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Definitely my parent's Packard Bell PC. Can't remember model. It had a celeron 300MHz CPU and 32 mb RAM (shared). The first one we got home rattled and failed to work at all. The replacement had the CPU fan and hard drive fail within the 1 year warranty period. Even when I got around to upgrading the RAM, the computer was slower than it had any right to be. It had one of the loudest hard drives I've ever heard (both the original and the replacement), which it was constantly accessing due to the lack of RAM originally in the PC.
Wasted hours of my life on that thing, rotating photos for my undergraduate dissertation. I had a comparative beast at university with it's K6-2 550 and 192MB RAM, which would have done several days Packard Bell work in one. Really frustrating. Packard Bell's technical support line was also rubbish, althogh I did develop the handy technique of dazzling the first muppet I spoke to with geek speak and immediately getting them to put me through to someone who knew what they were talking about (or even better just sending out a technician with the correct replacement part, according to my diagnosis).
A kworld tv card, never worked, ever.
It's 4.98*
2 x IceQ X1900XT's but I think that was more to do with OcUK than the hardware to be honest (even though both failed)
some g.skill ram that failed with BSOD's (OcUK)
but my top has to be a faulty watercooler that killed two of my 4 ram slots. (OcUK... again!)
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When I was a noob (and before I knew any better), a Q-Tec power supply
*dagwoood gets his coat*
Not me (honest), a friend of the inlaws did them a "really good deal" on a PC, apprently he ran his own shop and everything!!! I quickly came to the conclusion that he had a load of **** laying around and wanted to get rid of it. The killer was the
PC-CHIPS MOBO
got to the point where he wouldnt answer the phone when they called, so I had to deal with it. Dreaded going up there because I knew I would have to try and sort it.
Spawn of Satan I smite thee!!!!11!!!
I wasnt going to post in this thread, as the mobo wasnt purchased by me, but PC-CHIPS is a name that still brings a chill to my blood.Spawn of Satan I smite thee!!!!11!!!
I would expect nothing less. As would happen to any self-respecting geek.
An old 486 which I was given - honestly I was doing the guy a favour by taking it off him.
The best thing about it was the table that came with it.
Drunk and frustrrrrrated one night I attempted a RAM upgrade with some donated no name sticks (from same bloke).
I mistakenly thought I couldn't make it any worse . . .
MSI K9N Neo-f nForce 550 AM2 motherboard - first part I've had that failed.
Belkin PCI Wireless card, which never connects untill you have tried about 20 times.
And Tiscali
As soon as I saw this thread title, guess what was the first thing that popped into my head...
They also had a whole clutch of miserable clones: Matsonic springs to mind, but there were many others whose names now thankfully escape me.
Other than that, every time I buy a Hewlett-Packard printer I swear blind that I'll never buy another - not because of the hardware so much as the ghastly drivers and software packages, which always seem to be a hair-tearing struggle to install, even assuming you manage to prevent them splattering your system with all sorts of unwanted junk...
Some 'PC ludite' friends of mine bought a supposedly bespoke PC from a small computer shop and the motherboard was completely unbranded although it did have traits of the dreaded 'PC chips' boards.
you've got me quite concerned…
Don't get me startedXFX video cards, need i say more
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