[geeks] Sun to adopt newest Intel Xeon chips for upcoming servers (link)

[Phil Stracchino]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:05:33PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> I've had good experiences with BFG, EVGA, and Gigabyte graphics cards.
>> I've also installed a couple of Asus nVidia graphics cards and they are
>> fine. Nothing special, but they work well.
> 
> Personally, if I were doing Nvidia in the near future, it would probably
> be PNY.

Ugh.  I will never, ever, ever buy a PNY video card again.  I had a PNY
Verto GeForce4 Ti4200 ... all in all it failed five times, and got
replaced four times.  One of those times, the replacement card failed
after eight hours.  Each time, it took six to eight weeks to get the
replacement.  On one replacement, they upgraded me to a Ti4600 with a
big "Congratulations!!!  You have been upgraded!!!" note.  (That was the
card that failed after eight hours.)  When they replaced *that* one,
they silently downgraded me to a Ti4200 again and pretended they'd never
upgraded me.  On the fifth failure, they decided "Sorry, 'life time
warranty' means 'until we decide to stop supporting it', you're screwed."

>> I've no idea about the other brands, and I'm afraid to try them out with
>> my own money.
> 
> PNY is, if I'm not mistaken, owned by Nvidia.

Are you sure of that?  If PNY were owned by nVidia, then why is it that
eVGA, not PNY, builds all of nVidia's reference boards?  Surely if
nVidia owned PNY, they'd have PNY make them.



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