My computer is phucked

[imdying]

Many of the fastest PCs in NZ have been built on Gigabyte boards, and have proven their reliability. If you have consistent trouble with them, it's likely to be the way you're handling them. Having said that, Asus is generally ok gear.

[bogan]

Many of the fastest PCs in NZ have been built on Gigabyte boards, and have proven their reliability. If you have consistent trouble with them, it's likely to be the way you're handling them.

i've had mates who have had plenty of issue with them too, may be compatability with non-gigabyte daughter boards, but in my experience, asus pwns gigabyte

[SMOKEU]

Many of the fastest PCs in NZ have been built on Gigabyte boards, and have proven their reliability. If you have consistent trouble with them, it's likely to be the way you're handling them. Having said that, Asus is generally ok gear.

A few years ago I was building up an Athlon XP system. The first Gigabyte board was 'blown' right out of the box, brand new. I got a replacement under warranty. The replacement board lasted about 2 months before that blew, so I got a new one under warranty. That one lasted about 2 years.

I then built up an Athlon 64 system. First Gigabyte board was blown straight out of the box, brand new. I got a replacement board and that was fine for about a year before the chipset fan became excessively noisy, and needed to be replaced.

And the funny thing is, I've had 5 hard drives over the past 5 years and I've never had an issue with any of them. I've never had any problems with video cards, or processors either.

[imdying]

lol @ an AMD system

[Tank]

Its not the pooter - you just unplugged the network cable

[SMOKEU]

lol @ an AMD system

They're not all bad...
I just opened up the PSU and gave it a good clean. There was a fairly thick layer of dust everywhere inside it, and after I glued a fan onto the MB chipset heatsink it's running significantly cooler. Hopefully that'll be the end of that problem.

[scracha]

It wasn't easy to find a new AM2 board that supports SLI. The ones I did find were of the Gigabyte brand, which are the shittest MBs I have ever come across. I have had at least 5 Gigabyte boards fuck out on me, so I bought an Asus.

Hmm...failure rates. Out there in the wop wops it's imperative that we sell reliable shit as otherwise I have to drive for fookin miles to fix them at usually my expense and besides, it's just not a good look. I'm sure this is the same for a lot of non-city based IT monkeys.

Agree on the Gigabyte...they're almost as shite as foxpro.
SLI....Asus Intel mobo's with SLI are from about $300 and readily available. BUT you've went AMD so you're pretty fucked. CPU failure is rare. I've had 1 intel processor die. Had 6 AMD's die. Video cards....I always get fanless with a humungous heatpipe.

Probably telling you to suck eggs but Hitachi and Samsung hard drives are dreadful. Seagate then WD IMHO based on my experience but some would say the other way around. EVERY refurbished drive I've had back from Singapore has fucked out again within 2 years.

Screens...I'll give Viewsonic 10/10 as they paid for courier pickup etc on a 2.8 year old screen I'd sold a customer and sent them out a new one a few days later.
Notebooks.... Toshy warranty also fantastic. Asus notebooks, pretty good. HP ....at the moment I've raised an investigation over who's to blame regarding a next business day onsite warranty that took over a week before their authorised agent arrived......shocking. Hope it's a one off. Acer..tried selling them twice and both times well out of pocket dealing with THEIR lousy shit....nuff said.

There's also some REALLY good distributors and some spectacularly fucking appalling ones out there but I'm not gonna divulge on a public forum. Again, it's taken a few years to work out who's who.


I still wouldn't touch refurbished mobos though :-)

[SMOKEU]

Agree on the Gigabyte...they're almost as shite as foxpro.
SLI....Asus Intel mobo's with SLI are from about $300 and readily available. BUT you've went AMD so you're pretty fucked.

I still wouldn't touch refurbished mobos though.

I'm planning on doing a big upgrade next year; new CPU, MB, PSU, possibly RAM (although hopefully I'll be able to run my DDR2 RAM on a DDR3 board to save on money)

I've never had great success with overclocking AMD processors, if I can be assured that I will be able to get a good overclock with Intel, then I'm sold.

[george formby]

time for a new one

[Gremlin]

unless the mobo supports ddr2 and ddr3, no, the two memory are not compatible, with the notch in different places. Gigabyte, had a good run on intel, amd, I had a disastrous run with my own board.