Hardware manufacturers you miss?

biffzinker · Jan 23, 2019

Sasqui said:
VIA? Ha! Go figure.

The same happened to WinChip.
From Wikipedia: In September 1999, Centaur was purchased from IDT by VIA Technologies, a Taiwanese company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_Technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinChip

Jose Jeswin said:
old Turtle Beach Sound cards...
Had a turtle beach montego...broke it while moving to a different house..

Now all their known for is headsets.

Mescalamba · Jan 23, 2019

dj-electric said:
DFI....
They used to spoil us with overclocking heaven at fair prices.

Shoutout to my boy

Nicey, I got LanParty DK 790FX running in my HTPC to this day. They apparently quite durable.

Well my BloodRage is atm still in my main PC and its not youngest either..

Keullo-e · Jan 23, 2019

dj-electric said:
Donno why BFG is mentioned so much here.
They sucked, and basically capitalized on people's stupidity with base model, OC and OC2 models all have the same cooler and PCB with very slight Mhz core clock increases. They didn't innovate in cooling, software or any other place an AIB should.

Good riddance.
Don't @ me.

What I checked on Google image search, I saw that pretty many of those were reference cards. I never got the idea of paying price premium of factory OC'd reference cards.

biffzinker said:
Now all their known for is headsets.

Gaming gear for generally. I have a mousepad myself.

rtwjunkie · Jan 24, 2019

Chloe Price said:
What I checked on Google image search, I saw that pretty many of those were reference cards. I never got the idea of paying price premium of factory OC'd reference cards

Back in their time period there was very little innovation or difference in the cards or coolers compared to reference. Our friend seems to have forgotten that.

Keullo-e · Jan 24, 2019

rtwjunkie said:
Back in their time period there was very little innovation or difference in the cards or coolers compared to reference. Our friend seems to have forgotten that.

Exactly, that's why I got just the cheapest reference card (if there was not a better custom model), and OC'd the crap out of them.

dj-electric · Jan 24, 2019

rtwjunkie said:
Back in their time period there was very little innovation or difference in the cards or coolers compared to reference. Our friend seems to have forgotten that.

There was some, but milking reference the way BFG did? wait, there's a meme for that

Komshija · Jan 24, 2019

Saitek - they had mice and joysticks (among few other things) that looked and felt way ahead of their time. Their performance was well above the average, likely at the very top.

rtwjunkie · Jan 24, 2019

Komshija said:
Saitek - they had mice and joysticks (among few other things) that looked and felt way ahead of their time. Their performance was well above the average, likely at the very top.

And some pretty good keyboards that although not top of the line, had nice multimedia buttons, RGB features, and withstood a lot of abuse.

Processor	Ryzen 9 5900X
Motherboard	MSI B450 Tomahawk ATX
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition
Memory	VENGEANCE LPX 2 x 16GB DDR4-3600 C18 OCed 3800
Video Card(s)	XFX Speedster SWFT309 AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT CORE Gaming
Storage	970 EVO NVMe M.2 500 GB, 870 QVO 1 TB
Display(s)	Samsung 28” 4K monitor
Case	Phantek Eclipse P400S (PH-EC416PS)
Audio Device(s)	EVGA NU Audio
Power Supply	EVGA 850 BQ
Mouse	SteelSeries Rival 310
Keyboard	Logitech G G413 Silver
Software	Windows 10 Professional 64-bit v22H2

System Name	4K-gaming
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X up to 5.05GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte B550M Aorus Elite
Cooling	Custom loop (CPU+GPU, 240 & 120 rads)
Memory	32GB Kingston HyperX Fury @ DDR4-3466
Video Card(s)	PowerColor RX 6700 XT Fighter OC/UV
Storage	~4TB SSD + 6TB HDD
Display(s)	Acer 27" 4K120 IPS + Lenovo 32" 4K60 IPS
Case	Corsair 4000D Airflow White
Audio Device(s)	Asus TUF H3 Wireless
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova G2 750W
Mouse	Logitech MX518
Keyboard	Roccat Vulcan 121 AIMO
VR HMD	Oculus Rift CV1
Software	Windows 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	It runs Crysis remastered at 4K

System Name	Bayou Phantom
Processor	Core i7-8700k 4.4Ghz @ 1.18v
Motherboard	ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 6
Cooling	All air: 2x140mm Fractal exhaust; 3x 140mm Cougar Intake; Enermax T40F Black CPU cooler
Memory	2x 16GB Mushkin Redline DDR-4 3200
Video Card(s)	EVGA RTX 2080 Ti Xc
Storage	1x 500 MX500 SSD; 2x 6TB WD Black; 1x 4TB WD Black; 1x400GB VelRptr; 1x 4TB WD Blue storage (eSATA)
Display(s)	HP 27q 27" IPS @ 2560 x 1440
Case	Fractal Design Define R4 Black w/Titanium front -windowed
Audio Device(s)	Soundblaster Z
Power Supply	Seasonic X-850
Mouse	Coolermaster Sentinel III (large palm grip!)
Keyboard	Logitech G610 Orion mechanical (Cherry Brown switches)
Software	Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (Start10 & Fences 3.0 installed)

System Name	4K-gaming
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X up to 5.05GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte B550M Aorus Elite
Cooling	Custom loop (CPU+GPU, 240 & 120 rads)
Memory	32GB Kingston HyperX Fury @ DDR4-3466
Video Card(s)	PowerColor RX 6700 XT Fighter OC/UV
Storage	~4TB SSD + 6TB HDD
Display(s)	Acer 27" 4K120 IPS + Lenovo 32" 4K60 IPS
Case	Corsair 4000D Airflow White
Audio Device(s)	Asus TUF H3 Wireless
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova G2 750W
Mouse	Logitech MX518
Keyboard	Roccat Vulcan 121 AIMO
VR HMD	Oculus Rift CV1
Software	Windows 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	It runs Crysis remastered at 4K

System Name	1.21 gigawatts!
Processor	Intel Core i7 6700K
Motherboard	MSI Z170A Krait Gaming 3X
Cooling	Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Slim with Arctic MX-4
Memory	16GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 MHz
Video Card(s)	Palit GTX 1080 Game Rock
Storage	Mushkin Triactor 240GB + Toshiba X300 4TB + Team L3 EVO 480GB
Display(s)	Philips 237E7QDSB/00 23" FHD AH-IPS
Case	Aerocool Aero-1000 white + 4 Arctic F12 PWM Rev.2 fans
Audio Device(s)	Onboard Audio Boost 3 with Nahimic Audio Enhancer
Power Supply	FSP Hydro G 650W
Mouse	Cougar 700M eSports white
Keyboard	E-Blue Cobra II
Software	Windows 8.1 Pro x64
Benchmark Scores	Cinebench R15: 948 (stock) / 1044 (4,7 GHz) FarCry 5 1080p Ultra: min 100, avg 116, max 133 FPS

Hardware manufacturers you miss?

biffzinker

Mescalamba

Keullo-e

S.T.A.R.S.

rtwjunkie

PC Gaming Enthusiast

Keullo-e

S.T.A.R.S.

dj-electric

Komshija

rtwjunkie

PC Gaming Enthusiast