Crapist hardware you ever owned.

[The PIT]

Conner hard disk I remember dropping one of those from two feet and it broke the fall on me one foot and died.
Crappy hardware.

[Indiana]

I forgot:
-CyberHome standalone DVD Player. I bought it because it was the only one in the shop that featured mp3-CD playback - what a fault! INFERIOR soundquality (even inferior to that of the SBLive).
I'm now playing CDs with my good old Onkyo DX7111, mp3-CDs with my portable Philips Expanium and DVDs with my Radeon. So the damn thing just sits there doing nothing but taking up space...

[dZeus]

yesterday I was playing football (soccer for those on the other side of the pond) with a Seagate Cheatah and when I hooked it up it had died.... bad, bad hardware!













hehe, just teasing you :P

[Sasq]

Opps forgot one, a 286 mobo that had a crack in a inner layer track, it would flex and die in summer. Had to rest a full coke can on the upper left part of the memory dimms to get it to stay stable

Dan

[rugger]

My crap hardware list

In no particular order

1) S3 video cards (ALL OF THEM, ALL MAKERS, CHIPSETS, BOARDS, EVERYTHING). They are slow (both 2d and 3d).
2) Creative Infra CD-ROM drives. Slow spin up times, poor performance with cd-r and scratched CD's
3) Voodoo Rush board (Herc Stingray 128). Poor 2D performance, shocking driver quality.
4) Cyrix 486SLC boards and processors. Slow and annoying.
5) ISA ESS1868 sound cards. Very poor sound quality, no wavetable synth.
6) Yamaha (I think) single chip ISA sound cards (x4). First one, and all replacements DID NOT WORK :-)

[matrox_anger_me]

Originally posted by RedRed

Worst car, 1982 Ford Fiesta....


RedRed

sorry, i have to disagree. try..........

hyundai pony

things broke up, rusted, and are worth only $100 to $200 now!

[orangejulius]

Just for fun I typed "Hyundai Pony" in Google
and <a href="http://www.scorbett.ca/photos/cars/1985_pony/">look what it found</a>.

<small><small>edit: reminds me of this <a href="http://www.adcritic.com/content/spoof-dodge-88-dodge-aries-k-car.html" title="Dodge Aries vs. Hyundai Pony">Dodge Aries commercial</a>.</small></small>

[matrox_anger_me]

haha, so it's agreed then. hyundai pony wins first place!

[Dr Mordrid]

Dunno about that. My wife once had a 1972 Chevy Vega. The radiator hose broke, which caused it to overheat for a few minutes after she stopped.

On any other car this would be no big deal, but on a Vega there was an aluminum block. Again, not usually a problem BUT most engines use an iron sleeve inside the cylinder for the piston to ride on. The Vega had about .005" of iron plating which proptly peeled off as soon as the engine overheated

Dr. Mordrid

[The Rock]

ANY PCchips mobos. God those were awful, and still are.

Bart

[Hein]

Philips CD-burner. Replaced after 2 months with a Plextor Never had problems with that one.

[DentyCracker]

brr ***Trident*** brrr "Video" cards
WD 1.6 and 3.2 BG POS HDs (Maxtors have been flawless for me)
IBM MWAVE (thanks Cooper, I'd blocked those horrid POSes from memory) Ok I never owned one (wisely), but had to attempt supporting them.
Xircom pccard modem/nic
USSERTEK 20X CDROM (I pawned that off to a cousin I was pissed at, LOL, I'm so evil)

[Alec]

I always had bad experiences with HP scanners and printers. I never saw one that worked right! The drivers seem crap. I think I´ll skip everything HP for a long while...

[Technoid]

olivetti P75 E/n !!

Intel P75 Mhz cpu with a glued HS

Opti motherboard with:

Trident 9660 1 MB (max 2MB)

Mozart sound on propretary conector...

8mb memory

Conner 640MB HDD

Two only good peices in that POS computer!::

Sony 4X cdrom (read everything, even CD-RW's)
Sony 1,44MB diskette drive...