I was thinking about it today and I realize that I really do have some odd biases towards computer hardware.
Lets take motherboards for example. For some odd reason the color of the PCB makes a difference to me. I've always had good luck with boards with a darker colored PCB. Green being my favorite (which you cant find very often anymore), or the dark purple/blue ones.
I'm not sure why, I'm just partial to them.
I absolutely despise the light brown PCB's that a lot of companies use. So basically a lot of Asus and Abit boards I refuse to use. I think it might be from my days of working on old HP's (that used OEM Asus boards at the time). I really do not like Asus boards. It comes from years ago when you actually had to worry about IRQ's, and it was actually a regular thing to have to fill every PCI slot or SLI (edit: good god I meant ISA) slot you had available (nothing came onboard). Damn Asus boards you could never really load up, there was ALWAYS an IRQ conflict, or if I remember right, the damn 3rd PCI slot was always flakey. I'm sure they've probably improved over the years but I just cant shake my dislike for the brand.
I have an Abit TH7-II p4 board that I still use to this day, it's a dark green pcb and the damn thing is the most stable board I've ever worked with, even with me screwin around with it loading hacked beta bioses and what not. Now, I built a machine for somebody using the newer revision of the same exact model, which for some reason was a brown pcb this time, and it was okay, but kinda flakey at times.
Strangely enough video card pcb color doesnt matter to me at all.
Also for power supplies, I have trouble buying anything but HEC power supplies. I've just never had a bad one, in any machine I've built with them. Unfortunately they aren't that easy to come by beyond a couple of internet stores anymore. My old shop used to use these as the "high end" power supplies we carried (hey the bosses cheaped out on alot of what they carried, so I got used to trying to figure out what was quality equipment out of the stuff they were willing to stock. (you might be surprised how good a lot of the cheaper stuff is out there))
The only other thing I can think of right now is memory brands. I prefer Muskin, basically overall. Corsair I've never used but dont have any bias towards. And I absolutely will not use Crucial memory. I know alot of people like them but so many years of people coming into the shop (I havnt worked in a shop in a while now, so my biases are probably pretty old heh) and having just oddball problems, that turn out to be the crucial memory that they gloated about the minute they walked in the door...I dunno, sours the experience I suppose. I actually also like Kingston's value line, Buffalo, and Dane-elec for cheap memory needs.
I'm sure there's more things that I'll think of. Guess I'm wondering if anybody else has these random preferences or biases.
Maybe I'm just weird.
Lets take motherboards for example. For some odd reason the color of the PCB makes a difference to me. I've always had good luck with boards with a darker colored PCB. Green being my favorite (which you cant find very often anymore), or the dark purple/blue ones.
I'm not sure why, I'm just partial to them.
I absolutely despise the light brown PCB's that a lot of companies use. So basically a lot of Asus and Abit boards I refuse to use. I think it might be from my days of working on old HP's (that used OEM Asus boards at the time). I really do not like Asus boards. It comes from years ago when you actually had to worry about IRQ's, and it was actually a regular thing to have to fill every PCI slot or SLI (edit: good god I meant ISA) slot you had available (nothing came onboard). Damn Asus boards you could never really load up, there was ALWAYS an IRQ conflict, or if I remember right, the damn 3rd PCI slot was always flakey. I'm sure they've probably improved over the years but I just cant shake my dislike for the brand.
I have an Abit TH7-II p4 board that I still use to this day, it's a dark green pcb and the damn thing is the most stable board I've ever worked with, even with me screwin around with it loading hacked beta bioses and what not. Now, I built a machine for somebody using the newer revision of the same exact model, which for some reason was a brown pcb this time, and it was okay, but kinda flakey at times.
Strangely enough video card pcb color doesnt matter to me at all.
Also for power supplies, I have trouble buying anything but HEC power supplies. I've just never had a bad one, in any machine I've built with them. Unfortunately they aren't that easy to come by beyond a couple of internet stores anymore. My old shop used to use these as the "high end" power supplies we carried (hey the bosses cheaped out on alot of what they carried, so I got used to trying to figure out what was quality equipment out of the stuff they were willing to stock. (you might be surprised how good a lot of the cheaper stuff is out there))
The only other thing I can think of right now is memory brands. I prefer Muskin, basically overall. Corsair I've never used but dont have any bias towards. And I absolutely will not use Crucial memory. I know alot of people like them but so many years of people coming into the shop (I havnt worked in a shop in a while now, so my biases are probably pretty old heh) and having just oddball problems, that turn out to be the crucial memory that they gloated about the minute they walked in the door...I dunno, sours the experience I suppose. I actually also like Kingston's value line, Buffalo, and Dane-elec for cheap memory needs.
I'm sure there's more things that I'll think of. Guess I'm wondering if anybody else has these random preferences or biases.
Maybe I'm just weird.
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