Via can really piss me off...

Kevin · 11-13-2001, 05:08 AM

Ya know... Via makes good chipsets. However, I've always had only so-so experiences w/ their boards. Their new trend is really pissing me off. They can produce a chipset, have the ****in consumers eat it up like birds to seed. Then they re-release it, fixing all the shit that users found with the first revision. They did at w/ the Apollo Pro 133(A), the KT266(A), and the P4X266(A). Is it just me or is anyone else pissed about how they milk the cash cow?
-Kev

EDIT: I forgot the KT133(A).

[ 11-13-2001: Message edited by: Kevin ]

decodeddiesel · 11-13-2001, 11:19 AM

[sarcasm] You think? [/sarcasm]
Seriously, I am just glad I didn't rush out and buy a KT266 (non A) board a while back else I would be pissed. Seriously I am going to make a concerted effort to stay away fomr Via in the future. I think SiS especially and to a certian extent ALi have really proven themselves with DDR Athlon boards. Time will tell on this subject.

Kevin · 11-13-2001, 01:31 PM

Yes. Sis has definitely proven themselves to me. Besides when I was seeing how high my video card would o/c, I can count the number of crashes my computer has had on one hand. That's why I am actually going to wait for the Leatedk 7450KDA board. I just think the 735 chipset is quality at its highest.
But back to via, I got screwed by them twice. The first was with the Apollo Pro 133. That board sucked ass, and the 133A wasn't much better. the next time I got sckrewed was on the KT133.

iceheart · 11-14-2001, 02:41 AM

You should be glad that they at least fix their problems, not just release crap all the time

Kevin · 11-14-2001, 03:33 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by iceheart:
You should be glad that they at least fix their problems, not just release crap all the time

Why?

iceheart · 11-14-2001, 11:24 AM

Because if they had just released crap and not any good stuff they would be even worse...

Kevin · 11-14-2001, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by iceheart:
Because if they had just released crap and not any good stuff they would be even worse...

Then nobody would buy their stuff. They would go out of business. And a new competitor would step up and take their place in the market or AMD would mass produce their chipsets. Either option would be prefferable to having a shitty company make a shitty chipset, let users beta test it, and fix it for a second release.
-Kevin

iceheart · 11-14-2001, 12:56 PM

My sophisticated sense of irony is obviously wasted on you!

Kevin · 11-14-2001, 02:17 PM

Obviously

-Kevin

RedTalon19 · 11-26-2001, 05:29 PM

wow doesnt that remind you of *cough*mickysoft*cough* in any way? well xp was finally different but still....

yeah i had a kt266 board then the As came out and i got that a few months later... sigh

Kevin · 11-26-2001, 06:40 PM

yah defnintely MS style stuff... Win 3.1(1) was nice. Windows 95 was a huge update. Win 98 was not so big. The SE and Me updates were even smaller. Then XP was a big update.

Butcher · 11-29-2001, 05:14 AM

XP is just win2k with a new dumbed down interface

iceheart · 11-29-2001, 07:17 AM

And a million times higher compatibility, you know you can turn of the retard XP skin thing.

RedTalon19 · 12-03-2001, 01:35 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by iceheart:
And a million times higher compatibility, you know you can turn of the retard XP skin thing.

thats the final deciding factor which will lead me to installing xp myself.... i didnt want a barbie interface... no way in hell

decodeddiesel · 12-03-2001, 10:29 AM

they're gonna hafta pry Win2K from my cold lifeless fingers to get me to install XP...well that or maybe 3 or 4 service packs to get it to work properly

11-13-2001, 05:08 AM	#1
Kevin Slacking more than your weird uncle Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: San Diego, CA (UCSD) / Los Angeles, CA (home) Posts: 1,605	Via can really piss me off... Ya know... Via makes good chipsets. However, I've always had only so-so experiences w/ their boards. Their new trend is really pissing me off. They can produce a chipset, have the **in consumers eat it up like birds to seed. Then they re-release it, fixing all the shit that users found with the first revision. They did at w/ the Apollo Pro 133(A), the KT266(A), and the P4X266(A). Is it just me or is anyone else pissed about how they milk the cash cow? -Kev EDIT: I forgot the KT133(A). [ 11-13-2001: Message edited by: Kevin ] __________________ I used to throw hot coffee all over the ass of the horse there, then whip him while he was kickin' at me. Those f*in things are crazy.

11-13-2001, 11:19 AM	#2
decodeddiesel Cooling Savant Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: classified Posts: 534	[sarcasm] You think? [/sarcasm] Seriously, I am just glad I didn't rush out and buy a KT266 (non A) board a while back else I would be pissed. Seriously I am going to make a concerted effort to stay away fomr Via in the future. I think SiS especially and to a certian extent ALi have really proven themselves with DDR Athlon boards. Time will tell on this subject. __________________ ...i hurt... do me a favor, disconect me... they can re-work me but i'll never be top of the line again ...i'd rather be nothing...

11-13-2001, 01:31 PM	#3
Kevin Slacking more than your weird uncle Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: San Diego, CA (UCSD) / Los Angeles, CA (home) Posts: 1,605	Yes. Sis has definitely proven themselves to me. Besides when I was seeing how high my video card would o/c, I can count the number of crashes my computer has had on one hand. That's why I am actually going to wait for the Leatedk 7450KDA board. I just think the 735 chipset is quality at its highest. But back to via, I got screwed by them twice. The first was with the Apollo Pro 133. That board sucked ass, and the 133A wasn't much better. the next time I got sckrewed was on the KT133. __________________ I used to throw hot coffee all over the ass of the horse there, then whip him while he was kickin' at me. Those f***in things are crazy.

11-14-2001, 02:41 AM	#4
iceheart Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Yonder Posts: 318	You should be glad that they at least fix their problems, not just release crap all the time __________________ "If the majority is smarter than you, does that make everyone else a geek, or does it make you retarded?" - pHaestus

11-14-2001, 02:17 PM	#9
Kevin Slacking more than your weird uncle Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: San Diego, CA (UCSD) / Los Angeles, CA (home) Posts: 1,605	Obviously -Kevin __________________ I used to throw hot coffee all over the ass of the horse there, then whip him while he was kickin' at me. Those f***in things are crazy.

11-14-2001, 11:24 AM	#6
iceheart Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Yonder Posts: 318	Because if they had just released crap and not any good stuff they would be even worse...

11-14-2001, 12:56 PM	#8
iceheart Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Yonder Posts: 318	My sophisticated sense of irony is obviously wasted on you!

11-26-2001, 05:29 PM	#10
RedTalon19 Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: PA Posts: 96	wow doesnt that remind you of coughmickysoftcough in any way? well xp was finally different but still.... yeah i had a kt266 board then the As came out and i got that a few months later... sigh __________________ i am myself not anybody else and thats who i am and not who you are so dont be like me because i am myself.

11-26-2001, 06:40 PM	#11
Kevin Slacking more than your weird uncle Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: San Diego, CA (UCSD) / Los Angeles, CA (home) Posts: 1,605	yah defnintely MS style stuff... Win 3.1(1) was nice. Windows 95 was a huge update. Win 98 was not so big. The SE and Me updates were even smaller. Then XP was a big update. __________________ I used to throw hot coffee all over the ass of the horse there, then whip him while he was kickin' at me. Those f***in things are crazy.

11-29-2001, 05:14 AM	#12
Butcher Thermophile Join Date: May 2001 Location: UK Posts: 1,064	XP is just win2k with a new dumbed down interface __________________ Once upon a time, in a land far far away...

11-29-2001, 07:17 AM	#13
iceheart Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Yonder Posts: 318	And a million times higher compatibility, you know you can turn of the retard XP skin thing.

12-03-2001, 10:29 AM	#15
decodeddiesel Cooling Savant Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: classified Posts: 534	they're gonna hafta pry Win2K from my cold lifeless fingers to get me to install XP...well that or maybe 3 or 4 service packs to get it to work properly __________________ ...i hurt... do me a favor, disconect me... they can re-work me but i'll never be top of the line again ...i'd rather be nothing...

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