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A 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA300 hard drive from Scan. If failed within a couple of months and the negative feedback left by myself and others on the Scan website was deleted by staff.
Dell XPS Gen 1 "Gaming" laptop. The Pentium 4 3.4GHz processor basically caught on fire during use, and probably killed the mobo and damaged other components. It was also extremely heavy, and expensive as hell. I will never buy another gaming laptop - I'll take the money, build a gaming rig for home, and get a cheaper, lighter, longer battery life, basic office tasks oriented laptop with the leftover money.
It's amazing that PowerVR are still going (in a fashion), ensconced within phones, never foresaw that!Originally Posted by big_hairy_rob
Think I had an Apocalypse and a Kyro 2. And a Dreamcast :-)
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The original Coolermaster Cosmos case. Poor build quality.
Lol I bought one of these too, cracking card, better than the 3dfx at the time(that I got to replace it) but no support driver wise and game support was none existent.
First place has to be my 1GHz AMD Thunderbird - can't attribute everything to the CPU, the combination of that and the VIA chipset was so unstable people used to know who I was when I merc'd in CS matches. Took me a long time to save for that - and had to be replaced within a year. Cemented me in the Intel camp ever since.
Otherwise, I've been reasonably lucky. I have had faulty kit on arrival (RAM from Corsair, GPU from MSI), and had generally poor quality stuff, but nothing truly terrible. The terrible bits have always been the retailers customer service. Which is why like many, I only reluctantly buy from the beast that is Amazon.
A SCSI card that kept frying Zip drives.
I wrote my own miniature OS and saved it on a Zip disc. Big mistake. Eventually, they stopped replacing the drive and we couldn't prove a fault with the card so I lost all my work. Man that brings back bitter memories.
Hard to pick out just one - basically any cheap component that I have purchased where i've basically skimped on something.
Notably anything by "Jetway", anything made by Sapphire (urgh so many dead graphics cards), most AMD processors I owned when I was too poor to afford Intel chips (such bad experiences that i've not bought a single AMD product since 2003, and have no intention of doing so). I guess if I had to pick a stand out item though I would have been a "Wintech Gold"power supply. Very cheap and very explosive....
There is a reason good quality parts cost more, in most cases.
Pretty much any soundblaster card...
Asus sonar soundcard. High pitched squealing in the background when using the microphone, present on all their soundcards that require molex powerNo fixes despite everyone complaining on the forums.
EK GPU water block, leaked water everywhere, none of the allen bolt screws holding the block to the plexi was tight and me being a mechanic I should have known better to check all first.
I never quite got all the water and it ended up costing me a motherboard.
I am disabled with lots of health probs .I am in the hospital/nursing homes so on plus I am in a wheelchair and sometimes stuck in bed for days. cant really bring a desk top with me all them places
Logitech G933.
Great WHEN it works, Wireless headsets are garbage!
Spent way too much time trying to get it working, Some times it's detected other times I had to reflash it.
Corsair keyboards, so much key ghosting and terrible customer support to boot
technically a peripheral but oh well
I take special care when picking components. It's the peripherals that I forego my due diligence and get burn burned by cheap <stuff> that breaks down a day to a month after I bought it. Maybe I'll learn one day
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BFG GeForce 8800GT.
It was always loud and hot and eventually died from the infamous Nvidia solder defect (aka 'bumpgate').
As it happened, BFG offered a long warranty (lifetime in the US, 5 or 10 years in Europe), but when mine died they had just declared bankruptcy. Always wondered if Nvidia's solder mistake caused BFG to go bankrupt as replacing them must have cost them a fortune.
Nvidia of course wiggled out of doing anything for what was an intrinsic manufacturing fault at their end. Have pretty much avoided Nvidia since then though.
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