Sherwood RX-4105 (again)
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Despite the thunderous arrival of my crumpled package from UPS, the quickly delivered  [Sherwood RX-4105 100 Watt Stereo Receiver (Black)]] came sailing onto the front porch. This order from Amazon was even a day earlier than expected.

I ordered this model because its twin had finally given out after years of service. Despite the abrupt delivery I assembled the wiring to the new arrival. As expected the new unit is preforming as did the older model and hopefully for years to come. (I will let you know otherwise)
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My rig had an AMD-E350 MB built by Gigabyte. Recently, I installed a small discrete graphics card and it was able to handle the additional pull, even with a hard drive and an ssd.  Very satisfied.
1715937
ty!  my old pc works like new again.  good delivery time too.
2078442
I bought this PSU to go in to a new computer because its stock psu wasn't powerful enough to run my Nvidia GTS 250 I had bought the same day as the computer. (Late March of 2010)

4 months later it is still working great. There is no noise problem, blue lighting still shines bright. But i am a little nervous upon reading some to the bad reviews of this company's products.

Everything works as it should after all this time so I have little choice but to put down a 5 star review. Perhaps they have better quality control these days, or maybe I got blessed with a good one.

UPDATE 1/6/2011 through 1/7/2011___

I have noticed for a few weeks now that my system would start freezing, error msgs, IE explorer/google/firefox crashes, choppy video frames,,,,also I get a black screen for a few minutes after system startup upon entering windows desktop. It didn't feel like a video card malfunction though. The fact that my fans have been starting to sound different was the biggest clue that it might be the Eagle Voltas PSU failing. Lets fall back to a 2 star rating.

A word of wisdom from a learned mistake~ "Never go cheap when shopping for a Power Supply, you get what you pay for."

Final result- 40 bucks down the drain, no permanent damage to pc, replaced by Corsair GS-800 and served with a slice of humble pie....hey could somebody pass the whip cream please?
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Good stuff. Power packed AMD CPU which delivers both of world CPU and GPU. I read it's overclockable but it's already clocked high speed. :D
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I built myself a new pc with this as the video card.  I have always been an Asus and AMD fan but this video card just isn't cutting it.  Constant whining sound that turns to buzzing when scrolling on a web page.  Artifacts and pixilation on nothing more than my desktop background.  I'm not a gamer but I can't imagine this would work very well for someone who is.  I have the latest drivers and software installed and still no change.  Unless something magically happens over the next couple of days and it decides to work correctly, I will be returning it and going with an Nvidia card.  First time ever I have been let down by AMD or Asus.  No company is perfect I guess.  In case anyone is interested the major parts of the rest of the build are ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard, Corsair Vengeance Blue 8 GB (2X4 GB) PC3-12800 1600mHz DDR3 240-Pin SDRAM, Corsair Builder Series CX 600 Watt ATX/EPS  80 PLUS (CX600), Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5-Inch SATA III and AMD FX-8320 black edition processor.  Everything is running stock at this point.  Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.

UPDATE: 6-7-14
Please disregard this entire review. After doing some more troubleshooting, it turns out the problem with the electronic noises were not the fault of the video card at all. Strange as it seems, my other monitor (Asus) was feeding back through my household electrical system and causing the noise issue. This card may be more prone to that kind of thing because when I put the video card in from my old PC it didn't have the noise problem. I don't consider that to be a problem with the new card though. It is a problem with my 115 year old house. When I ran an extension cord from an outlet that was not on the same circuit as my PC with the new Asus card the noise problem went completely away. It didn't even matter if the other monitor was turned on. It only had to be plugged in. My apologies to Asus, AMD and any individuals that the previous review might have inconvenienced. P.S. The pixilation and artifacts that I saw only happened once. The card is working perfectly now and deserves 5 stars.
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*UPDATE I NOW HAVE 2 OF THESE BAD WOMEN!
Two of these 8s hit on par with my homies two sundown zv5 12s at a quarter of the power! Same 1.8^ft box. Just added additional cutout for the second twin. ...upgraded the amp to a skar lpv2-1000.1 (only monoblock by skar with dual terminals) running them on the separate channels parallel to 2ohm.
First night with It I love it. And it hits harder than my pioneer champion ts2502 10 on the same amp. And the 10 was in a pioneer spec built ported box. For this VVX8V3d4 I have a 1.8^3ft. Box tuned at 36.3hz wired parallel to 2ohm box rise at about 2.1 ohm and it BEATS. Off of a measly BOSS 4000 watt amp. Which upon watching big Dwiz amp dyno only clocks about 940-980 peak at 2ohm if that at.. Head unit is a kenwood kdc3000 and vehicle is 98 prelude.
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Just recently with the arrival of 90 degree weather, my system has started acting up again. But im pretty sure it's time to replace the whole thing. especially with skyrim crashing every 10 minutes, probably the GPU going  the fan is still going and pretty quiet overall.
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good afternoon. as of 01-19 2016 i have exhausted all avenues in getting this graphics card to work.  this piece of tech was supposed to be be part of my new computer that i had bought my self for christmas  the specs for my system are as follows
Intel 535 Series 120GB Internal Solid State Drive 120 2.5-Inch SSDSC2BW120H601
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VII GENE LGA1150 DDR3 M.2 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Intel Z97 mATX Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB 2x8GB DDR3 2400MHz PC3 19200 Desktop, Red CMY16GX3M2A2400C11R
Intel Core BX80646I74790K i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
Corsair CX Series 750 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Bronze ATX12V/EPS12V 744 Power Supply CX750M
Western Digital RE4-GP WD2003FYPS 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" (Enterprise Grade) Internal Hard Drive
Redragon S101 Vajra USB Gaming Keyboard with Centrophorus USB Gaming Mouse
Thermaltake Chaser MK-1 VN300M1W2N No PS Full Tower Case (Black)
 with all my pieces  bought and assembled, this was the last item i bought on my list. when my computer was built it was the last item to be installed and the first to give  problems.  i will endeavour to send it back to amazon or the manufacturer to gain another one or if not a refund of my money. i really wanted to get to play blade and soul on on my pc. looks now i would have to wait.
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just replaced two of my gtx titans with 2 of 780tis! However, it wasn't that much of a improvement over the titans. and it definitely shouldn't be called the titan killer. Ive managed to get my titan to 1255mhz with 1.215v, however, this thing doesn't go above 1250. The even worse result was that 3d mark 11 extreme score for the 780ti was lower than the gtx titan at 1.215v, and almost the same at stock since the 780ti has a higher core clock at the beginning. My guess is that, if on the same core clock, the titan and the 780ti would be the same, and titan probably is even better and also 3gb more of memory!
BTW, I have never received the game code for both my cards except one batman code, and thats it!
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This is an update to my first comment about the main motherboard connector - a 24 pin with Pin 20 missing. Amazon quickly send me a replacement of the same Pin 20 missing. When I finally talk to Corsair Tech Support I learned  that Pin 20 - a -5v circuit is no longer needed. This is a legacy from the ISA interface era. I proceeded to email Gigabyte's tech support to verify what the power supply unit manufacturer told me. The motherboard maker also confirmed Pin 20 is not being used. The current ATX 12v version is 2.31 and Pin 20 was eliminated since v1.2. The power supply and motherboard makers make no mention of this fact and I think they should to avoid misunderstanding. May be this is mentioned in some Archived documents but for newcomer like me I have no way of knowing.

So it's been about two months my new build Desktop is operating normally with no problem with any of the components. This PSU is very quiet. The only little sound I hear from within 3 feet in the dead of night is because I installed two 120mm LED fans in addition to stock cpu fan. During the day you can't hear it because of the ambient noise. I only give it 4 STARS because Reliability can only be measured over time, much longer than two months. So to sum it up I'm very happy with my decision to buy this power supply unit. And Corsair tech support returned my call within four hours which I considered a very good response time.
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A great design can only take this unit so far. I love the modern look of the unit and can say thats all I really love about the unit. Love that it does have component AV but lacks HDMI.The unit does run quiet......okay now I am looking to hard for positive reinforcement of this item, I will stop.....

 I have been a Sherwood fan and owner for many years and can say this is the worst Sherwood product I have ever owned. The speakers feel cheap and sound is cheap. The main unit looks nice but when you use the buttons and volume knob I think you can hear the word "cheap" playing from the speakers.  It also has a hard time reading some mps discs and CDR. It will play them but it might take two or three tries for it to read the disc.

To sum the item up I would say that I am disappointed Sherwood put there name on it. The item is good for maybe a secondary room in your house but wouldn't recommend it for your main movie viewing pleasure. There are probably many other 2.1 ch. systems that give you more for your money and better quality. I would put this item on par with maybe RCA at best.

I hope this review was helpful!
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I need to note for anyone who's read other reviews here--the card I got does NOT have the Texas Instruments chip that I was hoping for. Rather, it uses the VIA chip that one commonly sees in these cards.
 * $9.95 shipped
 * 11 days (8 business days) drop-shipped from Hong Kong (Amazon Prime couldn't speed that up)
 * In the manila shipping envelope was a small printed cardboard box with the card in an anti-static bag.
 * Included was a screw, IEEE cable and mini-CD with drivers for Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, Vista & 7.
 * 2 full-size IEEE ports & one mini outside, one full-size IEEE inside
 * PCI card, not PCI-E (this was as expected).
 * Cord included is 2ft 6.5in from full-size plug tip to mini plug tip.
 * VIA chip on card
Everybody says to go with T.I., but I'll see how this one does and pass the info along...

EDIT:
Installed and tried it out with a firewire digital audio interface on Windows 7 64-bit and... BLECH! Pops, static and buzz on the recording.
Online suggestions for this problem included (and I tried):
* "Lifting the ground"--basically un-grounding my computer (I do not like this notion, no I do not)
* Turning off system sounds (how the heck is this supposed to help? It didn't)
* Setting the interface as the primary input in the Sound control panel
* Swapping PCI cards in their slots to change the firewire's IRQ (which Windows 7 just won't let you do manually)

What worked, finally? Nothing. So I rummaged the garage to find an old firewire card I had from the early nineties (really) with a Texas Instruments chip and swapped it out for my brand new one with the VIA chipset.

Perfection. The T.I.-based card works like a champ.

Final review: If you are doing any sound work with a digital audio interface, then listen to "Them". Get a firewire card with a Texas Instruments chipset. If you're not sure, email the seller for details or keep looking. Trust me, you'll be glad you did.

The 2-star rating is for the whiffy VIA chipset, but I hasten to add that the card still works--just not for what I bought it for.
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Died on me within 3 months of buying it, Amazon offered me a replacement (eventually), seems to work for almost everyone here so i guess i just had bad luck, i really hope this hasn't ruined any other parts in my machine (1080, Ryzen 1700, an M2 ssd and 2 HDD's), i can confirm that it really is dead, i tried shorting the ATX24 4th pin with the COM ground and it won't flick on, real shame.
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Wow, rx 480 4gb video card with fx-8320 3.5ghz for less than $850! Can't beat that. Getting one for my bday!
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ok so we all know the card does rock with all the default settings.  My computer is only a modified 8100 from dell with a 2.6 P4, 768 megs ram, stock motherboard and WD 8 cache HD and IBM dell stock.
Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know that the card itself does rock but there is no overclockability on this card whats so ever.  I have tried with the above computer but everytime get spikes when I run 3DMark2003.
Now, to let you know, with the above computer, I have hit scores of 4950 and higher on the 3D graphics test.  Thats not bad for a 2 year old computer!  You show me an old system that can even run that test and I will buy you this card.
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I had a 280 go bad. XFX Lifetime warranty gave me a 380 4gb replacement. It's working great! Runs things a little smoother too.