Creative confirms X-Fi/nForce4 problem

[Dan-Baer]

Ahhh, I seee. Perhaps it was because you have given so much help in the Intel forums that I thought that.

I think I am about to give AMD a chance. One reason I did not like them is that both they and Intel were my customers in anothor life (liquid semiconductor photo resist) and the AMD guys we delt with were so arrogant, egotistical and downright a&^holes to our service people that we would have been just as happy to not have had their business. On the other hand Intel, TI, Samsung and the rest were not that way. I guess I have kind of held a grudge all these years.

In any case I am thinking about an Asus NF4 AMD Mobo for the next rig.

[pointreyes]

If I would have had more of a choice it would have been the ASuS nF4 boards. I'm hoping this Abit will serve me good though. I have had only one Abit fail on me (and I Asus as well), but the systems that I have sold to people using my old hardware are still running some very old Abit and Asus boards. The AMD systems are a different beast from Intel in one sense of the word but Intel has kinda of adopted some of AMD's ideas - like promoting nVidia chipsets. I had an AMD chipset motherboard and they are nothing like the Intel chipset motherboards; however, the nVidia chipset AMD boards have been great for me. This is my first foray into the nF4 line, I skipped the nF3 line but was a big user of the nVidia chipset lines before the nF3 and loved them. Hmmm, come to think of it I had one of my best overclocks with an Abit NF2 board. It was an XP2500 oc'ed to XP3200 with supertight timings. I don't even know if I want to oc anymore. I have the hardware to do it but I'm too busy anymore to constantly tweak my systems due to the amount of workload I have in learning other aspects of computers. Plus something about spending $500+ for a proc makes it hard to swallow voiding the 3 year warranty.