Hardware that you should NOT buy

[Cool G5]

Hall of shame:

Moser Baer disks (I use MC004 Verbatim made in India)

+1 for that.
I too have exeperienced some serious issues with mozerbaer.

 

[Liverpool_fan]

intel original motherboards are the most notorious motherboards on this planet...they get it manufactured through some taiwanese company...bloody frozen bios...google on it

Wrong! They are pretty good actually.
The only downsides is crappy integrated graphics which can easily be solved by purchasing a Graphics Card and the fact that they cant be overclocked (But I think the latest ones can), but this doesn't matter to 99% users.

I'm pretty dissatisfied with ASUS MBs. One of my MB needed to be repaired within less than 3 years and another's NIC card gone bust without even using the NIC.

Interesting. Personally I haven't any problems with my ASUS board yet.

 

[NVIDIAGeek]

How come you know that ? And please dont use it if possible.

Okay, budd. Mercury PSUs are bad. Got repaired it 7 times

 

[haider_up32]

intel original motherboards are the most notorious motherboards on this planet...they get it manufactured through some taiwanese company...bloody frozen bios...google on it

Intel mobos are known for their stability. What is the problem if they manufacture it in china. Even iphone is manufactured by Foxconn, a taiwanese company. Most of the companies have their products manufactured in Taiwan and few other south east countries. This is because of the ultra low cost of production. Just like most of the garments are manufactured in India (even for major brands like LP, alen solly etc). There is no need to do google to check reliability of Intel motherboards.

coming to viewsonic. yes. you may have faced problem with support and there is a way to find out the support options. just by saying someone to shut up will not do good.[/quote]

gigabyte has the least failute rate followed by asus and msi.....iphone is complete designed by apple...and in the case of intel motherboard...why u need to buy these??? just coz u bought an intel processor?? coz shops are stuffed with intel boards?? Why?? just coz they offer better margins to shopkeeper and are distributed through the same channel and they bundle it at a cheap price. intel m/bs are also sold as oem without box just like processors.... abit had great boards but it stopped manufacturing it recently...it is also speculated out of the 4 m/bs biggies one will have to exit by 2011
*www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11354&Itemid=37

the reason is simple : - intel doesnt conc. and spend on design...they just fulfill the definition of m/b unlike apple ...if u can get better m/bs at comparitive prices so why avoid it???....at least buy a motherboard from a tier-1 manufacturer(search)

and yes u dont need to connect garment and cpts.

abt shutting up : - he was the one who called my viewsonic experience bullshit

if u dont agree with some1, learn to counter their point politely....not act like an ass n start fighting...

it looks like u havent read the earlier post thats why u urself acted like an ass...he was the one who called it bullshit...there are others u have also written abt viewsonic service earlier...even magazines have written....knowing this i decided to buy vs lcds for friends thinking that they are selling much so service will not be a problem now..but its the same now.

 

[The Sorcerer]

Seagate hard drives as well should be joined in the list. They have much higher failure rate.
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=106610

 

[haider_up32]

Seagate hard drives as well should be joined in the list. They have much higher failure rate.
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=106610

according to a study in 07,

Vendors lie about disk drive failures

Fibre channel as reliable as SATA
A study of about 100,000 drives conducted by Carnegie Mellon University proves that vendors are not telling the truth about the reliability of disk drives.

The study says that customers are replacing disk drives at rates far higher than those suggested by the estimated mean time between failure (MTBF) supplied by drive vendors.


Fibre Channel (FC) drives are just as reliable than less expensive but slower performing Serial ATA (SATA) drives, the report says. The Carnegie Mellon study examined large production systems, including high-performance computing sites and Internet services sites running SCSI, FC and SATA drives.

The figures shed that annual failure rates were between two and four percent, "and up to 13 percent observed on some systems”.

However data sheets from vendors show that that the failure rates should be only 0.88 percent." However, the study showed typical annual replacement. You can find more details here.

*www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=101&Itemid=36

the worst seagate drives were ata barracuda iv....at that tym seagate drives were ahead in performance... ....my and my bros drive failed more than 8 tyms!!....samsung failed a lot less during that days(5400-->7200)....but i dont think seagate drives are bad now...

 

[Psychosocial]

I have ViewSonic and I have no problems
I am using a Seagate HDD and I have no problems
I had an Intel original mobo and I had no problems

 

[darklord]

Hall of shame:
VIP/Powersafe gold series (L&C oem)
Coolermaster extreme series (600W and 650w are budget version of 500w seventeam, still CM ditched copper heatsinks- they have 70% efficiency but tested on operational temps of 25 degrees celcius, rather than the standard 40-50 degrees celcius)
Huntkey power supply
Seagate (By my experience 500GB)
Moser Baer disks (I use MC004 Verbatim made in India)
Intel stock LGA775 heatsinks
Msi silly copper loops and restricted bios
Asus' confusing and sometimes unresponsive bios even with newer bios
Tagan 1300w
Gigabyte India's horrible pricing
Certain Indian tech mags and sites (not named for obvious reasons ) following payola funda and taking money to "overexaggerate" a bad review.

1)VIP/Powersafe gold series (L&C oem) --> I found them to be very decent PSUs, used a lot of them.

2)Huntkey power supply---> Not used extensively but whatever couple of units i am using are doing pretty well.

3)Intel stock LGA775 heatsinks----> Why ? Whats wrong ?

4)Asus' confusing and sometimes unresponsive bios even with newer bios---> Care to explain ?

 

[topgear]

I'm using moserbaer disks for around 2 years now. Never found a failed burn or faulty DVD.

All intel LGA775 heatsinks are not so bad but recently I found that the heatsinks shipped with dual core e2xxx series is very thin & the base is also made of aluminium.

 

[tkin]

I have faced many HW problem in my life but never condemned any HW Manufacturer, I'm forced to do it now.

Its Seagate.

I bought the so Hyped 500GB 32MB buffer 7200.11 Seagate HDD two months ago. It crashed after a month, got replaced, new one also crashed after a month. It seems Seagate Quality Control has gone down the drain.

If any unfortunate soul out there bought a Seagate 7200.11 HDD over 320GB recently(500GB, 750GB, 1TB) back-up your data and don't shut down your machine till done, it might not boot again, just google "Seagate 7200.11 troubles" and see it. Its a weird firmware bug and its everywhere.

From a Data recovery Site:- "Seagate's new family - Barracuda 7200.11, specifically with FW version SD15 has especially high firmware failure rate. In such cases hard drive either doesn't show up in BIOS at all or identifies with 0 capacity. Unfortunately it is impossible to fix such drives without special equipment capable of accessing and repairing firmware modules in the hard drive System Area."

Now I'm MAD.

 

[IronManForever]

^^ Let not God hear it.. but no harddisk has failed on me till date, I wonder why all the other guys have problems. Using 80GB seagate since last 3 years. Older drives also fine except one very old 4GB seagate.
HDD failing in one month is so bad! But its the firmware which can be fixed by seagate in future products.

 

[desiibond]

Seagate officially declared that 7200.11 drives are having high failure rate and that they are already trying to fix the issue.

Added the drives to the main list. Better stay away from 320GB+ 7200.11 drives from seagate.

 

[Psychosocial]

I have Seagate and it's running fine since 2-3 months . No replacements till now.

 

[desiibond]

You will get to know when it breaks. better do the fix if it falls under the faulty series.

 

[tkin]

I have Seagate and it's running fine since 2-3 months . No replacements till now.

If its 7200.11 and over 320GB then back-up now.

Update-F******g Seagate released a new firmware called SD1A, hilariously it destroyed all working 500GB drives, performing the update bricks the drives instead of fixing the old firmware problems

EVERYONE-BOYCOTT SEAGATE.

Read here;-
1.*www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-500gb-1tb-firmware-update,6867.html
2.*forums.seagate.com/stx/board/messa...&thread.id=5625&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

Has Seagate finally lost it? (or they hired monkeys and A**s and fired their human crue)

 

[ampd5]

 

[Revolution]

 

[vaibhav_jain]

Yes i am agree boycott seagate. i purchased a 250gb hdd 7200.10 last year and within a year it make me in trouble three times and everytime there is a severe loss of huge data which takes so much of time to be get collected. and the problem is hdd is not detected in bios everytime. So BOYCOTT SEAGATE

Canon cameras because they are not giving services there is only one service centre in delhi which is in gurgaon and only one collection point which is in okhla and also the guarantee is only for one year and sony gives three year warranty and also the service centres are also in delhi not at far place

 

[Psychosocial]

^Canon's cameras in a must 'NOT' buy thread ? LOL ROFL

 

[desiibond]

^^ There are some people who think above the others