NZXT just started expanding on making components, and has really feature stuff. One to watch, though higher-end.
NZXT has always been some really mediocre stuff at ridiculous markup, I don’t have literally any faith in this statement
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just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 months agoMSI is still on the come up. Can’t think of a bad component they’ve released in many years.
ASRock is always rock solid.
Gigabyte seems to be making a comeback.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lojcs@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Isn’t asrock asus
ares35@kbin.social 6 months ago
it was spun-off from asus in '02, then acquired by a different spin-off in '10 which asus retains significant ownership of. so, yea, basically asrock is their "discount" brand,
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
ASRock makes high end server parts that Asus has no equivalent.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Brb ima order 64gb ecc ram and an epyc to play minecraft
(/s obviously)
catloaf@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Not exactly. They were created out of Asus and are still related somehow, but I don’t know the details.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nope.
Hubi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
+1 for MSI. I’ve bought GPUs from them for 10+ years and never once had a failure or even minor issue. Got a lot of mileage out of the GTX 1080 I bought in 2016.
Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Oof, my MSI 1080 died after allmost six years of service.
My first hardware death in 20 years of building my own systems, other than a drive.
Can’t blame them for it. It truly did its job, so I went with them again for my 3080.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
I liked ASrock when they were in the ECS tier of quirky and weird. Got a Socket 939 board with the ULi M1695 chipset that was really nifty.
Then I had an awful experience with an AM3 board that claimed to run a FX-8350, until they edited their support list.
I grudgingly chose them for AM5 because it was $50 cheaper for the featured I wanted, and it’s been okay, aside from me breaking the x16 slot clip due to hamfistedly removing a shipping-container sized GPU.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Glad you brought up ECS. Not good for high-end computing, but really stable for low-end. I have a customer with an Athlon64 box I built them in a pinch almost 20 years ago now that just runs a POS system, and it’s never caused him a single problem. Sometimes budget minded brands work in a pinch. ECS is not super well known, but always been great with customer service and advance RMA replacements. I wouldn’t call their hardware super sturdy in some cases though.
StunningGoggles@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Thanks! This will be helpful next time I have to upgrade my PC
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
It’s funny, ASRock went from a company I’d never fucking heard of to one of the top names in the space. I used to be like “what’s this no-name brand?” and now I’m like “Oh ASRock, I know them.”
deranger@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is on many higher end enthusiast/overclocking type motherboards, I’ve had it on multiple MSI and Gigabyte boards.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I have an MSI currently, and when I was searching I never encountered one with a dual-BIOS. I’ll keep an eye out in the future, thanks.