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I also had an Inno3D passive FX5200 that died on me, PC suddenly went off and upon inspection one of the capacitors had exploded, it worked fine up until then.
Lc power pro x type 600W psu.What a piece of sh**.Overheated and damaged my 6950.
+1 for the tv tuner card. Brought for convenience of having tv built into pc at uni and for playing original Xbox through (also had a video pass through) and the quality was awful. Got used for a month before I went home for a proper tv!
I've had several nVidia cards fail on me, but usually after some good use.
So it's my XFX Pro PSU in my current machine. Lovely power delivery, cables etc. But they skimped on the quality of the fan and it has a really loud click where it's banging into something. It's a fairly common problem, but it's also intermittent - changing orientation of the PSU only makes it go away for a little while. So no chance of a refund/replacement from any shop like Scan where they need to be able to see an error dead cert and would likely then ship it to the Netherlands in the meantime, so I'm out of luck really.
Tough one. Bought lots of mediocre kit but I guess a second Nvidia 7800GT for SLI. It only cost £40 as it was quiet out of date by then and made so little difference to the games I was playing (I hoped it would save upgrading for a bit). It was so little an upgrade I went and built a new PC with a ATI 4850 (which was £130) which blew the SLI setup out the water! I learnt that it was never worth upgrading old kit with old kit!
Component: Titan Amanda TEC CPU cooler.
All the reviews said it was quiet, and although it is far from noisy, it is not quiet. On top of that, if the room temperature is above 15c (always will be) then the TEC is on. This then causes heat and an additional 50 watt of power.
It was just a really stupid solution that in hindsight I wish I had avoided.
(Not worth mentioning the cost of it)
xfx 8800 ultra xxx cost 480 quid packed up on the 53 week into a 1 year guarantee! Never again!!!
A PSU that I bought to 'upgrade' my first PC. Installed it, booted it up, and one second later..POP, CRACKLE, BANG..taking half of my new hardware with it!
Hauppauge nuff saidOriginally Posted by .havoc
A PhysX card.
I cry a little bit every time I think about it.
Soundblaster PCI128 soundcard. Driver hell and not terribly compatible with much in early DirectX era.
That and several ridiculously noisy screamer fans in the Athlon / P4 Mhz wars era.
I have only built one PC, about 2 years ago, and so far I can't complain. I think all the generations of PC builders before me did a lot of the quality testingso nowadays most branded components are fairly decent (there are a few exceptions as a few of you have already noted).
Its not an upgrade but I am kinda regretting buying the Roccat Kave Headset. The sound is good and its built very well but its too heavy and the mic is a pain in the arse, just never seems to work properly. Now use the mic on my webcam when gaming.
Also the Coolermaster CM690II Advanced case. Again its generally a good case but the filters are an aggravation to remove and clean. I need to actually unscrew the PSU to get that one out and I've never been able to get to the top filters as, by the looks of it, I need to disconnect the fan and front I/O cables to get to them and its too much hassle.
A celeron.
Okay I didn't buy it, it was given to me... Worked out why as soon as I booted it up.
Even my Athlon X2 put it to shame :S
Holy crap that was going to be my post almost entirely! The FX5200 jittering and game freeze ruined many a night gaming, but my budget was too limited to buy anything else to replace it. I too bought a PCI vent cooler but never installed it as I manage to stick it out all the way up to the day I bought my current system (with a GTX460). I'm now selling the machine on, (if anyone is mad enough to want it) - just PM me, and I might even throw in the cooler! You too could experience the misery that is owning a passive FX5200Probably, a passive GeForce FX5200. It wasn't that it wasn't a decent graphics card - it really wasn't that bad. But put it under any kind of 3D load at all and it froze instantly. It did this until the day I bought one of those PCI slot exhaust fans and put it immediately beneath it - then it ran fine until the day I upgraded (and what an upgrade!) to a Radeon 9800 Pro. So for its utterly inadequate cooling solution, I think that has to be the worst
Oh shoot, I nearly forgot, bad though the FX5200 is by far the worst purchase I ever made was a MESH pc. (i didn't know any better ok, I was young, naive and they were getting good reviews compared to Tiny, Time and the like) If Mesh cherry picked their components it was apparently to give as noisy a machine as possible. With that thing on (just the fans, nevermind CD drive) it was impossible to sleep, hold a conversation without raised voices, or watch TV without disturbing the neighbours. I kid you not. My mum called it the jet engine, and used to sigh when it reappeared into the lounge at the end of each uni term. Seriously my vacuum cleaner has a low-noise setting that is quieter than that machine was. It got me through uni, only crashing every so often - a miracle considering the paltry 128MB of DDR PC2700 under the hood.
I had two of those and never had a single problem - read lots of stories at the time though.
My worst? Probably A dual-die dual core P4 (805?) ate power and pumped out heat that nothing else.
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