[AccessD] Windows can be so much fun

Mark,

I'm confused.  You had a bad experience with a build, which I can empathize with.  However every 
motherboard vendor out there does 90% Intel stuff and 10% AMD stuff.  Getting support from any 
vendor is a nightmare, Intel or AMD.  In the end though it is mostly the MB vendor that is 
responsible for making drivers and such easily available for their product.  The drivers themselves 
come from the chip vendor but the BIOS is the MB vendor's responsibility and the BIOS vendor's 
responsibility.

It sounded to me as if had you gone with a "modern" motherboard to match your modern everything else 
you would likely never have had this HBB experience.

I like AMD, but I do not consider myself a fanboy.  I came very close to building an Intel i7 system 
this time around just because I needed performance.  But I have built almost nothing but AMD over 
the years and I have never had a HBB experience.  In fact IMO the experience has been getting 
better, especially in the video driver department.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 11/4/2011 12:45 AM, Mark Simms wrote:
> http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amd-to-ax-1400-workers-in-cost-cutting-move
> -2011-11-03
> This really vindicates my "experience" recently with an AMD-approved
> motherboard vendor and AMD-approved BIOS vendor.....and AMD's own Radeon ATI
> graphics chipset vendor.
> The whole experience was "HBB" - Horrible Beyond Belief.
> Mostly software related...drivers...update software....chipset
> firmware.....and IMHO:
> A true symptom of all of the outsourcing going on.
> Low cost, and Low quality.
> AMD: Syanara...this is my last AMD build.
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