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I bought a couple of Supermicro Boards on the strength of the company's then
listing in the back of the excellent Scott Mueller's Upgrading & Repairing
PCs book that said they manufacture "extremely high quality motherboards",
or some such, and as I already thought he knew what he was talking about and
went on to single Sony out for similar "high quality" praise I thought,
right, that's it - Supermicro its got to be. Though they were only budget
boards - a P5MMA98 and then a bit later a 370 something or other, they both
only lasted two or three years - the first just died and had some ambiguity
with the manual as to what clock speeds it could truly support, and the
later board works ok but is now suffering extreme clock drift and a new
battery isn't the answer. I was going to go for a new super duper
Supermicro board again but then the it dawned on me that IT stuff
depreciates so fast, why throw all that money away?? I bought a
budget-budget-brand motherboard and processor - an Asrock or somesuch and I
think an AMD processor and nearly 18 months on its still working fine. I
think IT stuff has advanced, rather like cars and most other things in fact,
to the point that the vast majority of it is built to a robust standard
irrespective of what brand badge you might want to pay that little extra
for.
"Xignals" <xignals> wrote in message
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> Not much going on in here, are these boards so good they don't need
> support or does no one use them?
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