How cheap are we talking about (can you give us ballpark figures?)?Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
2. SiS 655 boards will be much cheaper than E7205 boards, and from every indication I've seen will be much cheaper than Canterwood boards.
:QOriginally posted by: Evan Lieb
Yup, I've already finished the MSI 655 review, I'm working on ASUS and Gigabyte 655 boards right now. Hopefully someone over in Raleigh will post the MSI review for me soon.
Originally posted by: Logan8252
How cheap are we talking about (can you give us ballpark figures?)?Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
2. SiS 655 boards will be much cheaper than E7205 boards, and from every indication I've seen will be much cheaper than Canterwood boards.
Originally posted by: Logan8252
I'm an OCer/Gamer. So you'd suggest just going for the Albatron?
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Uh oh, I think the server got boggled :Q I'm getting blank pages.
edit: ok, never mind, it's up again. I see the WinRAR tests didn't happen.
Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
Some good ideas guys, I'll think about it.
Just to update you guys on what's happening...I got in MSI's 655 board today, and so far all its been able to do is POST. After POSTing, everything freezes up. I'm actually starting to wonder what's up with MSI...here's what's been happening over the last few months:
1. The MSI K7N2G (nForce2 IGP) I was sent two days ago was almost completely DOA, it only POSTed once. MSI sent me a second K7N2G, which works now thankfully.
2. The first MSI K7N2-L (nForce2 SPP) I was sent in December was also DOA. MSI had to send me a second one, which worked.
3. I couldn't get the first MSI 648 board I was sent to work at first. MSI claims they troubleshooted it and it eventually worked (siting a memory problem), and then sent it back to me. It worked fine after that.
And now MSI's 655 board is barely POSTing. All in all, I'd have to say MSI is having some major QC issues, as I've only encountered two or possibly three DOA boards from all the other motherboard makers over the last 6 months. Perhaps it's just that MSI wants to send me their boards as early as possible and they're just not quite ready, I'm not 100% sure.
Originally posted by: LeeTJ
Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
Some good ideas guys, I'll think about it.
Just to update you guys on what's happening...I got in MSI's 655 board today, and so far all its been able to do is POST. After POSTing, everything freezes up. I'm actually starting to wonder what's up with MSI...here's what's been happening over the last few months:
1. The MSI K7N2G (nForce2 IGP) I was sent two days ago was almost completely DOA, it only POSTed once. MSI sent me a second K7N2G, which works now thankfully.
2. The first MSI K7N2-L (nForce2 SPP) I was sent in December was also DOA. MSI had to send me a second one, which worked.
3. I couldn't get the first MSI 648 board I was sent to work at first. MSI claims they troubleshooted it and it eventually worked (siting a memory problem), and then sent it back to me. It worked fine after that.
And now MSI's 655 board is barely POSTing. All in all, I'd have to say MSI is having some major QC issues, as I've only encountered two or possibly three DOA boards from all the other motherboard makers over the last 6 months. Perhaps it's just that MSI wants to send me their boards as early as possible and they're just not quite ready, I'm not 100% sure.
Evan
this is troubling. You post this here and in the review you really seem to like this board. what did you do to get it working and what assurances do we have that this type of thing won't happen to us if we buy this board?
Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
Originally posted by: LeeTJ
Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
Some good ideas guys, I'll think about it.
Just to update you guys on what's happening...I got in MSI's 655 board today, and so far all its been able to do is POST. After POSTing, everything freezes up. I'm actually starting to wonder what's up with MSI...here's what's been happening over the last few months:
1. The MSI K7N2G (nForce2 IGP) I was sent two days ago was almost completely DOA, it only POSTed once. MSI sent me a second K7N2G, which works now thankfully.
2. The first MSI K7N2-L (nForce2 SPP) I was sent in December was also DOA. MSI had to send me a second one, which worked.
3. I couldn't get the first MSI 648 board I was sent to work at first. MSI claims they troubleshooted it and it eventually worked (siting a memory problem), and then sent it back to me. It worked fine after that.
And now MSI's 655 board is barely POSTing. All in all, I'd have to say MSI is having some major QC issues, as I've only encountered two or possibly three DOA boards from all the other motherboard makers over the last 6 months. Perhaps it's just that MSI wants to send me their boards as early as possible and they're just not quite ready, I'm not 100% sure.
Evan
this is troubling. You post this here and in the review you really seem to like this board. what did you do to get it working and what assurances do we have that this type of thing won't happen to us if we buy this board?
Yes, I understand your point. It is can be troubling, but the basic explanation I was given (and that I think is a very good explanation) is that MSI simply likes to send me boards as early as possible (which is good) even though they're not quite ready. That is, I get a lot of engineering samples from MSI, and that means those boards aren't a completely shipping (final) product yet. Later, MSI will "tweak" the board to make it ready for mass production, and I'll usually do a review of that board. The Granite Bay board I received from MSI wasn't an engineering sample for example, and it worked perfectly. The 648 and 655 boards I initially received from MSI were ES's, which certainly partly explains why they were flaky.
Originally posted by: ErikaeanLogic
Ditto with what THUGSROOK said, Evan. We have yet to see even an E7205 board do 200+ fsb,
Originally posted by: deeznuts
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8751
at least one board with 200 fsb hehe.