Which Component Are You Currently Unhappy With?

dante6491 · 1 Jul 2006 at 23:51

and my speakers are playing up, im going to get a 2.1 system

Raikiri · 2 Jul 2006 at 00:31

dante6491 said:
and my speakers are playing up, im going to get a 2.1 system

May I recommend the Philips MMS430 speakers, I got mine for £40 inc. delivery and they are brilliant. If you have a little more to spend then the Aego Ms are hard to beat for < £100

Combat squirrel · 2 Jul 2006 at 00:38

• AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (1024KB) (San Diago) at 2805mhz, 44C full load
• XP-120 with 120mm 2000 rpm silent fan
• OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum Series EL-DDR CAS2 210mhz 2-3-2-5, dual channel mode
• Shapphire Radeon X1900XT 512Mb PCI-E
• DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI Expert
• Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case
• 2x Western Digital 74GB Raptor Drives (System & Games disks)
• Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 NCQ 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
• Seagate 7200.9 80GB SATA-II
• Maxtor DiamondMax Plus10 PATA 300GB 16MB
• External NEC 8x DVD-RW
• 700Watt FSP PSU
• 19” 2 x LG Flatron TFT 12ms Monitor
• Creative GigaWorks 7.1 S750 THX Speakers
• SoundBlaster X-FI

Oh and its totally silent, as in less than well, i dunno, I carnt hear it what so ever, is in a cupboard mind

Dunno what I dont like about it really, eeeerr gets me by like

, not to interested in core duo at moment, dont have anything that would use its power

afraser2k · 2 Jul 2006 at 00:39

I think my 250Gb hard disk is playing up. Sometimes I've been hearing the good old clicking sound during heavy disk access. Rest of the system should keep me going until Vista/WinXP SP3.

Belly · 2 Jul 2006 at 11:15

My Dell Dimensions XPS T450 (PIII, 450mhz) and everything attached to it has been annoying me for the last few years!

If I post another half a million threads on this site I'll be able to enter the Members Market and buy an up-grade!

I'd be happy to up-grade but couldn't build it myself, the wife's nerves are shattered already.

Mel_P · 3 Jul 2006 at 10:23

My "fanless" (Antec) power supply - it is OK as a power supply BUT acts like a radiator - had to put more fans in to keep case cool - somewhat defeats the object - saw the same warning in PCW mag this month about fanless power supplies. Keep to a fanned one is my advice now (too late for me!)

Mel P

FreeStream · 3 Jul 2006 at 10:32

DFI LanParty Sli-DR - Rushed, unstable PoS.

The LGA775 version better be good or thats it with me giving them money.

Joe42 · 3 Jul 2006 at 10:46

Mel_P said:
My "fanless" (Antec) power supply - it is OK as a power supply BUT acts like a radiator - had to put more fans in to keep case cool - somewhat defeats the object - saw the same warning in PCW mag this month about fanless power supplies. Keep to a fanned one is my advice now (too late for me!)

Mel P

I keep telling people this and recomending they get a seasonic as they are almost as silent as a passive one and don't cause problems by heating up the case. The last person i said this to insisted i was talking rubbish...

Concorde Rules said:
DFI LanParty Sli-DR - Rushed, unstable PoS.

The LGA775 version better be good or thats it with me giving them money.

From what i've heard Dfi aren't as good with intel boards...

senorstealth · 3 Jul 2006 at 17:15

80gb primary ide drive, gets hot as hell and slow

would love a pair of raptors just can't afford them

Kezmo · 3 Jul 2006 at 17:44

My mx500 mouse, logitech dont seem to have any drivers for it on there site, and the mx510's wont install on vista.

Gonna grab 1 of those little copperheads me thinks

FreeStream · 3 Jul 2006 at 17:46

Joe42 said:
I keep telling people this and recomending they get a seasonic as they are almost as silent as a passive one and don't cause problems by heating up the case. The last person i said this to insisted i was talking rubbish...
From what i've heard Dfi aren't as good with intel boards...

Hmmm!

Oh well, I have until September to decide

Gashman · 3 Jul 2006 at 18:00

Concorde Rules said:
Hmmm!

Oh well, I have until September to decide

i had SLI-DR expert for about two weeks then sent it back cause it was just rubbish, got replacement sent out and that had the exact same issues, so got refund and bought ASUS board, everyone gave the DFI such good hype, the ASUS is hundred times better, i meant it actually works :rolleyes:

Joe42 · 3 Jul 2006 at 18:22

To be fair, neither of my asus boards worked when i bought them, i've never had as many problems in my life. Thankfully when they got round to writing a working bios they are fine.