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Well, my super expensive Abit board that's only four months old has a blown capacitor. Seems like Abit didn't learn from the great capacitor fiasco at the turn of the century. If they can't bother to use decent capacitors, then I have no respect for their boards. I might have *some* respect i the thing had ever worked well, but it was always flaky, even before the capacitor blew.

I wish I had known they were going bankrupt before I purchased from them. Obviously they are fucking up hardcore if they are going bankrupt!

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Miles Teg

P.S. I will never stray from MSI again....

Hint: Never buy a motherboard from a company that claims to channel pro gamer 'Fatal1ty''s so called 'ethos' and 'spirit' into some of their motherboards.

Captain tycho wrote:Hint: Never buy a motherboard from a company that claims to channel pro gamer 'Fatal1ty''s so called 'ethos' and 'spirit' into some of their motherboards.

wah?!? so the motherboards are some sort of conduit of black magic?

Unfortunately, even capacitors from what should be high-quality sources are occasionally going bad these days. IIRC there was a quality control problem at another plant.

Captain tycho wrote:Hint: Never buy a motherboard from a company that claims to channel pro gamer 'Fatal1ty''s so called 'ethos' and 'spirit' into some of their motherboards.

Nothing wrong with the Fatal1ty brand, I rather like most of their motherboards.

Arrow, how about ASUS? I have nothing but praise to my AN8 SLI Deluxe.

IMHO, Asus makes good boards but their support blows huge chunks.
OTOH, if you don't really need their support, they're worth looking into.
Though in my opinion, as long as you buy from a first tier manufacturer, it's the chipset on the board that has more bearing on the reliability than the actual maker of the board.

Glocksman wrote:Though in my opinion, as long as you buy from a first tier manufacturer, it's the chipset on the board that has more bearing on the reliability than the actual maker of the board.

Well, I'd argue that Supermicro, Tyan and Intel* Server boards are probably more reliable

* Apparently Intel has Foxconn make their non-server boards - still top-tier but not quite as good as their in-house stuff.

*snorts* Abit. Only one step up from PC Chips. Sorry you got rooked.

Could have been worse, he could have bought an FIC board. *shudder*

Sorry to hear that happened. Personally I get along with my ABIT quite OK. The only problem I had in one year and a half was replacing the chipset fan (that got stucked) with a pasive radiator from a Gigabyte board

I dunno man...FIC or Elitegroup? *shudder* God I hate desktop support sometimes...you see the most fucked-up bottom-rate components.