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Processor | 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900KS |
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Motherboard | ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Apex Encore |
Cooling | Pichau Lunara ARGB 360 + Honeywell PTM7950 |
Memory | 32 GB G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB @ 7600 MT/s |
Video Card(s) | Palit GameRock GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB |
Storage | 500 GB WD Black SN750 + 4x 300 GB WD VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS HDDs |
Display(s) | 55-inch LG G3 OLED |
Case | Cooler Master MasterFrame 700 benchtable |
Power Supply | EVGA 1300 G2 1.3kW 80+ Gold |
Mouse | Microsoft Classic IntelliMouse |
Keyboard | IBM Model M type 1391405 |
Software | Windows 10 Pro 22H2 |
You can apply this to every tech produced, most PC related hardware is "trying something new" when it first appears.
If I didnt buy from a company again after I (or friend) had problems, I would have blacklisted the following companies. There may be more, these are the ones I most easily remember.
AMD - FX degradation making stock unstable
Asus - Failed capacitors and unstable voltages in their "asus optimised" bios.
Asrock - Unsafe voltages in their bios when activating XMP and stock settings exceeding tjmax spec.
BenQ - Monitor with flawed display port (display wont wake up if turned off whilst using display port, system needs to be rebooted to wake up the port on the monitor).
Crucial - SSD shipped with flawed firmware.
EVGA - GPU shipped with unstable v/f curve out of the box.
Gigabyte - GPU shipped with unstable v/f curve out of the box on performance bios.
Kingston - Numerous SSDs failing.
Viewsonic - Failed monitor, and Monitor RMA switcheroo was a replacement with same fault.
I agree. Speaking for myself, I have positively horrible, terrible luck with Seagate. It's a 100% failure rate, every single Seagate HDD I have ever owned has malfunctioned and died within a year of ownership. Meanwhile, I've got at least two Western Digital drives that now exceed 50,000 hours of operation with SMART reporting perfect condition, the newest of these is a WD Blue WD10EZEX that is about 10 years old and has been on 24/7 on my server box.
Does that make Seagate horribad, avoid at all costs? I don't think so... I'm in an overwhelming minority, and I'm sure some people have had the same ill luck with WD drives dying on them. People just take their clubism to the extreme sometimes.