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Originally posted by shaggy735
OK so I won this board at an AMD show... but it blew my CPU.
I'm gonna send it back to FIC...
I love Gigabyte boards... simply the best.
Anyone else have bad FIC stories??
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FIC is responsible for the most disasterous time in my long career in upgrading. I had 2 revisions of the FIC PA2013 and NEITHER of them ever worked right. Always memory problems. And I was using quality RAM.
Later, this same board was being fried all over the world due to an improper voltage regulator for the AGP port. In other words, voodoo 3 = Dead Motherboard.
Bottom line, FIC makes total shit. They cut a lot of corners to lower the cost of their boards including skimping on capacitors. Mine and the board you mentioned above have to be the 2 most worst motherboards of all time.
So far, the best motherboard I have ever used is the Epox 8K7A but I have had good boards from Asus and Tyan before as well.