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 ]

[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.

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.

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

Why?

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

My sophisticated sense of irony is obviously wasted on you!

Obviously :) :)
-Kevin

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

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.

XP is just win2k with a new dumbed down interface :p

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

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 :rolleyes: