At 06:11 PM 31/10/2007, Rick Glazier wrote:
Actually, the remark about AMD/VIA and Soyo
stems from the fact they don't last over 3.75 years.
You can squeeze them a little longer, but two of mine went
pretty "belly up", and my wifes was VERY sensitive to
moderate heat this summer... The minute the temp dropped
a couple degrees it worked fine... (I have case fans,
I replaced the NorthBridge fans, and even the CPU fans...)
For a short while, I was using an old "retired" Dell 800M
Win_ME to surf and get e-mail... It is Intel and still works
perfect under the same conditions, in the same room...
JMHO, YMMV...
Interesting. I've seen a lot of VIA boards, and good ones seem to
work for years, whilst the cheap ones die early. In a lot of cases,
I think it's the curse of less expensive components. - VIA and AMD
are less expensive so often get stuck in a device built of
substandard components to keep the price down - then the thing fails
and people think "VIA sucks" or "AMD sucks" when in reality it was
the other stuff that was causing the problems. I've never used Soyo,
and seen very few of them over the years, so I can't comment directly
on their motherboards.
I had a set of 18 Dells (GX250 or 280, I can't recall) and in every
case the motherboards (Intel CPU with Intel chipsets) died of puffed
capacitors within 14 months. Of the ones I replaced, about 40% died
a second time of the same problem. The model was poorly built, and
when combined with the environmental factors it died.
I have a horror story for just about any device one can think of -
there is a far end to every bell curve. :)
T
