Budget 90k+ [HELP] Companies to avoid while buying PC parts?

ankit1738

ankit1738

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Hi.
There are a lot of manufacturers for each of the PC parts and while surfing through reddit and techenclave I found out some companies have the worst service when it comes to RMA, return or replacement and some companies have a decent track record.
I want to gather info about companies to avoid when it comes to parts like motherboard, graphics card, PSU etc.

Regards,
Ankit
 
Till date I have had experience with Gigabyte and corsair. Gigabyte was so so. They gave me a refurbished G41 motherboard. Till date I have RMA'd 3 corsair power supplies. I just sent them the faulty power supplies and they sent me new power supplies. On 1 occassion, they sent me 2 TX550 because VX550 was not in stock. Stellar experience with Mumbai RMA center. Then there was case of faulty Corsair value RAM. The ahmedabad office took quiet a long time and then when they did send after numerous follow ups, they sent 1 4GB and 1 2GB RAM instead of 2 4GB RAM sticks. I have also had to RMA GSKILL RAM. I sent it to primeabgb and they replaced it within a month.
 
At this point I have heard people getting shitty service from every single brand, it depends more on the person handling your case rather than the brand so I would advice buy whatever you think is the best product in your price range and hope for the best.
 
I had to RMA my corsair semi modular HX650 back in 2018 (a month left on warranty). They replaced it with a RM650x fully modular PSU. Took about 7~10days. Kaizen does good work.
 
I'm also actually surprised with corsair service.I had corsair 650 psu and it started giving problem when playing BF4.CHD service center replaced with new one.This one worked fine for few months but same problem and then they replaced with updated version and till now it's working fine.So this time i bought another PSU of corsair for new build.
 
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But the owner is a arrogant prick who's air of superiority drives me up the wall every time I visit his store.
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Yeah so full of himself. I go there just to get a quote for comparison. I once heard him tell a poor fellow who was there to return a RAM kit that he has "PhD in computer hardware" and RAM wasn't faulty.
 
All brands are bad. Some are worse.

But if talking only about longevity:
Don't buy brands who aren't specialist in that category. Like samsung, lg aren't specialist of the monitors. Dell, acer etc who are specialist and will outlast. This is applicable to most other categories. Razer mouse looks fancy but it'll take 10 of them to match life of one logitech.

Also it's not necessary just because it's branded and everyone's talking about it, means it'll last. You can have possibility of aliexpress cheap fans outlasting cooler master. You can have cheap indian brand UPS performing better than APC.

Don't believe in the marketing hype. For example, motherboard manufacturers boast about their high quality capacitors. However, in India, you will have RAM slots catching rust much sooner than capacitors going bad.

There are some brands which are exceptionally good. Like logitech, noctua. These will outlast you. You can pass them on to your kids. There's a unique trait about these brands that they don't necessarily update products every year. They release only when it's ready.

Then you have some technologies which are inherently worse than others. Like desktop RAM, PCIe slots. These are reminiscent of the bygone era. These are highly incapable to carry modern big ass attachments. Mechanical keyboards are cool but cheap membrane will outlast them anyday.

Computer hardware IQ is getting less and less everyday. That's why you have some brands who think of themselves like Mercedes Benz and command premium for the logo. *cough* corsair *cough*

And for love of god, don't buy dell or hp or whoever uses proprietary design for pc parts. The upgrade or repair path is absolutely bleak.
 
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ankit1738 said:
Hi.
There are a lot of manufacturers for each of the PC parts and while surfing through reddit and techenclave I found out some companies have the worst service when it comes to RMA, return or replacement and some companies have a decent track record.
I want to gather info about companies to avoid when it comes to parts like motherboard, graphics card, PSU etc.

Regards,
Ankit
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I had bad experience with logitech, i bought the mechanical keyboard g413 carbon which has major click issues, sometimes i have to slam the key to register even though i did not use it much, also the g300s mouse i had developed double click issues even with light usage.
 
CPUs and RAM don't fail once you have checked for DOA and done stress tests.
Usual suspects are HDDS, Motherboards, GPUs.
Motherboard - I have had good experience with Gigabyte, bought 2 so far, no issues. (Good Reference - Buildzoid)
GPUs - ASUS, MSI both died on on me. ASUS take their own sweet time to repair but they are honest. MSI products, warranty is pointless.
HDDs - it all depends on the batch, I have had Seagate and Western Digital fail on me, also have disks from them that are running fine after a decade. So, cross your sata cables and hope for the best. (Good Reference - BlackBlaze reports)
Power Supply - stick to those for whom its a primary business - Seasonic, Corsair. Avoid Gigabyte, ASUS, MSI. (Good Reference - Cybernetics)

TL;DR - Avoid MSI. Invest in a tier A power supply.
 
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My gigabyte rma experiecne was good walked in to main repair center also their headquaters for india,they replaced board in minutes had a lot of stock. replace board was refurb.
I wont suggest buying their board though because i have always had problems. The intel 1150 based board i had had audio header issues idk why. The am4 board which btw was top of the line had ps2 port not working and other stability issues.Both products had issues out of the box. i have decided to not buy gigabyte thus. Their software/bios is shit aswell and they love to tie up iommu bridges between components to save money on more advance ciruit which means passthrough in esxi and server software is almost impossible. example asrock b450 and the b series boards have the capability to pass through gpu/pcie and sata ports connected to pcie to whatever software like esxi underneath. but on gigabytes similar chipset boards its connected to everything preventing passthrough.

Corsair rma was good they replaced my vs550 with a new unit.
Zotac rma is okay okay,have to follow them up a lot but but no box idk why but they also offer a 5 year warranty on gpus. avoid msi absolute garbage.
 
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