What are the known issues with that set?Kaine wrote:Oh dear, two NF4 boards in a row. You'll probably see now why most builders were happy when that chipset went end of life!Jace-BeOS wrote: My recent experiences were with an Asus Striker Extreme (a class action lawsuit needing product if ever there was one) and an EVGA nForce 780i SLI FTW. i bought the EVGA at the end of its market life, so that compounded my issues, but the Asus was quite new when originally bought.
Building a new PC. Help?
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- KVRAF
- 6113 posts since 7 Jan, 2005 from Corporate States of America
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- KVRAF
- 1959 posts since 4 Nov, 2004 from Manchester
It sucked.
Just wasn't stable. From what we could work out they tried to pump up the PCI-E bandwidth to secure the benchmarks which worked, as all the websites they gave 72 hours with it to get the good first reviews out of the door only had chance to run benchmarks it was optimized for rather than test it properly, thus it appeared to be a class leading board. It used to randomly drop voltage to gfx card when you were overclocking returning the nvlddmkm error which is spat out when the gfx card resets in use and drops the driver.
For audio use as priority was given to PCI-E buss, and PCI-E soundcards at that point didn't exist it wasn't fun to work with at all, as DPC could prove more than awkward in certain configurations. I also seem to recall the signal path on the board wasn't great with EM noise bleed being an issue too.
I do remember that a lot of issues were tamed with the 16.4 bios but that was well into the life cycle.
Just wasn't stable. From what we could work out they tried to pump up the PCI-E bandwidth to secure the benchmarks which worked, as all the websites they gave 72 hours with it to get the good first reviews out of the door only had chance to run benchmarks it was optimized for rather than test it properly, thus it appeared to be a class leading board. It used to randomly drop voltage to gfx card when you were overclocking returning the nvlddmkm error which is spat out when the gfx card resets in use and drops the driver.
For audio use as priority was given to PCI-E buss, and PCI-E soundcards at that point didn't exist it wasn't fun to work with at all, as DPC could prove more than awkward in certain configurations. I also seem to recall the signal path on the board wasn't great with EM noise bleed being an issue too.
I do remember that a lot of issues were tamed with the 16.4 bios but that was well into the life cycle.
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- KVRAF
- 6113 posts since 7 Jan, 2005 from Corporate States of America
I didn't overclock.
But it's nice to know that even going by reviews means you'll end up with junk. I'm so done with PCs. Mac hardware has gotten more generic and there are known issues in some systems (nvidia GPU problems in my MacBook), but the overall industry is pure madness and it looks like the least evil is the limited config platform.
But it's nice to know that even going by reviews means you'll end up with junk. I'm so done with PCs. Mac hardware has gotten more generic and there are known issues in some systems (nvidia GPU problems in my MacBook), but the overall industry is pure madness and it looks like the least evil is the limited config platform.
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my music @ SoundCloud
my music @ SoundCloud