Not a bad comp from HWM....
580176
This is not too bad of a comp album which ties up a few of the loose ends not offered by the "Never Ender" album. There's some really great, strong vintage HWM songs on here, and some not as strong ones. The ones for me that do hit the right chords are the songs off the "Split EP" with Leatherface and the songs off the "Moonpie For Misfits" EP and being a being an old school Midnight Oil fan I like the cover of "Dreamworld" as well as the Alkaline Trio covers. Fav songs being "Wrong And Righteous", "Caught Up", "Take As It Comes", "Moments Pass", "Another Way" & "Moonpies For Misfits". "Wayfarer" is a great song too, previously available on "Caution" though. But it's hard to go past the golden era of HWM with the 3 albums "Fuel For The Hate Game", "Forever And Counting" & "No Division".
885677
With the expiration of Win XP, I needed an upgrade for my old HP, despite it being a dual core system. The program loaded fine, and has performed without issues for the past month. I know it is tough paying for a system upgrade, but at least Win7 was still available, and I didn't have to invest in a new machine.
3164939
Taking into consideration that this is about 1/3 price of the next model that I was thinking about, I'm pretty happy with the build.

Instructions?  HA!  make sure you have the parts on the list (which even misses the anti sway parts) but putting it together IMO is common sense.  It took me about 20 min to put it together, and I'm no mechanical genius.
I think most dirtbike types are pretty mechanical, so pretty sure folks can figure this out without instructions.

The ramp sucks, it kicks out if the tires are less then perfect, I'm cutting the corners of the vertical wall off at a 45 deg. angle which will minimize that.

All in all, it's not that tough to put together, and it works pretty well.

If it were $180 shipped instead of $73 I'd have more criticisms, but to buy the cheapest one by a long shot & have it work with some small modifications to make it better... I can't complain.  FOR THE MONEY, it gets 5 stars from me.
3750186
it's very typical nowadays for manufacturers to claim maximum power at ridiculous distortion levels. this units claim of 20w x 4 channels is realistically about 7 or 8 watts per channel, its a little lacking. that issue aside I've had this unit 3 months without any functionality problems, if it had an honest 4-5 watts per channel more power I'd sure given it 5 stars.

this is a budget unit also sold by XO Vision as the XD103, both labels might do well to tell the manufacturer to pop in a little healthier power amp. similar budget units by DUAL and BOSS claiming a 50w x 4 maximum power output also tell in the specs a person can expect an honest 17 watts per channel RMS, so to be competitive at all, this manufacturer really ought to consider "35w x 4", where 35% of that would be an honest twelve watts per channel, can really do wonders.

whatever manufacturers claim, multiplying by 0.35 is about what it'll put out before distortion and heating up become problems, because the FCC allowed amplifiers to be power rated at 10% distortion, years ago their standards only allowed for 1%, which was MUCH nicer.

I'd bought this unit with 4 of their 6.5" speakers along with it, they were inexpensive and carried a fairly high efficiency rating, "91db 1w 1m" would be pretty good for speakers that size, but LMAO at them rating the speakers capable of handling 410 watts! I'm pretty sure a real 40 watts each just might smoke em.
30 bucks for the head unit and 10 bucks a pair for the speakers, not bad for the total spent other than the lack of another 5w per channel it really oughtta have.
2817234
very nice, so far. lots of features for the price. but, not too many. some of the features with the next level up units are just more things to break for me, imo.
2741086
I'll cut to the chase...

The subwoofer is actually pretty good, a nice clean "boom" which is actually adjustable by a little knob. Too much trembling? you can tone it down. Leaving it at mid-point actually works best.

The sound quality is crisp and pretty loud for 3 to 4inch speakers which is pretty decent.

The only problem I encountered was "clearness", I noticed while watching Blu- Rays on my PS3 or streaming NetFlix (PC, PS3, XBOX 360) that I had turn up the volume almost all the way up just to hear people talk...

Overall these speaker aren't too bad, not the greatest for clear-crisp HD/Movie sound, but definitively packs a punch in Music.
1099646
I got an old (wimpy) eMachine for free but it needed some improvements. After a new PSU, video card (no Pci-E, no AGP...only Pci), sound card, extra fan, new dvd burner, and going from 512MB RAM to 1GB of RAM, it ran well enough to play FPSs on the home network. After a year or so, I got a BSOD (blue screen of death).

On POST, I'd get 3 beeps then nothing. I figured it was RAM related. The Mobo only has 2 slots so after checking connections, switching 512s and running them individually, I found the bad RAM. The Nanya was good, the Patriot died/fried.

Mobo max on this old/non-gaming PC is 2GB (1 GB per slot) so I bought the MD2048KD1 kit. The mobo saw the RAM and set to dual channel automatically. So far it's running as well as possible. Much faster than with 1GB and much, much, much faster than with 512MB while I waited for shipping...it did arrive a day early.

The upgrade is well worth it. If you're stuck with 2GB max (or just want to add 2GB) and PC3200, go for it. I don't want to spend a lot to upgrade this old PC so $24 ain't bad.

P.S.
Make sure you're buying the correct RAM (CPUid/CPU-Z helps) and buy in pairs or a kit like this one. Mixing and matching different brands and sizes CAN work but you're better off with twins.
1789991
I bought this card for a HTPC I was assembling with older parts. The card worked well enough. High definition video and light gaming were no problem. This machine is CPU-limited in these applications anyway, so I have no doubt the card can perform at a higher level than the paces I put it through. The fanless cooler was the real selling point, as I wanted a quiet card (it's silent, obviously). It does a good job staying cool. The vram used is regular DDR3 on this model, not GDDR5 like most modern cards, but this card is not meant for applications where the difference is significant. All-in-all, the performance matched the price and I got what I wanted from it. I'd have given it four stars for that.

Suddenly, about three months after purchase and installation, I came home to find a disruption in the video signal. I suspected the TV first, but testing it with other hardware proved it to be fine. I then feared the actual PCI-E port on the motherboard had gone bad, but first I checked the more easily removed card. I popped it into another system I had lying around. Of the three outputs, only the DVI port was able to transmit even the BIOS screen. The HDMI and VGA ports were useless and would not even signal two different monitors (in addition to the original TV).

I'll see how Zotac handles the RMA process, though my first attempt to register with their website prompted a warning that their security certificate is two months out of date. That does not inspire a lot of confidence.
1582213
Installation was pretty straight forward. I got the unit for a decent price but please, by all means, don't think you are getting super bargain 2000 platinum plus deal extraordinaire! This is an ok unit for an ok price for ok features. I think for the majority of the people out there like my wife will be just fine. For audiofiles or geeks that like to play with all the options and a bit out of the norm, we'd probably be disappointed.
4859189
Pretty good, well made but not terribly heavy.  Can't complain for the price - really.  It's cheap, but it's no where near as bad as the <400w antec units or the logisys junk.  This won't explode your computer.  Do test it first by shorting a green and black wire, to see if it powers up, but be careful not to spread the female connection inside the pin if you use a paperclip otherwise you'll need a jewelers screwdriver to fix it.  You'll know you goofed and did that if you have a machine that doesn't power on at first unless you wiggle the cable and shuts off randomly or right after.  Good stable unit though that being said.  Do not shy away from this.  It's good enough to get the job done for 75% of pc's out there and is much, much, much better than what the OEM's pc's give you.  Little if any fluctuations, and not a lot of noise.  Has your core2duo/quad power supply gone kaput?  Has your AMD Phenom II system's psu gone out?  This is a good fix.
2868255
The poly material used in these is pretty hard so get ready for increased NVH transmitting into your consciousness, this may be good or bad depending on your goals. They are definitely not as soft as OEM. Value for the dollar really can't be beat here but I have one issue while running these in a high performance environment, they like to pull out from the control arm in the back which causes more noise and suboptimal performance because they drop down onto the metal failsafe, I can pop them back in with the use of a jack once parked but they could have been designed better. The lip is just not strong enough to hold it together. Maybe I got a weak one, but I know I don't want to have to worry about these on track so I will probably switch to a different brand.
4965156
I purchased several of these and they seem to work OK. Installation sets up the adapter to be managed by CISCO software. Sometimes I have found that the SW can drop the network.... and this has required some maintenance to get it restarted. The problem is that it only happens every few months..... so you tend to forget what you did the last time to get it restarted. I think it would be simpler if Windows managed the device instead.... but so far I have not been able to figure out how to setup Windows to do so. In general the device works reliably..... but as noted tends to drop the wireless connection now and then. Most of the time it can recover itself... but every few months it does not, requiring manual intervention to reconnect.
180194
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Now it is here and after a 10 minute installation, it is up and ready. My only problem is that the signal strength is not very good. It works fine when my laptop is 2 feet away, but when
I put my laptop in another room (about 60 feet away), the signal strength fell to 50%. After moving it around through a few locations, I finally found a spot where the strength is about 90%.
In essence, nothing great, but good value for the money.
Now I hope my mail-in rebate comes in a couple of months.
4462946
Ok, if you've bought any of the other hundred or so comps by Ultra, then you know what to expect already. For the uninitiated that means that Disc 1 is pretty solid after one skips past the first three to five tracks. Now those tracks may not be that bad individually, but that's where all the 'big names' on the disc get collected, regardless of how well they happen to flow together. Disc 2 is where things always start to look better. Better tracks that tend to work side by side in a logical fashion that creates the groove that the producers were shooting for in the first place. And this comp does have some very solid tunes. Gotan Project, Jazzanova and Koop off Disc 1 and very nearly all of Disc 2 is just smashing. Pretty laid-back over-all with some mellow drums in the mix, but nothing too fierce for what it is. And finally a 'Chill' comp sans Moby. Not too shabby.
2581803
Have only had the PC something like 3 days, and will update this review if needed, but so far it's all as advertised and expected, other than some issue on my own side in that I may have bought a machine that underperforms for what I need (my own fault, I rushed with the assumption that surely "any PC" around $300 will do simple video capture as I wanted a machine just dedicated to sitting and capturing and nothing else, but now not so sure, this is entirely my own issue and I can resolve it one way or another).

However, I was quite surprised by the extensive bloatware (unnecessary software) on the PC.  I had bought a higher-end (than this, not top of the line but slightly upper end) PC from HP around 16 months or maybe longer ago and it had relatively little, aside from a number of HP utilities of dubious performance but no big deal (readily apparent and easy to turn off/on as desired).  So I didn't expect the onslaught of absurd additional software packed onto this, ranging from some HP recipe software to other various software aimed at getting you to buy services.  I spent well over half an hour just uninstalling software, much to my dismay.  I realize this is an increasingly common trend and should have realized with HP's rush in the last year to be a "software company" they might have done something this annoying, but nonetheless disappointed in this respect.
3082371
Good for the price, great low end fidelity, high not as strong.
1298191
Very early review... received mine on Friday and only had a short time to mess with it over the weekend. Mine has a production date of Feb 2016 so there's a datapoint for those who care. Only moderate bleed through. similar to the ancient 24" 21:9 Dell i have next to it. Really can only see it with a total black background. No aberrant pixels at this time. The box it came in was a little beat up witch was a little concerning. The stand is not level (about 1" shim under the left foot right now to bring it almost perfectly level). Not cool.... will have to ask Amazon about what can be done.

Set the monitor and windows to run at 100Hz. I only had a few moments to try Witcher 3. I run a 980ti and was getting in the 70fps range (maybe into the 50's during some fights) for the scenes I tried with AA & Hairworks off... everything else at ultra. Too bad the cinematics are not ultra-wide :-) It will take some getting used too... the wider field of vision was a little disorienting :-)

I've not noticed any coil whine nor scan lines... will see what happens when I get a chance to spend a bit more time gaming (got nice deals on Fallout 4 and GTA5... need to figure out which one comes first!)

Knocking off a star for value (maybe premature... will see... i knew what I was getting so...) but more so for the crooked base.

Colors are great. Text is crisp as hell. Worked great when I hooked my work MacPro up to the HDMI...looking forward to that for work-at-home days.