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Saw this hilarious user review [+more epic fail customer reviews]

Ichinisan

Ichinisan

Lifer
Saw this user review on Newegg for the Antec Three Hundred Illusion.

One excerpt to sum it up:
No transparent side panel is one thing but no internal speaker is just cheap. I get 20 spare stainless thumbscrews but they would not include a $1.50 speaker or a $0.25 intrusion indicator, shameless!
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Expecting the case to have the POST speaker these days...that made my day!

Reading his review, it's obvious he has no idea that the "extra" thumbscrews are supposed to be for the drives (with that many, shouldn't it be OBVIOUS?). Also, expecting intrusion detection and advanced fan controls is expecting too much for a case in this price range. This is the mid-tower VALUE gamer case. It merely has decent aesthetics / cooling for a reasonable price. That's it! Dinging it for not having a side panel is also stupid. I was only considering this case BECAUSE it didn't have a side-panel! Most people don't want to see the cramped / cluttered interior of a mid-tower! It just boggles my mind that anyone would want both a window (to display the internal components) and also intrusion detection. Most people that like having a window area also going into the system constantly to show off / upgrade / maintain it. Intrusion detection isn't for gamers, it's for business IT departments that worry about employees stealing internal components.

Full review:

budget price but budget quality

Pros: Good price, lots of fans, excellent airflow. Easy to remove panels with large thumbscrews. Well placed front panel audio jacks and USB ports. Clean looking black design, not a lot of frilly extras beyond small blue led's for the fans.

Cons: Some of the screws provided to mount the mobo to the brass standoffs do not screw tightly. I measured them with a micrometer and some of the screws are just slightly too small for the standoffs by about 0.03". The case came with about 20 spare thumbscrews but there are only 4 screws needed to hold both side panels to the case. There are 4 on-board system fans but no 4-pin connectors to system fan headers on the motherboard. Instead, they provide a 2- or 3-position switch (lo, med, hi) for setting fan speed. Consequently, no option for dynamically controlling fan speed with the mobo. No internal speaker for POST messages either. No transparent side panel (for those who like that sort of thing). Also no intrusion indicator.

Other Thoughts: If you're on a budget you could do worse than this case but you could also do better. No transparent side panel is one thing but no internal speaker is just cheap. I get 20 spare stainless thumbscrews but they would not include a $1.50 speaker or a $0.25 intrusion indicator, shameless!

This will probably be my last mid-tower case. As I become a more serious PC builder I find myself wanting the extra room to work that a full ATX tower provides.
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These people are the worst customers. Expecting a bmw and features when paying for a kia. Easy way to shut them up is to ask them where they found someone better/with their listed expectations for the same cost.
 
Ichinisan said:
Expecting the case to have the POST speaker these days...that made my day!
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To be sure, Antec SHOULD be including a small peizo speaker that attaches to the motherboard, if the case doesn't have a normal speaker.

I mean, the cheap $20 Rosewill cases from Newegg include one, why shouldn't Antec.
 
Anubis said:
ummm not including a speaker is an outlier as like 99.99% of cases do
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True, although I wish more motherboards came with it built in. I really liked that about the reference 780i boards.

The Rocketfish case I have came with a peizo speaker on like a 2" cable... Kind of annoying, but the case was so damn cheap I really can't complain about anything.

edit: I've never owned a case with intrusion detection, and I don't really see why any gamer/home user would want it.
 
This one is better, it's for a Foxconn socket 775 board:

Pros: arrived ontime

Cons: when i removed the cap from the cpu socket i noticed that instead of the usual socket i am used to i see pins just like on the bottom of my cpu , there was no way to insert my cpu and lock it down without bending every pin on the cpu and the one's on the socket , i never have seen this before , i have built other systems before even ones with intel duo core and never had this problem the gigabyte mobo that i used was not like this one , i am not sure why there are pins instead of holes to insert the cpu and foxconn is of no help they just keep repeating the page to go to and see the supported cpu's , my cpu is supported but is not compatible becouse it also has pins just like the socket.

Other Thoughts: i will never buy or wast any more of my money on this brand nor will i wast my time on another one.
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:hmm:
 
notposting said:
This one is better, it's for a Foxconn socket 775 board:



:hmm:
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What is he talking about? I haven't built a PC for a few years, but are current CPU no longer the male part and the socket the female? Or is the reviewer off his rockers?
 
jchu14 said:
What is he talking about? I haven't built a PC for a few years, but are current CPU no longer the male part and the socket the female? Or is the reviewer off his rockers?
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Cpus are now flat, and the motherboard has the pins. You just carefully lay the cpu on top of the pins and clamp the retention mechanism. The pressure from the retention mechanism ensures that contact is maintained between cpu and cpu socket. Of course, there are notches on the cpu and socket to prevent you from putting the chip in the wrong way. It's a little unnerving the first time you see it, but it's actually really easy to do without messing anything up.

edit: a picture is worth a thousand words: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_grid_array
 
notposting said:
This one is better, it's for a Foxconn socket 775 board:



:hmm:
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I think posts like this are funny...for one he has no idea how to Google anything, and two, he said thats he built Core 2 Duo machines before, which is OBVIOUSLY a lie as he would no damn full and well that this is the way its supposed to be...
 
Anubis said:
ummm not including a speaker is an outlier as like 99.99% of cases do
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Well, I'm sure cheap cases that are expected to be used with older components probably include a speaker just-in-case. I haven't used a motherboard that didn't have a built-on speaker since the nForce 1/2 days...and none of my Antec, OEM, or SSF cases since then have had speakers either. Every board I've laid my hands on since has a piezo speaker built-on.

Personally, I would have been quite surprised to find a speaker in the Antec 300.

notposting said:
This one is better, it's for a Foxconn socket 775 board:



:hmm:
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That's great!

So is this guy:

Gammer1999 said:
Title: Hammers games into the ground Date: February 5, 2010
Product Uses: gamminggamminggamming

Review:I totaly love the m17x. Im at a desk all day long So when I get home I dont want to be near a desk. This laptop fixes all that. It hammers games into the ground Literly. Im free's me from my chains. It's Heavy the Battery life sucks, and its soild gamming power. Perfect from my needs and an its great for lan party's. If you traveling allot or on the go you might want to look The m15 or m11 becuase this thing is a monster.

Other thoughts: Make sure you pay for the upgraded screen and dual cards even if you have to go cheaper on ram,cpu or the hard drive. Last 3 very easy to update frist 2 not so much.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Another fool doesn't know what "literally" means (unless I'm confused in thinking that "Literly" was intended to mean "literally"). Also, it's "easy to upgrade" the CPU on a NOTEBOOK?! Worst part is at the end "3 of 3 people found this review helpful?!" Really?!

Gammer1999 said:
Title: Gamming laptop's Date: January 27, 2010

Review:The m1730 supports ddr2 memory and Older generation graphics. All in all its a nice laptop for its time. If your on a buget and you can find this laptop for a smoking deal thin grabe it. Nothing is future prof when it comes to gamming laptops. Now If you can spair some extra cash buy the m17x laptop you be happy you did. the ddr3 and I7 procesor with dual graphics will blow your mind. Also side not to anyone buying a gamming laptop if you dont spend the extra 150 dollor for the screen upgrade, Im going to smake you over the head. You can always update ram, hardrives and cpu later why why would you skip out on resulution for 150 dollors. anyways thats my 2-cents
4 of 14 people found this review helpful.
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http://reviews.dell.com/2341/907048ec-99a9-4bc4-b5a8-82fb43a668a4/profile.htm
 
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nitromullet said:
Cpus are now flat, and the motherboard has the pins. You just carefully lay the cpu on top of the pins and clamp the retention mechanism. The pressure from the retention mechanism ensures that contact is maintained between cpu and cpu socket. Of course, there are notches on the cpu and socket to prevent you from putting the chip in the wrong way. It's a little unnerving the first time you see it, but it's actually really easy to do without messing anything up.

edit: a picture is worth a thousand words: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_grid_array
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Yeah. It's sad to see all the display boards @ Fry's where people have mashed in all the pins on some $1k+ server boards.
 
My fav was one where the cooler the guy bought didn't fit so he cut the top off the heat pipes and the pissed because , A they were hollow and B after cutting it the processor ran at 85C.

Wish I could find that review again.
🙂
 
We should start a website for these things. Kind of like Techtales or peopleofwalmart but for idiodic product reviews.

I'm sure you can find some even dumber reviews when you look at stuff that don't require basic technical knowledge of anything to use.
 
smackababy said:
There was a hilarious TIM review posted once. I still am not sure what the poor guy was doing with it.
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oreo cookie? i remember it and that's the only thing i could think of :awe:. the guy must have been layering it on in globs or something
 
It's buried now but there was a review of AS5 on Newegg where the guy complained that AS5 doesn't stay silver when you put it on your skin. He spent a lot money buying a ton of AS5 to use as part of a holloween costume, as the Silver Surfer.
 
Yeah some of the newegg customers have some pretty stupid reviews. One review I saw, had the guy mark the product 1 egg out of 5 because he bought a bad unit that was DOA from Circuit City. Another review I saw docked it by one egg (4 out of 5) because UPS took 3 days to deliver it when he paid for 3 day shipping. Another review I saw for a PSU gave it one star:
Pros: ehh...

Cons: After installation I would get random BSOD with vista and then no boot at all. RMA's this one and am waiting for replacement. Put old PSU in and still getting random BSOD. I have put together multiple systems from scratch so I know what I am doing. I will write another review after the replacement is installed.
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LOL so the PSU is responsible for his BSOD, despite having the exact same thing happen with another PSU? I loved his little snippet where he says he knows what he's doing.
 
Juddog said:
Yeah some of the newegg customers have some pretty stupid reviews. One review I saw, had the guy mark the product 1 egg out of 5 because he bought a bad unit that was DOA from Circuit City. Another review I saw docked it by one egg (4 out of 5) because UPS took 3 days to deliver it when he paid for 3 day shipping. Another review I saw for a PSU gave it one star:


LOL so the PSU is responsible for his BSOD, despite having the exact same thing happen with another PSU? I loved his little snippet where he says he knows what he's doing.
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Yeah, I've noticed if the review contains something about the user being an IT professional or really knowing what they're doing, they generally don't have a clue.
 
CurseTheSky said:
IIRC he talked about how there wasn't enough to cover the entire case, or something like that. It was a REALLY confusing, creepy post.
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I remember that. He covered the bottom of his laptop with it and said it was good because it kept his laptop cool for a while but disliked that it "dried quickly and needed to be replaced often".
 
Complaints like the ones in this review are confusing to me. He bought a case that did not have what he wanted and then complains that ....... the case does not have what he wanted???

Logically, that is the same as wanting a blue case and ordering a red case then, complaining and slamming it in the reviews because it's blue, not red. It reminds me of the time I went to McDonald's wanting a hot dog. They don't have hot dogs so I ordered a cheeseburger instead. I then complained to the manager that I wanted a hot dog and that I did not want cheese.

Posts like this make me wonder if that guys HD is formatted properly or if his primary partition might be a bit corrupted.
 
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