• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      677 months ago

      Gigabyte (remember them?)

      Sure do! Both my board and the board in my wife’s computer are Gigabyte. So’s my video card. The only issue I’ve ever had with their stuff has been a bad stick of ram a few years ago, which they exchanged without argument.

      Brands in this sphere I definitely have had trouble with: MSI, Razer – so many problems with Razer – and ASUS.

      • @[email protected]
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        617 months ago

        Yeah so the thing with PC parts suppliers is that every brand is going to have people who have experienced problems with their stuff.

        Gigabyte I’ve never had a problem with, but yeah during the pandemic their power supplies were fucking exploding so yeah that’s a problem.

        Asus I’ve never had a problem with, but yeah their boards on both sides have been setting voltages and power limits very aggressively, killing AM5 CPUs catastrophically, potentially causing instability on higher end Intel chips as well it seems. That’s a problem.

        Etc etc etc

      • @[email protected]
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        67 months ago

        I’ve had problems with Logitech. They still make good peripherals, but it’s more luck of the draw for me recently, so QC may be getting cut.

        • TigrisMorte
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          157 months ago

          QC??? Hadn’t you heard that the end user is the new totally free Beta Tester? But don’t worry, they’ll solve the resulting support issues with AI.

          • warm
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            37 months ago

            People are trained to buy any old trash that is marketed to them without any critical thinking, it’s why everything is turning out broken like this.

        • metaStatic
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          57 months ago

          I keep hearing this and wonder if I should buy bulk mice before they come preinstalled with malware or something because they last decades so voting with your wallet doesn’t really work.

          • @[email protected]
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            37 months ago

            Maybe. Or just switch to whatever the good mouse brand is at the time. I’m rocking a Microsoft Intellimouse Pro (wired) on my desktop, which I really like. On my work laptop, I have a Logitech MX Master 3 at work (had lots of issues with the thumb button in the past), and a Logitech Triathlon (no issues).

            My wife had a couple of the g305s die on her within a year, so I switched her to a Razer Deathaddr Mini, which has been good for over a year now.

            • metaStatic
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              37 months ago

              I’m still mourning the loss of the g5 moulds. Why do people feel the need to improve on perfection.

      • @[email protected]
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        57 months ago

        What are the problems with Razer? I’ve only used their mice, so I honestly don’t even know what else they make

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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          207 months ago

          Keyboards, headphones, laptops, a handheld Steam Deck imitator, and various other RGB gamer shit. All of it is trash. Their business model nowadays seems to revolve entirely around upselling Aliexpress quality Chinese garbage at premium prices and then methodically denying every single warranty claim for defective and DOA product using spurious excuses. Oh, and their driver software is crap. And their products are consistently behind even Logitech on the features you get for the price.

          Through no particular intentional means, I am now a Logitech convert. For mice and keyboards, their stuff has always been consistently reliable for me, their “G” series driver software is significantly less irritating than Razer Synapse, and most of their stuff is cheaper as well.

          I think in my lifetime I’ve trashed four Razer keyboards, at least as many mice, and two pairs of headphones. All of these died early deaths – within weeks, sometimes a couple of months at the outside. Every time I tell myself this time will be different. It never is. I don’t buy their shit anymore, and I don’t recommend anyone else do, either.

          • warm
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            7 months ago

            Can just Onboard Memory Manager too for Logitech mice, don’t even need that G hub garbage.

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            I bought the $120 Razer Wolverine V2 Xbox controller after MS shrunk the official controller for the Series S/X and it was a piece of shit. Replaced it with a $45 gamesir (Chinese brand) with hall effect triggers and sticks that I’ve had for two years now with no issues and no drift, a first for any xbox controller I’ve ever had. Razer sucks.

        • @[email protected]
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          57 months ago

          I mean their mice are terrible too. I went through three of their mice in two years back in like 2016. Been using a Logitech g2 whatever their most famous one is since then and it’s not had a single problem. So much so that I bought two more for my other computer and my wife.

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        27 months ago

        I’m also running a Gigabyte high-end right now and I’ve got absolutely no complaints. I really enjoy the BIOS/UEFI menu.

      • @[email protected]
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        27 months ago

        Tried to RMA a motherboard with Gigabyte and they will find any excuse to void the warranty.

      • Gunpachi
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        17 months ago

        My msi motherboard randomly erases boot entries, I have to keep the computer on for a few minutes and reboot so that my other boot entry appears.

        It maybe a problem with the m.2 slot, but it has been the case ever since I bought the motherboard.

        Anyways I’m gonna stick to a different manufacturer for my motherboard if I’m building a new PC.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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      157 months ago

      I have a 14 year old gigabyte motherboard in my older computer. When I first got it I didn’t know what I was doing and plugged the wrong thing in somewhere and blew up a component on it. As long as I don’t use that slot it chugs along just fine. I wish companies would just keep making things that last I’d gladly pay a fairly steep premium for that. Instead it seems every company that gets known for making good stuff decides to shit all over themselves

    • Bipta
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      They also reject advance RMAs. How nice to be without a system for weeks.

    • @[email protected]
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      57 months ago

      I’ve had good luck recently with Gigabyte. I know it’s circumstantial but my hope is that they are recovering.

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        67 months ago

        Anecdotal like the rest of the posts here, but I recently built a new rig for gaming/lab testing and used a Gigabyte board for the first time in a decade after seeing good reviews and a solid sale price.

        About 3 weeks after setting everything up it just crapped out. Would reboot seconds after you pressed power. Checked and verified absolutely every other part, no luck. Tried to contact support, got the runaround for a few days until I was directed to a site to submit an RMA request.

        That was a month ago, zero movement still. About 4 days into it I bought an identical part of Amazon and “traded” em. I’m usually pretty ethical about that kind of thing but this was ridiculous and I needed the PC working ASAP.

        Who’s decent anymore? I always used to go with MSI.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      Looks like big companies buying everything has unexpected downsides too (aside the known downsides).

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      27 months ago
      • They are rebranding lesser quality components with the higher quality ROG brand, and pricing it as such

      Meaning you could sue them as fraudulent?

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        No. The ROG brand is ASUS’s brand in the first place.

        Like, anyone could be like “this is my normal quiche, and this one here is my MuMu quiche.”

        Then, once everybody’s buying MuMu, start using the normal recipe for MuMu. It’s not illegal, but at first people think they just got an Ok MuMu, then they start realizing it just sucks now. Hard for the company to recover from that.

        But voiding and not honoring warranties?

        Yeah.