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So this thread of for all those PC parts that just make you wonder why people try. Like the Chenbro XPIDER II case

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=67&products_id=13329

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Or the GTX580 Black Ops edition that doesn't come with Black Ops and isn't any faster than the superclocked edition.

The HAF X nVidia edition.

The Razor Starcraft 2 editions.

Cyrix CPUs.

The original PII that desoldered itself and fell off the motherboard.

etc

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haha umm the magic trackpad for Apples (zomg revolutionary... NOT).

Overclocked video cards that cost more than the base model from the same manufacturer, with the same or a reference cooler on LOL.

Hitachi consumer hard disk drives

anything with an Acer logo

The new Antec Lanboy case. I loved the old one the new one looks shit. I prefer simple cases. Like Lian-Li :P

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if it didnt have that homo blue on it, it would look kinda sweet

145$ mouse...

http://www.centrecom...razermambaa.jpg

Edited by Clutch

haha umm the magic trackpad for Apples (zomg revolutionary... NOT).

Overclocked video cards that cost more than the base model from the same manufacturer, with the same or a reference cooler on LOL.

Hitachi consumer hard disk drives

anything with an Acer logo

whats wrong with hitachi hdds?

+1 for anything with an acer logo

hitachi drives die all the time and are generally cheap shit

f**king these. When I worked at a PC store, these two brands gave me the most trouble.

Whenever Acer had any cashback deals we'd get endless complaints from customers not getting their cashbacks processed, thinking we had something to do with it. The Hitachi consumer drives were quite bad too, with maybe 2-3 coming in every few days.

they probably DO have Hitachi drives lmao. and yeah I'm glad we cleared out the last of the Acers we have here, nearly every single time someone brings in a dead home pc, it's a fkn Acer POS.

+11ty My mum had an Acer and it was nothing but trouble sure its cheap to buy but then its constant misery after that. Also my high school gave Acer the contract for all the schools laptops my god was that full of fail half of them were broken most of the time :domokun:

HDD failure rates

- 9,71%: WD Caviar Black WD2001FASS

- 6,87%: Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000

- 4,83%: WD Caviar Green WD20EARS

- 4,35%: Seagate Barracuda LP

- 4,17%: Samsung EcoGreen F3

- 2,90%: WD Caviar Green WD20EADS

that was a fairly dubious study imo, but I've seen a few dead Caviar Greens which were in well cooled cases.

Never encountered a dead Caviar Black or Velociraptor that hadn't been in an environment with shitty power and no UPS in between the wall and computer

HDD failure rates

- 9,71%: WD Caviar Black WD2001FASS

- 6,87%: Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000

- 4,83%: WD Caviar Green WD20EARS

- 4,35%: Seagate Barracuda LP

- 4,17%: Samsung EcoGreen F3

- 2,90%: WD Caviar Green WD20EADS

Ouch, I just bought the cavier black when i did my i5760 upgrade. I thought the blacks where good quick drives, mind you not as quick as my ocz 2 SSD drive but a lot quicker than my old HDDs.

Spewin......

Never encountered a dead Caviar Black or Velociraptor that hadn't been in an environment with shitty power and no UPS in between the wall and computer

I've yet to encouter any dead hard drive in my computer(s), I have used a range of hard drives from WD, Seagate, Samsung and Maxtor, even the (~10 year old?) Maxtor 1.62Gb & Seagate 6Gb Hard drives in my old Cryix 686 Computer were still in perfect working condition till we threw the entire computer out in a junk collection last year.

Now back on topic, my pick would be

1) SHAW PSUs

2) those really shit generic speakers that tries to separate themselves from other generic speakers by having a separate sub woofer, but all the 'sub' does it create a low pitched distortion noise & it ends up sounding WORSER than the other generic speakers that are just plain 2.0 stereo.

Edited by Mayuri Krab

We have an entire wall here lined with dead Hitachi drives here fyi

I've personally had several Seagates die, and quite a few in various Dells around work, but nowhere near the amount of Hitachi's. Also used to have quite a few dead Maxtors in our old Acers.

Agree with Shaw PSU's btw, they are terribad

The results that Div is quoting are from a (french?) article, and the WD drive in mention was actually the 2tb Caviar Black, and no background at all was given to the stats (was posted on OCAU)

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