DOS Games Discussion

pedersencato · Member Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 43

Post your favourite (and most hated) hardware makers

Processors:Favourite: Intel (i've never owned a AMD, bout I'm looking into it)
Motherboards: Soyo Least favourite: Nvidia
video card: Albatron's geforces (again, never owned an ATI but checking them out)

wardrich · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject:

wow... you seem to like the ones I generally try to shun out...

Internals
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Processor
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I'm 50/50 with Intel, and AMD

MoBo
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Fave: Asus
Crap: Albatron, Soyo

VidCard
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Fave: ATi
Crap: eVGA, SiS

Soundcard
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Fave: Creative, M-Audio (mainly b/c of the Delta-66)
Crap: SiS, Creative (they get a spot on both ends of my list)

RAM
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Fave: OCZ and Corsair
Crap: Apacer, and Azen which is so bad I can't even locate a URL for it... (any ram under $150CND can only mean trouble)

HDD
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Fave: Maxtor and WD(only b/c of Raptor drives)
Crap: Who made those Bigfoot drives? Laughing

I think it was Quantum

DVD Burner
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Fave: LG and Sony, Asus
Crap: Plextor (WAYYY too xpensive)

CD Burner
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Fave: LG, Lite-on, and Asus
Crap: None, the ones that I didn't mention go in the middle of the line

Floppy Drive
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Fave: Mitsumi (b/c of the Floppy + Cardreader drive)
Crap: None... it's a damned floppy drive Laughing

Appearance
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Case
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Fave: Thermaltake & Antec
Crap: The crap $39-$59 cases we sell at Bestbyte (and whoever makes the hiddeous "Diabolic" case we sell there... it's plastic barf Laughing

[edit]Wow, I found out that that case is made by CasEdge who actually have some pretty good cases... this one must have been a fluke or something...

Fans & Lights
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Fave: Thermaltake
Crap: The no-name stuff we sell @ Bestbyte

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And there you have my Bias... including linkies to all the manufactures I could find.

-Richard-

-->This post took a whopping 20min to do. you had BETTER like it Laughing

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Interon · Guest

CPU: Intel, only because they are the original. Slowly I'm starting to like AMD more

Chipset: Intel, since they make CPUs (The others are dandy too)

Video card: Like all of them equally

Sound card: Creative Labs

Fav System builder: IBM (if only they would give a reset button)
Least fav system builder: HP (seems like they assume that all their customers are newbies)

Everything else: Like all of them equally in general

Wally · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:32 am Post subject:

CPU: Intel (cAuse they make apple CPUS as well)

Chipset: Intel

Video Card: Ndiva

Sound Card: Creative Labs

fav System builder: Apple
Least favorite system builder: IBM

Kazer0 · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:30 am Post subject: Re: Favourite hardware companies

Interon · Guest

pedersencato · Member Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 43

Unknown_K · Way too much free time Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 559

I always liked 3dfx, Matrox, Northgate, and Aureal

2 video cards makers, keyboard/computer and soundcard makers (3 of the 4 no longer exist)

Dogbreath · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:11 pm Post subject:

Processors:
AMD has always carried me through, whereas my Intel machines usually seem to try and give me the proverbial digital middle finger. Don't know if this is the case overall, but I've definitely had better luck with AMD.

Video Cards:
NVIDIA’s TNT/TNT2 seems to be an excellent card, though their Geforce 2/4MX was crap. Voodoo was the worst $90 I ever spent.

Sound Cards:
I've never had a sound card that worked like I wanted it to... Creative seems fairly good, though.

External Wireless Connection Airport:
2WIRE seems to work well.

I've never really had bad or good experiences with any other hardware that I can remember brand name (though I've had a shitty keyboard and monitor apiece) so I can't really comment. *turns on n00b shield*

pedersencato · Member Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 43

To add to my list I have to say that Logitech makes the best mice, especially the trakballs

dr_st · Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 3:41 pm Post subject:

In most areas I don't have a real preferred company, but I like Maxtor HDs, LG optical drives, Creative sound cards and MAG monitors.

x86_Game-Junkie · Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject:

AMD - Chips/MoBo
Maxtor - HDD
Mitsubishi - FDD
AOpen - CD-R/CD-ROM
3comm - RAM Pieces, and Network Cards
nVidia - Video Card
Creative - Sound Card
NetGear - Hubs/Routers
Mouse - Unknown
Keyboard - Unknown
Speakers & Subs - Phantom
8-Port USB Hub - Unknown
4-Port USB Hub - Unknown
Printer - Canon

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OSes
Linux Debian - Server
Windows 2000 Pro - Comp 1
Windows XP Corp - Comp 2
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Kazer0 · Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:30 pm Post subject:

AFAIK, AMD does not make motherboards. The frontline for AMD processors is an nForce 2 board.

x86_Game-Junkie · Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:49 pm Post subject:

true...but i have mobo that only supports AMD chips

Kazer0 · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 1:49 pm Post subject:

That would be Socket A. Most likely because the only company that makes socket A CPUs is AMD. There are a TON of diffrent Socket A Mobo makers. Mines ASUS, and I know Gigabyte, MSI, and nVidia also make them. There are a ton more.