No mention of Abit"s early jumper-free boards?
Granted, they were innovating, but at the beginning, those pieces of shit kept losing their setup and resetting the CPU settings to default. Lots of returns on that one, when they even left the shop. I loved the idea of jumper-free setup, but being an early pusher of the tech cost me a lot of time.
Of course, as mentioned,
Pc chips, but also as mentioned, everyone knew they were pieces of shit. We used to get them by the box and a 10-20% DOA rate was guaranteed. I used to test the boards before popping them in, to save the work of popping them out when they were bad. Fake cache was also a funny one, until people went to pipeline burst sticks
We have to include anything with a VIA fucking chipset, back in the Windows 95 and 98 days. Holy shit. Paired with Cyrix chips, those cheap pieces of shit were the top of the bottom.
Things got better when Abit got their heads out of their asses and fixed their BIOS issue, VIA put out working drivers and Cyrix went under(or got bought out, don't remember).
Good times, back in my bench tech days, until I figured out there was much better money for an illegal spic handling business networks.
Ps: +1 on nforce 2/3 boards. I loved the hardware, but the drivers sucked, especially sound, then they went away.
Granted, they were innovating, but at the beginning, those pieces of shit kept losing their setup and resetting the CPU settings to default. Lots of returns on that one, when they even left the shop. I loved the idea of jumper-free setup, but being an early pusher of the tech cost me a lot of time.
Of course, as mentioned,
Pc chips, but also as mentioned, everyone knew they were pieces of shit. We used to get them by the box and a 10-20% DOA rate was guaranteed. I used to test the boards before popping them in, to save the work of popping them out when they were bad. Fake cache was also a funny one, until people went to pipeline burst sticks
We have to include anything with a VIA fucking chipset, back in the Windows 95 and 98 days. Holy shit. Paired with Cyrix chips, those cheap pieces of shit were the top of the bottom.
Things got better when Abit got their heads out of their asses and fixed their BIOS issue, VIA put out working drivers and Cyrix went under(or got bought out, don't remember).
Good times, back in my bench tech days, until I figured out there was much better money for an illegal spic handling business networks.
Ps: +1 on nforce 2/3 boards. I loved the hardware, but the drivers sucked, especially sound, then they went away.
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