Any vendors you think we should avoid as the enthusiast PC building market weakens?
Posted by NSMike@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 5 comments
I'm planning an upgrade to one of my PCs, and was just watching the latest Gamers Nexus news video. Some of the news in there was how peripheral/component vendors are suffering. I was planning on using a few ASRock parts in my upgrade, but now, based on this news, I am worried ASRock is likely to be one of the vendors who goes belly-up.
Anyone have a better pulse on this and want to offer thoughts that maybe there are vendors we should avoid?
wiscogamer@reddit
Asus is the biggest and then msi and gigabyte I don’t know if asrock is as big as they are but I think it depends what they are making besides pc enthusiasts
semidegenerate@reddit
ASRock is owned by Asus, which may give it a bit more survivability than pure market forces would dictate. Then again, maybe not. If Asus needs to do some pruning, it probably makes sense to get rid of the budget brand.
The_Machine80@reddit
There all on equal ground mostly. Ive had great luck with gigabyte and not with asrock when it comes to motherboards. When it comes to a gpu im definitely powercolor bias but my kids have had zero issues with xfx.
Anon0924@reddit
The big ones are all likely to be fine. PNY, Zotac, and most of the small ones will probably not survive unfortunately this means price ranges will squeeze upward.
Now is probably the most important time to go with more obscure vendors, otherwise you can say goodbye to the cheap versions of every part.
WanderingGenesis@reddit
I personally do not do business with b&h photo anymore. Tbf, after how much they had to pay me, i doubt they want that reminder, anyway.