Hardware that we all like

OK boys .... we all saw what you hate most .....
lets see what you like most ......

i`ll start

LG-dvd rw...great stuff...not even one failed ....i`m talking expecially lg4163...lg4160......

lg10ah..and lg20ah..are too new too see whether they are reliable or not

ok next..

seagate baracuda 7200.x series ...good stuff.....few of them came back but overall they are good enough....
also the new wd stuff is very good too...wd2500js or ks are good enough and reliable...

i adore the his ice-q stuff .....mine is not ice-q but still a his brand

sony trinitron

gigabyte mobos...they are well cooled and well build

and the list could continue ...but ..i want to hear you guys too ...what`s you favourite brand or piece of hardware ....also give same reasons ..why that and not samething else

yes Seagate Hard drives are excellent, 6 years old and still goin strong mine is!

Crucial RAM

1. MSI KM4M-L. V. good budget board w/ AGP 8x slot (of course killer slot for the AMD Barton days), and is generally faster than my MSI K8N Neo + Palermo. By faster I mean more responsive to mouseclick on the 'My Computer'.

2. Kingston ValueRAM. We've sold thousands in the past 8 years and never had to replace one (they give a 5 yr warrantee so see how longlife they are). I'm an engineering student and they teach us stats and probabs so I find it very hard to imagine how efficient their manufacturing line or the effectivity of QC team is.

3. Celeron 300. OCed like hell (on stock cooling).

4. The Intel 440BX chipset. Usu paired up with the abovesaid Celly.

Since no one else pointed it out already, I have never loved anything like my opty 165. Great chip.

I also never thought I would enjoy a keyboard as much as my G15. And the whole line of Logitech gaming mice.

I love my Hiper Type R 580w PSU
Also my X800XT
And for some strange reason high end Epox Mobos

Apple ][ Plus / Apple IIe

I grew up on this one, my parents kept various ][ pluses and IIes running with a green screen for 18 years. before upgrading to a P100 in '96 (it was months before I stopped saving stuff on floppys and figured out I could use the HDD for that). It had hundreds of games to play, like Karateka & Moon Patrol, and some good solid office applications, like Bank Street Writer. Nice work Steve.

Hardware that i love :

Processor ? I've changed too much. I just love the speed.

RAM, if i'm not wrong on name i think it's VSSburst CAS 2 128 SDRAM.

Aopen mobo with its famous unbeatable Intel 440BX chipset.

Voodoo3 3000 AGP 4x and GeForce4 MX 440.

Creative Live! Soundcard

Quantum KA 18.2 GB 7200 RPM with its "breathing" hole. This HDD is a real jet engine when its just spin the platters. And it still alive 'till now.

Teac 4x burner without BurnProof. I throw lots of unsuccesfull CD because of this but i learn how to make backups.

Canon CCD scanner which is take lots of place on my table and Canon BJ210 printer.

LG Studioworks 563N 15" monitor and MAG 986PF 19" Monitor.

always been a fan of DFI mobo's
(hoping that their nforce 590 intel will be good )

indeed seagate owns

just got the MX revolution for my birthday (yes it's today!! 8) )
and it ROCKS

love my samsung syncmaster lcd screen

An Oldie but a goodie.

I always liked my old SOYO Dragon+ for the Socket A Platform. Worked well raid built on. Just a nice solid board (for me anyway...no OC or anything crazy)

My older Sony CD-RW ...it was only 8X when i bought it in 99' and it actually still works to this day (although bundled with crap software)

Speaking of voodoo cards
My voodoo2 3dfx was pretty sweet back in the day

Yeah, Voodoo was the one before.
If i remember well with Voodoo5 with its dual GPU (i didn't buy it though, my friend did, it costs too much) you really need to change your casing just to put this card. It was a huge card.

Floppy disk/drive ? Yes, a 1.44MB floppy. I love this hardware, i think everybody love it too. It's the only hardware who can exist for nearly 20 years in the history of PC.

I always liked my XP2800 that worked great for me for almost 3 years and still runs well enough for my brother now.
My old 200GB seagate has never let me down and my Logitech mx518 mouse also rocks.
As far as newer stuff goes, my 19" Samsung LCD does the job nicely.

I also loved my P3 800 and GeForce 256 (not 256 mb ) Strangely it ran games better than my mates FX5600, i think his card was bust though

1. nVidia nForce Mobo's-most others I have tried were never as rock solid as theirs...especially the NF7-S2 by ABIT

2. Ti series vid cards

3. AMD Mobile Bartons: Overclock like a mofo. Especially liked the "wire trick"

4. Hanns-G LCD monitors. Perfect picture, bright, fast, cool looking and $100 AR for a 19"?!?! Fuhgettaboutit!

5. ITX or Nano mobos. Yah, bigger, faster, better IS a lot of fun and way cool...but designing and building ultra small systems is cool, too. But sometimes size DOES matter...

A few years ago my GF and I were in a crowded bar when I pulled my new, tiny cellphone out of my front pants pocket to show her. She gasped, painted down to my phone and exclaimed WAY too loudly "That is the smallest one I have ever seen"!!!

Wanna get away??? lol

Is that why she's your ex?

I know... nVidia even said they had called their Geforce 5 series "FX" to refer to the integration of 3Dfx into nVidia... Not a great honor for 3dfx if you consider how crappy geforce FX were (my G4Ti4200 used to run better than a friend's FX 5600)

Yeah i knew that voodoo had this sli thingy built in but at the time just after i got it i got my hands on a nvidia asus tnt2 32mb card which was real nice for the time being.

And btw the FX5900Ultra (either 128 or 256mb) was real nice, but that was the only nice card out of the fx series.

I had an Amdek 310A amber monitor in the late 80's that was always crisp and clean; great for text work.

I had a Tripplite 450W UPS; it would power on "cold" unlike a lot of units of its day. I bought a house and before the utilities were on I had to do some stuff in it so I took that UPS over there with a 60w bulb and had plenty of light. I think my sister might have it now; not sure. It's needed a couple of battery changes and an internal fuse change, but has worked well for 20 years.

ATI 9800pro. Killer card.

Patriot memory. When i bought the 2 gigs of DDR1 i have from them it had some of the lowest latency/$ (might still be that way). Doesn't OC half bad either.

Coolermaster Centurion cases. They are a little quirky when it comes to removing the front bezel but they're build quality is amazing for the price (30-50 dollars!).

great stuff dudes ...keep it caming

yahhh..those were the days ..... i remember when i got my first gf2mx200
......max payne ruled

the best graphics cards of all time is definitly Voodoo2 and Geforce 256

other than that I have to say the Amiga 600 is one of the best gaming comps of all time


oh and Razer mouses (mice?)

And I love mine too. Never had a bad time with a Seagate drive either.

I like my eVGA 7900GT. Nice quiet card.

I loved my old GeForce4 GPU. Had to put that one to pasture last year as it didn't have Pixel Shader 3 support. Stupidly bought a 6200 card to get going again - I wanted a 6600, but they weren't in stock and I wanted to play that weekend. Like I said, stupid me.

I liked my first CD-ROM drive. Single speed, had built in play functions you could control from the front with it's own headphone jack and volume control knob... Ah, memories. I didn't need to run any kind of program to play my music CDs.

Oh and my old Comodore64 especially after getting a 1541 disk drive. Tapes were such a PITA.

Well - you can all laugh - but I'm running a 1G PIII now with 512MB. Bought it in 2000 I think, with 128MB and a TNT2 card and Win ME. Huge upgrade from my 486. Yep. 486. Anyway, this worked fine ( since we weren't gamers) until my daughter came home with a zoo simulator game from the school book fair running in 3d (DX8 I think). Daughter was all excited - we loaded the game and got literally about 3 seconds per frame. Well - that sent me to this forum where a friendly poster sent me looking for a Ti4200. $40 on ebay later, we were in business - that was a great card.

I wound up giving a friend the Ti4200 (and some $) since the 9700pro (used) I had bought for his new build was giving me fits on an NF2 board. It just wouldn't install no matter the drivers, etc. The Ti4200 worked fine.

So, now I still have the PIII with the 9700pro - and I'm amazed at the performance (relatively speaking). We don't do much to tax the machine except rip CD's and play some Harry Potter Quiddich and TrackMania games - and I'm impressed with the performance for the age of the equipment and the money invested.

I just bought a S754 A64 3200+, MB, GF6600GT, and Antec 430W PS all for $110 on ebay to build my second machine - it'll be interesting to compare the two. I know - its already way outdated - but for the money - I couldn't pass it up.