"Never again" products

[scottyseng]

Yeah, AMD you really need to figure out this memory leak on the FirePro drivers (It's been doing this for the past two years).

 

Waiting for Volta to get new GPUs....

[TheLaserCucumber]

I had a Logitech Driving Force GT die on me only a week after the warranty ended.

But I bought a G27 as a replacement, and this one works fine since 4 years.

 

Oh, and I'm sorry, but I am soooo happy that I don't use Windows 7 anymore.

Windows 10 is just so much better, I wouldn't wan't to use Windows 7 regularly ever again in my life.

But it was a great OS afterall.

[Starberyl]

Anything from Razer

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 hours ago, TheLaserCucumber said:

Oh, and I'm sorry, but I am soooo happy that I don't use Windows 7 anymore.

Windows 10 is just so much better, I wouldn't wan't to use Windows 7 regularly ever again in my life.

But it was a great OS afterall.

I use Windows 7 at work.

 

If anything I'm kind of tired of Aero. It's too flashy and is now distracting to me than Metro. And Task Manager feels so old and archaic on Windows 7

[Syntaxvgm]

On 7/25/2017 at 11:01 PM, Searbug said:

AMD GPUs. All of the ones Ive had die within a month. AMD No! Nvidia Yes!

eh I think you'll find that that's more dependent on who made it vs who designed the base card. Also, on the used front, AMD cards are pushed aggressively with mining and stuff. Anyway there's plenty of NVIDIA cards I avoid, like I have an irrational hatred of anything Gigabyte. Hate ASUS as a company, good cards though (terrible support). EVGA has good support, decent cards. 

[winters\]

Apple products. I don't hate the brand. I just hate that they are not compatible with anything and their products have to steep a price tag to make it worthwhile to utilize everything they have to offer.

[joesmith888]

3 hours ago, Starberyl said:

Anything from Razer

Haha soooo true

[Guest]

Good god this thread, so much irrational hatred. 

[conor97hx]

Razer mice...had one die on me in less than a year.

 

Anything apple.

[Luxanna]

So! Let's break it down: 
Corsair (especially keyboards)
Msi
Be Quiet! 
Samsung
Alcatel
Sony headphones and literally anything but phones (I am sucker for their design and compact lineup is simply put gorgeous) and used amps
Gaming headphones (yes, hyperx Clouds included)

Non MacBook pro apple stuff (I will buy an iPhone at some point anyways just to try it out for 2 weeks) 

Cheapo asus motherboards
Any Gaming Motherboard
And yeah thats prob all of the stuff I could come up with rn. 

[Eduard the weeb]

On 7/17/2017 at 12:19 AM, Mooshi said:

What gear, product or service made you swear a vow to never purchase again? Try to avoid blacklisting an entire brand if you can help it, lol.

 

Due to lackluster performance and noise, my never again product, or at least one of them, CORSAIR FANS.

 

*Opening thread up to beyond computer hardware.

beats for anything

Apple tech

 

um let me think Amazons Anime service yeah fuck that.

[IKnight]

Apple stuff. Overpriced status symbols. 

[Caleb SF]

On 7/17/2017 at 12:30 AM, Eaglerino said:

Logitech, anything I ever bought from them has broken

Turtle Beach, same problem

Rosewill, same problem

ASRock, same problem

MadCatz, same problem

Lenovo, just terrible support

Sony used to be on the list until I bought a PS4, but it's back on the list because my USB ports don't work and my controller will not hold a charge. It also skips when playing blu-rays, requiring me to use my Xbone instead which is hilariously ironic

 

As for not tech companies

Anything Ford

Ryobi

Megablocks

Pepsi products

I had a Logitech G600 for a couple years, it started to have slight connectivity issues. I contacted them, was under warranty, they sent me a brand new one and I didn't have to send the old one back. So practically have 2 working G600's.

[TacoSenpai]

I'm pretty much done with apple products since I figured out how to get my music libraries over to my Galaxy easily.  I've only used their Ipods (my 4th gen i touch is actually still going strong though the audio jack is beginning to die out i suspect a conspiracy lol) and the price premium for apple's stuff and to use ios is just too high for me especially now in days.

 

HDMI splitters.  I've tried multiple of these and they all seem to run into snags I just figure I'll deal with labeling my cables and switching them out with whatever I want to use

 

Combaterwing Mice.  Looks cool and has good weight but after a bit of use USB started having issues recognizing it constantly disconnecting.

 

 

 

[Syntaxvgm]

32 minutes ago, Caleb SF said:

I had a Logitech G600 for a couple years, it started to have slight connectivity issues. I contacted them, was under warranty, they sent me a brand new one and I didn't have to send the old one back. So practically have 2 working G600's.

every single one I've used gets a double click issue, including mine. Still use it, great for editing stuff. 39$, not a bad mouse. 

[Norseman4]

Cable modem/router provided by ISP. (True this is more of a rent than a buy, but I think it fits in this category just fine.)

 

Have Spectrum (formerly Brighthouse in my area) and two of the provided Motorola modem/routers consistently overheated. The second one finally started overheating even with a dedicated fan blowing on it.

 

Did some research and found a device with a faster maximum connection speed, faster ethernet ports and faster wi-fi, and in 3 months, based upon the rental fee for their on POS device, I will have paid for the replacement.

[AresKrieger]

Asus anything, AMD CPUs, Corsair ram/PSUs, Kingston storage thumb drives/SSDs, Razer mice, Seagate drives

 

Also I will only buy motherboards from Gigabyte at this point since most other brands so far have failed my friends, the only ones I'd consider is MSI and EVGA but they'd have to be cheaper than a similar gigabyte model, and only buy G.Skill ram

[Mihle]

Gigabyte Graphics card.

I have  7970 GHz edition that for one, have locked voltage, and after a while it sometimes make some noise in one of the fans. Not always.

 

Will also take quite a bit for me to buy Nvidia over AMD personally.

Have had quite a bit of driver crashes, driver that fail to update, and stuff on my laptop.

Also the BS that requires you to register to use features like shadowplay.

 

Brother printer.

Printing works fine, but the scanning required a drive that is confusing to find on the net, and a pain in the ass to install.

[dcgreen2k]

Hmm... Cheap wireless mice, from gearhead in particular. It felt really nice, but had connectivity issues, the batteries lasted about a month, but they were nearly impossible to replace (had to use a screwdriver to pry them out), it never turned off, even when the wireless receiver was unplugged, and the the scroll wheel made pages scroll up or down at random, after only 5 months of light use. However, my Logitech g602 was a godsend compared to the gearhead mouse.

[Keg Ops]

Razer products

 

To me their build quality is shabby at best and I feel like you're paying a bigger premium for what it's worth. 

[MrTiC]

Corsair M95 mouse, mousewheel was doing its own thing after a month or 2

Logitech G430 headset, suddenly no more sound on the left cause of a bad wire connection kinda fixed with a rubber band but now i have mono sound lel 

Asus echelon headset, poor quality earpads ( starts to peel off after few days ) 

[themctipers]

any dac

 

im listening to soundclown anyways.. 

 

any new audio equipment until everything breaks and dies

 

i've inherited a audiofool's setup.

 

 

[BirdyTheMighty]

seagate HDD F******* HATE!! them

[Guest]

Well, due to the currency differences between Australia and America, I had to buy X2 $20 steam vouchers just to purchase one game. I mean, I wish that steam could integrate a country selector which changes the currency prior to what country you have selected. There is one thing that I regret doing, riding over a 3 pointer jack that pops my back tire on my bike an not to realize that I do the same thing when I go to the trails which then pops my front tire, I regret buying two $10 tubes for my back tire that kept popping, since then, I had spent $20 on a good quality thorn proof tube, and since then, my back tire hasn't gone flat. Never buy tubes from KMART, they are shit and they rip your off. As for the back tire, I guess I will have to purchase a thorn proof tube for that as well, I mean, for the $20 price tag, your getting good value for money on a reliable product that will last you for while. 

[Mihle]

Any gaming headphones/headset. They are shit.