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Motherboards with i845 Chipsets

Posted by michael on from the penny-pincher dept.

manplusdog writes: "Dan reviews a couple of i845 motherboards here and lets just say he doesn't hold back! "Mainboards For The Stupid" is the verdict. I have no affiliation with Dan or his site (aside from being Australian) but found the review..... entertaining. Cheers"

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  1. Good article by Inthewire · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He reinforced my belief in the value of a competitive market...without AMD, Intel would have a lock on all of our business. It's interesting how destructive human nature can be...logically, the thing to do is run a single company that can leverage suppliers, research, manufacturing, distribution, administration, etc. This would reduce all the redundancies in the market and allow for superior products at reasonable prices.
    Advertising could be focused on actual products, not competitive differentation. If something new was developed by this company, they would only need make the value known...no more blue men.
    INstead of this utopia, when a single company gains the majority of the market they tend to maximize profit instead of customer value.
    It's a hell of a world, isn't it?

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    Writers imply. Readers infer.
  2. Custom Errors by Myriad · · Score: 5, Funny
    Instead of using lights or mere beeps to tell you about its Power On Self Test progress, it speaks its errors,in a quite comprehensible female voice.

    The P4B also comes with a Windows utility that lets you convert WAV files to make your own error messages.

    In related news, Asus will begin shipping the Custom Error Pack with errors including:
    - I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that!
    - It's Microsofts Fault - Really!
    - BSOD my ass!
    - Doh!
    - Need Beer!
    - I've been Slashdotted!
    and many more!

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    "They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
  3. Trivia by Daniel+Rutter · · Score: 5, Informative
    Howdy. Page mine. Server looks fine to me. Site hosted in USA, not here in Australia. So if you can't see it, not my fault. And I can get my mail just fine, thanks :-).

    On a more interesting note, I put that review up on the 30th of August, which was while motherboard manufacturers were still getting busted for even saying that they'd shipped i845 boards, because the chipset hadn't officially been launched yet.

    But here in Australia, for some reason, the boards were already being sold retail. I just grabbed those two from m'verygoodfriends at Aus PC Market.

    I should probably update the review; I bet Abit and Asus have product pages for those boards, now :-).