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    Re: QOTW: Which tech companies are you loyal to?

    The concept of "loyal to" is a bit fanboy'ish! You should be loyal to yourself and to those you commited to be loyal to, not a brand/company! Everything from every brand as failed me or my costumers over the last 20 years on working with tech! I have been unimpressed with tech support from tier 1 company (LOOKING AT YOU ASUS and MSI) and been pleasingly happy with others (GIGABYTE had me done good in the past, just opened a new case today and hope things remain the same). As a few members already pointed out, we tend to choose manufacturers that we have a good past experience, and avoid others based on bad ones. Does that make me loyal? nop... I tend to buy the ones that suit my needs with the lowest price... If the diference is small (up to 5€), for motherboards, I tend to choose Gigabyte for example, but If the asus mobo offers me more I go ASUS or MSI... only go for asrock if the price is right... Unfortunately there is not much of an choice... I miss EPoX, ABiT and Soltek... Those were the days...

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    Re: QOTW: Which tech companies are you loyal to?

    Wouldn't say I'm 'loyal', but AMD, for CPU/GPU, and Crucial, for SSDs, have been my go to, for the last few years, as I rarely have an issue.

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    Re: QOTW: Which tech companies are you loyal to?

    Quote Originally Posted by NiPPonD3nZ0 View Post
    The concept of "loyal to" is a bit fanboy'ish! You should be loyal to yourself and to those you commited to be loyal to, not a brand/company! Everything from every brand as failed me or my costumers over the last 20 years on working with tech! I have been unimpressed with tech support from tier 1 company (LOOKING AT YOU ASUS and MSI) and been pleasingly happy with others (GIGABYTE had me done good in the past, just opened a new case today and hope things remain the same). As a few members already pointed out, we tend to choose manufacturers that we have a good past experience, and avoid others based on bad ones. Does that make me loyal? nop... I tend to buy the ones that suit my needs with the lowest price... If the diference is small (up to 5€), for motherboards, I tend to choose Gigabyte for example, but If the asus mobo offers me more I go ASUS or MSI... only go for asrock if the price is right... Unfortunately there is not much of an choice... I miss EPoX, ABiT and Soltek... Those were the days...
    I agree almost completely with that, but some bits are very subjective. For instance ....

    I tend to buy the ones that suit my needs with the lowest price
    So do I, I suppose, but price (at least, up to a point) is quite a long way down my list of needs. Obviously, the bigger the price difference, the more important it becomes. A £20 difference on a £20 product is much more of an issue than a £20 difference on a £500 product, for instance. I recently bought a NAS and there were several alternatives, with about £100 difference on a £500-ish product .... and then about another £1000 in drives to go in it. So in working out which unit to go for, that £100 was a small enough part of the £1500 total that it was effectively entirely unimportant. I mean, if ALL other factors had been equal, yes, it would have mattered. But they weren't. And getting the best blend of the other factors ranked much higher than a £100 difference in NAS price.

    These days, I don't have customers .... thank goodness. I buy for my private needs. But even when I was building for others, price wasn't a hgh priority. I wasn't doing high volumes of builds, but more, high quality builds. I wouldn't deal with customers for who price was a high priority. I always charged my customers my cost price for hardware, and a separate charge for my time. I found, in my early days, that those that were penny-pinching on hardware prices were always the first to expect me to sort out their problems when their hardware penny-pinching bit them in the backside, even if they'd acted against my advice in their choice of hardware.

    So whether for customers (in the past), or these days just for myself, quality and reliability, at least in so far as I can tell, are way more important to me than anything other than very sigificant differences in price. The reason, ultimately, is convenience. Or to put that another way, laziness. I do not want to be spending my time sorting out problems if I can avoid it, and both good quality product, and perhaps even more importantly, good quality customer service, is much more important to my needs than anything other than a very big difference in price (for a comparable type of product). The tricky bit is that assessing quality of customer service is no easy job, and anecdotal evidence is notoriously unreliable. That said, sometimes, it's about all I have to go on.
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    Re: QOTW: Which tech companies are you loyal to?

    Like there are brands which i Much rather prefer over others based on my experience. ASUS is one that most of time worked really well not matter what you throw at it, except some of boards from 2007-2010.

    Like also how they deal with warranties, I used a lot of GPUS from EVGA never had issue with customer service, but when it comes to like Gigabyte a bit of issue to deal with them, if you manage to get in touch with them.

    In most of cases prefer quality product rather than pay twice, I learned once my lesson when built machine with cheap PSU like nearly burnt whole PC, so since then Im only using reputable brands such as EVGA, corsair and bequiet or any other one with really good track record.

    Out of the graphics always prefer Nvidia because of the drivers and specific optimizations for Autodesk and Adobe software's.

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    Re: QOTW: Which tech companies are you loyal to?

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen999 View Post
    I recently bought a NAS and there were several alternatives, with about £100 difference on a £500-ish product .... and then about another £1000 in drives to go in it.
    Out of pure curiosity, which drives did you opt for?

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    Re: QOTW: Which tech companies are you loyal to?

    Quote Originally Posted by Iota View Post
    Out of pure curiosity, which drives did you opt for?
    Tarmac is my perference but if you have a fairly well compacted underlayer you can go for bricks and patterns. I think tarmac getting softer with the heat is better for mining areas or where the water table is variable.

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    Re: QOTW: Which tech companies are you loyal to?

    Quote Originally Posted by Iota View Post
    Out of pure curiosity, which drives did you opt for?
    4x 12TB WD Ultrastar DC HC520.
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    Re: QOTW: Which tech companies are you loyal to?

    None especially. I've used Samsung phones for the past 4-5 years, and until recently most of my computers had Intel chips, going for Ryzen for the current build.
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