Which are your top PC brands?

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Kevin Lancaster

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The MyBroadband 2016 tech survey revealed that Dell was the top PC brand, Samsung the top monitor brand, Intel the best maker of desktop CPUs, and Seagate the hard drive brand of choice.

Do you agree these brands are the best in their respective categories?

And which brands are your first choice when it comes to tech items - from routers to keyboards, what do you use?
 
Seasonic for power supplies
Antec for cases
Corsair for RAM
Roccat for peripherals
Dell for monitors
Asus for motherboards
Logitech for speakers
Sennheiser for headphones
Western Digital for mechanical hard drives
SSD depends who's the beat at the time
GPU is Sapphire
CPU is AMD
 
Prefer Dell, due to great service network. Must say lately seems a little bit on the down hill side. Prefer Dell monitors (computer), prefer Samsung for TV screens, Intel as processor without any doubt and also prefer Seagate although 95% incl. Seagate is all owned by Western Digital.
 
Asus for best laptop brand
Samsung for best hard drive
Logitech for keyboard, mouse, speakers, earphones
 
Editing Chevron's.

no preference for power supplies
Cooler master for cases and case fans
Corsair for RAM
Gigabyte or Logitech for peripherals
Samsung, I like the proximity sensor instead of buttons, for monitors (though Dell is nice as well.)
Gigabyte for motherboards (just happened to be the best deals every time I got them, and all my motherboards have lasted 5 years+)
Logitech or Sony for speakers
Sennheiser for headphones (just got another pair a week ago as well :p)
Western Digital for mechanical hard drives
SSD depends who's the beat at the time (Usually it's the Samsung line)
GPU is Powercolor AMD
CPU is Intel i5/i7, I hope AMD can make a comeback with Zen.
 
There are a lot good brands out there. It would be easier just to list the few dodgy ones to avoid.
 
Bryn said:
There are a lot good brands out there. It would be easier just to list the few dodgy ones to avoid.
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I think they mean preferred, if all are the same price, which one would you most probably pick.
 
Good brands:

Corsair HX750w
Logitech G400s
Intel i7 2600k
APC Back-UPS 500

Bad brands:

Razer blackwidow chroma ( I can write an A4 page of all the bugs/flaws this keyboard has. To name a few - doesn't remember lighting profiles after rebooting. After typing login password, it types the last character of my password into whatever window was selected, and also presses enter. This is extremely frustrating, especially when things like your first track in a music playlist was selected, and your playlist resets. !@#$ )
Focusrite 2i4. When volume knob is down below 9pm, the balance goes from the left channel to the right channel. Also, there is occasional distortion, crackling when adjusting the volume knob.
 
Johnatan56 said:
I think they mean preferred, if all are the same price, which one would you most probably pick.
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Don't think I'd care tbh. Even if prices are similar, there's usually some other factor that would influence my decision (like noise level, quality of cooling solution, reviews etc.). If two or more products were truly identical, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't care which of MSI, EVGA, Asus etc. I went with.

All my current tendencies are not because I like the brand but because their products are usually objectively better value:
- Samsung for SSDs and monitors
- Logitech for speakers
- Corsair for keyboards
- WD for hard drives
etc.

I wouldn't hesitate for a moment to get an OCZ SSD, Seagate HDD, Corsair speakers, Dell monitor etc. if they offered better value at the time of purchasing.
 
Asus for GFX/Motherboard
Samsung SSD
Intel Processors
Corsair RAM/PSU/Case
Samsung Screen/TV

stay away from laptops! If you must have one to travel, MacBook Air/Pro's.
 
Mant1s said:
Asus for GFX/Motherboard
Samsung SSD
Intel Processors
Corsair RAM/PSU/Case
Samsung Screen/TV

stay away from laptops! If you must have one to travel, MacBook Air/Pro's.
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Been traveling fine for 3 years with a dell and a Lenovo for the last 2. At the MacBook Air's price point there are many better quality devices available.
 
I prefer to stay adaptable and not be bound to any but if I had to currently choose as of the end of 2016

CPU = Intel hands down
GPU = Nvidia hands down again easily (preferably MSI)
MOBO = Gigabyte
PSU = Any tier 1 PSU but Seasonic specifically
Mice = Logitech
Monitor = Samsung
SSD = Samsung
HDD = Western Digital
Headset = Sennheiser
 
Pravs said:
Razer everything
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Every Razer device I've ever bought has been crap, and shown such wear and tear that they were replaced pretty quickly. Bought my one bro the exact same bday gift two years in a row (gaming mouse and mechanical keyboard) because the first pair (Razer) looked so s**t after 1 year. The replacement Logitech mouse and Gigabyte Osmium mechanical keyboard look great to this day.

Won't touch them now. Cost me thousands.
 
Yeahz razor looks cool, but always dies in a few months.

And I miss my Razer Lycosa. Can't really get a decent scissor key keyboard anymore.
 
Dell have it at the moment. We're in animation and for speed and reliability vs price they take on Mac easily. Service also a definite plus.
 
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