Go for Cube instead. Similar spec and THE PRICE ...
596460
Go for Cube instead. Similar spec and THE PRICE =149 vs 399. USD250 difference can let me buy two cubes and accessories.
613386
My user experience barely changed when switching to an Intel 750 [400GB, NVME] from an EVO840 [256GB, SATA]. In addition, when using NVME drives with Socket 1150 processors may involve shenanigans managing your PCIe lanes.

M2 SSDs need x2 PCIe and seem to generally share lanes with USB 3.1, so you have to choose one or the other. The 750, on the other hand, requires a 4x PCIe slot, which I didn't see on any of the motherboards at Microcenter (or online, looking against the list of Intel's tested motherboards). You plug it into an x16 slot, which will then drop to x8, giving x8 to each your video card & SSD (in a single-card setup) or x8/x4/x4 to GPU/GPU/SSD respectively on motherboards that support that PCIe configuration.

My installation was bumpy. The new motherboard I purchased for it's NVME support required a BIOS update out of the box to get said support. The directions from Intel which included "Because NVMe is still a maturing technology, configuring your system to boot from an NVMe SSD can be a confusing task." were completely accurate. Even with a motherboard on their tested list, getting the motherboard updated and configured to see the device at all took me more than 2 hours. I am not new to building or configuring computers - I've installed brand new SIPPs, resolved IRQ conflicts and my first modem connection was at 300 baud.

Objectively, the performance is amazing.

Subjectively, my move to this SSD (which included a mandatory motherboard/processor jump from i5-3570K to a i5-4690K purely to support NVME) has been disappointing. I game (current titles, like Dying Light) and use photoshop/illustrator for production work, with photoshop files in particular ending up in the 2GB range. Load/save times in PS have improved, but they weren't bad before. Little else has changed - perhaps level loads for larger games are a little faster, but I didn't time before/afters.

Overall, I would recommend a SATA SSD, over this SSD, for all but the absolute heaviest users.
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I build dozens of computers annually, and have plenty of experience with SSDs across the range. I bought this PNY drive because it claimed to have very fast (545MB/s read and 525MB/s write). I'm seeing speeds closer to the 300s range, which is pretty atrocious given what was advertised. Based on this, I'd recommend looking elsewhere for an SSD...and I need to benchmark the rest of my PNY drives to see if they're all performing as poorly as this one. Check out other reviews of this for the exact numbers, but this thing really doesn't stack up as PNY says it will.
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I purchased this card, mainly for price and lack of research.  I plugged it in.  It does do well for video, for high resolution display, but it cannot deal with 2D games.  It butcherizes them...I mean bad.  In fact, one game would't play untill I went back to the old 4mb Vcard.  The games it  did poorly with were Axis and Allies,and Army Men 2.  My son won't let me  put it back.  Anyone want this card cheap? When you upgrade card it  shouldn't fail on older software.
116386
horrible cubes. the 2x2 is ok but get locked up all the time, I am returning this product. if you know how to speedsolve a 3x3 this is a horrible cube for you, the 4x4 and 5x5 pop too easily and the 3x3 pops if you solve fast. none of the cubes have any corner cutting and if you have experience and are good at speedsolving go to thecubicle.us to get good cubes.
3873273
I've always loved Randall amps- but I think this one was a mistake. Not enough sustain/ distortion/ overdrive- still had to run my signal through a pedal, and then it was really noisy. Had a micro cube that was awesome but quit working, so I tried to save a few bucks- big mistake! Getting another "cube".
2126703
Fully functional cube but it requires very delicate alignment of the layers before any turn, otherwise pieces might pop or it simply won't turn.
Generally, it's OK. but don't expect speed cubing. It's OK for practicing solutions/algorithms at any time, any bus station, any train etc. not practicing fingertricks.
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I am a fairly big Apple fan I really enjoy their phones, tablets, laptops, iPods, etc but their desktop line just isn't up to snuff. Each desktop has a major short coming. The MacPro is wildly out of date not containing modern specs and is enormous. I would love to have a box that is 50% to 75% of the current size as I don't use many of the specs it has two optical drives, two processors (which total up to twelve processor cores!) four hard drive bays, several slots I don't use, etc. Although most of Apple's portable line comes with Retina displays (the exceptions only being the iPad Mini and Macbook Air) none of the desktop line comes with Retina displays. Instead you get a massive 27" lower resolution display. I would trade that display in for a 20"-23" retina display any day.

Your only other option for a stand alone computer is to go with the super underpowered Mini. A machine that comes packed with great multimedia software and with none of the power to use any of it. Along with the huge performance lag the storage limit for each hard drive tops off at 1TB and only uses the pokey 5400-rpm drives (or expensive SSDs that are very limited in capacity.)

I would really like to think that the iMac is the midrange machine that offers a nice balance between the extremes of the Mini and the Pro but I am sorry to say it simply is not that machine but rather contains everything bad about both the Mini and the Pro in one machine. When the iMac was introduced Phil Schiller gushed about how thin it was but one look at the specs and you soon see were the massive trade offs are. The iMac is supposed to be the mid range machine but actually has fewer HDs then the Mini and the reasonably sized 21.5" version comes with only the painfully slow 5400 drive found in the Minis. While the Pro has more drives then I could ever know what to do with the iMac doesn't even contain an extra internal drive to do my back ups on. The last time I did a review on the iMac I was flooded with comments that were telling me that I should just plug an external drive into the iMac. Apparently there is some confusion to what an ALL IN ONE computer is. All in one means that you don't have to keep plugging in all these different devices to make it work right but that everything works all in that one computer. If it doesn't do that then failed to do the one thing it set out to do.
2180672
It's significantly faster than the TNT2 Ultra, and performs just as well as a GeForce DDR at lower resolutions. Unfortunately, having normal SDRAM really hurts the Prophet at higher resolutions where memory bandwidth is an  issue.  For this price, you might have to consider the geforce gts card  instead.
840072
I'm not an rubik's cube expert, but the quality of these are not for "speedcube" I own other semi-pro cubes and the "move" much better than these cubes. Also, all cubes except the 2x2x2, have bubbles in the stickers (see my attached pictures). They are good for practice and learning but I don't think a "speedcube" should have this low quality.
948372
Don't purchase if you intend to play game cube on it.
519847
Extremely limited system, with appealing but arbitrarily shackled specs. If you're fond of walled gardens, go for it. It's probably most fit for obedient children, Americans ... or North Koreans. But of course, most hardware is moving in this direction and soon nothing will offer any measure of freedom, despite the inherent capabilities of modern hardware. These things should be rented rather than sold - it would be more honest.

My advice: Find a real computer while they last, and find it somewhere other than Amazon!
4379195
Steer clear unless you want to invest in an SSD hard drive and more RAM.
Might as well spend another $100-$150 get something with a quad core and no bloat ware.
2345797
Even if you are not planning on speed cubing, you must purchase this cube over the Rubik's brand.  It is tighter but has smoother turning.  I thought the Rubik's was fine until I recieved this one.  I then realized why so many people hated the Rubik's brand.  It is loose, clanky, loud, and it locks up all the time.  You will have a much better experience with the shengshou...  And it is cheaper, go figure.
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Updated (11/2016)

After acquiring one of these and then voiding the warranty by disassembling it, there is no escaping the design flaws from a power demand and delivery context. WARNING: Do not think that you are getting a 28 Port USB Data Hub that can reliably sustain more than five USB devices for data transfer (like external USB drives, heavy use USB sticks, USB Caches, etc). If you have an external HD with high-demand data transfer, I would not recommend using this hub, even with one port occupied for that purpose.

Before I purchased the Manhattan 28 Port USB, I read all of the reviews and studied the questions and answers and really thought about why I might need a hub of this size, especially with the USB 2.0 & 3.0 standards being marginalized by USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt. But I'm a musician and have many USB devices and on day one of arrival, I filled over 50% of this hub with devices I use on a daily basis.

However, the one nag was an answer that killerb255 gave to a question, on December 24, 2013. He basically pointed out that the power supply for this unit is woefully inadequate, especially if you plan to charge phones or tablets. He went on to point out that the standard power that should be available for USB 2.0 is 5V @ 500mA (2.5W) and for USB 3.0 is 5V @900mA (4.5W) . Doing the math 24*500mA + 4*900mA comes to serious 15.6A.

The problem with needing a minimum of 15.6A is that the DC power supply output is rated at 5V 4A (20W). When you start filling this thing up with USB devices that in total, draw more than 4A of current, your USB devices with not behave properly and disappear from the USB Bus (see the plethora of issues reported in the reviews), or worse, stop working.

[ Edited (11/2016)] - There is [NO] solution. Please read my comments or edited description.
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We tried two of the Dell P2815Q monitors in our engineering office.  One in Software development, and the other in Mechanical Engineering where they use AutoDesk Inventor for 3D design work.  While both guys were excited at first, after a couple of days, they said the P2815Q drove them crazy and were asking for their old monitors back.
We really wanted to like this monitor but the input lag makes it unusable.  The plethora of pixels were supposed to increase productivity but the input lag simply slows the user down.  There is about a half second delay between what the computer sends and the monitor displays.  That doesn't sound like much but it is enough to make operating the mouse cumbersome.

The problem IS NOT the graphics card of the computer.  The problem IS NOT the mouse driver or mouse settings.  The problem IS NOT because the monitor is displaying 4k at 30HZ.  We tested the monitor on high-end Engineering Workstations with $1000 graphics cards as well as the latest Macbook Pro that supports 4k displays.  Even when the monitor received 1080p at 60hz, the same lag is still there.  The input lag is very pronounced when the user drags a window between two monitors.  It can be seen how the picture update on the Dell P2815Q is about a half second behind the other monitor.

Regarding the picture, this monitor has tons of pixels, is super sharp, and has a good enough picture.  It is a little washed out, but if you aren't doing professional photo and video work, it just doesn't matter.  If you want to use the P2815Q with a Macbook Pro with a retina display, you will need Mac OSX10.9.3 or later, which provides nice display scaling features.  At the time this review was written, 10.9.3 could be obtained from Apple as beta.

Also, be aware that in Windows 7, when custom font scaling is applied at the 4k resolution, some applications, including AutoDesk's Inventor, have some scrambled dialogue boxes.

In conclusion, if you are using this as a second monitor, that is not your primary workspace, this monitor may be ok for you.  But if it is your primary workspace, wait for this 4k technology to mature a little more before making the plunge.

Sadly, we have sent the monitors back for a refund.
3900562
I bought this and its insanely easy to setup, but the performance with two SSD in is still too slow for the price. I quickly return it and went with synology 1815+ instead and the performance of 10 virtual machines run much much quicker.

I don't recommend this B810i