Thread 106368199

What are your favorite brands for each PC components and why?

>ASRock
>ASUS
>BIOSTAR
>CORSAIR
>EVGA
>G.SKILL
>GIGABYTE
>KINGSTON
>MSI
Etc

In general I just buy the cheapest that's a somewhat decent brand.

>>106368199 (OP)
>Motherboard
Idk. Used ASSRock it had some downsides after long use. Now I use MSI, it was shitty before I updated bios. But it's alright in general.
>GPU
Sapphire. No need for explanation
>CPU
Nowadays - AMD. I don't want to bother with sockets and overheating of Intel.
>SSD
MSI is alright, I use a couple of them. Tried A-DATA this shit broke in 2 months.
>HDD
WD is alright, used it since school years.
>PSU
Anything that has good reviews.
>Case
Right now I'm using some cougar cheapshit, it's alright.
>Fans
ID-Cooling. They're good.
>CPU cooler
Also ID-Cooling right now. Works pretty well.
>RAM
I'm using Team Group right now, but the best by price and quality is Crucial, I guess. Usually I take anything that uses Micron chips.

>>106368199 (OP)
I hate all Taiwanese companies involved in PC parts outside of power supplies.
If I could reasonably rid myself the major brands in motherboards I would.
My PC is mostly US based as far as RAM and storage, my case is Chinese, PSU is FSP.
Motherboard is asrock only because it was cheap.

I hate the Taiwan jew with a burning passion

I don't really care. I've been leaning towards Sapphire for GPUs because I really like the designs of their cards, and I've always liked Silverstone's "no frills decent stuff" approach

Otherwise lately Thermalright have been absolutely killing it for CPU coolers, and Montech has been making really good value cases and PSUs. I also find Patriot's been very solid on DDR5 with very aggressive pricing

>>106369389
Thermalright is one of the only companies I respect anymore.
True antithesis of the current market where everyone treats their mass manufactured shit as bespoke and tries to charge accordingly.
TR is mass-manufactured shit for a mass-manufactured price. So cheap you won't even RMA it. Almost how the entire PC market was 15 years ago.

>>106368199 (OP)
For me, it was:
corsair for PSU
asus for MB
intel for CPU
corsair for RAM
nvidia for GPU
cooler master for water cooler

But I know it is not 2014 anymore, so idk.

>>106368199 (OP)
AMD, Gigabyte or Asrock Mobos, Thermaltake psu's, Kingston ram, all of which because my machines run for over a decade daily and they just keep going.

I've tried Asus (flaky) and Intel (never ever ever buy this shit), Cooler Master (never again).

What do we think of Seasonic?

>>106368199 (OP)
I buy as much as I can from msi because of the dragon :)

>>106368199 (OP)
>MSI
I bought an MSI Motherboard back in the day because it was some sort of MSI Dragon thing and I really like dragons and I still have it too, the heat sinks on the motherboard or dragon-shaped and the splash board has a dragon on it, it's pretty sick, it has a Intel i5 4690 and I think 16 GB of RAM and two Radeon 6950s that I think I've ever really successfully used in crossfire more than once but it looks kind of cool having them in there I guess?

>>106369835
My first PSU was a thermaltake TR2 600w
It blew up twice

>>106370164
how does it blow up more than once?

>>106370187
It was 2 separate units
The original and one I got from an RMA
It was only powering an i3 and gtx 550 ti
I'm sure TT PSUs are better now but jeez

>>106370187
hiroshima & nagasaki

I never owned a BIOSTAR but always liked the idea of it, so crusty.
For RAM and SSDs I tend to go with Kingston.
I like Seasonic power supplies and Fractal Design cases.
I never buy anything Corsair, just cuz.

I wish motherboards weren't forced to run proprietary bios firmware

Asrock mb
kingston ram
cm psu
intel cpu
nvidia gpu
wd hdd
samsung sdd
rig is 10+ years old

>>106368199 (OP)
>motherboard
gigabyte, never had any issues with them and now they have Q-Flash
>cpu
AMD, intel chips run hotter and worse for most applications
>SSD
>HD
>PSU
no preference
>RAM
Anything with Hynix dies
>Case
NZXT airflow designs
>Fans
Arctic
>CPU cooler
Thermalright

>Motherboard
Asrock or Gigabyte. ASUS and MSI have become jokes over the years, and Biostar have always been a joke.
>GPU
Sapphire or XFX. I'm using a Gigabyte 7900XT at the moment which has been great though, purchased purely for cost reasons. ASUS is overpriced and MSI can't seem to put thermal pads or heatsinks on properly.
>Cooling
Arctic. Best PtoP and 7 year warranty. Sent me a pack of ARGB fans for my CPU cooler when one started buzzing, and didn't need to send anything back. ThermalRight are doing well nowadays as well.
>CPU
AMD. Nothing more to say.
>RAM
Really doesn't fucking matter unless you're OCing, but any of the well known brands. I've had Gskill, Corsair, Kingston, Crucial and Patriot, and they've all worked great.
>SSD
Any good PCIE Gen 4 or 5 is fine, as long as it's a well known brand with good warranty. Currently using Gigabyte and Sabrent NVMEs, and Crucial SATA.
>HDD
Seagate Ironwolf Pro/WD Red Plus or higher. Fuck SMR drives (looking at you WillDie Red and Seagay Barrapooda).
>PSU
Anything well reviewed and Gold or higher. Currently using Corsair RM750. Previous PSU was a Kolink Enclave 700W which was also fine. Avoid Gigabyte, MSI, CiT, Apevia etc.
>Case
Whatever looks good to me and reviews well. Bought a White 4000D Airflow before the price hikes.
>Monitor
Dell, AOC, Gigabyte, LG.
>Peripherals
Whatever is from a well-known brand that reviews well. Currently using a Thermaltake Level 20 and a Corsair M65 Elite. Previously used a G512 and G502 from Logitech.
>Audio
Mackie EM-91C into a Behringer UMC202HD. PreSonus M7 and Behringer C1 are good mic alternatives. Interface alternatives: M-Audio M-Track Duo and Presonus AudioBox USB 96 25th Anniversary.

You're welcome Mr Dataminer

>>106368199 (OP)
i'm gonna unironically buy an ECS motherboard soon

>>106371500
I had an ECS board
Was great honestly even if guady, was $70 new
They dropped out of high end baords for the longest time.

>>106368199 (OP)
>motherboard
used to be gigabyte, now asus
>gpu
sapphire, but used to love msi back in the twin frozr era
>cpu
whichever is fastest without being a thermal reactor, amd at the moment
>hdd
WD for internal, but avoid like plague if extrenal
>ssd
samsung, crucial
>psu
corsair
>ram
crucial
>case
phanteks

the concept of brand loyalty is for console-warring retards and you should always be ready to jump ship to whatever happens to be the best product for your use case at any given moment
that being said, goddamn do I miss EVGA

>>106368199 (OP)
>Motherboard
Asrock
>GPU
Asus
>CPU
Intel
>SSD
Jeyi
>HDD
Seagate
>PSU
Gigabyte
>Case
Dell
>Fans
Aigo
>CPU cooler
Enermax
>RAM
YongXinSheng

>>106368199 (OP)
ASCock is the only brand worth it.

>mobo
MSI
>cpu
Whatever is better, that happens to be amd right now
>gpu
MSI BABY
>ssd
SAMSUNG BABY
>HDD
wd
>psu
superflower or seasonic
>case
BEQUIET!
>fans
noctua
>cooler
arctic aio for normals, loops for Gods
>ram
gskill
I LOVE LUCKY!

>>106369595
Still works, just swap Intel with AMD

>>106368199 (OP)
>What are your favorite brands for each PC components and why
None stop sucking dick for corporations faggot

>Select component
>Sort price highest to lowest
>Buy first result
My time is more valuable

In general Asrock is the least cartel of the Taiwan motherboard cartel.
They're the only motherboard manufacturer that didn't actually go through the cartelization of the industry Intel drove in the 90's. Of course they're still island chinks and they're going to island chink you.
Shame about the scorched x3d chips. They're almost always the best bang for buck option in consumer or entry level enterprise boards.

>>106375464
Asrock is literally owned by Pegatron

>Motherboard
Depends on which board has the best implementation of PCIE lanes, SATA ports, USB ports, 2x ethernet ports in addition to boot times
>CPU
Switched over to AMD since the 2700X, now on a 7800X3D
I want to buy the last AM4 16-core version and the 6-core iGPU version as backup CPUs
>CPU cooler
U14S for air cooling, I used Coolermaster 212s before but never the stupidly large Noctuas
Arctic/NZXT for water cooling, used Corsair before
>GPU
Always Nvidia, the third party manufacturers are all the same
>RAM
Kangston since the others are largely irrelevant
>SSD
WD Blacks or Samsung Pros, my OS drive right now is a 2TB 990 Pro and my 3 other SSD slots are 4TB WD SN850Xs; would love to have 4 8TB SSDs
>HDD
WD Blacks/Red Plus/Red Pro/Gold though Seagate now has 30TB and 32TB that coomsoomers can't buy and if I recall correctly neither Synology/QNAP/Asustor work correctly with 24TB+ drives though I could be utterly wrong. I hate mobo companies that skimp SATA ports and I hate that there's no in-house NAS/JBOD solution in this day and age.
>PSU
Seasonic and nothing else
>Case
Full tower at the bare minimum, I'm not those pussy ass SFX/tiny PC losers
Mid towers for older PCs

datamining thread

lmaoing at you fucking retarded faggots doing full writeups for these faggots for free like anyone gives a fuck about your gay ass opinions on [BRAND THAT HATES YOU]

>>106375724
>datamining eight 4chan users

>>106368199 (OP)
>ASRock
ehh
>ASUS
ok
>BIOSTAR
literally who
>CORSAIR
overpriced
>EVGA
rip
>G.SKILL
ok
>GIGABYTE
ehh
>KINGSTON
meh
>MSI
ok

For cases I have a preference for Fractal Design. First PC I built used a Define R3 and my current one has a Meshify 2 Compact.

Other components it depends entirely on the specific part. Every manufacturer has made good shit and bad shit over the years.
Currently using the cheapest RTX4070 I could find: a dual fan 2 slot KFA2 branded one and it's been solid for over a year now. The MSI MAG Mortar B650M is alright. Bit slow to boot and also had the slightly too high SOC voltage problem, but not as bad as e.g. Asus and it didn't fry my CPU. I hate the rootkit they automatically enable with each bios update so they can automatically install drivers in windows.

>>106368199 (OP)
Asscock mobo because ecc support and cheap. I like micron for ssd but settled for wd and adata. For ram, cheapest hynix a die. For me it was Kingston. PSU, I like Super flower. Case fractal is nice.

>>106368199 (OP)
I'm going to be honest I really have never even given a single fuck and have never really noticed any difference. Like what can they even realisticly do? Isn't it basically already 99% decided if its going to be a good or shit GPU by Nvidia/AMD anyway

Dell

>>106369595
Similar for me but I'm also grossly out of date and haven't upgraded my PC in over a decade.
Case: Lian Li
PSU: Enermax
CPU: Intel
Mobo: Asus
RAM: Corsair
GPU: nvidia/Saphire

>>106375866
Jewish and shit quality

>>106368199 (OP)
corsair for PSU
asus for MB
amd for CPU
gskill for RAM
asus/gigabyte nvidia for GPU
nzxt for water cooler

ryzen cpu
be quiet cpu cooler
asrock mb
kingston ram
wd storage
sapphire radeon gpu
seasonic/be quiet psu
fractal design case
be quiet fans

>>106368199 (OP)
>PSU
Generally a high end Be Quiet!
>RAM
G.Skill or Kingston depending on which has the most stable for that generation
>GPU
Since EVGA is gone here on out its AMD with Sapphire or Powercolor. I guess if I did go Nvidia it would be PNY since I heard EVGA guys went over there??
>CPU Cooler
Noctua; I care about long term durability and silence.

There rest of the components are preference and swing heavily each generation with Mobos, cases and storage. For AM5 long term stability and reliability is Asus still decent or Gigabyte?

>>106368199 (OP)
is the market for cartoon animals really this significant?