Favorite Brands for PC parts

The VCR King

The VCR King

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I haven't seen a thread for this yet, but when you guys all build PC's, what brand do you tend to lean toward for each part?

A few of my opinions:
Hard Drives
Western Digital. All of my PCs, whether it's one I built or a pre-built, have had a WD drive in them, and they are so reliable! I have some old IDE WD drives from 2001 in a NASBox and they work perfectly. The Blue Beast is running on a WD Caviar Black from 2010.
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CD burners
I like the drives made by Memorex. They are just re-badged Lite-On drives but the Memorex drives look good, perform good, and are reasonably priced. My old HP had a Memorex drive swapped into it when the factory drive died and hooked up to my gaming PC I have an external Memorex IDE drive. I make mix CDs for my family to listen to in their cars, and I make CDs for myself, and over the years I have probably burned over 400 CDs in my one Memorex drive, as I count my empty spindles. Lol.
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CPU coolers
Zalman is my favorite brand of cooler. My rig has a CNPS-9900MAX-B in it, and my old HP Pavilion had a cheaper Zalman copper cooler swapped into it many years ago.
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Video cards
Sapphire brand. I've only used Sapphire cards my whole life. I love them.
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Now tell me your opinions. What brands of computer components are you guys loyal to?
 
LOL cd burners.....

Processor: Intel
CPU Cooler: CoolerMaster (I loved my Hyper N520)
Motherboards: Gigabyte
RAM: G.Skill
Video Card: nVidia MSI/ASUS/Gigabyte
Hard drives: Western Digital (used to be WD and Seagate until Seagate went to shit)
SSD: Intel/Samsung/Crucial
PSU: CoolerMaster/Corsair
Monitor: Dell UntraSharp
Case: Lian-Li
 
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Processor: AMD
CPU Cooler: Corsair
Motherboards: Gigabyte, although I like my AsRock so far. Anything but Biostar honestly.
RAM: G.Skill and Corsair
Video Card: Sapphire AMD
Hard drives: Seagate (not 2TB+, rest are fine)
SSD: Samsung and Crucial
PSU: Corsair
Monitor: Irrelevant to brand really, IPS is the main thing really
Case: NZXT
 
CPU: Probably Intel for the past bajillion years.
CPU Cooler: Zalman when I bought my current rig, Noctua for anything air cooled, Corsair for AIO, EKWB if I can justify selling my kidney for a WC Kit.
Mobo: Definitely EVGA.
RAM: Corsair or G.Skill... mostly Corsair.
Video Card: The cheapest one with a proper cooler on it... Probably EVGA though. Their CS is second to none.
Harddrive: WD
SSD: Anything Samsung or Intel. Can't go wrong with either.
PSU: Corsair.
Monitor: LG or Dell. Never got a chance to try out the Asus panels.
Case: Corsair Obsidian stuff. Coolermaster is good too.
 
CPU: AMD
CPU Cooler: whatever is best cost/performance
Mobo: epox, but they went out of business. I liked ASRock for a while but they are getting less innovative as time goes on. Probably Asus/gigabyte
RAM: Gskill or crucial. Corsair seemed kind of flaky after their ddr1 xms line
VGA: amd/ati and gigabyte if possible
All my Nvidia cards had a habit of dying after about two years.
SSD: Samsung
Hard drives: Hitachi/HGST, now a WD brand
PSU: seasonic or EVGA
 
CPU: Intel (But if i should upgrade right now, i'll go AMD)
CPU Cooler and case fans: Coolermaster, corsair or bequiet
GPU: Nvidia. prefered vendors: EVGA and ASUS, but doesn't matter too much. Using Gigabyte atm.
Mobo: ASUS all the way
RAM: Corsair or kingston. Mostly corsair though.
SSD: Samsung all the way.
HDD: Don't care. They are all equally slow. But i guess i would take ether a HGST or WD. Don't have an HDD in my system atm.
PSU: Seasonic or Corsair

CD burner: WTF is a CD??
 
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CPU: AMD (will upgrade to Ryzen soon)
CPU Cooler: Custom loop, but for case fans I prefer the Corsair AF/SP series with the rings. For the loop parts I prefer EK for the waterblocks and soft tubing + fittings, Primochill for rigid tubing and fittings and Alphacool for radiators.
GPU: Nvidia Reference/Founders models
Mobo: Don't really have a preference but Gigabyte worked the best for me
RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum
HDD: I'd say Western Digital. I had a 160GB HDD from them that lasted from 2007 to 2016
SSD: Samsung
PSU: Seasonic and all PSUs that are rebranded Seasonic units
Case: Caselabs ;)
Monitor: Anything that's not AOC
 
Processor: Intel (die-hard....not fan boy but maybe a bit)
CPU Cooler: Corsair (I currently use a H115i, but in general I like their AIO coolers)
Motherboards: MSI (used to be die-hard Asus guy, but 3 MSI boards later and still my top brand--- (ingore the fact I'm using an ROG Asus currently)
RAM: HyperX or G-Skill
Video Card: Nvidia for last 5-6 cards (Last AMD/ATI was an X800XL agp.. yah I know)
Hard drives: Western Digital
SSD: Samsung
PSU: Corsair (prior to Corsair I used a PC/Power&Cooling unit for 9 years)
Monitor: Asus
Case: Corsair (only use corsair but will also look at phanteks and nzxt)
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Hard drives: Western Digital (used to be WD and Seagate until Seagate went to shit)
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I remember watching a video on Reddit where a tech support office had like a hundred or so failed Seagate 4TB drives and they lined them all up on the floor and played dominoes with them.

Edit: Why does this say edited by a moderator? Was there a typo in my original post?
 
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The VCR King said:
I remember watching a video on Reddit where a tech support office had like a hundred or so failed Seagate 4TB drives and they lined them all up on the floor and played dominoes with them.

Edit: Why does this say edited by a moderator? Was there a typo in my original post?
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Because you ****ed up the quote tag, so I fixed it.
 
Processor: AMD
CPU Cooler: Whatever is good and cheap. Generally Corsair, Cooler Master or Deepcool.
Motherboards: AsRock for sure. They make good stuff very cheap.
RAM: Same as cooler.
Video Card: Anything but PowerColor and Zotac. Although their stuff is good and cheap so I should revise that one.
Hard drives: WD.
SSD: Samsung, Crucial, Intel, Mushkin, PNY, Corsair, Kingston.
PSU: Seasonic, EVGA, Corsair. They make good stuff cheap.
Monitor: Only used Dell.
Case: Phanteks, NZXT, Thermaltake. Some of their cases look sick and have a reasonable price.
 
Processor - Used to be Intel, been AMD since, but may get an I7 but gonna watch what the Ryzen 1600+ can do and if it beats the 7700K
CPU cooler - Coolermaster but I think I'll be going to the Cryorig H7 next build.
Motherboard - Definitely and only Gigabyte from now on.
Ram - Gskill
Video Card - Sapphire
Hard Drive - Western Digtial
SSD - Samsung
Psu - Corsair, Evga
Moniter - Asus, Acer
Case - Coolermaster

voyagerfan99 said:
Because you ****ed up the quote tag, so I fixed it.
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Banned for dropping the F bomb too many times. :D
 
Good to see quite a few people prefer AMD. On other forums there is a lot of hate towards AMD.
 
Calin said:
Good to see quite a few people prefer AMD. On other forums there is a lot of hate towards AMD.
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That's because they've sucked for years. I was all for AMD but with them keeping AM3 and AM3+ and the FX series not being anywhere near innovative, I gave up on them and switched to Intel. Glad to see they've gotten their shit together with Ryzen though.
 
Hard Drives
Western Digital. All of my PCs, whether it's one I built or a pre-built, have had a WD drive in them, and they are so reliable! I have some old IDE WD drives from 2001 in a NASBox and they work perfectly. The Blue Beast is running on a WD Caviar Black from 2010.
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AGREED

CD burners
I like the drives made by Memorex. They are just re-badged Lite-On drives but the Memorex drives look good, perform good, and are reasonably priced. My old HP had a Memorex drive swapped into it when the factory drive died and hooked up to my gaming PC I have an external Memorex IDE drive. I make mix CDs for my family to listen to in their cars, and I make CDs for myself, and over the years I have probably burned over 400 CDs in my one Memorex drive, as I count my empty spindles. Lol.
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NAME AN OPTICAL DRIVE THAT ISN'T REASONABLY PRICED AT THIS POINT...
CPU coolers
Zalman is my favorite brand of cooler. My rig has a CNPS-9900MAX-B in it, and my old HP Pavilion had a cheaper Zalman copper cooler swapped into it many years ago.
zalman_7700_cu.jpg

THAT'S FUNNY BECAUSE ZALMAN COOLERS ARE HORRIBLE IN TERMS OF THEIR PERFORMANCE.
Video cards
Sapphire brand. I've only used Sapphire cards my whole life. I love them.
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THERE ARE BETTER CARDS OUT THERE..
Now tell me your opinions. What brands of computer components are you guys loyal to?
 
I don´t know, I have a Sapphire card and I don´t see anything wrong with it. I don´t know about the Zalman coolers though.
 
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