Name your best & Worst hardware

Best:
Dell 2405FPW - Purchased 2 for £800 right after they came out in early 2005 (Dell cockup + account pricing), sold 1 for £700 and this '£100' monitor is still good to this day.

Worst:
ATi cards and IGP's - I like to just buy what performs the best but ATi drivers still let me down. :(
 
Best:
Q9550-can't fault it or find anything it can't do

setter said:
Best hardware is my benq fp241w 24"lcd
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Would have been this, except for the blackout issues I had with it when I used x1950 pro's-no problems at all with the gtx275 :)

Worst:
MSI k9a platinum-caused me problems the entire time I had it
 
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Hard drives
- Best: My Raptor 36GB and my Raptor 150GB
- Worst: Any by Fujitsu. I've had 5. 3 had failed O.o

Graphics cards
- Best: Voodoo 4 and Geforce 6800
- Worst: Geforce 7600

Sound cards
- Best: Soundblaster AWE64
- Worst: On-board High Definition Audio

CPUs
- Best: AMD Thunderbird 1400 MHz (true speed 1400)
- Worst: Pentium 4 1400 MHz

Optical drives
- Best: Any of the LG DVD-RAM drives
- Worst: The early HP 2x2x6 CD-RWs (both failed on me)

Printers
- Best: Deskjets 840, 1220 and 5850
- Wost: Deskjets 3420 and 5940

Scanners
- Best: Scanjet 5200 and Perfection 1670
- Worst: HP PSC 1350 (scanner part)

MS operating systems
- Best: 98se, 2000 SP4 and XP SP3
- Worst: 98fe, Me
 
Some conflicting ideas on what is and what isnt I see.

HOTWIRED:
Worst: Some Trust tablet. Used it once, decided I must have been off my
flippin head to buy it and I've been too embarassed to take it back again.

HaHaHa - I done the exact same thing... I gave mine away in the local Freecycle and then a couple of weeks later I saw them give it to someone else!

Andelusion
Worse: Nvidia FX5200. Fail.

I think we have all been to that one!

Johnny Girth
Worst: Qtec PSU...dear god.

I dont know about that... I have 2 Qtec Gold PSUs a 450 and a 550 and they are both going fine and they both must be over 5 years old now. I cannot fault them.

meghatronic
Worst: Altec Lansing VS-3151 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers - buzz like ****.

Again, my first intro to A.L was the 251 5.1 Setup... Absolutely gorgeous and for £50 too! - I am currently using a 995 setup and I have not been able to find better without spending thick wads of hard earned to beat them... Even my Z5500's are upstairs on my No2 PC because they dont sound as good.

iNPUt
worst peripheral: Saitek Cyborg Mouse (in a draw)

Yes, I got a GM3200 that was great for a few weeks and now jerks like a nutter
I have given it to my 11yo son so I have a chance of beating him at COD4

setter
worst is my ageing logitech g5 mouse

You see.. My G5 is flawless and I love it to bits. Feels better than the G9 and I was so impressed with it that I now got 2... Plus an MX700 but that lags like a bugger.

Saundie
Worst hardware: Every gigabyte product I've ever owned.

NOOOOoooo....

I have a DQ6, DS4 and 3xDS3's all gigabyte boards and all flawless with the exception of one DS3 that was hit by lightning and its lost the LAN Port and top PCI slot, but come on! - I also got a pair of Gigabyte 6600GTs in an old Setup upstairs that have been resurrectged from the dead. I love Gigabyte.

robcat101
Going back a bit but I remember plugging a Diamond Monster 3D board into my
Pentium 133mhz system and it utterly transforming Quake and Tomb Raider.


Orchid Righteous was my intro into 3D... I remember when it flipped over from the onboard SIS6326 to the Orchid, it crackled like buggery and I thought it was blowing up!

UT @ 640x480 in OpenGL was a hell of a step up from 320x200 in software mode I can tell you!!!!
 
Best: Dell 2409SW Awesome monitor for the price.

Worst: My old Viewsonic VX, cost £220 for a 19 inch 2ms screen, lasted just until the end of the warranty and decided to stop working... Not a great screen in terms of colour quality and pretty much everything else, overpriced crap.
 
WORST: saitek 3200, YES I ******* HATED THE 3200 SUCH A BULKY AND HORRIBLE MOUSE, very uneven i couldnt play css, had to go back to my ol'intellimouse.

BEST: G5/DA

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WORST: kinda difficult considering iv only had 2 keyboards, the original microsoft genuine keyboard which was fine and my current which is a razer lycosa.

BEST: i prefer my lycosa
 
Best piece of hardware I bought is the superb 8800GTX and still going strong after nearly three years. I bought it luckily second hand only about a month or so after launch. Mind you, it's long innings this may have something to do with an aging console market which has held back the developers. Anyway, it's truned out to be a bargain cards and overclocks really well too.

Worst has to be 5900GTX. Although I escaped the wrath of the ill fated 5800, the 5900 aged not long after installing the thing. FarCry killed it and the 6800GT couldn't have come quick enough.
 
Best - my old T'bred B AthlonXP 2600+ CPU. Ran it under water cooling with a truly mahoosive bump in voltage at 2.6GHz for the best part of a year before it finally croaked. Replaced it with a C0 rev Athlon64 3200+ Clawhammer, that was a pretty good chip as well that still lives on in another computer.

Worst - the last ATi card I had before my current 4850 (a great card) was a 9700 Pro. And it sucked. Noisy fan, driver issues, **** poor OpenGL performance (speed and IQ)....it was replaced 3 times, and I never got a good 'un. I eventually put my Geforce Ti4200 back in and swore off ATi for a while after that debacle, later going from the Ti4200 to a 5950 Ultra, then a 6800GT, a stop-gap 9600GT and now back to ATi at last.
 
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