What Tech Product was Recommended To You But Turned Out To Be Terrible?

[Mattr567]

eg Linus/Tek Syndicate/Jaztwocents (no offence to them or anyone else)

 

For me Linus recommended the Func HS-260.

 

There crap quality! The plastics crack a the top of the headphones crack after a couple of months. (normal use)

Also my mic went out.

 

RMA later

 

The new replacement was doing the same thing cracking at the top until I accidentally broke them myself. (Superglue fixes everything right?)

 

 

Corsair K70 RGB

 

Well I cant blame Linus THAT much for this but the software is still broken. Crashing basically whenever you open any program etc.

But the advertising at the beginning or end of other videos for it kinda pissed me off.

 

No it isnt the best gaming keyboard out there

 

What are your stories?

[The Crazed Child]

i buy my own shit, i don't listen to recommendations

[teeejay]

Corsair H100i, pure pain.

[Klerk]

Well you need to understand that these reviewers only use the products for a very short period of time so they will have no idea on how good the durability of a product is. And also there might be problems that will not appear for the short period they are testing them. That is why it is also better if you get user experiences and opinions when buying a product.

[JAKEBAB]

While no one has specifically recommended it to me Corsair is suppose to be a good brand right? Wrong! (atleast with PSU's)

 

[Mattr567]

Well you need to understand that these reviewers only use the products for a very short period of time so they will have no idea on how good the durability of a product is. And also there might be problems that will not appear for the short period they are testing them. That is why it is also better if you get user experiences and opinions when buying a product.

 

Thanks. Well stated. Yea I knew that coming in. They dont test for that long.

[Mattr567]

While no one has specifically recommended it to me Corsair is suppose to be a good brand right? Wrong! (atleast with PSU's)

 

 

Interesting. Same but with XFX PSU's. A squeak isnt as bad as a XFX PSU smoking your brand new GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK. Not a happy camper.

 

Also having the same thing happen last month with your first one (different system, same psu version) Luckily not killing anything that time!

 

Running a different XFX PSU now that makes a really annoying noise. Cant tell if it is a bad fan or extreme coil whine D:

 

 

I swear can no one make a good PSU! They seem to all have widespread problems. Not just a few bad apples.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

in before iPhone6 ...

R.A.T. 9 mouse. Raving reviews but horrible battery life, took forever to get out of sleep mode, scroll wheel broke within 2 weeks.

I didn't even bother getting it fixed under warranty, just tossed it in the bin.

[WolfDeville]

I never purchase stuff that gets recommended to me.

[Tonylu1595]

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Well the K70 isn't THAT broken... Just don't set any game profiles that launch when you play a game.

 

Which of course defeats the entire purpose. I just switch profiles manually when playing.

[Misanthrope]

Well you need to understand that these reviewers only use the products for a very short period of time so they will have no idea on how good the durability of a product is. And also there might be problems that will not appear for the short period they are testing them. That is why it is also better if you get user experiences and opinions when buying a product.

 

I have a problem with this. But to clarify not with the youtubers. I think vendors are been very smart about youtubers and impose NDA lifts and such simultaneously because they're basically taking advantage of how youtube revenue works and know that it is basically a first come, first serve system meaning that missing a few weeks or even days after someone else released their video means that their video will never be as popular and the other guy that went out first will make more money or if the starts align themselves, perhaps even go viral.

 

This is why absolutely everybody releases videos simultaneously and they can pretty much control how much time you have to really test things: "Ok this is the NDA lift day, and every single tech youtuber will beat you to the punch if you keep this little detective work on our engineering sample so fine, don't make any money if you don't want to...." 

 

The only solution is that someone as big as Linus should take a stance similar to what TB does saying "Yep, this company gave me a review code only a few days before they lift NDA, I'm not giving them priority I'll just review some other indie game and make them money" He can do that because of his popularity and I feel like Linus could potentially play hard ball with vendors if he wanted and break news like "Yep, Those V300 drives I got have a completely different controller from what I bought on retail so the drives" or something among those lines.

 

On that sense though, even if what you say it's true for smaller channels Linus could take a stance and do more validation, testing and digging.

[Misanthrope]

To contribute to the discussion I remember Hotspot shield was pretty damn useless: speeds were so bad it was unusable for most things that would geoblock anyway and no, it's not my fault if Linus and others specifically plug the product by talking about geoblocking.

[Luckylock]

Logitech G35

 

The absolute worst build quality you could ever find for the price.

[HappyChubbs]

Steel Series Siberia v2.  

 

Mic died a few months in and the top band started losing tension.  Also felt like I was going to crack the dam thing while putting it on my head.

[Trik'Stari]

EVGA GTX 660 FTW edition.

 

Terrible. Constant trouble, complete pain in the ass.

[Redut]

Steel Series Siberia v2.  

 

Mic died a few months in and the top band started losing tension.  Also felt like I was going to crack the dam thing while putting it on my head.

Never buy "gaming" headsets. Audio Technicas with mic included are cheap and better.

You already know what was recommended to me(by my parents). Look in the sig and cringe.

[HappyChubbs]

Never buy "gaming" headsets.

 

Yup, learned that the hard way.

 

Ended up getting a set from Sennheiser.  Year and a half, no issues.

[Lazmarr]

Interesting. Same but with XFX PSU's. A squeak isnt as bad as a XFX PSU smoking your brand new GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK. Not a happy camper.

 

Also having the same thing happen last month with your first one (different system, same psu version) Luckily not killing anything that time!

 

Running a different XFX PSU now that makes a really annoying noise. Cant tell if it is a bad fan or extreme coil whine D:

 

 

I swear can no one make a good PSU! They seem to all have widespread problems. Not just a few bad apples.

I have an XFX 750W Pro 80+ Gold and I have not had any problems with mine since I purchased it; best PSU I have ever bought and would recommend it to anyone

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

My 280x  

Saw reviews and believed I could play modded Skyrim with it. 

Was getting 60fps until my Skyrim started looking better. Fps went downhill from there...

[Admiral Naismith]

EVGA GTX 970, but really the 970 in general because the issues I had effected all GTX 970 brands. It was a luck of the draw whether you got a good one or a bad one. I got unlucky.

 

F*cking coil whine is such a b*tch to deal with. Clearly audible above 7 case fans and a H60 watercooler. I get odd artifacts (Jagged shadows regardless of settings) and instability in certain games. Overclocking was a complete joke.

 

Not even going to go into the whole Vram debacle. I bought the GPU off of benchmarks so I really don't give a f*ck about the 3.5+0.5, the performance is the same as it was before the issue came to light. I just don't like being lied to. Had Nvidia been upfront with it I would still have bought the card because the benchmarks are exactly the same. Nothing changed except knowing that is how the vram worked.

For the love of all that is good, lets not start a fight about this. No matter what way you look at it, it still leaves a 'bad taste'.

 

Really, I remember being cautioned significantly more about buying a refurb H60, yet I have loved that purchase more than the 970.

 

Does anyone know if EVGA or other companies have addressed the coilwhine issue? I don't see as many complaints as I used to. I need to return the card when I get the chance.

[asim1999]

Corsair RM1000, is is dead, had to RMA it and Scan refused to switch the PSU Model....

[Mattr567]

I have an XFX 750W Pro 80+ Gold and I have not had any problems with mine since I purchased it; best PSU I have ever bought and would recommend it to anyone

 

I guess we all have different experiences. I had had this version of the 750W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817207029

[harrynowl]

Tek Syndicate: AMD FX

[Tech_Dreamer]

my 7750 meh, if i had bumped it to just a tad higher gpu like a 7770,   i'd've gotten a pretty decent performance

[Raudi_]

Toshiba Canvio 500GB External. Thing was like 35MB/s Read and Write. 

My 80GB SATA I drive is faster then it.