What are some reliably good brands?
it is also a moving world, i know ASUS RMA is piss poor, but i have for many many years just bought ASUS products, GPU´s Motherboards.. but after the the last board i got, and their voltage shit on my 7950x and just a reply on one of my older board where the 1gbit nic died, i don´t know anymore.. Asrock seems to actually be one of the cheaper partners that does well. MSI also
For instance i am also REALLY old, i remember the IBM DESKSTAR fiasko, where a harddrive would last like NO time, then die, then you get a refurbished then it died, they were SO poor. i think it is HGST today, i would not touch a drive like that.. just because of storyline.
I run mainly Ironwolf or exsos enterprise drives today. ran WD for a LONG time until the bullshit with shingled drives. this SMR bullshit was not OKAY, so for me WD died there, had a NAS fully populated with RED´s and Greens, but have not bought one since, i run 4 18TB Exos and 4 Ironwolf 12TB´s now
so again.. things change.. Fractal for cases has been a goto for me, generally good quality, good build, and fairly silent
Noctua for fans. ALWAYS, that is a place i have never changed, well in the old days we had noisekiller and other alternatives back when like we ran Pentium III´s and II´s and wanted to go silent.
I have had many other alternatives, and EXPENSIVE alternatives, and Noctua for me is always the SAME noise output, and no wierd like mechanical sounds, tried really expensive alternatives and have always been let down.
Also was a BIG Intel Fanboy for many years... mostly because of the old XP AMD that was sorry all over the place.
X86, Pentium 75mhz, Pentium II 233, Pentium 3 450, when people went netburst, i dropped out went socket 479 Mobile in a desktop board the 1.6ghz @ 2.5-6 that annihalated everyting, and then so many more..
tried a AMD64, which was okay, tried a XP2600 barton in a shuttle case which sucked, and since then my AMD 7950x is the first time i am back in AMD, and i love it.
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