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Dark_Angel said:
That is 2 people that mentioned how they treated Daniel K. what is this about ?:confused:
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I think the basic thing was, Creative werent releasing drivers or something for their hardware for absolutely no reason at all. So 'Daniel K' started releasing his own drivers which were brilliant, and Creative threw a hissy fit about it and told him to stop.

I think.
 
Creative of course.

EVGA, were great around 6 months ago, how far they have fallen, I guess the success got to their head, really nasty company with broken products.
 
Belkin wireless gear - never has anything that's supposed to conform to a standard been so problematic and generally awful.

Q-Tec

Mobos with Via chipsets

Pioneer DVD drives (highly rated, but I had two newish ones die for no apparent reason)

Cheap Epson printers
 
Dark_Angel said:
That is 2 people that mentioned how they treated Daniel K. what is this about ?:confused:
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Google is your friend here, but you need the right name.
Google Daniel_k and it will throw up masses. What a difference a _ will make ;)

He has more or less proved that creative are disabling features on sound cards or crippling them in some way.
I suppose with say graphic cards the hardware changes a lot, but it doens't so much with sound cards, so creative can get more out of you by forcing you to buy new hardware.
 
Belkin - dodgy network cards
Creative - dodgy sound cards
Auzuntech - using creative components and parts of their drivers leading to dodgy sound cards
Nvidia....
GeForce 2 GTS - OK, very good in fact
GeForce 4 Ti4600 - ""
GeForce 6800 GT AGP - "" - even worked after my watercooling setup leaked all over it, dried it well first of course!

GeForce 6800 GT SLI PCI EX - Fan noise issues, had to use aftermarket coolers
GeForce 7800GTX SLI - Driver problems
GeForce 7900 GT SLI - Fan problems
GeForce 8800GTX - Driver problems

Not going back unless their next gen cards are massively better than ATI's offering.
 
Creative soundcards. Worst possible drivers and support on the planet.

Asus motherboards. Quality of the boards are dire for what you pay.

Western Digital - Had nothing but failures with these. Only other drive to fail was a Quantum (before Maxtor took them over)

Any PSU other than Enermax are either so cheap they put your house at risk or are just bad.
 
Crucial ballistix (normal Crucial fine) - 8 RMA's later i gave up. Build ram that lasts only 2 months? WOW! :p

Maxtor - Good bye data Ive missed you :(

VIA - USB ports that arnt useable, Data Curruption, **** poor Overclocking...

Nvidia - Driver department asleep???
 
thegoonden said:
Hmmmm Pc-Chips eh?
I've had one PcChips board.
I've had one PcChips board die on me.
However, I still really liked it. It arrived, it booted, it ran 24/7 for about five years, most of it in a really hot case with no airflow and far too many discs, it died.
It even let me know a little in advance that it was going to croke, quite courteous I thought.
It seems that speccing the whole board's capacitor requirement out for 10p was the problem, they'd all bulged and burst.
Still, it cost about 20 quid and ran like greased kitten poo for 5 years.

OH, and to clarify, it's only MS software I don't much care for. Their hardware's amazing, mainly cos it's nothing to do with them :D
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pc chips stuff is great for builidng a cheap system. ive only had one board too. it ran for about 5 years and didnt even die. it was even voltmodded with a stupidly overclocked athlon in it. thin it cost 23 quid :O
 
Hauppauge - Spent £200 a while back on a card, only discover it was almost impossible to make it work, and when it did, the quality was awful and a command line interface would have been better than the GUI provided.

IBM - (Deathstars)

D-link - Worked at a company for a while which had 30 D-link wireless APs to cover it. Had decent access points, say, the Cisco ones I work with now, been used, it would have taken 10 APs. And I wouldn't have had to work out which ******g channel each of them should be on.

RM (Research Machines) - Unless you've done work in the education sector you won't understand. Please send them fission bombs in the mail.

Macron - one of my first machines had a Macron PSU. It smelled of burning then gave me a shock when I went to switch it off. The replacement attempted the same stunt.

Belkin - expensive crap that works no better, infact usually worse. Their cables are exempt from this flame.
 
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