What's Your Favorite Piece of Hardware?

[jamesp33]

What's your favorite piece of hardware? Mines the good old Geforce 256.

 

[mcconkeymike]

Oh you're going old school? Well mine would be the Geforce 3 Ti 200. I used that SOB for ages and loved it. I even stuck with AGP longer than I should have just so I could keep using it.

 

[Wolfshadw]

Ceton InfiniTV 4 TV Tuner Card (since passed).

-Wolf sends

 

[jamesp33]

Oh yes the good old AGP slot. Rest in piece AGP.

 

[Pinhedd]

What's your favorite piece of hardware? Mines the good old Geforce 256.

Altera Cyclone V SX series FPGAs freaking rule

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

Oh you're going old school? Well mine would be the Geforce 3 Ti 200. I used that SOB for ages and loved it. I even stuck with AGP longer than I should have just so I could keep using it.

I had an excellent AGP card which was top of the line back in 2007, it was probably the best piece of hardware I've ever owned.

 

[MU_Engineer]

What's your favorite piece of hardware? Mines the good old Geforce 256.

IBM Model M keyboard. Still have two of them, and I use one of them at work.

If a peripheral doesn't count, then my vote goes towards my workstation's Chenming ATX-801F case.

 

[Supahos]

Tie between my original athlon and my 9600gt used that thing for like 7 years and never regretted it.

 

[jwcrellin]

I remember my old 92mm fully copper Zalman cpu cooler, it would slice you up if you even looked at it.
https://www.amazon.com/Zalman-92mm-LED-CNPS9500A-LED-CU/dp/B000C0V5RU/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1486979554&sr=8-4-fkmr0&keywords=zalman+cpu+cooler+1151

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[Supahos]

I have one of those on my c2d e6800 it still runs to this day as a weak gaming PC for my nieces/nephews at my parents house.

 

[jamesp33]

I remember my old 92mm fully copper Zalman cpu cooler, it would slice you up if you even looked at it.
https://www.amazon.com/Zalman-92mm-LED-CNPS9500A-LED-CU/dp/B000C0V5RU/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1486979554&sr=8-4-fkmr0&keywords=zalman+cpu+cooler+1151

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Looks pretty good.

 

[OldScattered]

I like the keyboard. It's where I and the computer sorta... come together as one.

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

I like the keyboard. It's where I and the computer sorta... come together as one.

I love comfy keyboards to type on. If the keys are too stiff, it's a pain in the ***. Also it's gotta have a good support for the hands while typing and sit still and firm on the desk.

 

[amtseung]

Favourite piece of hardware... Probably the old Apple G4 Cube sitting on the shelf behind me. SFF case with bottom to top direction airflow, many many years before either concept became popular/mainstream. There still isn't a PC case in existence that I know of that offers all three of those things: cube case, SFF, bottom to top airflow. The trash can mac pro is a thermal nightmare, even if it is the closest thing to the G4 Cube in terms of form factor and thermal design.

And I like this G403 wireless I bought about a week ago. If it weren't so narrow (I've got big hands) I'd say it's the best mouse hands down. I have to claw it to be comfortable, and I usually palm the living daylights out the mice I use.

 

[Ralston18]

Wireless keyboard and mouse combination. (Just wish the key lettering did not wear off so fast. )

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

Wireless keyboard and mouse combination. (Just wish the key lettering did not wear off so fast. )

And I wish I didn't have to change batteries ever if I had a combo like that.

 

[Ralston18]

I know: sometimes the batteries seem to go very fast - especially any generic brand batteries were included.

For the most part, it is easy to change the batteries (generally AA) and I am well atuned to the weird behavior when the keyboard or mouse batteries weaken.

My present keyboard combo ( Microsoft 5050) has an LED indicator for low battery. Well and good but the bigger problem I am having is that the lettering wears off of the keys very quickly.

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

My Phenom II X4 945, when overclocked it was a little beast.

 

[jamesp33]

I love seeing all these people with all their favorite hardware. It's really great.

 

[mcconkeymike]

I also had an old DFI motherboard when I was running an Athlon XP 1500+ that was great. It was still very simple, had dip-switches for changing bus speed, but it ran great until I <mod edit> up and bought a cheap <mod edit> PSU that killed my mobo and a new video card.

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[Rafael Mestdag]

A Microsoft Joystick I bought back in 1998, it wasn't even usb at the time but I used it until 2012. It was so precise and ergonomic.
I played a little of everything with that, from NBA games to soccer games to racing simulators mainly.

 

[C12Friedman]

I'd say my favorite piece of hardware is ANY SSD. They have made my PC's as responsive as I had always believed they could be. Nope, don't miss platter drives at all.

 

[MikeLevin]

I would say that it's a processor, as it controls almost everything

 

[CRO5513Y]

My Power Supply since all the other hardware in the PC would be useless without it

 

[crooked windows]

My Zalman 750 PSU with HEAT PIPES! SO RAD! if only it was more showie. sorry, my other PSU has just told me to be quiet! god I sound like Logan