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SentinelWolf: ATI: I had a long history of overheating radeons. Playing splinter cell while using a hair drier on cold, cooling my gfx card so i could keep playing without green spots on the walls.
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rtcvb32: ATI-Rage128. I've had one, it ran HOT all the time, left the case off and a separate fan blowing inside the case the entire time i used it. It was a surprise when i swapped cards that ran cool, and never touched that card since. (still got it)
Hahaha, "ATI bringing people closer".
Thanks for sharing.
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tinyE: Black & Decker
Bro what is the hate with you and that company huh? >:( I love how my toast comes out every day half burnt due to there products
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SentinelWolf: ATI: I had a long history of overheating radeons. Playing splinter cell while using a hair drier on cold, cooling my gfx card so i could keep playing without green spots on the walls.
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rtcvb32: ATI-Rage128. I've had one, it ran HOT all the time, left the case off and a separate fan blowing inside the case the entire time i used it. It was a surprise when i swapped cards that ran cool, and never touched that card since. (still got it)
Interesting how personal experience shapes us. In the 25+ years I've owned computers, I had different components from different manufacturers, except for two things:
- All my graphics cards have always been ATI (never had a problem)
- All my printers have always been HP (greatly pleased with all of them)
Post edited March 04, 2016 by mrkgnao
Sahara computers, a large local distribution company, because I don't want to do anything to support the corrupt Gupta family behind its leadership.
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seriously, I haven't had an "intel" based 'Puter since my win 98 HP pavilion (though that is really more about intel graphics than processors)
Intel
For garbage like and [url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KkGdEhp5-yUJ:iq.intel.com/the-rise-of-women-in-esports/+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us]this

Sony
For the rootkit and PS3 OtherOS scandals.
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mrkgnao: Apple: Basically stands for everything I despise in a corporation.
Ditto
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tinyE: Black & Decker
Double Ditto
Post edited March 04, 2016 by ScotchMonkey
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Spectre: Sony
For the rootkit and PS3 OtherOS scandals.
The rootkit.. Which malware writers took advantage of by starting to write their filenames to be written/saved with characters to hide the files... which i think was anything starting with a $, or something similar. Makes getting rid of the malware or root kits VERY annoying, thankfully i never had to deal with any of that...
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I knew that they were trying to appease "them" but didn't realize the cost was more than the money.
Post edited March 04, 2016 by Rusty_Gunn
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chadjenofsky: Avoided AMD for a long time due to an experience with a Celeron chip... but back then I didn't know that that was a cheap budget chip so it greatly influenced my buying decisions for a while.
You avoided AMD... Because you had had a problem with an Intel chip? Does not compute.
Sony - far too many controversies, the rootkit, the MPAA, the whole Michael Jackson thing and screwing their artists, their pro-proprietary stance (still never bought a BluRay disc or a PSP), the fanboys, and many more.

Lenovo computers - I am going avoid these from now even if they're cheap. I'm tired of having to seek out third party bios and deal with bugs as a result just to use a third party network card and having it stop working sporadically. Also the design is a pain to service sometimes. Every new model feel cheaper and less durable than before and they still call it Thinkpad.

Apple/Samsung - fanboys, terrible software
Post edited March 04, 2016 by eksasol
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Goldstar,now known as L.G.
AMD
Used to buy their graphics cards.
The last driver they released for my card caused a bootloop.
There was a beta driver which was older that worked properly. >_<
Sony
Apple
Lego
never had one of their products, never will.
Apple - overpriced and overhyped
Sony - too much proprietary crap in the past form them to put up with them again
AMD - ever since i went intel/nvidia I never looked back as the driver were better, stability, speed and consumption also. As I mainly use laptops AMD is out of the picture.
With ASUS I'm on the fence. I had overheating issues with a laptop a few years ago, now my current one has some annoying issue that it doesn't always starts on the first press of the button (sometimes it takes 10 minutes of fiddling). The non-removable battery also sucks... so if they at least don't change that, I will have to switch to a different manufacturer.