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QOTW: What's the worst PC component you ever bought?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 24 August 2012, 16:30

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Here's a QOTW with a difference. This week, we're asking our readers and forum members a let-it-all-out question: what's the worst PC component you ever bought?

And we'll let you decide what worst really means. It could be a component that you paid over-the-odds for, a component that just sucked, or a component that was a silly purchase, plain and simple.

Have a think, and once you've settled on the single component you disliked the most, let us know in the comments below. And of course, pictures are welcome! Don't be shy, we want to hear of some proper stinkers!

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Posted by abaxas - Fri 24 Aug 2012 16:36
Netgear 834 router - committed suicide after 2 months leaving a brown burnt mark on the carpet.
Posted by Steve - Fri 24 Aug 2012 16:38
A Jetway motherboard for the Socket A 1GHz Athlon system I was building. Flaming thing never worked properly.
Posted by scaryjim - Fri 24 Aug 2012 16:42
Probably, a passive GeForce FX5200. It wasn't that it wasn't a decent graphics card - it really wasn't that bad. But put it under any kind of 3D load at all and it froze instantly. It did this until the day I bought one of those PCI slot exhaust fans and put it immediately beneath it - then it ran fine until the day I upgraded (and what an upgrade!) to a Radeon 9800 Pro. So for its utterly inadequate cooling solution, I think that has to be the worst ;)
Posted by alsenior - Fri 24 Aug 2012 16:43
XFX Revo. Supposed to be a fast raid 3 but sucked harder than ATA133. Damned thing couldnt put more than 33MB/s though
Posted by Ferral - Fri 24 Aug 2012 16:47
Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro. It was one of the first models released and it had known problems with the voltage regulators so whenever under heavy load it crashed non stop due to the card cutting out when the regulators got a bit warm. At the time there was a thread on the Sapphire forums that was over 100 pages long with users having the exact same issue. The regulators wernt properly situated under the heatsink which is what was causing the problem. They did sort the issue out by replacing the cooler setup on the later cards but the owners of the original cards were ignored most of the time when asking for replacements.

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