That's fucked so for it work worth a **** you have to burn your CPU up, which in turn overheats the board... that's BS

 

naw, It only increased the CPU temp by 3 degrees at max load in Sandra. But still, its iffy enough I wont buy anything with a VIA chipset. My story and many others said far too many bad things. At least its a killer performer now though

 

The Gigabyte boards (the version I have anyway) came with voltage settings all fucked up. You had to get a certain bios version and then tweak the vcore, ram voltage and AGP voltage just to get the damn thing to run ok. I fought with mine for 2 months before I actually had it running in a usable sense. I am going Soyo or MSI from now on. OH YEAH, Gigabyte's support sucks *** too. I sent them several e-mails and even a threat of a class action lawsuit and they STILL never responded. What a bunch of butt nuggets.

 

That sucks. Sounds similar to what I had to go through.



The two things I wish I had done differently in my system would be, getting the Soyo dragon board (forget exact model), and not getting registered DDR.

 

32" TV, DVD Player, VCR, TIVO (ALL PHILIPS MAGNAVOX) Philips Maganvox Digital Surround Sound Stereo w/ 12" base, Gamecube, PS2 and X Box



My computer, **** if i know I bought it a while back

 

Yeah, the Dragon looks like a kick *** board and the forums do not report to many issues with them. Go to www.amdmb.com and hear all kinds of horror stories about the top boards out there. Wish I had gone there before I got my Gigabytesass.

 

Windows XP Home ed

Athlon 1800 Xp

MSI KT3 ULTRA VIA KT333 Chipset DELUXE

512 333mhz RAM DDR

60gig Maxtor 5600rpm <---OLD

40gig western digital 7400 RPM(POS BROKE)

GeForce4 mx 64mbs

Toshiba dvd Rom drive



and yes asus MB's suck ***. I bought one and fried it to easy....

 

HAHAHAHAHAHA my ****'in walmart pc mobo seems to be owning you all. HAd it for about 3 months and no problems yet, just need to drop in about 512 megs of ram because i use a lot of **** at once with only 128

 

Home, well its a old set up besides the TV,

41" Sony TV

Shitty *** cablevision with all the goodies

Yamaha RX-V670 reciever- old, but the **** when I bought it.

Yamaha 5 disc cd changer

Sony Progressive scan DVD that is useless with my non-HDTV, lol ( new 60 sony wega is calling my name )

Onkyo EQ

Technics SL1200 turntable

Sony 4 head stereo VCR- hey, I watched tapes at one time, lol

AIWA dual deck tape - hey I listened to tapes at one time also, lol

Tascam CD-RW CD burner- QUITE the ****, I suggest everyone buy one

Bose front, Celestion front, Bose rear, Yamaha center

Yamaha powered sub

PS1, PS2



Home computers, you dont want to know, one is 2 years outdated now, the other 4 years. Only good thing is my old out-dated Creative 5.1 platnium sound card with external drive so I can optically or coax digitally run it to my stereo or external cd burner which makes better audio cds then my PlexWriter. and WINDOWS 98, YEAH BABY! Only on ONE re-laod too might I add, lol