I found this review amusing

[CDC Mail Guy]

From "macadami" on the Egg...

"Pros: If you laid out the amount of watts this thing can really put out, you could cover an area the size of Belgium. Modular cables made the right way, Watts truely rated at RMS. Quiet even under ""full"" load. Packaging could be saved and used as a stocking stuffer later in the year.

Cons: Could not be used to jump start an 87 civic and i had to buy a usb cup warmer as i could no longer warm my coffee on the back of my case.

Other Thoughts: I take this seriously. Very seriously. The room is white, high-ceilinged, interrupted by curves of steel equipment here and there. I am wearing safety goggles and my boots are lined with plastic bags. There is a multimeter to my left, a glass of water to my right, and beneath my chair a syringe filled with hydrocortisone. In front of me sits a test bed of parts all powered by the corsair 520hx. The powersupply is quiet, sturdy, a clean low gloss black paint covers it that somehow communicates both depth and solidity. I slowly reach towards the ignition button, hesitating every so slightly before engaging. One FX-60 fitted on an A8N32 being cooled by a Monsoon II TEC start it's whirring beeping routine. The 21"" Monitor clicks on as the 8800gts's fan finesses air over it's hidden heatsink. Four sata drives react with vigor as they are ordered to life. The dangerous part is over. I checked the watts being fed, 517, the PSU scoffed in disgust as it's internal temp was only 103f."

lol...

 

[jonnyGURU]

Yeah... Newegg is chock full of phoney reviews. Most of them Newegg is reluctant to do anything about and it's against their policy to give out user's emails and/or IP address so manufacturer reps can find out if someone is a shill or a troll.

You simply can't buy a product based on Newegg reviews.

 

[RallyMaster]

Oh my. That is quite the story.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
You simply can't buy a product based on Newegg reviews.

Nope. Just recently I came across a Newegg review on a motherboard... was the first review posted on that particular board... the reviewer said that he did not buy the board, but was reviewing it based on the pictures. WTF? He gave the board 4/5 eggs, knocking it for not having enough PCI slots. I'll see if I can find it again, LOL.


EDIT: Found it! Bottom most review (meaning first posted).

Customer Reviews for MSI P45 Neo-F LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813130181

Pros: Has PCI-E 2.0 x16 Plenty of USB, 1394, and the usual goods. Even PATA. Has 6 SATA 3.0Gbps, contrary to Newegg's stats. Price

Cons: None that I know

Other Thoughts: I don't own this card, but I still took off an egg because it is slightly lacking in PCI-e ports. Other than that, seems great!

Highlighted for your reading pleasure.

 

[AmberClad]

I came across one just this afternoon that I got a good laugh off of:

Be warned

Reviewed By: 3vi14n931 on 6/20/2008
Tech Level: high - Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg.com

Pros: ???
Cons: will not contact CPU fully.
Other Thoughts: Its like jumping off cliffs, you just don't do it!!! (unless you want something to die)

0 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

This is the product. Surely a person with a self-described tech level of "high" would have realized that they were trying to put a northbridge heatsink on a CPU ?

 

[HOOfan 1]

who calls a motherboard a card? How many PCI-E x16 does he expect a $100 P45 board to have?

 

[Old Hippie]

Other Thoughts: I take this seriously. Very seriously. The room is white, high-ceilinged, interrupted by curves of steel equipment here and there. I am wearing safety goggles and my boots are lined with plastic bags. There is a multimeter to my left, a glass of water to my right, and beneath my chair a syringe filled with hydrocortisone. In front of me sits a test bed of parts all powered by the corsair 520hx. The powersupply is quiet, sturdy, a clean low gloss black paint covers it that somehow communicates both depth and solidity. I slowly reach towards the ignition button, hesitating every so slightly before engaging. One FX-60 fitted on an A8N32 being cooled by a Monsoon II TEC start it's whirring beeping routine. The 21"" Monitor clicks on as the 8800gts's fan finesses air over it's hidden heatsink. Four sata drives react with vigor as they are ordered to life. The dangerous part is over. I checked the watts being fed, 517, the PSU scoffed in disgust as it's internal temp was only 103f."

That's Great! :laugh:

Corsair otta put that guy in advertising! That'd make a great picture for a PS ad.

 

[Yellowbeard]

Originally posted by: Old HippieThat's Great! :laugh:

Corsair otta put that guy in advertising! That'd make a great picture for a PS ad.

No....no we should not do that

This is sad but true and it's painfully illustrated almost daily.

You simply can't buy a product based on Newegg reviews

Here's one sad example and this is not the worst one:

http://www.newegg.com/product/...e=ALL&Pagesize=&Page=1

 

[Yellowbeard]

Apparently, Newegg cleaned that one up some. Here's a thread on it at another forum:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1132632

Some golden examples:

"Don't listen to mkohutek or meeka they don't know what they are talking about. More GHZ means more performance no matter what. This cpu has more transistors to so it can do more things in a clock cycle."

"The fastest processor currently on the market. You can't trust random benchmarks from the tech websites since they don't measure real world performance. That's all that matters. I got tricked into getting the Core 2 X6800 by what everyone else was saying and when using both my PCs side-by-side, this one is defintely faster even though it has less RAM. Dont' wait, buy before they are discontinued. The Core line of CPUs won't be faster than this until they release quad cores to the masses. It might even take 8 cores to match this beast."
"There are no cons to 7.46 gigahertz of power. I don't want a bus. I want a ferrari. Lets have Ferrari cake and eat it too!!!!! There can never be a core to top the pressler core. That is where the future is. Intel will see that their slow core2s do not cut it when you compare the speed to 7.46. Its hard to describe the fastness. Imagine a fighter jet playing guitar and you will picture how fast it is."
Newegg supposedly has a rigorous approval process for these posts yet you can find stuff like this daily. And, as JG noted, there is virtually no recourse. It is the playground of pimps, shills, idiots, and worse and ruins a good tool for legit users.

 

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: Yellowbeard
Apparently, Newegg cleaned that one up some. Here's a thread on it at another forum:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1132632

Some golden examples:

"Don't listen to mkohutek or meeka they don't know what they are talking about. More GHZ means more performance no matter what. This cpu has more transistors to so it can do more things in a clock cycle."

"The fastest processor currently on the market. You can't trust random benchmarks from the tech websites since they don't measure real world performance. That's all that matters. I got tricked into getting the Core 2 X6800 by what everyone else was saying and when using both my PCs side-by-side, this one is defintely faster even though it has less RAM. Dont' wait, buy before they are discontinued. The Core line of CPUs won't be faster than this until they release quad cores to the masses. It might even take 8 cores to match this beast."
"There are no cons to 7.46 gigahertz of power. I don't want a bus. I want a ferrari. Lets have Ferrari cake and eat it too!!!!! There can never be a core to top the pressler core. That is where the future is. Intel will see that their slow core2s do not cut it when you compare the speed to 7.46. Its hard to describe the fastness. Imagine a fighter jet playing guitar and you will picture how fast it is."
Newegg supposedly has a rigorous approval process for these posts yet you can find stuff like this daily. And, as JG noted, there is virtually no recourse. It is the playground of pimps, shills, idiots, and worse and ruins a good tool for legit users.

I'd love to know how he would explain Hyper Threading

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Yellowbeard
Newegg supposedly has a rigorous approval process for these posts yet you can find stuff like this daily.

AFAIK their "rigorous approval process" is signing up for a Newegg account. As long as the post doesn't bash Newegg, it'll probably get posted.

Originally posted by: BassBomb
I'd love to know how he would explain Hyper Threading

"It's dual processors - just look in task manager! This was before Intel invented the word 'dual.'"

 

[Yellowbeard]

Originally posted by: Zap
"It's dual processors - just look in task manager! This was before Intel invented the word 'dual.'"

And, as we all know, Al Gore had to invent the internet first.

 

[JEDIYoda]

These reviews are professionally done by professionals in the workplace. People in the know if you will!!

Here is a fine example --
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817148027
Pros: To say this is the best power supply ever made is an understatement. I use nothing but Apevia PSU`s in my customers PSU`s. Mind you that I have many clients who are in the medical as well as industrial sector that need to have their systems stay online with no down time. These PSU`s are by far the most efficient and silent power supplies I have ever used. I purchase all my power supplies from NewEgg because the have the very best prices and the very best customer service.
Cons: No cons!
Other Thoughts: I would recommend these power supplies to anybody who needed a power supply that was built for mission critical work. You jusy cannot get any better than Apevia!

Way too funny!!! rofl...hahaaaaa

 

[RallyMaster]

How anyone can recommend an Assfire is beyond me.

 

[jonnyGURU]

Threads merged. We don't need multiple Newegg-Review-Bashing threads, something that's actually quite off topic, in this forum.

TIA for the understanding.

jon

 

[QueBert]

I chuckle at a lot of the reviews on them, some are just idiots who have no business reviewing anything, but some are people who just don't understand terms and say things like "I formatted it to NTSC and it was SO MUCH FASTER!" He was talking about a Thumb Drive and he formatted it to NTFS. I laughed at NTSC, I understood the typo but I still had to chuckle.

 

[HOOfan 1]

Originally posted by: RallyMaster
How anyone can recommend an Assfire is beyond me.

probably because he is a shill who works for the company.

 

[Yellowbeard]

Originally posted by: QueBert"I formatted it to NTSC and it was SO MUCH FASTER!" He was talking about a Thumb Drive and he formatted it to NTFS. I laughed at NTSC, I understood the typo but I still had to chuckle.

I always format to NTSB just in case there is a crash.