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  • Crapist hardware you ever owned.

    For me it was an Abit Kt133a raid. It shouldn't have ever made it out of the factory.
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    Windows 98.

    Oh, wait, you said hardware....

    How about my Cyrix P200+. Damn thing was so slow it couldn't play MP3 files without skipping.

    b
    Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow? But why put off until tomorrow what you can put off altogether?

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    • #3
      That's an easy one

      Quantum 4GB HD, failed upon formatting, and its replacement proved to be an unreliable POS you'd love for your wost enemy to own.
      [size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
      Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
      Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
      Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
      Frontdesk: Beelink T4 8GB

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      • #4
        I've had a couple of really crappy Rockwell modems, but I'm sure I'll think of something else.
        Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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        • #5
          Acer AP5C/P motherboard with a Cyrix 166+ processor. The Cyrix processor was nice, but the mobo was a touch squirrelly out of the box and when the cpu fan socket on the mobo died the cpu cooked (predictably). Haven't touched an Acer product since.

          Kevin

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          • #6
            Intel ISVR3 Video Capture Card. It was so picky about IRQ's and the drivers were horrible.

            I have to mention though, that ICQ is the absolute worst software program I've ever used.

            Dave
            Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

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            • #7
              -Dexxa Optical Mouse (made only double-clicks two months after purchase, optical sensor went crazy ~5 times/hour)
              -ATI Radeon DDR 64 ViVo (new card with fresh ATI drivers on a VIA chipset... Stable for ~3 minutes with fail-safe BIOS settings and AGP 1x unless you tried to run an app or something)
              -IBM Aptiva (for the "great expandability" and the nonstandard cache modules which I tried to order from IBM but were nowhere to be found)
              -A couple of very VERY stubborn no-name 14.4 modems
              ...other things that I have tried and managed to forget
              Last edited by Tempest; 13 December 2001, 14:00.

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              • #8
                A crappy soundcard based on a Opti-931 chip that was a pain to detect in DOS games.

                The card disconfigured itself of the system randomly with the precious help of Windows 95.

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                • #9
                  I have to mention though, that ICQ is the absolute worst software program I've ever used.
                  Same here! Worst hardware ABIT BE6-II!
                  According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless...

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                  • #10
                    Iomega Ditto Max tape backup unit, or more specifically the ISA controller that came with it, wouldn't work at all when my TV card was in the machine and dog slow the rest of the time
                    When you own your own business you only have to work half a day. You can do anything you want with the other twelve hours.

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                    • #11
                      tough one but.........

                      I'd say the VXPRO PCChips board for my Cyrix 200+....ties for worst with my 1980 Ford Thunderbird

                      -Dil
                      Better to let one think you are a fool, than speak and prove it


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                      • #12
                        No contest.
                        Motorola Voice Win Modem by a mile.
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                        Chuck
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Guru
                          Worst hardware ABIT BE6-II!
                          I cant complain about the MoBo itself, but the HPT366 is a pain in the ass ...
                          Seth, are you ok? I`m peachy Kate. The world is my oyster. - Seth Gecko

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                          • #14
                            Crappiest Mainboard: PCChips VX-PRO (the IDE controllers were completely Non Standard!)
                            Crappiest CPU: Cyrix PR200+ (This thing got hotter than my 1Gig tbird@1.4Gig, and ran slower than a P90)
                            Crappiest Vid Card: Gxx0 Nah - the SiS 6326 - I was suckered in by their 'Voodoo2 beater' crap
                            Crappiest Hard Drive: Anything Quantum or Maxtor (Oh, they're the same company now, how appropriate!)
                            Crappiest CD: Anything made by Torisan
                            Crappiest (Internal) peripheral: The <B>IBM MWAVE</B> !!! AAHH!!
                            Crappiest (External) Peripheral: Mannesmann Tally T9108 Laser Printer
                            Crappiest Vehicle: Joint between my '84 (Brown) Nova and my '86 (White death trap) Escort
                            Crappiest TV: Sony 28" Widescreen (Geometry? What's that do again? )
                            Crappiest Software: AOL (Any version)

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                            • #15
                              Sums it up nicely, but the worst printer is a Lexmark 1000......=)


                              -Dil
                              Better to let one think you are a fool, than speak and prove it


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