NVIDIA 790i DATA CORRUPTION ISSUES CONTINUE !!

[Mr Fox]

NVIDIA NFORCE Chipsets continue to deliver upon their Poor History of Data Corruption Issues with their High End Enthusiast 790i Chipset Motherboards.

Guru3D

NVIDIA has had Data Corruption issues dating back to NF2, NF4 NF6i

You would think that they would have learned their lesson by now....

This is the risk that you will run with the New NF 790i Ultra if Overclocked.

The entire principal of an Enthusiast Platform is the ability to run at greater than stock speeds without Stability, and Data Corruption issues.

At $350.00 to 450.00 this seems totally unacceptable.

I believe that Mr.Huang and his Team should focus more on Product Quality, and Less Upon Marketing Gimmicks, and "Opening Cans of Whoop Ass".

Until they can deliver a quality core logic chipset, they have little credibility in this market sector.

Once again I must ask how a company that demonstrates such Engineering Prowess in one area, can seem like they are "In Orbit Around Uranus" in another.

I only bring the News !!




edited spelling in title

 

[JustaGeek]

Originally posted by: Mr Fox
I only bring the News !!

There he goes again... :roll:

 

[surfsatwerk]

EVGA released a new bios today. Did a lot of good for a lot of people.

 

[Mr Fox]

Originally posted by: JustaGeek

Originally posted by: Mr Fox
I only bring the News !!

There he goes again... :roll:

While You seem to believe that Ignorance is Bliss I think that anyone that Forked out $ 700.00 + For a Board, and Memory just to have this Issue should be Pissed.

And that anyone considering this combination should be properly informed.

It is funny that you don't argue with the facts.... the rest is irrelevant.

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk
EVGA released a new bios today. Did a lot of good for a lot of people.

That is good for EVGA... hopefully the other Partners follow suit quickly

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: Mr Fox
The entire principal (sic) of an Enthusiast Platform is the ability to run at greater than stock speeds without Stability, and Data Corruption issues.

Uhh...no. You have badly misunderstood the long traditions and principles of performance enthusiast culture, which is composed of one part triumph for every two parts cursing, scraped knuckles, and broken things. Everyone else who came before you has accepted the cost of admission, why do you get it so easy?

The very essence of performance enthusiast culture is the ragged edge where refinement and maturity is acceptably sacrificed for raw performance, modification, and tweaking potential. Hell, if motherboards were like products manufactured for all other performance enthusiast cultures, you'd have to tap your own threads and remove excess flash to make the parts fit.

Imagine someone buying a $10,000 custom engine kit and going "WTF? I have to put it together and install it? Then I have to spend 30 hours tuning it? All the bugs are not even worked out and I might have to make a custom bracket or adapter? What an outrage!" lmao!

Its true, they don't make $10,000 custom engine kits that require 100+ hours of assembly, installation, custom modification, and tuning for people who just want to walk into a dealer, sign the papers, and drive away. Just as true, they don't make enthusiast class computer hardware for people who actually want an Alienware or some other pre-built that removes all complexity, challenge, and frustration for them.

To be a real performance enthusiast is to spend hour upon hour, weekend after weekend, tweaking and experimenting, starting over as many times as required, until you get it right. If you want a motherboard that you can remove from the box, plug it in, and it just works, then you need to buy a Dell or a mature motherboard that has been out for a long time now, such as the Intel D975XBX2.

 

[Mr Fox]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

Originally posted by: Mr Fox
The entire principal (sic) of an Enthusiast Platform is the ability to run at greater than stock speeds without Stability, and Data Corruption issues.

Uhh...no. You have badly misunderstood the long traditions and principles of performance enthusiast culture, which is composed of one part triumph for every two parts cursing, scraped knuckles, and broken things. Everyone else who came before you has accepted the cost of admission, why do you get it so easy?

The very essence of performance enthusiast culture is the ragged edge where refinement and maturity is acceptably sacrificed for raw performance, modification, and tweaking potential. Hell, if motherboards were like products manufactured for all other performance enthusiast cultures, you'd have to tap your own threads and remove excess flash to make the parts fit.

Imagine someone buying a $10,000 custom engine kit and going "WTF? I have to put it together and install it? Then I have to spend 30 hours tuning it? All the bugs are not even worked out and I might have to make a custom bracket or adapter? What an outrage!" lmao!

Its true, they don't make $10,000 custom engine kits that require 100+ hours of assembly, installation, custom modification, and tuning for people who just want to walk into a dealer, sign the papers, and drive away. Just as true, they don't make enthusiast class computer hardware for people who actually want an Alienware or some other pre-built that removes all complexity, challenge, and frustration for them.

To be a real performance enthusiast is to spend hour upon hour, weekend after weekend, tweaking and experimenting, starting over as many times as required, until you get it right. If you want a motherboard that you can remove from the box, plug it in, and it just works, then you need to buy a Dell or a mature motherboard that has been out for a long time now, such as the Intel D975XBX2.

I agree with what you say tcsenter, and usually early adoption of any Chipset is not a very good Idea, but NVIDIA has had this issue so many times that it is like GroundHog Day with every new Chipset.

They seem to be better with AMD stuff, but that might all change as AMD/ATI, and Intel get better and better relationships.

I'm not much on paying to Beta Test Their Stuff, and I think that people should at least know that there is an issue !

If they put half of the effort that they put into Marketing Gimmicks(IE: ESA, SLI Certs. etc) They would have solved the issues that continue to plague this market sector.

Because of the partnership arrangement they (NVIDIA) are insulated from "The Voice Of the Customer" this leads to this kind of behavior from their Management Team they may be having record profits right now, but so was AMD three years ago.

The future will be interesting... Intel's pockets are very deep.

 

[johnpombrio]

Errr... Mr. Fox, do you actually OWN one of these boards? Have you YOURSELF had any issues with it?
I have a HP MediaSmart Server. People (99% who don't OWN one) are continually bitching about the corruption bug. I don't have any issues with using it and the forum I am using a lot lately, no one else does either.
Do you just like to get your blood pressure up or something?

 

[jaggerwild]

Good Morning all!
Saw the posting and had to stop by, Nvidia is starting to look similar to Gigabyte in as just post a bunch of spec's out there hope the public buys it.
Like Quad SLI witch is none existent, nor ever will be. Let alone TRI SLI, witch is bunk. There drivers are old there support if any is lacking.
I for one will not be purchasing there GPU's till they stop relabeling there old cards as new ones with only slightly higher clocks on them.

So I'll go to the dark side and save money on my next purchase, Nvidia is circling the drain in many ways. Hope they have a plain........
Best regards!