- Oct 14, 2013
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Here's a gem.
I look after a company with a small render farm, we run V-Ray/A'desk BackBurner in blocks of 16 machines, I've just sold off 16 amd 1100t boxes and bought in 16 MSI 760 P23 (FX) board and 16 Piledriver 8350 chips.
I have purchased these over the last 6 2 months in blocks, threw the whole lot live late Sunday, (having built an imagine, syspreped and ghost deployed) every single node dumped!
I built the image with a random quad core chip I had kicking about, works fine, check MSI's site Tues, got the V15 Bios, flashed that in, same prob, went back today, MSi have de-rated the board to 95W, (the FW-8350 is 125W) and removed the 8350 from the CPU support list.
I am now lumbered with 16 boards that are USELESS to me, I have just sent eBuyer an email stating I need them credited as of un-merchantable quality and not fit for purpose, needless to say I expect a fight as I have no packaging etc for them, but I will simply have my card company recover funds.
To say I am not impressed is an understatement, how can a company pull spec on a standing product???
I use MSI 990FX boards all the time and they rock, for 2u footprint I went built in graphics (really I never see the screen) the test board I purchased 12 months ago sat through a 2 week full load burn-in, the new ones evidently use components from a i7 board or some other piece of junk.
Rant over\\
//comments welcome!
I look after a company with a small render farm, we run V-Ray/A'desk BackBurner in blocks of 16 machines, I've just sold off 16 amd 1100t boxes and bought in 16 MSI 760 P23 (FX) board and 16 Piledriver 8350 chips.
I have purchased these over the last 6 2 months in blocks, threw the whole lot live late Sunday, (having built an imagine, syspreped and ghost deployed) every single node dumped!
I built the image with a random quad core chip I had kicking about, works fine, check MSI's site Tues, got the V15 Bios, flashed that in, same prob, went back today, MSi have de-rated the board to 95W, (the FW-8350 is 125W) and removed the 8350 from the CPU support list.
I am now lumbered with 16 boards that are USELESS to me, I have just sent eBuyer an email stating I need them credited as of un-merchantable quality and not fit for purpose, needless to say I expect a fight as I have no packaging etc for them, but I will simply have my card company recover funds.
To say I am not impressed is an understatement, how can a company pull spec on a standing product???
I use MSI 990FX boards all the time and they rock, for 2u footprint I went built in graphics (really I never see the screen) the test board I purchased 12 months ago sat through a 2 week full load burn-in, the new ones evidently use components from a i7 board or some other piece of junk.
Rant over\\
//comments welcome!
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