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About LinkBacksCheers, I didn't, just reading it now. Still, I'm sticking with mine for the time being (one of these), maybe I'll push it up the replacement list just to be sure.Originally Posted by snootyjim
Cheers, I didn't, just reading it now. Still, I'm sticking with mine for the time being (one of these), maybe I'll push it up the replacement list just to be sure.
Definitely an ICY BOX external drive enclosure. I went thru three of them. Had to keep returning them as they just stopped working. Eventually got a refund. Ended up buying a cheap own brand and it's still working two years later.
I have a Hiper 730w Type-R too. I was going to mention it as I never realised how awkward it would be to have the cables coming out of the top of the psu. It meant that I couldn't use the bottom pci slots on my motherboard.(I have an Antec 900 case)
Mind you, mine stopped working about four years ago. I sent it back but they told me it would take a month to have it returned. I bought a Corsair HX1000W after that and haven't looked back. I still have the Hiper tho', still in the bubblewrap after they returned it to me. Was thinking of trying to offload on ebay, never realised that many people had problems with them.
An old CiT midi case with a built in power supply. 500W it claimed, of course now I realise how bad it was. PSU was always making awful noises and the case itself cut me constantly with sharp edges. Probably explains why it was under £25 for both. Luckily all replaced and nothing exploded. Wont be repeating that one!
Usb Free view ! total rubbish...
HP Photosmart printers. Had a few, all have sucked. I don't think I have ever printed something out correctly! Apart from the endless test sheets
Aegia PhysX card.
A 2TB Hitachi hard drive. Moved all of my data scattered from various hard disks onto it, and it failed within 2 hours. Not the first Hitachi hard drive I have had that failed on me either.
Brilliant question of the week!
It has to be ECS K7S5A motherboard. No question.
We saw quite a few of these motherboards. Sadly, they had a couple of technical problems...
First, they all reset their BIOS randomly. Usually while in use. Doh!
Secondly, USB mice interfered with the sound system. You'd move the mouse and the speakers would beep!
ECS never offered a fix either and I haven't touched them since.
(On a side note, nice to see the Geforce 5200 showing it's face in this thread lol)
A creative SoundCard. Serious issues with it, and support was non-existant, despite many others in their forums with the same issues. When someone managed to fix the issues, even without a fix themselves. Three months in, I sold the card on and went back to onboard. :-(
MSI 975x Platinum v2.
Lots of issues with RAM incompatibility. 2 DIMM slots were not working.
All series couldn't OC past 350 Mhz FSB.
BIOS was a mess.
I then switched to a much cheaper mobo from Gigabyte and it was heaven. It still works @435 Mhz FSB!
Sapphire Radeon HD 5450 512 MB.
I wont say its the worst card in the world. But, I got it for 50 bucks a few months back, to stick in a computer with a dead graphics card.
Its been working ever since, and can play most anything on low as possible. XD
However, It was 50 bucks back then, and now its about 30 bucks. The passive cooler works fine, no problems there.
However, the 512 MB of memory just isnt enough to be able to play much of anything decently. Should have paid the extra, litterally like, 4 bucks for the 1 GB version....
Quite a few. Some I will mention:
Back in the day I saved up £125 after ages and got myself a Pentium 200MMX chip. Put in it, fired up the system. Crash. I had forgotten to put on the heatsink. Oops. One neatly flash fried chip.
I got seduced by SCSI for some unknown reason and went through a phase of buying controllers and overpriced 2nd hand SCSI drives to run on my OS/2 rigs. Waste of money for a home system.
Not much of a component, rather a peripheral but a Belkin usb to networking hub. Of course it didn't work.
A FW/USB combo card with an ALi chip. Only worked with Windows, which was not what it was intended for.
The Kingston V200 128GB drive still mentioned on this forum. Had to send it back when temps hit 63ºC at idle.
A portable Zip usb drive, which wasn't so portable as it would not work without the optional power adapter.
An Iomega Ditto drive. Connected to the floppy socket. 2GB tapes so expensive and so slow because of the connection that it would have been cheaper and quicker to back up to DVD-RW.
A barebones Zotac HD-1D11 I got cheap. It runs hotter than a Revo and the fan is noisy. No substitute for the Acer.
A Dell Inspiron 530 on offer from Tesco with the Q6600 cpu and G0 stepping, ripe for overclocking. Except that it is a Dell. So you can't. What a waste.
Two sets of Belkin Powerline starter kit homeplugs bought on offer. Still boxed.
A pair of USB 3 caddies bought on eBay. Will not fit my hard drives due to a lip inside the caddy housing.
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Historically, a Stonechip keyboard for my Sinclair Spectrum. The Spectrum had rubber keys, and wasn't very durable, so they sold third party keyboards for it. This particular keyboard encased the entire computer. It lasted for two days before conking out. I got a refund, and made do with the Spectrum as it was.
In more recent times I'd opt for the generic Radeon 9000 64MB AGP GPU in the pre-built desktop PC I bought in 2003. It was never up to the job, the drivers were flaky, and I've never used another ATI/AMD GPU since.
+1 to that! The old 'Deathstars' were a bit of a public relations nightmare for IBM at the time. It wasn't all that long after that that they sold their hard-disk business to Hitachi.
Another nightmare component for me was the Coolermaster Stacker STC-01 case. I bought it on the strength of some great reviews (Hexus included...you guys gave it 9/10!), and because it could take BTX form-factor motherboards as well...future-proof, right?! Whilst the case was huge & did have space for lots of 5.25" drives, working on it was just horrible. The 3.5" drive cage only had space for 4 drives, & was a pig to extract from the case, which you had to do every time to add or remove a drive. Despite being cavernous inside, there was no effort to allow good cable routing, so it ended up being a rat's nest of cables in there. Oh, & the fans were noisy, and the removable drive bay covers kept breaking & falling out!
As a general rant, I'd have to nominate any manufacturer that fails to release drivers for their products once a new version of Windows is released. I bought a Brother laser printer a couple of months before Windows XP was released, which was rendered virtually useless when no compatible driver was ever forthcoming. I've had the same problem though with webcams & scanners too. These days I always check a manufacturer's track-record with drivers before buying their products!
Last edited by MrJim; 26-08-2012 at 10:19 AM.
A floppy disc drive. Became outdated so fast, and I never really used it.
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