hi ya
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> >> Mobo was a Tyan Thunder K8W. (S2885)
> >
> >personally I'm very disappointed about Tyan, well I only know their
> >opteron mainboards, but thats already sufficient to never buy their
> >mainboards again.
>
> You're doing yurself a huge disservice based on very little experience.
> Using one or two of a manufacturer's MBs is not sufficient grounds to
> blacklist them. Tyan sells a lot of these boards. If there were serious
> stability problems with them, tyan wouldn't be shipping them.
>
> Tyan makes very good hardware. I don't know what your problems are,
> but I've never had any such problems.
ditto ... i would buy tyan motherboards since its very cost effective
for its performance and very good reliability
( it's my 2nd choice mb for certain apps and sometimes 1st choice )
we buy lots of um for customers that requests certain models
---
usually, if there's hardware problems, it's usually an installation
problem and/or very unlikely, 1%-5% probability of bad hardware
- things dont always work out of the box ( cdrom installation )
and one *-do-* need to know how to tweek it to make it work
"right"
- one should buy parts from reputable cpu/mb/disk distributors
and not any mom-n-pop website that sells "everything"
c ya
alvin
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