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Gigabyte 7IXE4 motherboard (AMD Irongate), nothing would work with it for very long.
Intel i740 PCI Graphics card, terrible very picky on drivers.
Hauppauge analogue WinTV tuner PCI, flaky as hell. Or was it just XP Media Centre that was awful?
Biostar motherboards, various mistakes - never trust this brand ever again. Incompatibility or death (if lucky).
Sounds like you had a bad block? They would have totally replaced it for you, this is pretty rare with them.Originally Posted by Namor
Intel Pentium 4, 2.5ghz, should have definitely gone AMD at the time. But *touches wood* most components from Intel/AMD have been pretty good, like wise AMD/Nvidia.
Could class buying a Nvidia 7950 GX2 as a lemon, just before the 8 series came out
Generally done quite well with my Asus motherboards (usually from the ROG camp) one of which is still going strong (after replacing CMOS battery) fitted to a AMD 1100T X6 (Damn Core 2 release).
Biggest lemon purchases though, were the early Bluetooth USB dongles, that lasted 1 week before they died.
The worst was a SoundBlaster live! soundkart. Because it first was named SoundBlaster and after that it got a Live! behind the name I was assured for new hardware. How else it was. Drivers were not updated, until I found a Asian driver. It drove me to madness because also that driver was messed up soon. Still I got a newer cart, the Audigy, which gave former problems. Last year again I bought a new Sound cart from Creative the SoundBlaster Z which I use for now.
A second device is the Intel mainboard. Although everything works fine I think a new board needs some updates for at least 5 years. I only can run 1333mhz memory on a Intel(R)5 series/3400 Series Chipset.
I do understand that what I buy today is antique tomorrow, but it is almost not done to keep up with hardware producers. So next to my desktop one I got another. Newer does not mean better performance. I have the Idea with the Hasswel 4770k that it is slower on my MSI board. In between We are a few years further and where my needs were to render and render software I will wait until this farce of every month a new processor and videocart gets to a end. Buying a good videocart means today 400 to 500 Euro's, where I could do with 150 up to 200 before. The thing I also have seen is that a computer with a Intel Core i7-8700Intel processor, 8gb Ram ddr4 and a 1060 Nvidia cart did cost 1599 Euro's one week and 4 weeks later 1199 Euro's. As I said todays new is too quick tomorrows old, where we already look into a new universe with the new Geforce 2080Ti
me too, i saved up for a while to get the 8350 and i have to put the air conditioning on early in the season to keep the room tolerable; worst is i do not have to pay for heat in this place so no savings in winter. to keep other rooms warm i have to keep the computer off where the thermostat is. , no, the worst of this is that i still use it.
Samsung 960 pro M2 drive. They replaced it once and while the tests say it runs real fast, in truth my older Samsung 840 pro ssd is faster in everyday use. I do not think they ever got the firmware right after their infamous problem.
Everything & anything with the name CORSAIR on it!!!!
'96, I bought a case. It had a door over the 5 1/4 bays, an LED display so you could show the speed (133 MHz in this case) and THE WORST EVER PCI/ISA slots. You had to snap the blanks off, but the case was thin and nasty so you ended up bending things and having to bash them back into shape.
Cyrix 6x86 PR-166+, awful, just awful. But it was cheap and I was on a small budget.
Inno3D FX5200, it broke. I did only buy it as a stop gap whilst I waited for the ATI 9800 XT, so not that fussed.
Luckily the worst ones weren't that bad. I'd probably choose my EVGA Supernova B2 which is an excellent PSU but also easily the loudest component when the system is at idle.
*cough* Black Edition *cough cough* XFX *cough*
I usually do a lot of homework to avoid any issues buying wrong or bad parts, always looking for the best, I really do remember any bad choice, I do make mistakes, something got not as what I expect, but after all, I can't say that was so bad, but I remember that my father bought ATI "All-in-Wonder 128" GPU used one back in 2002 and was not as powerful as nVidea TNT2 that I had before, even it is got more memory.
Also, I remember that it was a bad decision for me to "upgrade" PC that cost me as a new PC back in days in 2004-2006.
But what was the worst actually was buying a whole laptop, not "parts", it was The biggest junk I ever buy with a lot of money, it was MSI GT72VR, it was totally the most expensive junk I ever buy, just after 2 months issues started to happen, battery sometimes not working, harddisk disconnects after 1 hour of use, fans start to make very noisy and crack sounds, a few latter of keyboard stopped working, and superheat start to sneak out because of bad fans, returned it to RMA and where the worst part is, they started to blame me about keyboard issue that I did spill liquid to it, which totally not true at all, after many emails they do admit that was their issue, not mine, and nothing really exposed to liquid, they tried to scam me, since that day MSI is on my blacklist and decided to not buy anything from them, got my Laptop back, sold it at the same day, and started to build my own PC instead of Laptop.
Mine was an ATI 5770 vga card. It was too slow and I regretted buying it.
I love my 5770 - but it's low-profile and has 4 dvi outs
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
Possibly a Geforce MX 4000, which was my first experience into the horrible realm of rebranding. Suffice to say, this very much taught me about "caveat emptor".
Dell Latitude E6500 laptops (2) Subject to throttling of processor (search "Dell Throttlegate") that brought the PCs to a standstill. Worst laptop experience ever.
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