Bar81 said:Well, that would be derailing the topic at hand. We've had numerous "discussions" regarding this. For example, a while ago there was this HUGE front page post about ATI's alleged delivery issues for all of these past video cards. They just happen to overlook that they were blatantly incorrect as to all but the X800 XT PE. Another example is their discovery of a new policy to only review products available on the market (ie to not review the X1800 XT) Strangely this "new policy" just happen to be applied to a new ATI product. The policy was not applied to the nvidia nforce 6150 boards. It's just a litany of comical blunders on this site. And all you ever get is Kyle claiming how he's so righteous because he sticks to his opinion (sticking to a a factually unsupportable opinion seems like a strange way to show your "independence and truthfullness"). It takes a big man to face the truth, and unfortunately this site doesn't seem to have any of them. So, it's left to normal posters like me to call the constant bias out.
[H]ard|OCP hasn't put out any nVidia 6150 board reviews that I remember, or an X1800XT review, and no review was released on the Geforce 7800GTX before it was launched. Kyle has had this policy for awhile.
As for the nForce 4, there are alot of people that do not have issues with the SATA ports, or the nForce drivers. Myself included, I can safely say I've used all the nForce 4 variants at that. Never an issue with any of them. On second thought, I haven't touched the new nForce 4 SLi x16 chipset. But nForce Pro 2200/2050, nForce 4 Ultra/SLi, nForce 4 SLi Intel Edition, and I have never had the issues you mentioned. I think the bulk of the nForce 4 boards are good, and the chipset is pretty mature and reliable.