What made you become a fanboy?

[GenialGiraffe]

I'm just curious why there's such intense arguments based purely on the brand a product is associated with. AMD, Intel, and Nvidia all make good products but at what point did they become more than just product providers to you? 

[RGProductions]

Intel's shitty business practices has turned me away, however an intensely better value can turn me back.

[aisle9]

I've never seen a CPU alienate so many people so quickly as the FX series did. Intel probably won at least as many fans from the performance of those chips as they got from their own i5 and i7 offerings of the time.

 

And yes, that thing about a CPU driving people away includes the Pentium D.

[ARikozuM]

Ever since I moved to Florida; fans required. 

[Shreyas1]

I used to be an Xbox fanboy, I guess I just liked justifying my purchase?

[AresKrieger]

I'm generally not a fanboy however I hate a great many things, as far as tech companies are concerned I hate ASUS, Corsair, Kingston, AMD, and Seagate. (and Sony but they mostly just make playstation at this point)

 

Now the reasons I hate these companies are usually past experiences and/or reputation (I will NEVER buy from ASUS due to their reputation and general expensiveness) now I'm not brand loyal per say but I will blacklist brands until only one remains.

[GenialGiraffe]

2 minutes ago, Shreyas1 said:

I used to be an Xbox fanboy, I guess I just liked justifying my purchase?

What justified it? When I got an Xbox it's because my friends had one tbh

[Drak3]

I need active cooling.

[aconfusedpcgamer]

i find that i prefer amd stuff and nvid stuff but dislike intel cpus because the price of intel vs amd

 

Edited October 7, 2017 by aconfusedpcgamer

[Hybris5112]

If I am a fanboy of anything its Corsair simply because in all the time I've used their products everything has simply worked out of the box and has kept working for years.

 

Beyond that for stuff like CPU's and GPU's I tend to be more logical in my choices which usually brings me at odds with fanboys especially AMD fanboy's or as I have dubbed their youtube commenter variant AMD Jihadist's. To them I come off as a Intel fanboy simply because I disagree that Ryzen is the 2nd coming of Christ and that anyone who thinks differently is a heretic.

 

GPU's are a less heated topic simply because its a part that I expect less out of and there is enough raw numbers to justify one over another.

[Shreyas1]

25 minutes ago, GenialGiraffe said:

What justified it? When I got an Xbox it's because my friends had one tbh

Same, but it felt like I had made the right choice or something. It's a bit hard to explain.

[flibberdipper]

I'm kind of an Xbox fanboy for some reason (though I really like almost all of the special edition consoles/controllers and a lot of the games).

 

Also a fanboy of Asus motherboards/graphics cards, Dell Latitude laptops, and the MBP. Only real reason for those is that every experience I've had with them has been almost perfect.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

I'm not a fanboy.  The thing is that people who like other brands are just dumb. 

 

[dizmo]

I wouldn't really say I fanboy about any particular thing. I can easily be swayed if another company comes out with a better product. I do, however, develop hates for things based on features. I hate the Playstation because of it's controller, I hate iPhones because of the OS, I hate Sony because they once screwed me over on a warranty claim.

[TheGleaner]

So will this become as popular as the "experiences with nontechies" thread?

[Guest]

Here in SA, old AMD cards have good 2nd hand gaming worth for under 30$ a quite okay card. I like old AMD cards for that reason I guess.

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, TheGleaner said:

So will this become as popular as the "experiences with nontechies" thread?

I guess we'll have to see...

[Princess Luna]

Fanboy and Loyal Costumer are different things, I only buy nVidia cards but that is because I always want the best for gaming which is what it offers [:

[Beef Boss]

Because Gaben told me to do it

[SansVarnic]

I fanboy at times[seldom], but I am more loyal to quality than fanboy. Except for when that quality is overpriced, I want the price to match said quality. Example in order to pay for a macbook that thing better sing dance and make me dinner for that price dammit ... so yeah I'm a realist in a sense when it come to this subject.

[Alariel]

I'm neither a fan nor a boy. I do research and then go with the product that best suits my needs.

[chilicheeseburger]

I'm no fanboy. However, if a company's product has worked for me in the past I will favor them for my next purchase (within reason).

 

A good example of this would be my mouse: Had a Logitech MX518 for almost a decade, retired it this year and switched to a G502. 

[mrchow19910319]

8 hours ago, Captain Chaos said:

I'm not a fanboy.  The thing is that people who like other brands are just dumb. 

 

I see a lot of people carry this kind of beliefs at this forum.... serious talk. 

[mrchow19910319]

I like apple's product cos they gave me less trouble. 

And their support is top notch. No "this is not our issue. it is the way you are using it" tug of war. 

 

But the thing about apple's product is they are too god damn expensive. And they are not "as reliable " as before. 

Lots of shenanigans coming out these recent years. 

 

But overall macOS just won me over. Period. The trackpad is super smooth, speaker is loud and clear, you don't need to carry a mouse, retina screen is really one up than other laptop screens, the scrolling on this machine is just so natural. and I swear to god windows fanatic talks shit to mac user so much and it just annoys the shit out of me. 

 

• Another brand I really like is gigabyte. Not really expensive, but solid build quality. 
• Logitech's UE speaker is just a god send. Have been using one for more than 6 years. 0 issue. (although bluetooth stopped working after 3,4 years) still best speaker I've ever had. $99
• SteelSeries sensei. Holy shit this mouse is good. Own one more than 6 years. Other mouse is just shit once I got used to this. Kudos to steel series. I think they don't market their product enough. Too low key. You gotta let people know that your product is good. 
• Dell's monitor. Had one old monitor that is still perfect. Never been fixed, never gave me any kind of issues. And I've own it for 15 years+. 15 fucking years. Still pitch perfect. 
• Samsung SSD is robust as hell too. 

[Mihle]

Well, I dont know if I am an "fanboy", but everything else equal, I would choose AMD over Intel and Nvida, because shitty practices that Intel and Nvidia does, AND that I have had a lot of driver problems in my laptop that have Nvidia gpu (drivers crashing, and now the newest driver dont want to install, even with ddu).

And just a note, I dont really care about the power consumption of a cpu/gpu that much. (well if it isnt like 8x the power consomtion for perf that is) I care much more about perf and price.

Stuff I am sort of a fanboy/anti fanboy of tho: (but mostly because I like quality)

Logitech mice, if you ignore the ultra cheap ones, they just seem to last.

Dell monitors, no backlight bleed, no other problems, 6 years old, just generally a good monitor for the price.

I dislike gigabyte. My gpu have locked voltage and a fan started ratteling sometimes...

 

Also dislike msi laptops, the build quality just isnt that good at all on the two laptops I have seen from them.


Tho, exept for the last two ones, if I do research and another seem to be better, I can go with that just fine.