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The action in the past has included "no response" or enough response to quiet some users and then they leave the rest to hang out to dry.
Thanks I'll stick with the i975 chipsets for now. Yet again, Nvidia chose speed over stability (they've been doing this on chipsets for a while now) and the users pay the price. Sad part is, people who think they are safe will find that they lose a drive 1 maybe 2 years from now, long after they'll be able to get any support on the matter. Not that the support now is very impressive. I'd love to support more competition in this area, and might have happily bought a 680i board, but there is simply no way I'm going to roll the dice with my data.
Someday Nvidia will learn they have to be absolutely rock stable and flawless first, and feature rich and fast second. Someday they'll understand that motherboards get used for years, and have to be compatible with any product out there, including sound cards, right now, and 5 years down the road (ok that might be slightly long, but you get the idea). They understand this from their video cards which are the very picture of stability and long term compatibility. But apparently they do not yet know how to build chipsets.
I'll look into them again someday when they've actually gotten the right ideas. Even if they "fix" this one, since I saw how well the sound card fix worked (which means it didn't ultimately fix everyone perfectly), I'll not trust the 680i in any iteration. These days, with the amount of data people build up, me included, the risk is insane, even with regular backups.
They've got a lot more to learn.
Thanks I'll stick with the i975 chipsets for now. Yet again, Nvidia chose speed over stability (they've been doing this on chipsets for a while now) and the users pay the price. Sad part is, people who think they are safe will find that they lose a drive 1 maybe 2 years from now, long after they'll be able to get any support on the matter. Not that the support now is very impressive. I'd love to support more competition in this area, and might have happily bought a 680i board, but there is simply no way I'm going to roll the dice with my data.
Someday Nvidia will learn they have to be absolutely rock stable and flawless first, and feature rich and fast second. Someday they'll understand that motherboards get used for years, and have to be compatible with any product out there, including sound cards, right now, and 5 years down the road (ok that might be slightly long, but you get the idea). They understand this from their video cards which are the very picture of stability and long term compatibility. But apparently they do not yet know how to build chipsets.
I'll look into them again someday when they've actually gotten the right ideas. Even if they "fix" this one, since I saw how well the sound card fix worked (which means it didn't ultimately fix everyone perfectly), I'll not trust the 680i in any iteration. These days, with the amount of data people build up, me included, the risk is insane, even with regular backups.
They've got a lot more to learn.
[Posted by: FXi | Date: 12/24/06 09:14:35 AM]
