My gripe about the new 533fsb motherboards for Intel CPU's

[WicKeD]

I ordered yesterday a New ASUS P4T533-C Motherboard. According to ASUS site Audio and LAN are optional. I tel lthe dealer I would like the version with no onboard sound and LAN. He calls me back and says, " Yes, I can have it dropped ship to you." I ask him if it is the one with NO onboard sound and LAN and he assures me.

Well I get it and guess what..... It has onboard SOUND and LAN. I returned it to him today.

I call ASUS and they say, "Yes, we have a version with no LAN and sound, but its not available in the US."

WTF????

I know you can disable the options for onboard sound and onboard LAN(but im anal, and I know there are other out there), but why dont you offer the option of not having them on the board at all.

In the good old days (1 yr ago ) you could order a board from ASUS with the OPTION of getting on board sound. NOW you don't even have the option of getting without onboard sound.

If your site says Audio (Optional) then mean it. There optional means you can turn it off.

I am going to keep my p4t-e until I can find a board with the 533fsb that is plain vanilla. No onboard sound or lan.

Thanks for letting me vent.......

 

[clumsum]

Possibly, they don't sell enough of the "plain vanilla" boards (vs. the feature rich versions) ....... to justify importing container (s) full?

Then there are examples, like the MSI 745Ultra .......... you can't seem to find them WITH the optional extra features, (firewire and usb2), or whatever!
Go figure?

 

[KoolHonda]

That's what I was thinkin. It's easier to just out out a bunch of boards with a $5 sound(or whatever) chip, and leave you no choice than to ship a bunch of different boards with various options(for my P4S8X, the LAN, Audio, and IEEE 1394 are all optional, but I couldn't find one without all 3) in the hopes they all would get sold(verus shipping over a half dozen different boards across the ocean). Or vise versa, maybe the bean counters figure some boards will sell better with no options.