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On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 20:01:28 -0700, "OldFartJC" <spamupyours@abc.com>
wrote:
>Maybe you should open your eyes and see the 2 links I posted in my message
>and go to them. There are even threads about it on the MSI forum. How long
>did your extensive research take, it must have been less than 1/4 of a
>second because I got all kinds of hits on Google in less than half a second.
>There are over a hundred pages posted on this subject and almost 100 on just
>these 2 forums. And the fact that you don't have a problem means nothing,
>since many of us did or still do have the problem and have tried everything,
>as you will find out when you go to those forums and read the posts. Why
>take the chance with the NF3 chipset boards when the VIA chipset boards
>don't have the problem at all. So I am not scaring people off, I'm just
>informing them of what might very likely happen. This is not a figment of
>anybody's imagination but a known problem. If I were you I would go buy a
>lottery ticket, as you are obviously one of the lucky people and not like
>the thousands worldwide who have had the problem with different NF3
>motherboards and 68XX video cards. I only wish I had known about this and
>bought the ASUS A8V Deluxe to start with. It was basically a flip of the
>coin for me and it landed the wrong way I guess so I bought the NEO 2
>Platinum, which is actually a great board if you don't have a 68XX video
>card and play D3D games. Below are the 2 links I posted before, go there and
>see for yourself and if you need any more links I will be happy to post
>those also.
>
>http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=938842&page=1&pp=20
>
>http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=32759
>
"less than 1/4 of a second", "thousands worldwide". You're fond of
hyperbole. You don't use Linux by any chance, do you?
The 6800 GT was very popular at introduction and many were sold. And
they were sold *before* the introduction of PCI Express. The very
reason the NForce 3 chipset in general and the Neo 2 Platinum in
particular are still viable is due to those sales numbers. Let's say
you want to upgrade your system (probably an aging 2.5 - 3GB P4 based
rig that is getting shamelessly trounced by AMD systems in all gaming
benchmarks) but you're not about to throw away a perfectly fine vid
card (the 6800 GT) that you paid $350 - $400 for less than a year ago,
so what do you do? You get either an NForce 3 or VIA board. A huge
number of those folks chose the K8N Neo 2. A Google of this group
will turn up posts regarding short supplies for that board for month
after month at all major online retailers. NewEgg was out for weeks
at a stretch. The board *still* commands a high premium due to the
demand issue. We're talking big numbers of those boards sold and they
were sold *mostly* to owners of high end vid cards.... especially the
6800 GT.
>" If I were you I would go buy a
>lottery ticket, as you are obviously one of the lucky people and not like
>the thousands worldwide who have had the problem with different NF3
>motherboards and 68XX video cards.
"One of the lucky people"? Given the numbers I described above, if
the problem were as widespread as you are indicating here (it's not)
then wouldn't every tech site on the web have headline stories about
the catastrophic failure of this combo on 10's of thousands of systems
worldwide? Guess what.....
Look, I'm not saying you didn't have a problem. I'm not saying that
100's of people didn't have a problem. But 100's of people would
probably be less then 1% of the total owners of that combo.
I think you should turn your lottery ticket metaphor around.
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