!

Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:20:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Well, my old cell phone was on its death bed so i decided that i needed a new phone. I wasn't sure if i needed a color one yet or not, but being the tech geek i am, I DID.

I went with SprintPCS (due to their phone selection) and got the new...

BIGGER IS BETTER!!

Sun, 6 Oct 2002 13:18:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Well, i depleted my two 20 gig harddrieves and decided to just keep one of them for my Operating systems and get a new one for my files, so i thought "Lets go big!!". I went online and bought a Western Digital 100GB Special Edition.

I bough an OEM...

Hewlett Packard HP DVD 200i (Q2101A#ABA) DVD+RW Burner: HP 200dvdi? worth it?

Sun, 6 Oct 2002 13:03:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seamonkey420 - Well. I was on an upgrade frenzy. After buying a new 100 gig harddrive, i figured that a nice dvd+rw burner would complement it well. So i went to ebay and bought a new HP 200dvdi drive for around $330.

Installed on Windows 2000 Pro and...