best,

abit bp6 motherboard, introduced me to the true path of SMP when paired with a couple of cheap celerons.

worst

toss up between cyrix 166+ (133 which ran at about the speed of a p60 when fpu was invoked) and a gigabyte motherboard from long ago which died a death during a bios update and was never revived.

Best is prolly the Thunderbird i got when I was  being hammered by all sides to buy a P3.  That thing refuses to die even to this day.

Worst is probably the rather expensive (Ã,£90) Gigabyte Motherboard i 1st got for the XP when i got one, unstable, crappy and generally a poor product.  I liked Gigabyte up to then as well, but their Customer Service blows.

Best: Coolermaster 200 aluminium case, light and strong and resilient, been through many upgrades, still looks better than most of the newer ones.

Worst: budget Elonex pcs specced for sale to customers with fail-at-will MATX Microstar sktA mobos.

I never had an IBM Deathstar that failed either

Best : the elusive AXIA 1ghz athlon cpu that would easily hit 1.4ghz on air cooling

DFI Socket A Motherboard I got to clock my old 1700 JIHUB? Its still a perfect runner

Worst ermm a Toshiba Satalite Laptop, it killed 5 hard drives due to heating problems!!! Pile of pap!

Quote from: Ice KayBest : the elusive AXIA 1ghz athlon cpu that would easily hit 1.4ghz on air cooling

ahhh those were the days, I remember hours of fiddling with settings to get my Duron 800 from 1000 to its eventual top speed of a dizzy 1017Mhz. 113Mhz FSB and Damn was it fast (for the time).

Bestest best: Xbox 360.
Second Best: HP Laserjet 4 for Ã,£10.  Bought in 2000, still going strong on the original toner cartridge!

Worst... Athlon 2000+ barebones system with 30gb drive, no memory or gfx card.  Its gone straight into my loft never to be used because the system I was considering replacing with it is rock stable and fast enough to do what it does.  Check email and download. :-/

Best: Prometeia which got a XP2500 up to 2750 Mhz, I should really get it refilled and bring it out of retirement  :-)

Worst: Prometeia for what it did to my electricity bill lol

Best: maybe the shuttle I just bought, which I now have 2 of having only paid for 1, and no nasty emails/letters from the company

Worst: possibly the same Labtec mouse/keyboard as Tongy, they are REALLY bad. My nice new Logitech set works though

Best ever:
3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 Graphics Card. It was awesome, fast and worked with everything. Best Card I ever had.
Recent purchase thats been an excellent result is this Samsung 20" widescreen. [SyncMaster 205bw]


Worst Puchase was:
Cheap ass Ã,£20 case just dont go there, charp edges, thin sides and flimsy con-struction.
Logitech Surfman - Wireless Handheld track ball. Its a total white elephant, useless for anything except browsing becuase you have to use 2 hadns for drag & drop. One to hold the button, the other to roll the ball... awfull design.

Best probably my Maxtor 40GB hard drive, which has been my C:\ drive for about 4 or 5 years now and has kept on going and going, never failing.

Worst, I dont think Ive had a bit of dodgy IT equipment. Maybe my CDRW, my 1st one, cost me Ã,£105 and if I had spent an extra Ã,£15 I would have an 8x instead of 4x as the week after everyone in 6th form had 8x recorders.

Best, Iiyama 21" CRT or my 3.06ghz notebook compy. My pair of laser printers are pretty good too.

Worst, a cheap x-box for a friend, I still hate those controllers so I would never have bought it for me.

Best: Logitech Optical Trackman trackball, its great... and now I prefer it ahead of a mouse for playing FPS. I never have the "ive come to the edge of the desk" issue when trying to kill people in a game

Worst: PC Line wireless desktop.

The mouse... I lost constantly, stupid wireless mouse. The keyboard required reconnecting using a pin every damn time I turned my computer on.