I LOVE MY A8N-SLi

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Ed said:
Never used any Giga boards, they suck or something?
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Nope. I've been very happy with my GA-8IRXP, though it's getting a little
old now. Don't know what I'll upgrade it with next year, but it'll be AMD
Athlon 64 based, hopefully with dual core and SLI. I'll probably go nVidia
chipset this time.
 
Ed said:
Never used any Giga boards, they suck or something?
Ed
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Without wishing to stir things up Ed, I have little respect for the build
quality and tech support from Gigabyte. This has only been my experience of
course, and I feel sure I was possibly unlucky on the occassions that I have
used their products. Over the last ten years or so I nust have built nigh
on 1200 pc's and can honestly say that I have never seen failure rate like
that of Gigabyte's. Worse than that is the lack of support. It is
extremely difficult to get hold of an 'engineer' by telephone, and when you
can it would seem as few of them can speak fluent english. I think life is
too short to play around with Gigabyte's poor offerings. Take a look at the
K8NSNXP-939 here.
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2004/cebit2004/day1/GA-K8NSNXP-939 copy.jpg It
looks like that for a reason, it's just eye candy. That board is shite.

Jon
 
Nope. I've been very happy with my GA-8IRXP, though it's getting a little
old now. Don't know what I'll upgrade it with next year, but it'll be AMD
Athlon 64 based, hopefully with dual core and SLI. I'll probably go nVidia
chipset this time.
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fwiw I like the Nvidia chipsets, I've had an Asus NF2 Ultra 400 (A7N8X
v2.0) for about 18 months and a Chaintech NF3 (VNF3-250) for about 5
months, they both run great, no problems at all.

Ed
 
Without wishing to stir things up Ed, I have little respect for the build
quality and tech support from Gigabyte. This has only been my experience of
course, and I feel sure I was possibly unlucky on the occassions that I have
used their products. Over the last ten years or so I nust have built nigh
on 1200 pc's and can honestly say that I have never seen failure rate like
that of Gigabyte's. Worse than that is the lack of support. It is
extremely difficult to get hold of an 'engineer' by telephone, and when you
can it would seem as few of them can speak fluent english. I think life is
too short to play around with Gigabyte's poor offerings. Take a look at the
K8NSNXP-939 here.
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2004/cebit2004/day1/GA-K8NSNXP-939 copy.jpg It
looks like that for a reason, it's just eye candy. That board is shite.

Jon
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Looks sort of ugly. ;p
Ed
 
Ed said:
fwiw I like the Nvidia chipsets, I've had an Asus NF2 Ultra 400 (A7N8X
v2.0) for about 18 months and a Chaintech NF3 (VNF3-250) for about 5
months, they both run great, no problems at all.
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I've read that there are driver issues, sometimes.
 
I had that Gigabyte board and returned it for the A8N because the Asus
had more PCI slots. While I am having many of the same difficulty
with the Asus MOBO others are posting here, this newsgroup is about
the best I have joined...."fasteddy" has been a BIG help here and at
ANANDTECH! Thanks to all! George


Not convinced Ed. There was a time when I had a Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 ;-)
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