• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    MSI is still on the come up. Can’t think of a bad component they’ve released in many years.

    ASRock is always rock solid.

    Gigabyte seems to be making a comeback.

    NZXT just started expanding on making components, and has really feature stuff. One to watch, though higher-end.

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      It’s funny, ASRock went from a company I’d never fucking heard of to one of the top names in the space. I used to be like “what’s this no-name brand?” and now I’m like “Oh ASRock, I know them.”

      Unrelated, I miss the old Gigabyte Dual BIOS, where it had a backup BIOS in case the default got corrupted. Which mine did, a lot.

      EDIT: NZXT? Wait, this NZXT? https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/NZXT-Recalls-H1-Computer-Cases-Due-to-Fire-Hazard I’d personally wait a while before jumping all in on them. Fire hazards in components is a pretty big fuckin deal.

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        6 months ago

        I miss the old Gigabyte Dual BIOS, where it had a backup BIOS in case the default got corrupted.

        This is on many higher end enthusiast/overclocking type motherboards, I’ve had it on multiple MSI and Gigabyte boards.

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          6 months ago

          I have an MSI currently, and when I was searching I never encountered one with a dual-BIOS. I’ll keep an eye out in the future, thanks.

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      NZXT just started expanding on making components, and has really feature stuff. One to watch, though higher-end.

      NZXT has always been some really mediocre stuff at ridiculous markup, I don’t have literally any faith in this statement

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      6 months ago

      +1 for MSI. I’ve bought GPUs from them for 10+ years and never once had a failure or even a minor issue. Got a lot of mileage out of the GTX 1080 I bought in 2016.

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        Oof, my MSI 1080 died after allmost six years of service.
        My first hardware death in 20 years of building my own systems, other than a drive.
        Can’t blame them for it. It truly did its job, so I went with them again for my 3080.

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      6 months ago

      I liked ASrock when they were in the ECS tier of quirky and weird. Got a Socket 939 board with the ULi M1695 chipset that was really nifty.

      Then I had an awful experience with an AM3 board that claimed to run a FX-8350, until they edited their support list.

      I grudgingly chose them for AM5 because it was $50 cheaper for the featured I wanted, and it’s been okay, aside from me breaking the x16 slot clip due to hamfistedly removing a shipping-container sized GPU.

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        6 months ago

        Glad you brought up ECS. Not good for high-end computing, but really stable for low-end. I have a customer with an Athlon64 box I built them in a pinch almost 20 years ago now that just runs a POS system, and it’s never caused him a single problem. Sometimes budget minded brands work in a pinch. ECS is not super well known, but always been great with customer service and advance RMA replacements. I wouldn’t call their hardware super sturdy in some cases though.