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WORST computer HARDWARE ever made
hey i want to join on the badnwagon of best and worst of computers. So in your opinion what is the worst computer HARDWARE ever made.
In my opinion PCI video cards are the worst things ever made. The PCI slot runs so much like shit it is not even worth buying an advanced graphic card. For people like that have a stupid HP you have no choice because some dont come with a AGP slot. so what is your worst HARDWRE ever made?
not another one of these threads... 
i would have to say my computer because it sux 
Creative CD/DVD Drives.
S3 video cards.
Onboard sounds and graphics card motherboards.
Software Modems.
Yeh Onboard crap definatly sucks.
I've got one with an onboard everything but I had a seperate Gforce put in it. (For all I know is that Gforce is king of the world
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The soundcard just decided to die a while ago so I had to put a PCI card in it, but the new card doesn't work with xp so I had to get rid of it and put Win2K back on. And I love XP! 
PCCHIPS sux!!!This mobo manofacture is pure crap!
excuse me i was getting to this! hrhrh 
onboard sound blows, u dont think it does until u buy an audigy pci card, then u see the difference
Re: WORST computer HARDWARE ever made
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| Originally posted by gOOD-tRiP In my opinion PCI video cards are the worst things ever made. |
anything onboard is fucking gay.
There's no such thing as gay hardware.. There's just things that a smart (aware) person would never buy.. ;P
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| Originally posted by King_Mack anything onboard is fucking gay. |
anything is crap only if you buy a really crappy brand 
you people have no idea wat your talking about...on-board sound is good in GOOD MOTHERBOARDS such as Asus & Abit..these are world's 2 leading motherboard brands if you buy a brand computer for e.g. Compaq (HP is owned by Compaq btw), or IBM, depending on the cpu chip that is giving, you will most likely have a good motherboard. Intel has its own motherboards making and they are pretty good but very expensive (whats new about Intel anyways 
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point is there is no worst hardware coz it depends wat kind of motherboard you have..i have ECS mobo and its really crappy..on-board sound sux, the udma support is only 66/100, where most hard-drives nowadays run under 133, 2 ddr slots that support ??? fuck knows what since the manual of the mobo is so cheap
all in all, if you get a good mobo, then you wont have any crappy hardware....
MMX technology, while it wasn't "bad", it sure was a waste, because just a few months after everyone gobled it up, it became completly useless.
Heheh, I'll have to chime in and say that the Creative Sound Blaster Live! and Audigy series (but not the Audigy2) sound cards sux0r! Crappy drivers, serious compatibility issues... blech.
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| Originally posted by bluE_Neon (HP is owned by Compaq btw) |
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| Originally posted by cycloptor actually compaq is owned by hp |
I second software modems. WTF? I bought when when I didn't know much about modems. ohh the headaches on my 14.4 with all those errors.
trackballs... those are annoying. why are we still using floppies? They're so slow and so easily damaged. Tape drives?
I did the same 3 years ago, I asked the bloke in the computer shop if these modems he sold was any good for playing online games. He said yeah they be fine
What a twat 
oi, i could rant about my slow computer for ages, but i'll be rather quick
sis530 video card. totally and completely SUCKS.
however, i have an onboard soundcard and it sounds better than a creative soundblaster (some shoddy one though). mine has much better highs, but weaker bass though. the soundblaster has so much bass, i had to turn down all the bass in winamp equalizer.
well, anyway, crap hardware is mostly the hardware that comes with retail pcs, like dell, gateway, compaq, etc. i have an ibm and while it may not be a total piece of junk, it's a major one. how the hell do you manage to provide enough space for only 3 HDD / CD-R drives instead of 4 (same with power connectors) and why would they do that???
Tape drives aren't crap, wtf are you on over there, can you propose a better backup device for archives where you are backing up systems of many many gigabytes every single day? I'd like to see you try swapping in CDs.
PCI vid cards are great, can anyone point out a mobo that has multiple AGP ports on it so I can run a dual monitor setup, go on.
Admittedly some of them are absolute shite (Tseng labs, older SiS cards...)
I have no probs with my SB Live 5.1, but then again I have a speaker set that is made by creative, and I know how the dsp in the emu10k1 chip on it works and can program it to tweak stuff.
It comes down to knowing how your hardware interacts with each other piece and avoiding making decisions where you introduce conflicts.
Oh and PCChips mobos suck hardcore, I'd agree on that one 
older proprietary cases are a bitch to work with, like IBM, HP, Compaq, Dell etc. It's always nice to have to remove the power supply, mobo, and everything else in the case just to replace a HD.
not really hardware, but i hate teh all in one computers, the one that comes wihta monitor attached to the computer, sucks
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| Originally posted by skware Tape drives aren't crap, wtf are you on over there, can you propose a better backup device for archives where you are backing up systems of many many gigabytes every single day? I'd like to see you try swapping in CDs. PCI vid cards are great, can anyone point out a mobo that has multiple AGP ports on it so I can run a dual monitor setup, go on. Admittedly some of them are absolute shite (Tseng labs, older SiS cards...) I have no probs with my SB Live 5.1, but then again I have a speaker set that is made by creative, and I know how the dsp in the emu10k1 chip on it works and can program it to tweak stuff. It comes down to knowing how your hardware interacts with each other piece and avoiding making decisions where you introduce conflicts. Oh and PCChips mobos suck hardcore, I'd agree on that one older proprietary cases are a bitch to work with, like IBM, HP, Compaq, Dell etc. It's always nice to have to remove the power supply, mobo, and everything else in the case just to replace a HD. |
I definitely agree with soft modems, a total piece of crap.
I also don't like any onboard devices.
And I hate ASUS, First I had their SCSI controller, it crashed every computer I plugged it into, then I had their motherboard, which died few months after buying. Then I bought their graphics card which was totally overheating, and in the end it developed some defect, so now I have all these weird shadows all over the screen.
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| Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 I definitely agree with soft modems, a total piece of crap. I also don't like any onboard devices. And I hate ASUS, First I had their SCSI controller, it crashed every computer I plugged it into, then I had their motherboard, which died few months after buying. Then I bought their graphics card which was totally overheating, and in the end it developed some defect, so now I have all these weird shadows all over the screen. |
This is what would happen when i tried to download
too much porn on my 56k modem
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| Originally posted by jonsimmonds asus generally make 100% perfect products, ive only used their motherboards and never had a problem, dont know about their graphics cards n scsi controllers though |
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