Hello all,
Researching a new build. I have not built a rig since 2010. This rig is a X58 Build with a i7-980X, and corsair dominator memory. Its still kicking, but I know its days are numbered. I did quite a bit of gaming back when I built this rig, so biggest and the best was always a good option. I don't do much with newer games, so not looking to push max pixels, but forward compatibility is a goal.
I have been reading reviews for quite a while now. I thought I had settled in on a target build. Then i go read product reviews on Newegg, Amazon or other sites, and see just about everything has issues. Picking the CPU was easy enough - alder lake core 7 -12700k. since I'm retired the budget is constrained, but a good rig is doable.
Asus motherboards I believe are awesome if you get lucky and it works. - I've dealt with ASUS on RMA's of motherboards for work, and they are horrible. in the end, just go buy another board you'll never get a working from Asus through RMA's. We tried 3 times, first they sent us the same board back, with the same problem, then sent a different board, missing 2 of the 4 screw tie down hard on the mother board for the heat sink, then the third board was again the first board, that still wouldn't boot the second CPU. We missed a contract date, and finally gave up on Asus, being able to get us a working motherboard, and had to just go buy a new one. That one worked, and we had a nice 600 dollar paper weight we sent to purchasing , and ask for a Ban on buying from Asus for anything in the future. At the time I worked for one of the top 5 defense contractors.
Evga - made my current board - X58 classified - its 12 years old and still works. The current line up from them seems .. lacking. Their customer support was always great.
Gigabyte - all I keep reading is a lot of problems with firmware. and some really frustrated people having to figure out why it doesn't recognize usb 3.0
Msi - is the way I am leaning - but again - issues - bad soldering on the boards. M.2 slot 1 heatsink standoff detaching, which causes grounding issues. manufacturing will have defects, part of the business, but the same exact issue over and over, that's a problem. was it just that production run? or is it on going. MSI support gets various rating from ok, to rude. these days I expect that to be the norm.
So are there threads where folks are tracking these problems and updating when companies finally get a real resolution? Toms has always been a good source for reviews and comparisons, But I am finding it much harder to track down the more useful information of when new products with major issues finally get resolved.
We are always rolling the dice when we buy these types of products, but it's sad when you get a lemon off the production line, and getting it resolved without incurring an ulcer is almost impossible.
Researching a new build. I have not built a rig since 2010. This rig is a X58 Build with a i7-980X, and corsair dominator memory. Its still kicking, but I know its days are numbered. I did quite a bit of gaming back when I built this rig, so biggest and the best was always a good option. I don't do much with newer games, so not looking to push max pixels, but forward compatibility is a goal.
I have been reading reviews for quite a while now. I thought I had settled in on a target build. Then i go read product reviews on Newegg, Amazon or other sites, and see just about everything has issues. Picking the CPU was easy enough - alder lake core 7 -12700k. since I'm retired the budget is constrained, but a good rig is doable.
Asus motherboards I believe are awesome if you get lucky and it works. - I've dealt with ASUS on RMA's of motherboards for work, and they are horrible. in the end, just go buy another board you'll never get a working from Asus through RMA's. We tried 3 times, first they sent us the same board back, with the same problem, then sent a different board, missing 2 of the 4 screw tie down hard on the mother board for the heat sink, then the third board was again the first board, that still wouldn't boot the second CPU. We missed a contract date, and finally gave up on Asus, being able to get us a working motherboard, and had to just go buy a new one. That one worked, and we had a nice 600 dollar paper weight we sent to purchasing , and ask for a Ban on buying from Asus for anything in the future. At the time I worked for one of the top 5 defense contractors.
Evga - made my current board - X58 classified - its 12 years old and still works. The current line up from them seems .. lacking. Their customer support was always great.
Gigabyte - all I keep reading is a lot of problems with firmware. and some really frustrated people having to figure out why it doesn't recognize usb 3.0
Msi - is the way I am leaning - but again - issues - bad soldering on the boards. M.2 slot 1 heatsink standoff detaching, which causes grounding issues. manufacturing will have defects, part of the business, but the same exact issue over and over, that's a problem. was it just that production run? or is it on going. MSI support gets various rating from ok, to rude. these days I expect that to be the norm.
So are there threads where folks are tracking these problems and updating when companies finally get a real resolution? Toms has always been a good source for reviews and comparisons, But I am finding it much harder to track down the more useful information of when new products with major issues finally get resolved.
We are always rolling the dice when we buy these types of products, but it's sad when you get a lemon off the production line, and getting it resolved without incurring an ulcer is almost impossible.