Which Tech brands do you trust most?

[FireFox]

XFX :'(

 

I do miss the old XFX NVIDIA cards, I've seen an XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 but it costs around £110 on eBay that I really want

[WereCat]

Fractal, SuperFlower, Sennheiser, EIZO, Crucial.

[nuclear465]

MSI for motherboards - i've been using since i can remember, on my last 4 builds.

Asus and EVGA for graphics cards.

Cooler Master and Corsair for cases and PSUs (Fractal Design and NZXT are getting my attention).

Noctua and Be Quiet for fans and coolers.

Samsung and Western DIgital for SSDs and HDDs, respectively.

Roccat and Logitech for peripherals (mice, headsets, and keyboards, etc...) i will include Cooler Master for keyboards, their storm quickfires are awesome.

I am not an intel or amd or nvidia fanboy - so i'll go for the one that serves my needs, at a given time.

Edit- forgot the RAM - Corsair and G. Skill. OCZ i used to like them more.

[Tda62]

Corsair, Intel, WD and Gigabyte

[MJSBLUES]

Corsair and ASUS.

[Stigs]

Corsair, MSI, Gigabyte, Seasonic, WD

[HappyChubbs]

Motherboard: Asus, EVGA

Video Card: EVGA

RAM: Corsair, G.Skill

HDD: WD

SSD: Samsung

Power Supply: Seasonic, Corsair

Peripherals: Logitech

[rambi36]

Gigabyte because I love their motherboards sooo much!

Also:

Asus

EVGA

Corsair

G.Skill

MSI

Fractal Design

NZXT

XFX

Samsung SSDs

Dell Monitors

I could go on...

[ZacDaMan72]

Asus, Logitech, Corsair, Intel, WD, Gigabyte, LG and probs lot's more.

 

If I had to pick one, Asus.

[Analog]

1. Corsair

 

2. Cooler Master

 

3. Asus

 

4. Western Digital

 

5. Intel

 

6. Logitech

[Cryptonite]

Everyone except Kingwin, Diablotek, other cheap PSU companies, Inwin, ECS and Biostar.

nothing wrong with Biostar seriously. my 9500 GT has been passed on to 4 friends already, overclocked like mad and is still in working condition (in my closet at the moment since everyone upgraded. my motherboard handles quite well as well, I trust biostar motherboards more than Asus motherboards in the South African heat since people here RMA asus like crazy after light overclocks.

My most trusted motherboard brand however would be MSI and Asrock. 

Graphics cards would be MSI, KFA2, Gainward and Asus. That I trust.

Ram: I prefer Kingston but also don't mind corsair or G.skill.

HDD: I prefer seagate because they are usually cheaper than WD and I have only had WD's fail on me in the past and not a single seagate (I have a majority of seagate hard drives)

Optical: anything since I don't use optical much it just has to work.

SSD: I would prefer samsung and Kingston. Adata is for low budgets.

[-iSynthesis]

MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock, EVGA, Seagate, steelseries

[Guest]

biostar motherboards more than Asus motherboards in the South African heat since people here RMA asus like crazy after light overclocks.

My most trusted motherboard brand however would be MSI and Asrock. 

Graphics cards would be MSI, KFA2, Gainward and Asus. That I trust.

Ram: I prefer Kingston but also don't mind corsair or G.skill.

HDD: I prefer seagate because they are usually cheaper than WD and I have only had WD's fail on me in the past and not a single seagate (I have a majority of seagate hard drives)

Optical: anything since I don't use optical much it just has to work.

SSD: I would prefer samsung and Kingston. Adata is for low budgets.

 

First of all, something happened to Biostar here in NA so we very very very rarely see their products anymore; same goes for ECS.

 

It seems to be quite different in South Africa, because here in North America it's extremely difficult to get our hands on a Gainward or KFA2 card, not to mention that if we could, we would kiss our warranty goodbye because they don't have any support centers here and their employees don't seem capable of speaking English properly.

 

I find it interesting that your experience with Seagate drives has been so positive; Seagate drives are known to fail noticeably more often than WD in recent years.

[Cryptonite]

First of all, something happened to Biostar here in NA so we very very very rarely see their products anymore; same goes for ECS.

 

It seems to be quite different in South Africa, because here in North America it's extremely difficult to get our hands on a Gainward or KFA2 card, not to mention that if we could, we would kiss our warranty goodbye because they don't have any support centers here and their employees don't seem capable of speaking English properly.

 

I find it interesting that your experience with Seagate drives has been so positive; Seagate drives are known to fail noticeably more often than WD in recent years.

KFA2 is actually Galaxy's Nvidia series cards, so I'm a bit baffled by the fact that support is little. you'll see their name on ships etc with 3DMark etc. all the time as well so I would think they were popular there.

 

as for seagate vs WD, have you found this yourself? because I only ever saw one article about that and then a few fake articles quoting said article and taking things out of context while said article was stupid in the first place. But only since then have I heard people thrash Seagate, so I think it's more of a hype thing there in America than anything else since they are actually pretty much the top sellers for businesses and home servers here, the only people here buying WD drives are those affected by American influence. (gamers who ask americans what the best is) it's also a major reason why Asus is a leading seller of motherboards over here while being quite a bit more expensive than equivalent mobos from other manufacturers and Asus has a MAJOR RMA rate. (I'm excluding entry level boards). 

But I really don't care what the majority thinks, I like the brands I personally have good experiences with and if I find something for cheaper I try it out at least once. (greeting the new kid on the block might change your life forever in a good way, or might leave a little bitterness for a short while)

[Guest]

KFA2 is actually Galaxy's Nvidia series cards, so I'm a bit baffled by the fact that support is little. you'll see their name on ships etc with 3DMark etc. all the time as well so I would think they were popular there.

 

as for seagate vs WD, have you found this yourself? because I only ever saw one article about that and then a few fake articles quoting said article and taking things out of context while said article was stupid in the first place. But only since then have I heard people thrash Seagate, so I think it's more of a hype thing there in America than anything else since they are actually pretty much the top sellers for businesses and home servers here, the only people here buying WD drives are those affected by American influence. (gamers who ask americans what the best is) it's also a major reason why Asus is a leading seller of motherboards over here while being quite a bit more expensive than equivalent mobos from other manufacturers and Asus has a MAJOR RMA rate. (I'm excluding entry level boards). 

But I really don't care what the majority thinks, I like the brands I personally have good experiences with and if I find something for cheaper I try it out at least once. (greeting the new kid on the block might change your life forever in a good way, or might leave a little bitterness for a short while)

 

From KFA's own support page:

 

"KFA2 is the European premium brand of Galaxy."

 

"European only brand"

 

"European support facilities"

 

I'd think that's probably why they don't have any NA support? Anyways, I'm sad that KFA didn't make it to North America because with all the shit that we've been through with the likes of MSI et al, some quality and attention to detail like KFA does would be greatly appreciated.

 

I can't remember where the article is located, but there's this one article that tested a bunch of Seagate and WD and Hitachi drives and Seagate drives had a weird failure rate. Sure they had higher failure rates, but there were also much more Seagate drives than WD drives. What concerned me was that the Seagate drives began dropping off like crazy after a month or two, while the WD drives had a small batch of failures around 3 months then were almost completely level without any more surprises.

 

 

I am not a WD fanboy. I simply prefer WD over Seagate because in my personal experience Seagate hasn't exactly been good to me. A lot of people haven't really noticed that Seagate has pretty much replaced WD in all OEM products, and I have to say that this move has me greatly disappointed. In my XPS 8500, the 2TB Barracuda has been giving me issues since June of 2013, barely a year after I bought it. SMART reports a dozen concerning attributes, and for 3 months SMART checker programs reported critical condition, saying that the drive was about to fail. I've had to deal with random clicking noises and numerous bad sectors, even though I fill barely 1/8 of the drive on a regular basis. In my laptop, it's much the same; I wish I could throw the 750GB Momentus against the wall. It's so incredibly slow and I stopped believing SeaTools telling me that there was nothing wrong with the drive while every other program out there advises caution. Seagate didn't even properly implement SMART; there are things like temperature indicators and write/read indicators that are completely useless because the drive reports 999999999°C. As a result of these experiences, I would stick to WD for HDDs and Crucial, Intel, Samsung and Adata for SSDs; I wouldn't touch Seagate SSDs with a 10-foot pole even though the 600 series is supposedly very fast.

 

On the other hand, I remarked just a week ago that my SATA1 200GB WD Caviar from the beginning of 2003 seems to be chugging along fine and shows a pretty healthy SMART report without any clicking/erratic behavior other than just being slow and old. I also have numerous external drives from WD that still work, among them being one after being dropped twice and having the cover come off, and another that is nearly 8 years old. My friend who randomly chose the WD Blue over the Barracuda a while ago can vouch for the Blue's reliability, even though it probably is true that the Barracuda is faster than the Blue.

 

If you ask my friends they'll tell you much the same thing about Seagate, but I guess there have to be some people out there that have had no issues with Seagate because otherwise their products wouldn't even sell...I'd take Hitachi and Samsung over either of these two manufacturers (because of WD's stupid prices and Seagate's stupid reliability) but unfortunately the HDD market has become a duopoly as of late.

[Cryptonite]

From KFA's own support page:

 

"KFA2 is the European premium brand of Galaxy."

 

"European only brand"

 

"European support facilities"

 

I'd think that's probably why they don't have any NA support? Anyways, I'm sad that KFA didn't make it to North America because with all the shit that we've been through with the likes of MSI et al, some quality and attention to detail like KFA does would be greatly appreciated.

 

I can't remember where the article is located, but there's this one article that tested a bunch of Seagate and WD and Hitachi drives and Seagate drives had a weird failure rate. Sure they had higher failure rates, but there were also much more Seagate drives than WD drives. What concerned me was that the Seagate drives began dropping off like crazy after a month or two, while the WD drives had a small batch of failures around 3 months then were almost completely level without any more surprises.

 

 

I am not a WD fanboy. I simply prefer WD over Seagate because in my personal experience Seagate hasn't exactly been good to me. A lot of people haven't really noticed that Seagate has pretty much replaced WD in all OEM products, and I have to say that this move has me greatly disappointed. In my XPS 8500, the 2TB Barracuda has been giving me issues since June of 2013, barely a year after I bought it. SMART reports a dozen concerning attributes, and for 3 months SMART checker programs reported critical condition, saying that the drive was about to fail. I've had to deal with random clicking noises and numerous bad sectors, even though I fill barely 1/8 of the drive on a regular basis. In my laptop, it's much the same; I wish I could throw the 750GB Momentus against the wall. It's so incredibly slow and I stopped believing SeaTools telling me that there was nothing wrong with the drive while every other program out there advises caution. Seagate didn't even properly implement SMART; there are things like temperature indicators and write/read indicators that are completely useless because the drive reports 999999999°C. As a result of these experiences, I would stick to WD for HDDs and Crucial, Intel, Samsung and Adata for SSDs; I wouldn't touch Seagate SSDs with a 10-foot pole even though the 600 series is supposedly very fast.

 

On the other hand, I remarked just a week ago that my SATA1 200GB WD Caviar from the beginning of 2003 seems to be chugging along fine and shows a pretty healthy SMART report without any clicking/erratic behavior other than just being slow and old. I also have numerous external drives from WD that still work, among them being one after being dropped twice and having the cover come off, and another that is nearly 8 years old. My friend who randomly chose the WD Blue over the Barracuda a while ago can vouch for the Blue's reliability, even though it probably is true that the Barracuda is faster than the Blue.

 

If you ask my friends they'll tell you much the same thing about Seagate, but I guess there have to be some people out there that have had no issues with Seagate because otherwise their products wouldn't even sell...I'd take Hitachi and Samsung over either of these two manufacturers (because of WD's stupid prices and Seagate's stupid reliability) but unfortunately the HDD market has become a duopoly as of late.

Ah yeah, sorry I forgot it was distributed in Europe only (and some other areas) I guess America is out of luck, which is sad since these guys do cooling right. Nothing but amazed by their cards.

 

funny since my experience has literally been exactly the opposite from yours, I have a bunch  of the older IDE Seagates in my closet, 5 gig up to 40 gig all working, a few old laptop seagate drives, my friends and family all have seagate drives since I built their computers and my own pc is filled with 2 TB seagate drives the oldest one being bought back in 2009/early10 maybe. and non of us have had any issues, a laptop I had had a 500 gb WD blue drive and it died after a year... a friend of mine also had a 500 GB WD in his pc and it also died and at work we've only had one drive fail on us which was a WD once again, to be honest seagate won me over after dropping my 2TB drive(oldest one of the 3) directly onto concrete by accident, it had unreadable data however after a full format of the drive as well as a defreg + disc check it's been up and running again for the past 3 years (I dropped it in 2011).

 

so yeah, sorry I can't agree with you.

[LeaTheTechWoman]

what and why

 

for me personally 

 

ASUS

 

Cause having a Asus Zenfone 4 is Great!

[XTankSlayerX]

EA

[Antibull]

EVGA  

[Guest]

Fractal Design.

[GlassBomb]

After pondering for about a minute. I would say Intel.

 

They put so much more RND into their products than so many other companies, it's silly. It basically took them a year of just testing the 730 SSD before they put it out on the market.

[LuckyByte]

dbrand. Just funny

[minibois]

My ASUS motherboard once broke (luckily it was covered in the warranty and got fixed..) I will still go for ASUS I think.

Otherwise BENQ is pretty good or Logitech or D-Link

[MuffinTopMike]

Gigabyte

[spwath]

Silverstone.

There is a reason on my phone keyboard ft05. Shows up before I type anything