
TAKE A HIKE
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Fox, on 11 May 2014 - 05:55 AM, said:
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The number of years you have done something is irrelevant, but if you want me to go down that route; When that motherboard was relevant I was managing a network that supported 1000 clients, I wasn't getting paid and it was mostly voluntary, but it sure taught me a lot. I personally don't think faults that halt the machine often, cause software to not work or render the board unuseable are unimportant or vague, I think they are quite obviously a serious problem and if they are vague a quick Google search will turn up many archives of people suffering with them back then, possibly even me. I had two nF2 boards, they were terrible, as for the blame; [/size][/font][/color] [color="#B9B9B9"][font="tahoma, arial, sans-serif"][size="2"]I stated as much already. You trying to start an argument or some shit? Sure looks like it and I can't be bothered. The fact of the matter is, that whether it was nVidia's fault or not, those motherboards simply didn't work very well. None of those boards I had still work.[/size][/font][/color] [color="#B9B9B9"][font="tahoma, arial, sans-serif"] [/font][/color] [color="#B9B9B9"][font="tahoma, arial, sans-serif"][size="2"]Too fast? Now that simply isn't true, if you want to run games like Blood at higher resolutions you'll need something like that - plus I could only have access to one machine at a time back then so it had to do everything, not everyone was/is running a computer the same way or for the same reasons you are. My current Athlon XP is the best system I have for games like that, though that one is on the older VIA KT133 and has an ISA slot negating the need for emulation.[/size][/font][/color] [color="#B9B9B9"][font="tahoma, arial, sans-serif"] [/font][/color] [color="#B9B9B9"][font="tahoma, arial, sans-serif"][size="2"]I think the fact that very few motherboards still working today use the nForce 2, but there are certainly many VIA and SiS boards in operation, is a testament to the problems that nForce 2 boards had.[/size][/font][/color] [color="#B9B9B9"][font="tahoma, arial, sans-serif"] [/font][/color] [color="#B9B9B9"][font="tahoma, arial, sans-serif"][size="2"]So what can we surmise? The boards were expensive, unstable, poorly designed, poorly made, had compatibility issues and didn't last as long as the alternatives, not good in my opinion. If you liked them, power to you, I'm not going to try and stop you, but they didn't work for me and it seems they didn't work for a lot of other people.[/size][/font][/color] [color="#B9B9B9"][font="tahoma, arial, sans-serif"] [/font][/color] I'd like to add that I never used SATA back then as I deemed it was a waste of money, but every board I went near that had it back then either had or would develop serious issues very quickly. If I am sold a feature I expect it to be operable, whether I want it or not. What if I need it later? I never wanted the second Ethernet port, but I've needed it. Never wanted the extra RAM slots, but due to software requirements I've needed them, imagine if they didn't work? Wouldn't be very good would it? No, it wouldn't.
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Hendricks266, on 13 May 2014 - 10:03 AM, said:
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