Quality of boards

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Back in the day, I remember cheaper cards had lots of problems due to
subpar components and lousy manufacture. So if you wanted trouble all you
had to do was buy a cheapish card, yet still shops would blame the drivers
instead of accepting the card back.

These days, drivers and the usual desktop environement as well are too
complicated anyway to be able to pinpoint the culprit easily. Maybe the
RAM, maybe the motherboard, the bios, the chipset, some driver and so on.

So my thought, after contemplaining problems I have faced with my own card,
is that lots of the cards available these days are actually defective,
maybe due to bad memory or due to sobby manufacture, yet manage to get away
because we have learned to think about drivers.

If so many people have to use memtest to test their ram, and often find
that this is the root of their problems, why not doing the same with video
ram? I remember S3 had a utility which could test video ram, yet
manufacturers these days don't seem to offer such diagnostic tools, so we
end up trying driver version after driver version instead of having an easy
way to determine what's really wrong the way hard disk manufacturers offer
proper diagnostic tools.
 
MoP said:
Back in the day, I remember cheaper cards had lots of problems due to
subpar components and lousy manufacture. So if you wanted trouble all you
had to do was buy a cheapish card, yet still shops would blame the drivers
instead of accepting the card back.

These days, drivers and the usual desktop environement as well are too
complicated anyway to be able to pinpoint the culprit easily. Maybe the
RAM, maybe the motherboard, the bios, the chipset, some driver and so on.

So my thought, after contemplaining problems I have faced with my own
card,
is that lots of the cards available these days are actually defective,
maybe due to bad memory or due to sobby manufacture, yet manage to get
away
because we have learned to think about drivers.

If so many people have to use memtest to test their ram, and often find
that this is the root of their problems, why not doing the same with video
ram? I remember S3 had a utility which could test video ram, yet
manufacturers these days don't seem to offer such diagnostic tools, so we
end up trying driver version after driver version instead of having an
easy
way to determine what's really wrong the way hard disk manufacturers offer
proper diagnostic tools.
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Just buy good quality graphic cards. Problem solved.
 
MoP said:
No, the problem is using some objective way to determine whether a card is
good quality or no.
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An objective way is to read user reviews.

Any good manufacturers may produce lemons. So, we need to play a probability
game. I've had fantastic experiences with ATI & Sapphire cards. Sure, some
of their cards may be lemons, but you cannot produce perfect products all
the time.
 
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