Most UNsatisfying HW purchase ??

[THUGSROOK]

Abit BE7
nVidia GF5800
some MSI motherboard

 

[ROcHE]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
Diamond Monster 3d... it had like 4 megs onboard and used 4 megs of system memory.... I had a local computer store build my computer I asked about a tnt 2 or voodoo 3 and he was like "what?! those are expensive I'll give you a good one".... and I believed him : (

The chaintech znf3-150 I'm not liking had problems with it on multiple levels wishing I went asus. I RMA'd the chaintech but I don't know if that fixed my problems cause newegg shipped it to the wrong place >.< Now I have to wait till I get back to college to test it.

What? You bought a Diamond Monster 3d when Voodoo 3 was available? It has nothing to do with the hardware then. By the way Voodoos did not use system memory.

 

[compudog]

Canon BJC 600 printer, first edition not the "e" version. Big POS. Since then I have been lucky. I did have a bad Kenwood True 52X, but that was given to me.

Also, anything made by Compaq. Packard Bell is OOB, which they should be.


-Steve

Actually, Packard Bell is still in business in Europe. Part of NEC I think...

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Drop a SCSI card into that A7V333-RAID. You won't get more than 50MB/sec through the PCI bus unless you disable the USB 2.0 controller. Even then it'll max at 72MB/sec, compared to over 120MB/sec on nForce/nForce2. THAT is just my FIRST gripe with the A7V333-R. I'd list more but I have to go to work now

Try using the PCI latency patch. The southbridge has some latency issues that the patch partially fixed.

Believe me, I did try every patch VIA had to offer. The board is dead now. GOOD RIDDANCE.

/ rant

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Drop a SCSI card into that A7V333-RAID. You won't get more than 50MB/sec through the PCI bus unless you disable the USB 2.0 controller. Even then it'll max at 72MB/sec, compared to over 120MB/sec on nForce/nForce2. THAT is just my FIRST gripe with the A7V333-R. I'd list more but I have to go to work now

Try using the PCI latency patch. The southbridge has some latency issues that the patch partially fixed.

Believe me, I did try every patch VIA had to offer. The board is dead now. GOOD RIDDANCE.

/ rant

The patch wasn't an official one written by Via. It was written by George Breeze (sp?), but he stopped development of it.

 

[NokiaDude]

Originally posted by: EngenZerO
hmmm

TDK 24x CDRW, biggest POS I have ever.... ever bought

WHAT?!?! I have a TDK 24x10x48x I bought in 2001 that is STILL churning out CD's.

 

[mechBgon]

The patch wasn't an official one written by Via. It was written by George Breeze (sp?), but he stopped development of it.

I think I tried that one too, bro. Seriously, mobo troubleshooting is my thing here, I don't just lie down and give up. But after reporting it to VIA, to Asus and doing battle with it and still having my supposedly-"King of Socket A" motherboard get its face slapped by my $56 K7S5A and my little A7N266-VM, I said heck with that.

Other complaints about the A7V333-R:

[*]My first one died because Asus's own BIOS-flash utility nuked it, a problem that Asus themselves still has red-text warnings about to this day now that we've tested this for them :roll: RMA time...
[*]The socket has some surface-mounted bits that a heatsink with a three-lug clip will peel off the board's surface. Brilliant design work, Asus. This is how the second one died.
[*]The board has one million jumpers. I have never seen another board with this many. I think Lost Circuits counted them and came up with thirty-six. :Q

I think that'll do to go on with

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Back in the spring of '98, when CD-RWs were just becoming mainstream, I got a Philips CDD 3610... I had to chose between that one or a HP 7200i... same price... and I foolishly went with he Philips, for which I'd seen some reviews and magazine articles, thinking a respectable electronics firm would put out good products.. the sucker was like US$369... died on me twice within the first year, lost a lot of time and money with sending it for repairs, got plenty of coasters... ended up dying the third and final time in late 1999... never buy Philips again. There was even a class-action lawsuit on that model... I bought an HP 8250i in April 1999, and it still works to this day.

 

[JackHawksmoor]

-Asus/VIA motherboard with a first-gen chipset for the Thunderbird. I spent a good 6 months patching and flashing that board, and it was never 100% stable. I finally trashed it and bought a P3 and an Intel board. (That experience has scared me away from AMD to this day).

-TWO IBM 75whatever drives. I used to SWEAR by IBM drives until this model. I thought people were such suckers to buy Western Digital or Maxtor and then I had TWO of these die on me within a week of each other. IBM sold thier drive devision after that fiasco...

-a $300 Voodoo 1 card. There was nothing wrong with it, but no way in heck did I get $300 usage out of it.

-a $400 64MB Geforce 2. Total rip-off price-wise. Of course I'm planning on buying a $400 Geforce 6800 GT as soon as I can, so apperently I never learn

 

[Quasmo]

A Sony DVD burner for $300. Dont get me wrong... I love my DRU-510 that I have now. But I bought this junk early on and didn't realize it ONLY burns +RW how inconvienient (sp?) is that!

 

[mysticfm]

A Diamond MX300 soundcard. Not only did it cause problems for various applications for the few days when it was installed, but uninstalling it ended up trashing some core Windows files and required me to format the drive and re-install Windows from scratch. Needless to say, I returned that card with extreme prejudice!

 

[IEC]

1. Linksys WUSB11 802.11b wireless USB network adapter - disconnects randomly even under "excellent" signal strength (no more Linksys for me)

2. Thermaltake Volcano 6 Cu+ - nearly drove me insane with its vacuum-cleaner sound (and performance, no more TT for me)

3. Gainward GF4 Ti4200 "Golden Sample" VIVO - artifacted, died on me within 3 months of purchase, got a quick RMA though, the RMA has been working fine... I hear that they used CRAP capacitors... *shakes fist at cutting corners*

 

[PhoenixOrion]

Soundblaster Live Value.

 

[kazeakuma]

Ati Radeon 8500. Worst money I ever spent, I feel I would have had more fun with an MX440. I could write pages on the problems it gave me, but whatever. No more ATI cards for me anymore.

 

[stickybytes]

I haven't purchased anything that i really regret, but I could describe the experience of my friend's worse purchase, a pny fx 5200. Not only did he not realize how baaadddd this card was after he purchased it, but the card appeared opened and used. There were scratches and dust all over the card and the connectors looked used and bent.

 

[manly]

Sony 2X CD-R drive.

Also, 4 x 1 MB SIMMs for a 386 that was already obsolete.

 

[Dug]

soundblaster live

hitting a tin can sounds better than this thing.

 

[cbuchach]

Actually I bought a stealth 120 fan as well and it was quite loud. I have two stealth 92mm fans and have had 80mm fans in the past and they all were very quiet. It must be the 120 model then if both you and your friend had problems with it.

 

[Jojo7]

Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer (The original, not the 5.1)

I swear to god, this thing conflicted with something in EVERY system I tried it in. It lead to nothing but freezeups and problems. It was my first expensive computer purchase ($99 from Best Buy) and it sucked. Hard.

 

[MichaelZ]

benq 737s 17" lcd
enermax 470W noisetaker

 

[Twsmit]

Corsair PC3200LL. I got it expecting to move up to a 200mhz FSB, only to find out my revision 1.04 NF2 couldnt even break 190FSB. Sorta of a total waste of money.. grrr

 

[Budman]

MSI 865PE Neo2-LS boy was that a crappy board with a buggy bios.

And lately i was very dissapointed with a NEC 2510A.

 

[MDE]

Thermaltake GeForce4 copper heatsink, the thing sounded like a hairdryer and had a warped base, and a Netgear 802.11g router that randomly dropped connections.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

A Virtual Boy console.

Ok, I was like 9 and had no idea. It was a present though.

 

[cheapherk]

Enermax Power supply= RMA'd it back to newegg.com 3 times within a year- I finally bought an Antec.