Corsair in Acquisition Talks with Blackstone Group Consortium Member

[Hood]

The Suckness Quotient

Maybe everybody sucks.

Probably true, but some suck much more than others. Corsair, not so much. I think they want to suck as little as possible, because they constantly improve their designs and seem to listen to customer feedback. In a suckass world, being just a little better than the competition is enough for suck-cess.

 

[Nordic]

I do own Corsair products, but they keep disappointing me. It's not all rosy sunshine. I've had maybe 4 of their CLC products. Those are hit and miss. Terrible fans on all of them, sometimes a bearing like pump noise. And my 550D problems are a bit much to get into, QC and design issues. I don't like companies that take my money in exchange for half-assed products. I did like my HX850, but it failed on me and there's only so many metrics for me to judge a psu by and failing is def. not a positive.

I would presume their ram is still good. Harder to screw that up, but I couldn't say since it's more than twice the cost of the competition. Really as a company I could take it or leave it, but I guess my opinion is skewered because they've been successful in making me buy their stuff over other brands. Maybe everybody sucks. I know my last case, a Lian Li, was 10x better quality, but behind the time on features.

What do you dislike about the 550d? I have one and am quite fond of it. It was everything I was looking for in a case at the time.

I find it funny that you guys all want bigger cases like the 900d or a larger 550d. I would love it if they made a very compact matx case 550 style. One reason corsair is great is because they do have such a full product line and that it is not so far fetched to wish for such cases.

I am worried that being bought will diminish them. It might not happen right away but... I don't know. It might of happened anyways.

 

[Vancha]

Corsair are overrated. They're good, but not enough to deserve being the default choice they seem to be for RAM and PSUs. Their peripherals are far from great, but again seem immensely popular. Their AIO coolers and cases are the only things that seem to get appropriate praise.

I almost hope getting bought might bring them down a peg or two, simply to level out the market a bit.

 

[de.das.dude]

corsair rocks. i have heard only good stories about their reliability and service.

 

[Hood]

They're good, but not enough to deserve being the default choice they seem to be for RAM and PSUs

Maybe their lower-end stuff is debatable, but their top lines are some of the best for typical PC builders, like the PSUs made by Seasonic and Flextronics, and the Dominator Platinum that runs tighter timings than all the rest. Their Neutron GTX SSDs are also in the top 5 for performance, maybe top 3 for reliability.