• dinckel@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Competition is always good, but I wouldn’t buy an MSI product even if it was the only choice

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      6 months ago

      Yeah, you buy the Deck for the piece of mind with Valve and their support. I wouldn’t buy any others just because it’s like they are cash grabs on a current trend the Deck set off and none of the companies making them have the best track record for product and customer support.

      Perhaps MSI’s handheld will be different if they have been developing it for a while, but MSI’s quality has always been cheap, so I imagine it will end up being an Ally kind of device.

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        6 months ago

        I do trust Valve more, when it comes to this, but my main reason is that a lot of things MSI make are piss poor quality, and so is their customer support. From the few experiences I’ve had with them, I would not recommend any of their products, and unfortunately that opinion also aligns with my friends

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            6 months ago

            I miss EVGA :c

            Their products weren’t completely flawless all the time, but they really made it right, when something went wrong. I had two 1080 FTW2’s. One just died and never came back to life, the other caught fire. I imagine both died because of the previously announced thermal issues, that they were recalled for. They were both replaced, and one of the replacement was also replaced again, but since they ran out of stock, they gave me a 1080ti instead. No questions asked. Just explained the situations, and a week later the new card was at home

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      6 months ago

      Is it a problem with their laptops or something? I’ve had MSI Motherboards and GPUs and haven’t had any issues.