[techtalk] Re: New hardware
- From: Andrew Davidson <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:03:44 +0000
Gary Colville wrote:
Asus's AMD boards suck like the thick end of a jet engine.
Quote of the year. :)
I wouldn't
use one in a build even if they paid me to do it. Gigabyte are orders of
magnitude better. On the rare occasions when I build an S939 PCIe system
I use the K8NF-9 and haven't had a single issue with them.
Are Gigabyte still using those substandard caps? We gave up with
Gigabyte at work. Too many failures, and dealing with Gigabyte UK was a
farce. In finest pigeon english "Oh, we no longer make those board,
please be purchasing <insert model here>" Not what I want to hear when
I've just had to order in and fit new boards to a whole batch of PCs,
including all the onsite callouts to do so, and hours of faffing about
because Windows XP has a heart attack because the board has changed.
All our homebuild PCs are now going out with Intel Desktop boards. AMD
based machines are Epox powered.
Personally, I've just put a DFI nF3-250Gb board in my own PC, and am
very happy. The Asus K8N-E I got initially is sitting on the shelf.
Good board, but ultimately pointless as the RAM voltage doesn't go high
enough to satisfy my old but stupidly quick Mushkin PC3200.
Andrew
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