What story's have you got for bad luck with builds?

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Hi there!

Back in may I decided I would get myself a new rig and went about getting the parts together. After some research I got all my parts and decided to get my build on! I have been really lucky in the past and had only a few problems with faulty gear so I saw really confident with this build. The construction of my latest build went really smooth and I thought it's time to enjoy this beast I gave birth to. Just over a month later I started to get blue screens out of nowhere when using Windows media player after reinstalling the OS I got it sorted and thought the worst was behind me how wrong I was! Not even a month later I booted up my pc to a black screen... Turns out my motherboards pcie slot had failed on me and had to send the board in for replacement. Not long after I recieved the replacement the new boards ethenet gave up on me so another rma was needed... Little over 2 weeks later I was surfing the net and doing the usual roaming about on my OS when my GPU suddenly starting artifacting on me and I had to do different tests to figure out my GPU had failed on me! Now another RMA!!

not to mention other things like my pc not writing crash dumps, my corsair Watercooler not working properly and my CD drive deciding it would chew up any CD I put in it (facepalm) there are other things but at the moment I am writing this on my phone (because my parts are again in for RMA) and my fingers are getting tired so I won't go into them now hehe.

What story's do you have about nightmare builds?
 
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hmm..

well asrock is considered a budget board and they certainly do give you alot for the money. perhaps a bad or quality control issue. this wouldnt surpise me. i've used them in the past and have had no big issues but i wouldnt put them at the same level as other brands. i did note some definitely faulty drivers (the superspeed usb one killed my flash drive!) but nothing critical. i used it in an a10 build for a htpc.

gigabyte windforce cards are also known for having a bit of quality control issues which is why i dont personally recommend them when making suggestions despite the rather good cooler they have and decent performance.

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i cannot say that i've had many woes for computing. my original single core amd computers from...
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hmm..

well asrock is considered a budget board and they certainly do give you alot for the money. perhaps a bad or quality control issue. this wouldnt surpise me. i've used them in the past and have had no big issues but i wouldnt put them at the same level as other brands. i did note some definitely faulty drivers (the superspeed usb one killed my flash drive!) but nothing critical. i used it in an a10 build for a htpc.

gigabyte windforce cards are also known for having a bit of quality control issues which is why i dont personally recommend them when making suggestions despite the rather good cooler they have and decent performance.

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i cannot say that i've had many woes for computing. my original single core amd computers from 2004/2005 were still working when i got rid of them a few months ago. my desktop from 2009/10 is still going strong. my laptop from 2009/10 is also going strong. i've had a few parts fail on me over the years but nothing truly catastrophic.

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the biggest issue ive had is with western digital caviar black 1.5 and 2tb hard drives. they are NOT reliable at all as i've had 5 failures. in fact, i've pretty much given up on them.

i originally had two 1.5tb in raid 1 for data protection. within 6 months i had a failure. i replaced one and it failed in 3 days. 2 months later i had another. after that i decided to go with ssd drives for my os to avoid such issues (and i've never had one die yet). so... i used the big drives as data only so they saw less actual use which should mean better performance right? the one is deader than a doornail right now and the other one asks to be reformatted every 3rd time you plug it into a pc.

western digital 1tb drives and under are quite reliable but the bigger ones? i cant say that i trust them.

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the second issue i've had is a few cheap oem disk drives failing on me in a year or two but considering the price of under $20 each i suppose i cannot complain. they never burned coasters and always worked before so while they lasted performance was good.

my plextor ($140) slot load dvd/cd in my 2004 system still worked excellent after 10 years. go figure. my current blueray drive ($100) also works fine. again, go figure. i guess you get what you pay for.

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willabyblen

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Hey thanks for your input yes it seems I may have made a few errors with the quality of my parts. I know in the future I'm not going to go for asrock boards hehe it just overclocked much better than my asus sabertooth I got which was double the price!
 
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