Ideal brands

[Lonyo]

What are your favourite makes of the following components?:

1) Motherboard.mainboard
2) Hard Drive
3) Graphics card (chip and card)
4) Sound Card
5) Processor
6) Monitor

Mine are:

1) Abit
2) Western Digital
3) ATi/Creative
4) Creative
5) AMD (for now)
6) Dunno, but I have a nice one I got with my old Dell machine (Ultrascan P991, been working for about 3 years now 🙂 1600 x 1200 @ 85Hz, 19" monitor)

 

[Jeff H]

1) Motherboard.mainboard - EPoX
2) Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda IV
3) Graphics card (chip and card) - nVidia/Leadtek
4) Sound Card - Creative Labs
5) Processor - Intel P4 Northwoods
6) Monitor - Samsung 900IFT

 

[Utterman]

1) Motherboard.mainboard - Asus
2) Hard Drive - Western Digital
3) Graphics card (chip and card) - Nvidia/Gainward
4) Sound Card - Hercules GTXP
5) Processor -AMD
6) Monitor - Samsung 955DF

 

[MWink]

1) Motherboard.mainboard - Shuttle (currently)
2) Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda IV
3) Graphics card (chip and card) - ATI Radeon 8500
4) Sound Card - Santa Cruz
5) Processor - AMD Athlon XP
6) Monitor - Samsung anything (LCD or CRT)

 

[Wingznut]

1) Motherboard.mainboard - Asus
2) Hard Drive - Western Digital/Maxtor/Seagate
3) Graphics card (chip and card) - Nvidia/Gainward
4) Sound Card - TBSC
5) Processor - Intel (Duh! 😉 )
6) Monitor - Samsung/Viewsonic

 

[boi]

1)Asus
2)Maxtor
3)Nvidia/Prolink
4)Creative Audigy
5)Intel p4 NW
6)MagInnovision/Sony Trinitron

 

[Operandi]

1.) MSI, Aopen, Gigabyte
2.) Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate
3.) ATi
4.) Philips, Turtle Beach
5.) AMD
6.) Sony, Samsung, ViewSonic

 

[DeviousTrap]

1) Motherboard - Giga-Byte, MSI
2) Hard Drive - Western Digital, Seagate
3) Graphics card (chip and card) - Nvidia TI 4600/ Chaintech
4) Sound Card - Audigy
5) Processor - Intel P4 Northwood
6) Monitor - Samsung 955DF

 

[GTaudiophile]

1) Motherboard.mainboard: ASUS (P4B266)
2) Hard Drive: Maxtor
3) Graphics card (chip and card): ATi, built by ATi (Radeon 7500)
4) Sound Card: SoundBlaster (Audigy Mp3+)
5) Processor: Intel (Northwood 2.0A)
6) Monitor: Sony (CPD-E400)

7) Speakers: Boston Acoustics (BA4800/BA7800)
8) Digital camera: Canon (G2)

 

[shathal]

1) Motherboard.mainboard - Asus
2) Hard Drive - Western Digital + Maxtor (after having been disappointed by 2 IBM Hd's failing in 1 month...)
3) Graphics card (chip and card) - Nvidia / Leadtek
4) Sound Card - Creative Labs 🙂.
5) Processor - Intel *lusts after Prestonia....*
6) Monitor - Illyama

 

[Sunner]

Well, I can start by saying, it varies greatly, but for the moment:

1: Asus
2: None special
3: nVidia, LeadTek
4: Turtle Beach
5: Both equal
6: Eizo

 

[fkloster]

1) Motherboard.mainboard - Asustek
2) Hard Drive - Seagate
3) Graphics card (chip and card) - Nvidia
4) Sound Card - GTXP
5) Processor - Intel
6) Monitor - Sony

 

[GT578]

Whatever is best for the money at the time of purchase.

NO IBM harddrives...had 3 die on me (1 75gxp, 2 60gxp)
No Abit boards either....had a couple die on me (BH6, BF6, BE6)...its been a long time since those boards came out but I can't trust Abit anymore.



as of now:
1) MSI, Gigabyte, DFI, Chaintech, ASUS - had good experience with all equally
2) Quantum fireball AS in machine now...but recently had very good experience with Seagates
3) anything with good sound quality
4) whatever is cheaper and faster
5) Samsung

 

[Vinny N]

1) Motherboard.mainboard - Intel, Asus, Gigabyte (chipsets: prefer Intel and SiS)
2) Hard Drive - Seagate (SCSI espcially and IDE), Maxtor (IDE more than SCSI)
3) Graphics card (chip and card) - nVidia/Creative (no likey MX anything), Hercules ATI/ATI,Hercules
4) Sound Card - Creative Labs (Emu 10k series), Yamaha (XG50, SW1000XG)
5) Processor - Intel, AMD 😛
6) Monitor - Eizo, Samsung -- ShadowMask only, no Aperture Grille tubes of any kind!

 

[Sunner]

6) Monitor - Eizo, Samsung -- ShadowMask only, no Aperture Grille tubes of any kind!

Right on!

 

[splice]

1) Motherboard: Epox
2) Hard Drive: Western Digital
3) Graphics card: ATI/ATI 8500LE & NVIDIA/MSI TI4400
4) Sound Card: Turtle Beach
5) Processor: AMD Athlon XP
6) Monitor: Viewsonic CRT, Planar LCD

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

1) Asus
2) Maxtor
3) Visiontek
4) None. I hate Creative Labs. And so far the Santa Cruz sucks (see post in GH)
5) Indifferent. I go with whichever is the best bang for the buck at the time. I like to see AMD do well though, regardless of who is better at the time.
6) Viewsonic