Sorry, this is probably not the place to put an editorial comment, but for you new builders or veterans, this may be worth reading,
In my own situation, the motherboard works perfectly fine but it is defective if I were to try to push the envelope of its performance. I have been following the situation closely, wondering (expecting) to get a brand new Mobo in the mail, overnight shipped free, but htis is where it standes now......
Abit recently put on the market a sizzling new mobo advertised and designed to push hardware to the limit, and priced for that as well. it became clear very soon that there was a big problem with the mobo, that seriously throttled its capabilites. I am new to this tech sht but, in a nutshell, as you crank up the clock on CPU, it becomes necesssary to up the voltage for certain pieces of hardware, CPU and RAM, and maybe some other stuff, i dunno.
but as one tries to up the DRAM voltage past 2.8V, it fluctuates and creates serious unstability resulting in lockups, CTD's and worse yet, corruption of data.
ABIT method for handling the situation...
1. Deny that there is a problem.
2. When a landslide of evidence scours (Abits) face till it is raw and bleeding, admit that thier may be a problem with 1 or 2 baords.
3. When every owner of this board lines up to testify that thier board is also defective, admit that there is problem with the board, but only if it is pushed to its limits, which shouldnt be done anyway.
4. When the owners point out that the board cost 2x as much as a similar board because it was advertised to be able to push the performance envelope of the hardware...4. test the board, which should have been done prior to step 1.
5. Admit the board is defective and implement the solution.
6. The solution choices 1) send the board back to abit to have them do the 'hastily implemented and untested for possible side-effects' modification. This would require an unknown period of time without the motherboard, which apparently is no skin off of abits nose. Apparently there would be no effort to make sure that my mobo was mod'd and sent back to me, so I could get somebody elses mobo post mod..2) Do the modification yourself while voiding your warranty at the same time. This requires removing a small capacitor from the motherboard with a solder iron and some tweezers.
I simply cannot believe a company would put thier fukup squarely on my shoulders like that:mad:
7. Lock the thread that contains the malcontents beetching and moaning.
8. Start work on the IC7-MAX4, and just like the 'new improved tide' commercials, compare it to the IC7-MAX3. Put the sparkly-warkly clean mobo next to the cruddy POS and hope people dont notice that the 'old' tide must have been some useless sht.
