Do you usually stick to certain manufacturers for certain components?

[DaJe]

For motherboards, I like Asus. For video cards, eVGA. Corsair for RAM. Seagate for hard drives. Enermax makes a good power supply. What about you? Are you loyal to certain companies for certain parts?

[DaveW]

I think everyone does it. Asus are pretty good for motherboards. I was a bit of an ASRock fan for a while, because their budget boards were of high standard for a long time; now i've moved on to gigabyte, who use better materials and the boards last longer.

For graphics cards, I'm into Sapphire. I think they produce some great stuff. I've somewhat 'went off' logitech as a brand, but i'm getting 'back in' to their stuff since i bought my new speakers; incredible quality!

-Dave

[GT40_GearHead]

yeah, I use asus motherboards in all the systems i build, and in my PC, great quality, great price, even greater performance and overclocking options
the brand of choice for hard drives is Seagate

and thats about all that I'm using regularly, the rest is always changing like: DDR , PSU, CPU, graphic card etc

[nil8]

Mobo: Asus, Abit, Gigabyte or MSI. I definitely prefer ASUS, but I will recommend all 4.
Seagate hard drives.
Asus video cards
Asus DVD drives.
LG burners.
Creative Labs sound cards.
Crucial or Kingston memory.

[Ticien]

I like ASUS MBs but for the last build I did i grabbed a Gigabyte and i am impressed. Aside from a little stint with beep codes which was my fault have had no issues. I go western digital for hard drives, Corsair, Kingston, or PNY RAM, had good luck with PNY video cards, and I have never put anything but an AMD processor in my computer.

[simon275]

Pretty much I am loyal to Western Digital and Corsair and that is it. The rest is what gives me the most bang for my buck.

[bartvandenberg]

Asus or Abit for mobo's
Enermax for PSU's
Kingston, Corsair, or Team Xtreme ram is preferred, but ill use OCZ too
Evga or Asus for Gpu's
Nothing but seagate for hd's, no question
and i like pioneer stuff for DVD writers and such.
I will Always stay true to logitech. for speakers, keyboards, mice, and gamepads

[Airbozo]

I used to be a big fan of Tyan mobo's but they are not real OC friendly. The server mobos rock though.

As far as HD's, WD or Seagate for low end drives, Seagate for scsi 15k rpm drives for sure.

Adaptec for SCSI controllers.

Logitech for input devices (mainly mice).

[Omega]

DFi.

[azminisk8r]

logitech all the way, best mouses in the world using a g5 right now

[Omega]

logitech all the way, best mouses in the world using a g5 right now

Oh yeah, Logitech for me as well. I'm using a 6+ year old MX700 that has nothing wrong with it (although the silver is coming off a little bit -- I'm wearing down the plastic faster than I'm wearing out the electronics =D)

[progbuddy]

I'm stuck to:

Intel (CPU)
Logitech (Mouse)
ASUS (motherboard)
Antec (power supply)
nVidia (graphics)
LG (optical drives)
Western Digital (HDD)
pqi/OCZ (RAM)
Thermaltake (fans)
Cooler Master (Cases and CPU/VGA cooling)
Belkin (firewire/USB)
Evil (well...evil) :hurt: hehehe...

[xRyokenx]

I haven't really been sticking to one brand at the moment, I just get what I can afford and whatever seems to be (and hopefully is) of reasonable quality.

[nil8]

Adaptec for SCSI controllers.


QFT.
Adaptec makes awesome RAID controllers & the software is vastly superior to anything I've seen or touched.

[DaJe]

I think my mother board has a built in RAID controller.

[nil8]

It's probably soft raid, which, like winmodems of old, use your processor to run them instead of having their own processing unit.

[Spawn-Inc]

not that i have a huge amount of exp but here are my brands

mobo - asus
ram - ocz
hdd - seagate (i have one)
mice - logitech (just bought the mx revolution for a retard amount of 100, but so far i like it)
cd/dvd - lg, pioneer, or asus
cpu - intel (had them in my last 2 family computers)
psu - earnmax (had those in my last 2 family computers)
video cards - bfg, evga, asus
case - Thermaltake
keyboard - logitech

[Eclecticos]

I think everyone does to some extent. I use what works First Time everytime and without hassle.

Ive used PC products of all types from nearly all of the top manufactures These are the ones that have made my No Bull cut.

ECS, ASUS, Kingston, PNY, NZXT, ThermalTake, Western Digital, LG, Logitech, CoolerMaster, LinkSYS, Intel, . . Uhh.. Nvidia :D

I reallly have to Stand up for ECS you can play Frisbee with there motherboards.
Spill drinks on them, Plug-in all kinds of questionable cards and power supplys on them. Use them for squares in a hop scotch lol. .

And Hook them back up and everything still works. They take some abuse to say the least.

[xRyokenx]

I think I'm done with BIOSTAR motherboards after this, they seem to screw up in some way... Asus is good? One of those'll go in my new rig in a few years.

[Spawn-Inc]

I think I'm done with BIOSTAR motherboards after this, they seem to screw up in some way... Asus is good? One of those'll go in my new rig in a few years.


go with the striker! haha thats what i want for my first/gaming computer i plan to spend a pretty penny. so far all i have is a logitech revolution. but i will be getting either a thermaltake amour or logitech g15 soon.

[a.Bird]

My first real build 5 years ago was an Shuttle motherboard, AMD cpu, three sticks of Corsair, a Wester Digital harddrive and Logitech speakers. Impressed with *almost* every single product, needless to say I'm using the very same computer to type this.

I've since added a 250Gb Seagate scratch HDD which works just as well as the WD. The seek time may be a bit faster on the Seagate but both HDDs are suspended with stretchy stuff in my case so I have no idea which is quieter. After five years neither of them tick or anything.

My Logitech speakers sounded pretty dope for a long time but the volume adjustment knob is a bit spotty now, and upon minute adjustments I often lose the right channel. Not sure why. Also, the tweeters in the satellites sound a bit shot. I feel like Logitech can put out solid speakers but when they go, they go quick. Now I have a set of 5.1 surround 140watt Acoustic Authority speakers- never heard of the company but they cost a mere $80 and they sound just as good if not better than the Logitechs for what I paid for, so yeah.

My only gripe is that I wish Shuttle still made motherboards.

[Bucko]

The main thing I stick to is PC compatible parts. No Apple ****e in mine!