Absoloutly sick of products not working to specification

Had a build from hell myself recently - all new stuff, but - memory,fan-controller,fans,Hard drive,case and lastly Raid card.All this lot failed or had problems and had to be swapped out.

I feel that part of the problem these days is that everything is built down to a price, rather than up to a specification to save costs and enable fast release to market because of competition. We are all part of R&D these days it seems.

Grrrrrrrrr

Mark
 
Yeah :(

I just sent back the mobo and psu today \o/.

If it doesnt fix the issue geting replacements then ill have to send the gpus back as everything else has been thoroughly tested.
 
I guess I can take comfort in still using 2nd gen 2500k, z77 V Gene & HD7970. It would seem that upgrading would appear to cause more issues than it could solve.
 
'twas ever thus.

For many years, I would not touch ASUS, sticking with Abit until their implosion. In the last ten years though I have had very little stuff that does not work at all. Generally a software or firmware fix is available and the internet is there 24/7.

Twenty years ago I had a build on which nothing seemed to work. and the root cause, a poxy soundblaster clone which probably cost a fiver.
 
ANT I'll swap my perfectly working AMD FX + 780 rig for yours, sure I could get it working.
 
I must be super lucky, the only component that has failed for me was an nVida 9800gx2 and that was months after it was fitted. Have never had a DOA component (touch wood!).
 
JOSH86 said:
ANT I'll swap my perfectly working AMD FX + 780 rig for yours, sure I could get it working.
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Hahah I am this close!! to accepting that!


I did this in the morning :(

Lobotomy :(

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Only ever had to return one item to ocuk - a dead HD7950.

Other than that the only RMA I've done in the last 2 years is a pair of noisy Corsair fans - the only fault out of the 23 AIO's I've installed in systems. Some peeps are just unlucky it seems.

Hope you're happy, I just cursed myself now :p:rolleyes::D
 
i swear 60-70% of the new things i get don't work. i have a better rma rated with stuff i get out of skips and i'm not joking!
 
I honestly always read reviews before I buy something. There is also a lot of experience from the past with not really failing but not good products either if it comes to manufacturers.

Once you found a company you trust and have good experience from the past, I stick to it. Just bought an Acer 24" instead of any other company because I bought my last monitor 8-9 years ago from them and still use it. The one before that was Acer as well and one of the first TFT sold for common folk. Couldn't proof them wrong yet.

Only one time I did RMA in the last couple of years. This was the graphics card for my laptop AMD 6970M, which failed during gaming. Just went poof and I had to put the GTX 460M back in. This was soooo much trouble because I bought the laptop in US and had to ship it back to them for ~£20-30 postage. Then wait and they sent me a new one, guess what, the government wanted me to pay tax on it again etc. etc.

RMA to US was a terrible experience.

Or common knowledge with Hitachi (former IBM) Deathstar :)
 
disi said:
I honestly always read reviews before I buy something. There is also a lot of experience from the past with not really failing but not good products either if it comes to manufacturers.

Once you found a company you trust and have good experience from the past, I stick to it. Just bought an Acer 24" instead of any other company because I bought my last monitor 8-9 years ago from them and still use it. The one before that was Acer as well and one of the first TFT sold for common folk. Couldn't proof them wrong yet.

Only one time I did RMA in the last couple of years. This was the graphics card for my laptop AMD 6970M, which failed during gaming. Just went poof and I had to put the GTX 460M back in. This was soooo much trouble because I bought the laptop in US and had to ship it back to them for ~£20-30 postage. Then wait and they sent me a new one, guess what, the government wanted me to pay tax on it again etc. etc.

RMA to US was a terrible experience.

Or common knowledge with Hitachi (former IBM) Deathstar :)
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I did exactly that however I was shafted in the ******* this time.
 
OLDPHART said:
I think sooner or later everyone has a run of bad luck, l built a new PC for my son a few years back the PSU a HX620 went pop and took out the mobo + CPU.

At that time there was a bad batch of HX620'S so it was pot luck whether you got one or not, but OCUK replaced the whole lot no worries at all.

Since them a bad stick of memory and a mobo faliure, thats life with building PC building. I will always do a self build nothing like the feeling when you boot up first time with no problems.

Install your OS and it oveclocks fine as well, a great feeling job done.:D
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My HX620 has been going strong since 2008 and has survived 3 rebuilds.

The only problem I have ever had is an EVGA mobo go wrong. Don't remember what chipset but it was an sli board for a Q6600.

Being keen on tinkering, do you think a few of you are maybe guilty of pushing things too far in the quest for benchmarks and FPS?
 
Had an MSI neo 2 platinum board go bad on my first build. It was a B grade, so couldnt return it.

My current PC has been going strong for 5.5 years. I'm tempted to stick with Asus as this board has been really good.
 
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