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MSI.... oh here we go again...

edit: freezer will confirm this...

Last edited by GC_PaNzerFIN (2008-04-06 08:29:39)

Yeah, but without me having to install it + only $10 over the XFX price.  I'm seriously considering this.

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:

...any 8800GT doesn't matter if it's from XFX, EVGA or BFG.

Yes it simply does.

Although that card has very good reviews (Not that newegg reviews woyld be anything to look at when buying)
Doesn't look too bad to me either.

Last edited by DeathUnlimited (2008-04-06 08:43:09)

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

MSI.... oh here we go again...

edit: freezer will confirm this...

MSI sucks ass. Anything that isn't a 100% reference card has got cheap and crappy components that will die soon. Get a decent brand card and the cooler. Just don't get MSI.

That card doesn't have any cooling on the memory or power circuitry. That will not help the lifetime of the card. Stay away from it or add some yourself

TheEternalPessimist wrote:

Looks much like this Zalman cooler, infact I'm pretty certain it is.

it isn't. The vf1000 doesn't have any crappy plastic bits

Freezer7Pro wrote:

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

MSI.... oh here we go again...

edit: freezer will confirm this...

MSI sucks ass. Anything that isn't a 100% reference card has got cheap and crappy components that will die soon. Get a decent brand card and the cooler. Just don't get MSI.

Nothing wrong with MSI. Or do you have extensive experience with their products to show otherwise? Owning one or two bad products does not make the whole companies stuff crap...

DeathUnlimited wrote:

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

MSI sucks ass. Anything that isn't a 100% reference card has got cheap and crappy components that will die soon. Get a decent brand card and the cooler. Just don't get MSI.

Fuck u, MSI makes good products, you don't like it cuzs your MSI products caught fire, it happens when you left it in a shithole like yours.

Woah don't take it personal

I've had MSI components for 5 years and they worked without any problems, maybe thats because mine's inside a computer instead of ductaped to a wall.

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:

DeathUnlimited wrote:

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:

Fuck u, MSI makes good products, you don't like it cuzs your MSI products caught fire, it happens when you left it in a shithole like yours.

Woah don't take it personal

I've had MSI components for 5 years and they worked without any problems, maybe thats because mine's inside a computer instead of ductaped to a wall.

What the hell is your problem?!

FYI, I take more care than most people of the stuff I buy, and even when I do so, I've seen countless MSI products fail after just a year or two, for the exact same reasons, over and over. If I would just have one bad experience with MSI, I would know enough to realize that it might be a one-time incident. But it's not. There is a reason for MSI being so cheap, and that reason is that they cut down on the quality of the components they put on their cards and manufacturing quality. MSI capacitators tend to run out way faster than other brands, as can be seen on countless motherboards I have had here. Just a couple of years old ones are completely inoperable.

I also have first-hand experience with their customer care, refusing to take responsibility for obvious faults in the construction. There may be some good products of theirs, but a vast majority of their things are utter crap. For instance, look at their:

K7T motherboard series, capcaitators done for after under two years, numerous voltage problems even without bad capacitators.
915G/P motherboards, extreme performance issues with the SATA controllers, USB controllers and PCI-E bus.
Their GeForce 7 series graphics cards, fans break within a year. Parts fall off after under two years. Got three enocounters with this.
Their GeForce 4 cards' memory modules tend to die within a couple of years.

I could go on forever. If it's not a reference design with reference parts on, chances are high that it will die soon.

max wrote:

That card doesn't have any cooling on the memory or power circuitry. That will not help the lifetime of the card. Stay away from it or add some yourself

TheEternalPessimist wrote:

Looks much like this Zalman cooler, infact I'm pretty certain it is.

it isn't. The vf1000 doesn't have any crappy plastic bits

Only addition to it is the plastic pannel over the top, which is easily removed.

That said looks like you're right, doesnt have as many fins on the heatsink also the fan has less blades and a wider motor.

Last edited by TheEternalPessimist (2008-04-06 11:50:46)

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

MSI.... oh here we go again...

edit: freezer will confirm this...

MSI sucks ass. Anything that isn't a 100% reference card has got cheap and crappy components that will die soon. Get a decent brand card and the cooler. Just don't get MSI.

Fuck u, MSI makes good products, you don't like it cuzs your MSI products caught fire, it happens when you left it in a shithole like yours.

Dude, even if you are the chief designer of MSI products you have no right to respond like that. Chill out and get off whatever drugs you may be on.

Piont is: MSI DOES make good products, this card is a too good of a deal to pass /end.

Freezer7Pro wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

Note freezer, that it's :
Capacitors

Aw, fuckwits! They're called capacitators in swedish :X

and in finnish they are called Kondensaattori/Elko ;D