Is there a Granite Bay bug?
I was remiss in not covering a story sent by a reader that eventually got picked up by The Inquirer here , fortunately. This time, I'll put this out there and see what the response is.
A THG reader, Angelo Bovis, has researched an incompatibility in Granite Bay chipsets with AGP 8X graphics cards. As Angleo points out:
Here is what seems to be errata notes from Intel, stating that AGP 8X does not work well on the new chipsets:
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/e7205/specupdt/251938.htm
Throughout several forums on the web, users are complaining about system lockups concerning the 9700 PRO and the new chipsets from Intel. I myself just invested $2000 US in a gaming rig, spent many hours trying to figure out the problem, to no avail; it looks like the users are up a creek...
Here are some forums that portray what the users have tried:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/e_service/forum/viewthread.php?thread>
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/e_service/forum/viewthread.php?thread>
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/e_service/forum/viewthread.php?thread>
what users are posting - from the rage3d boards:
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=9edea47c7340d2e6418c657dcdc030bc&thread>
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=9edea47c7340d2e6418c657dcdc030bc&thread>
I sincerely hope you take this into serious consideration. I have done this research on my own; I am not in any way biased or against any company. I have been working with computers/electronics for years, and find this to be a debacle. Perhaps with a posting of an article, we can warn the public and help them avoid throwing away their money.
Best Regards,
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Angelo Bovis MCP, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP, CCSA
Independent Contractor / Internet Security Specialist
Visit www.gate-7.net for your computing needs
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We'll check it out with ATI and see what they have to say. More on this story to come, I'm sure.
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