Which Tech Companies Don't You Trust?

[MPX309]

Ok so someone made a similar thread for people to mention ones they do trust . . . but here is one for ones you don't trust. . . probably helps that you have experience with company too . . . and don't say Apple. lol I mean like custom PC bits

[Jamdude]

Gigabyte and ASRock, every one of their components I've use has been faulty in some way.

[qwertywarrior]

i only trust Valve pretty much 

but considering the laws out there i dont trust any company because they will not be able to deliver even if they wanted

 

always be decentralized

always try to use opensource

[SeanAngelo]

Seagate

[Tech_Dreamer]

here's my unpopular opinion: of brands that i dont trust,  with specific category to its right side, doesn't mean i hate other products by them.

 

• asus & aoc for monitor (heard people having issues)
• intel for motherboards
• razor (saw many complaints in some threads)
• cisco (on modems/routers)
• umax (some chineese/indian psu manufacturer)
• amd (on cpu perfomance)
• lg (bluray writer)

 

 

sneaky ninja

[Fluffinator]

Kingston, because the ol' bait and switch they did on the V300 SSDs.

[Guest]

Zotac. I think we all know that.

 

And PNY, had horrible luck with their Graphics cards and their customer service is horrible.

[Ryan Leech]

Foxconn is a bad company, but I don't know why everyone hates on ASRock. Their products always work

[Dredgy]

Samsung. Because - every single time - I think ooh this product is awesome, then it fails after a relatively short period of use. This includes phones, optical drives, hard drives, televisions, a fridge and an air conditioner, among other things. And I still buy the damn products, I don't know why!

[Nickolas47]

Mobos: Asrock

CPU: AMD
Phone: Samsung

[Mooshi]

Seeing "Acer" slapped on a product is an instant repellent for me.

 

Other companies, let's see..

 

Fractal Design. RMA'd a PSU because it had coil whine and the replacement had the same issue while my old psu that was being replaced never had such issues. R4 is also pretty flimsy compared to my old Lian Li cube case - the low grade white paint job that chips easily doesn't sell it as a premium product, either.

 

HP. Just HP. So much bloatware.

 

Seagate. The only HDD I ever had fail on me were Seagates.

 

OCZ. Dat higher than usual failure rate.

 

Razer. Cheap out with Chinese switches and charge the same price to gouge customers, sod off.

 

Thermaltake. I just can't trust them with their stereotypical 13 year old PC gamer style. No, the Level 10 does not make up for the rest of your product line.

 

Asrock. Give me a real Asus board.

 

Team. My corrupted read-only locked 32GB flash drive from you guys totally was a wise purchase! /sarcasm

 

*HDMI/HDCP - Every single company on board with those two abominations plaguing the digital world. You all suck.

[The_Evenger]

Gigabyte and ASRock, every one of their components I've use has been faulty in some way.

really Gigabyte? i have a GA-990 FXA UD3, and a Gigabyte R9 290, never had a problem with them.

 

i bet your are having the same luck with them i have with MSI, i had 3 cards from them, all defective, worst one was my geforce 440 GT for my sister, it always had problems, 5 to 30 minutes top at stock speeds, set the core and mem clock to half and you will get 3 hours out of it, maybe, ended up getting replaced by my still working sapphire radeon HD 6950. and don't even get me started on the mobo i got from MSI

 

people love MSI but i am just bad luck and get all their defective products i guess.

[Jamdude]

really Gigabyte? i have a GA-990 FXA UD3, and a Gigabyte R9 290, never had a problem with them.

 

i bet your are having the same luck with them i have with MSI, i had 3 cards from them, all defective, worst one was my geforce 440 GT for my sister, it always had problems, 5 to 30 minutes top at stock speeds, set the core and mem clock to half and you will get 3 hours out of it, maybe, ended up getting replaced by my still working sapphire radeon HD 6950. and don't even get me started on the mobo i got from MSI

 

people love MSI but i am just bad luck and get all their defective products i guess.

I had two Gigabyte 290 cards and they were both way too hot and way too loud.  I've also used one of their motherboards in a build that was DOA.

[twoscoops]

Definitely Razer and Thermaltake. Saw an actual wattage to advertised wattage on a thermaltake PSU, wouldnt trust them at all

[The_Evenger]

I had two Gigabyte 290 cards and they were both way too hot and way too loud.  I've also used one of their motherboards in a build that was DOA.

how hot? mine stews around 65C at stock clock under full load, and i don't mind the noise so i set the fan curve to be at 100% at 60C

[Jamdude]

how hot? mine stews around 65C at stock clock under full load, and i don't mind the noise so i set the fan curve to be at 100% at 60C

Well the noise was absolutely unbearable on auto when the card got hot.  Fans on auto which was about 60% on full load the card was sitting around 85-90C.

[Vassili62]

All of them. They are out to make money. I find the question kind of a bad one. I would choose what company don't you trust to make good products. I may just be being picky. If so, please correct me OP.

[Terosterone]

Kingston, because the ol' bait and switch they did on the V300 SSDs.

+1, this really turned me off of Kingston. I saw the reviews on Newegg.com when buying my first SSD and this made me really mad.

 

here's my unpopular opinion: of brands that i dont trust,  with specific category to its right side, doesn't mean i hate other products by them.

 

• asus & aoc for monitor (heard people having issues)

I've really liked my AOC monitor - never heard of any issues, but maybe I am one of the lucky ones.

 

Seeing "Acer" slapped on a product is an instant repellent for me.

+1 they're the worst

[Pinkamena]

Gigabyte - had 3 motherboards, first one: (GA-880GA-UD3H) killed 2 graphics card, exploded and killed my whole rig on the 3 gfx card. second one: (GA-970A-DS3P), unstable, last one: (GA-990FXA-UD3) coil whine like crazy.

 

Samsung, any samsung products... 2 dead tv's (2 of the same model), 1 dead fridge, a Galaxy S3 with a mind of its own.

 

Denon, my receiver resets itself everytime i turn it off  <_< (AVR-1311)

 

Roccat - great peripherals, horrible half working software (Kone XTD)

[flibberdipper]

Two.

 

ASRock and   Hitachi.

[twoscoops]

All of them. They are out to make money. I find the question kind of a bad one. I would choose what company don't you trust to make good products. I may just be being picky. If so, please correct me OP.

 

Mozilla?..

[spwath]

Ocz

Razer

Cheap psu

[Toggle]

I have begun to lose hope that any Lenovo product will work for me. I have had nothing but bad experiences with them. Every single computer that I have used of theirs has broken in some way.

[BaconComputing]

I don't trust "gaming" brands like Alienware who make everything expensive. It's just plain bad pricing for the gamers that don't want to build their own pc.

[twoscoops]

I don't trust "gaming" brands like Alienware who make everything expensive. It's just plain bad pricing for the gamers that don't want to build their own pc.

+1