Originally Posted by AN8 motherboard Family
Hello all you AN8 Series Users!!
It has come to our attention that some of you are making it difficult for us to please your computing needs. It is not to often that you actually get to hear a motherboard respond in the english language, so listen up! I am going to attempt to explain to you what us AN8's (Ultra's, Fatal1ty's, SLI's, etc.) dislike. We are a picky group of motherboards, so we want to set the record straight once and for all.
Things we dislike
1. Mis-matched memory modules. How would you humans like it if you order a nice Hamburger with a sesame seed bun on the top with some nice lettuce, tomato, cheese, and maybe a pickle or two on there, then on the bottom, instead of the other half of the sesame seed bun, a piece of generic, white, Walmart, cheap a$$ 25 cents a loaf bread?? That really pisses us off....as I'm sure your burger would you!
2. Generic, no-name, piece of junk, $15.00, Power Supplies. If i see one more person having a problem getting one of us to run using a PSU that came with his $40.00 case, I think I'm going to blow a capacitor!! Have you ever tried starting your car with a "D" cell battery?? I think not!! Please feed us with a good quality unit. Something with at least 24 amps on the +12v rail and we will purr like a kitten. Enermax, Tagan, OCZ, and Fortron are good choices for us. And if you really want to make a spoiled brat of one of us, PC Power & cooling!!
3. Cheap a$$ $20.00 FOR 512MB, No Name, generic, "Value" ram. Give us a break with your memory selections will ya?? !! And to make matters worse, you shove that crap memory down our throat and expect it to run in Dual Channel?? HAHAHAHA!!, thats a good one buckwheat.....try again!!! Get some good qualtiy stuff in a dual channel kit and you will be suprised how we perk right up. OCZ, Crucial, G.skill, you know...some good stuff. Save the crap memory for your grandmothers Pentium 200 system.
4. They stuck the Nforce4 chipset on us which we really like, but that damn Nvidia software is giving us a bad name. The SW IDE drivers and all that Nvidia Networking crap is driving us and many of you crazy. Just throw the chpset/LAN drivers on us, thats all we need. We dont need any fancy a$$ IDE drivers that dont work, and please dont bog our Gigabit ethernet down with that Nvidia firewall and networking tools crap. We were planning a march on the Nvidia Corporate headquarters regarding this issue, but they threatened to rip our chips from our PCB if we did, and man, that sounded real painful...OUCH!!
I hope this clears the air a little bit about why we can be a fussy/grumpy group of motherboards. Treat us good and we will treat you good too!!