Favorite Part Manafacturer?

[xephoran]

Tech board never seems to be busy  at all, so I thought I'd make a new topic!

If any of you are anything like me, you have one PC part maker that you like more than any others. I like MSI the most, personally, because I like the quality and long term stability of their components through things like their Dark CAPs and Super Ferrite Chokes. Also, love the AMAZING color scheme and look of their parts. I admit it, a large reason is I love their looks. 

Anyways though, would love to hear your opinions!

(I tries to only include companys that made a wide variety of parts for the survey... so sorry if who you like was left out!)

[Nrein]

I ended up choosing other because for me it depends on the part itself.

CPU I always go Intel.
Motherboard I prefer MSI
GPU I prefer either Asus or Evga
RAM I prefer Crucial
HDD I prefer Western Digital, or SD I prefer Samsung
Keyboard/Mouse I prefer Steelseries
Headset I prefer Logitech.

I used to love XFX for Graphics and Mothetboards since they had the best customer service and great quality, but once they went and focused on ATI/AMD I had to switch over ;_;

[xephoran]

I ended up choosing other because for me it depends on the part itself.

CPU I always go Intel.
Motherboard I prefer MSI
GPU I prefer either Asus or Evga
RAM I prefer Crucial
HDD I prefer Western Digital, or SD I prefer Samsung
Keyboard/Mouse I prefer Steelseries
Headset I prefer Logitech.

I used to love XFX for Graphics and Mothetboards since they had the best customer service and great quality, but once they went and focused on ATI/AMD I had to switch over ;_;

That sounds like a pretty nice set of choices for companies. I prefer Seagate hard drives myself because I had one in an old rig which last close to 5 years without any problem.

Guessing your a NVIDIA fan?

[Nrein]

I ended up choosing other because for me it depends on the part itself.

CPU I always go Intel.
Motherboard I prefer MSI
GPU I prefer either Asus or Evga
RAM I prefer Crucial
HDD I prefer Western Digital, or SD I prefer Samsung
Keyboard/Mouse I prefer Steelseries
Headset I prefer Logitech.

I used to love XFX for Graphics and Mothetboards since they had the best customer service and great quality, but once they went and focused on ATI/AMD I had to switch over ;_;

That sounds like a pretty nice set of choices for companies. I prefer Seagate hard drives myself because I had one in an old rig which last close to 5 years without any problem.

Guessing your a NVIDIA fan?

Yep. I've never had any major issues with them, and while ATI may have speed in some cases, Nvidia has the power and support.

[saph the sergal]

dont care who makes it aslong as it pulls good fps and doesnt catch fire (shots fired at amd for theirs catching fire even seen the melted gpu board) they get my cash

[xephoran]

dont care who makes it aslong as it pulls good fps and doesnt catch fire (shots fired at amd for theirs catching fire even seen the melted gpu board) they get my cash

What exactly from AMD did you see caught on fire? Unless it was cpu, id imagine it was the manufacturer's fault... I like AMD and  my R9 380 or X1600 never caught fire 
(yes the X1600 was incredibly old)

I ended up choosing other because for me it depends on the part itself.

CPU I always go Intel.
Motherboard I prefer MSI
GPU I prefer either Asus or Evga
RAM I prefer Crucial
HDD I prefer Western Digital, or SD I prefer Samsung
Keyboard/Mouse I prefer Steelseries
Headset I prefer Logitech.

I used to love XFX for Graphics and Mothetboards since they had the best customer service and great quality, but once they went and focused on ATI/AMD I had to switch over ;_;

That sounds like a pretty nice set of choices for companies. I prefer Seagate hard drives myself because I had one in an old rig which last close to 5 years without any problem.

Guessing your a NVIDIA fan?

Yep. I've never had any major issues with them, and while ATI may have speed in some cases, Nvidia has the power and support.

Definitely agree that Nvidia has better (smaller) power draw, but I'd say there are ALOT of games with AMD technologies in their games. Especially games ported from consoles. If you mean from Nvidia themselves, I use to own a gts 450 and I think the driver support is just as good. I do miss the Geforce experience app updating drivers without use of a web browser though...

[saph the sergal]

it was a graphics card that caught fire

hmm i cant remember whose but i have seen the damage from them catching fire

[xephoran]

In that case, it wasn't AMD's fault. It was the manufacturer's. Unless it was because of the screw up with the bad drivers which disabled some graphics card's normal fan profiles... now THAT was a major mistake by AMD themselves...

[Timmy Fox]

In that case, it wasn't AMD's fault. It was the manufacturer's. Unless it was because of the screw up with the bad drivers which disabled some graphics card's normal fan profiles... now THAT was a major mistake by AMD themselves...

To be completely fair, that was on a beta type driver and got a fix within a day-ish.

Nvidia actually had a very similar driver issue happen a couple of years back (2010) and another issue also causing overheating in 2013.

[xephoran]

In that case, it wasn't AMD's fault. It was the manufacturer's. Unless it was because of the screw up with the bad drivers which disabled some graphics card's normal fan profiles... now THAT was a major mistake by AMD themselves...

To be completely fair, that was on a beta type driver and got a fix within a day-ish.

Nvidia actually had a very similar driver issue happen a couple of years back (2010) and another issue also causing overheating in 2013.

That it's true. I never really thought about it that way. I guess both companies seem to have their fair share of problems when it comes to drivers.

[saph the sergal]

mmhmm but cards catching fire? seemed a vrm on most ive seen

[xephoran]

VRM's are still a result of the manufacturer I believe. I may be wrong though.