- Joined
- Mar 28, 2001
- Location
- The Netherlands
Uhhh yeah, maybe that's what I should do, but seriously I never had much problems before.
To me it looks like HW manuf. started making lousy crap because they want us to buy their most expensive crap.
Lets sum it up:
S-Cards that died since 2K:
1) AWE64. (My '98 AWE64 Gold is still working fine...sure I payed well over $200 for it).
2) SB PCI128 (Took the input of my amp with it) (A friend has a dead one too...uhh I believe he killed 2 of them).
3) SB Live (From a friend....same friend as above).
4) Terratec X-Fire 1024....will RMA it this week.
Dead MOBO's:
Abit ST6...died ~2 hours after I got it.
Abit VH6T....can't play a single game on it for more than 5 minutes, not to mention that my CPU won't do 1.6GHz on this board, while it does 1650+ on my TUSL2-C.
Cases:
Can't those @#$@^&*^$$# do a good soldering job and spend some time on the way the 5V line is connected to the speaker!!!!
Graphics cards:
Well I never killed one, but obviously the Club3D GF4 MX440 didn't like my VH6T.....hell I got a bunch of artifacts while installing WinME...and the stupid board doesn't regonize my Logitech USB mouse.
HDD:
2001 IBM 60GXP 40GB, It died because I did a mod...my '97 Maxtor survived the mod while it was on the same cable.
CAN'T YOU STUPID MANUF'S MAKE SOMETHING DECENT ANYMORE????????????...I mean look at the old crap that's still working, and all the new **** that died wayyyy too soon.
Not to mention that there seem to be 2 standards for floppy drives...uhh yeah my current floppy drive works fine but because of this notch and the 1 pin missing (on Abit boards it's still there) I can't use my cables...well I bought a new floppy drive that'll take the cable both ways...but it still SUCKS.
Why do I want a Dell???, so I can ***** about it and tell them to fix it
The last GOOD part I bought was either my Asus V7100 (GF2 MX) or my Asus P3V4X....well my Mushkin and Kingston memory is still working fine too....uhh and my ancient floppy drive
Other parts:
They're outdated pretty fast so I sold them before they were worn out or whatever.
Tell me your opinion/experience please.
To me it looks like HW manuf. started making lousy crap because they want us to buy their most expensive crap.
Lets sum it up:
S-Cards that died since 2K:
1) AWE64. (My '98 AWE64 Gold is still working fine...sure I payed well over $200 for it).
2) SB PCI128 (Took the input of my amp with it) (A friend has a dead one too...uhh I believe he killed 2 of them).
3) SB Live (From a friend....same friend as above).
4) Terratec X-Fire 1024....will RMA it this week.
Dead MOBO's:
Abit ST6...died ~2 hours after I got it.
Abit VH6T....can't play a single game on it for more than 5 minutes, not to mention that my CPU won't do 1.6GHz on this board, while it does 1650+ on my TUSL2-C.
Cases:
Can't those @#$@^&*^$$# do a good soldering job and spend some time on the way the 5V line is connected to the speaker!!!!
Graphics cards:
Well I never killed one, but obviously the Club3D GF4 MX440 didn't like my VH6T.....hell I got a bunch of artifacts while installing WinME...and the stupid board doesn't regonize my Logitech USB mouse.
HDD:
2001 IBM 60GXP 40GB, It died because I did a mod...my '97 Maxtor survived the mod while it was on the same cable.
CAN'T YOU STUPID MANUF'S MAKE SOMETHING DECENT ANYMORE????????????...I mean look at the old crap that's still working, and all the new **** that died wayyyy too soon.
Not to mention that there seem to be 2 standards for floppy drives...uhh yeah my current floppy drive works fine but because of this notch and the 1 pin missing (on Abit boards it's still there) I can't use my cables...well I bought a new floppy drive that'll take the cable both ways...but it still SUCKS.
Why do I want a Dell???, so I can ***** about it and tell them to fix it
The last GOOD part I bought was either my Asus V7100 (GF2 MX) or my Asus P3V4X....well my Mushkin and Kingston memory is still working fine too....uhh and my ancient floppy drive
Other parts:
They're outdated pretty fast so I sold them before they were worn out or whatever.
Tell me your opinion/experience please.