Quote Originally Posted by jcool View Post
Failures of this year? Omg that is a lot... lets see:

- Nvidia's whole 9 series of cards, because they are simply rebadged, cheap ass copies of a more than 2 year old card design
- Nvidia's crappy chipsets might have improved, but the 790i still can't compete with Intel when it comes to reliability. Corruption issues, bad raid drivers and a whole lot more, no thank you
- Nvidia STILL not being able to manufacture GTX 280 cards that don't overheat. From the dozen GTX 280 I have used for customer builds so far, around 40% of them were crashing at >110C core after 2 minutes of Furmark. WATERCOOLED cards, no less. Had some fun RMAing 3000$ worth of GFX cards
- Intels 45nm Quadcore lineup. C0 CPUs mostly had crap FSB capabilities, and no usable mult to speak of until recently.
- Phenom still blows of course, which is sad
- Samsung ing F1 drives. Almost every 1TB drive I got died, some of the 640's too. WD FTW!

I bet I forgot loads, so much crap was released this year, it's hard to keep track.
I Agree with most of these points, but I don't agree about the GT200, they aren't bad cards or they aren't a flop, only the prices make them look like that specially the first price launch.

My list:

Good:

P45 chipsets
Core 2 Duo E8400 - E8500
ATi 48XX series
OCZ SSD Core series V2

Disappointing

Seagate Single platter
Quad 9300 - 9450 etc
Phenoms (and yes the new ones released THIS year)
DDR3 still sucks (gaming perspective), but at least prices went down a bit
Most of nvidias 9 series (except 9600GT thats the underdog of the line)
Imo X48 since the upgrade from X38 wasen't the big thing, and P45 showed same/better OCing for less $$$