Shame i had one when i had my athlon xp2500+, it overclocked like a beast but was by far the most unreliable board ive ever owned.
I always had a soft spot for the garish colouring, and from a choice POV its always bad to lose a company. Id like to know the margins of money they were losing.
Sad to see it go, I recall it holding a few OC records for a while. Also what is meant by the term industrial board? Does that mean server boards or OEM boards or maybe something else.
Shame to see them go. They've made some decent products.
On another note though I faintly recall DFI not always being "enthusiast" material. Back in the early 90s, when I first learned about them, they were considerered as manufacturers of slightly lesser quality products. Come to think of it, the same was true for MSI.
Originally Posted by general22 Sad to see it go, I recall it holding a few OC records for a while. Also what is meant by the term industrial board? Does that mean server boards or OEM boards or maybe something else.
Server, embedded, point of sale, industry applications.
I had been always been very keen to try a LANParty product some day, reviews were solid and the feature set always looked good. I would now be extremely wary of purchasing a board, I currently use an ABIT mainboard on one of my PCs and since the brand was wound down the quality of updates and support has obviously suffered. Even if a board does everything you need now, time and again it has been proven that even an old board can support new useful features with good updates. The article is very ominous!
Originally Posted by wuyanxu indeed, end of 2 eras if you count Abit's departure.
monopolising: in the future, it'd be Asus and Gigabyte only, with sky-high prices. therefore, we need to support Biostar.
Not a huge fan of Biostar, they have no interest in the UK and the enthusiast market so why should they get support currently?
1) Asus
2) Gigabyte
3) MSI
MSI are the outsider to go with if you feel like supporting a company that cares but they are normally slightly behind Asus and Gigabyte for product quality over a boards complete lifecycle.
DFI have been on the downrun for some time now. Didn't a bunch of engineers leave a couple years ago and move to Foxcon? I think that was around the time Bloodrage and all that came out. Then those same engineers left Foxcon and moved somewhere else.
I'm disappointed, but not that surprised. *hugs nF4 SLI-DR*
Originally Posted by Tom @ CCL Not a huge fan of Biostar, they have no interest in the UK and the enthusiast market so why should they get support currently?
1) Asus
2) Gigabyte
3) MSI
MSI are the outsider to go with if you feel like supporting a company that cares but they are normally slightly behind Asus and Gigabyte for product quality over a boards complete lifecycle.
Biostar seems to be aimed at the budget consumer - it's boards are like dirt cheap compared to others, which are often twice or even thrice the price of an equivalent Biostar board.
Originally Posted by rickysio Biostar seems to be aimed at the budget consumer - it's boards are like dirt cheap compared to others, which are often twice or even thrice the price of an equivalent Biostar board.
Fortunately they do make a few really good boards too and plus cheap can only be good.
Not a huge fan of Biostar, they have no interest in the UK and the enthusiast market so why should they get support currently?
1) Asus
2) Gigabyte
3) MSI
MSI are the outsider to go with if you feel like supporting a company that cares but they are normally slightly behind Asus and Gigabyte for product quality over a boards complete lifecycle.
the Biostar I45 & 45HP are still some of the best overclocking motherboards - to the point that CustomPc had it on their best hardware section for around 6months or so. Im postive they still have the boards lying around somewhere at the office. they do have interest in the UK. Support is still lacking but its slowly getting better, if they had no interest in the UK, they wouldnt ship their boards over here
Originally Posted by rickysio Biostar seems to be aimed at the budget consumer - it's boards are like dirt cheap compared to others, which are often twice or even thrice the price of an equivalent Biostar board.
Fortunately they do make a few really good boards too and plus cheap can only be good.
That's true - I'm just wondering where their profit margins go to! Might be why they have lesser hoo hah than other brands.
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I always had a soft spot for the garish colouring, and from a choice POV its always bad to lose a company. Id like to know the margins of money they were losing.
On another note though I faintly recall DFI not always being "enthusiast" material. Back in the early 90s, when I first learned about them, they were considerered as manufacturers of slightly lesser quality products. Come to think of it, the same was true for MSI.
Server, embedded, point of sale, industry applications.
I really liked DFi LanParty products. They had some wickedly garish colour schemes that rocked! Bright green anyone?
:D
monopolising: in the future, it'd be Asus and Gigabyte only, with sky-high prices. therefore, we need to support Biostar.
I remember hearing that when Abit fell apart that most of the engineers went to Biostar.
This is terrible.
Not a huge fan of Biostar, they have no interest in the UK and the enthusiast market so why should they get support currently?
1) Asus
2) Gigabyte
3) MSI
MSI are the outsider to go with if you feel like supporting a company that cares but they are normally slightly behind Asus and Gigabyte for product quality over a boards complete lifecycle.
I'm disappointed, but not that surprised. *hugs nF4 SLI-DR*
Even thinking back to the horrific failure rate on the Striker boards from Asus proves this.
Ah, many thanks for the clarification.
;)
ECS seems to be on the up as well!
Fortunately they do make a few really good boards too and plus cheap can only be good.
the Biostar I45 & 45HP are still some of the best overclocking motherboards - to the point that CustomPc had it on their best hardware section for around 6months or so. Im postive they still have the boards lying around somewhere at the office. they do have interest in the UK. Support is still lacking but its slowly getting better, if they had no interest in the UK, they wouldnt ship their boards over here
That's true - I'm just wondering where their profit margins go to! Might be why they have lesser hoo hah than other brands.
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