MSI SUCKS!!!-DON'T BUY THEIR SHIT !!!

[pieps]

I have very bad experiences with MSI . Three (!) MSI 865 NEO motherboards broke down in my P.C. in half a year .
A friend of me had the same experience ( but with only two MSI 865 Neo's )
Okay , they replaced the motherboards ... but I was out of P.C. for Three Months in total .
And no excuses , no service ...nothing .

MSI SUCKS!!!-DON'T BUY THEIR SHIT !!!
MSI SUCKS!!!-DON'T BUY THEIR SHIT !!!
MSI SUCKS!!!-DON'T BUY THEIR SHIT !!!

[valis]

I'm sorry you've had a bad experience, but imho this isn't really appropriate for this area (announcements). I see you found the OT section where such things might be more appropriate (or troubleshooting/tech if you think someone might be able to help).

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[Sinsation]

Thats funny ive purchased over 500 MSI mobos and about 600 of their video cards for my company and ive only had a handfull of product go bad in 3 years. Plus their RMA service was faster then any other manufacturer ive dealt with, and i deal with a bunch. Oh well sorry you had a bad experience.

[John Cooper]

Moving to off-topic.

Incidentally, my MSI dvd-burner has been working fine for quite a while now...

-John

[Zer]

Well, sounds to me nearly as worse as my experiences with asus. Anyway - at the moment the manufactorers seem to force the user to the macintosh plattform. Every firm produces things and declares it as the new standard - no chance for 3rd party developpers. I`d like to know how long they want to keep it that way.

[darkrezin]

I have to say that I'm pretty turned off by Windows machines these days.. there's absolutely no guarantee that any board (apart from expensive workstation boards which usually are for dual CPU - I don't even want a dual CPU!) is going to work without problems like glitches, bandwidth issues etc.

All the manufacturers now seem to tweak their hardware/drivers so it gives the optimum benchmark scores - stability is just not important any more

You know that there's something seriously wrong when you see *gamers* adjusting PCI latency on their graphics cards to get rid of glitches/framerate slowdowns!

Virtually every firewire and HD/Raid controller chipset I come across on motherboards is crap, and everything on the boards now shares IRQs.

What's worse is that this situation is not going to change, as people who do realtime pro audio/video work on Windows are a tiny proportion of the overall customer base.

Mac is indeed looking very tempting.

[BingoTheClowno]

On 2005-05-04 08:55, dArKr3zIn wrote:

... and everything on the boards now shares IRQs.

Sure, remember the ACPI issue, if you don't have ACPI enabled, the hardware is not shared to the extent it is when ACPI is enabled. ACPI I believe is MS's answer to stability and conflict sharing problems for the people that are not very knowledgeable about the intricacies of PC internals or how their OSs work (and don't want to know!).

[darkrezin]

Well I really don't agree about that.. pre-ACPI boards I used were also more than happy to have PCI slots sharing IRQs with each other and with other components on the board.

[emzee]

My .002c. I'm far from tech geekdom....

If you use: Intel processor
Then Use: Intel chipset
Use: Intel motherboard
Use: Intel approved ram

You have the best chance of stability.
Yeah, people complain about the slight loss of speed. But if they're using their gear commercially, a crash is more costly. And if they're not.....it's more intellectual than practical.

I can't comment on AMD as I have no experience.


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