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Let me start this thread by saying that the OcUK staff have been very good with me so far and I appreciate their efforts to help, but this is the first time that I've had the luxury of having a bit of cash to spend on a computer and all I want is a functioning piece of kit that does what I paid for...
Without going into all of the details of just how many issues I've had over the last 3 weeks, RMA's, swapped components and still a non functioning PC I've now also found that the Mobo that was supposed to allow me to Tri-SLI is actually not really capable of such, not without losing every other slot on the board, having to remove front case connections from the motherboard and throw away my Tuniq Tower that is.. so to say I'm p***ed off is an understatement.
I spent a £160+ on an MSI P7N Diamond mobo because I felt that a nice steady upgrade path would be to drop in extra 8800GTX's as time went by, first SLI and then Tri-SLI.... I would also add whatever was the latest and most powerful socket 775 CPU that there was available at the time, thereby hopefully giving me incremental upgrades in GPU & CPU power..
This seemed like a reasonably good idea to me and I explained this to OcUK sales and the guy seemed to agree, I asked if this mobo was indeed capable of such a thing and was told yes of course, no problem..
I currently own a £900 paper weight (thanks to other as yet undefinable problems, I'm currently awaiting newly purchased RAM) but I now find that once I actually do get the thing to install an OS, that it then isn't even capable of doing that which I bought it for, Tri-SLI... I could have saved a lump of cash and gotten a cheaper SLI board.
GTX8800 in first slot means that I can't use my Tuniq Tower as its fan speed control can't reach the 3rd fixing bracket position, it needs to fit in either one of the first 2 positions taken up by GTX card... I also lose one of the short PCI-E slots
GTX8800 in second slot means that I lose my only PCI slot and cannot use my S/card, this motherboard does not have onboard sound and anyway I want to use separate card, thats another reason why I bought a mobo without onboard sound.
GTX8800 in third slot means that I lose last remaining PCI Express slot but worse than that I have to unplug my front case connection for firewire, and it would appear that I would crush the wires going into JPF1 and JPF2 (HDD Light, Power, Reset Switches etc) I didn't try pushing the card all of the way in for fear of damaging them...
So if I were to try to fit 3 x GTX's in my PC as things stand now, then I would have my CPU fan speed control loose inside the case.. I would not be able to have my souncard fitted as it does not fit the only remaining option on the board which is a 1 x speed short PCI-E slot and even then it would be jammed tight up against the middle GTX card even if it did fit... I would have no connection up front for firewire and maybe even power/resets etc
I'd like to return this board and exchange it for another, it doesn't even have to be cheaper, infact I don't mind paying more if the board that I'm getting is value for money, but what really bothers me, is paying over the odds for a board because I believed (and was told) that it would be capable of doing what I wanted it to do without it effecting all of my other components... It plainly doesn't..........
So... I'd like to know your thoughts and suggestions if you would..
Do you think that I am entitled to be able to exchange it for another board that will actually do what I paid for, I don't actually care now if its Single or SLI, just a good board that does what it says on the tin??
Thanks for any input fella's
Dave.
Without going into all of the details of just how many issues I've had over the last 3 weeks, RMA's, swapped components and still a non functioning PC I've now also found that the Mobo that was supposed to allow me to Tri-SLI is actually not really capable of such, not without losing every other slot on the board, having to remove front case connections from the motherboard and throw away my Tuniq Tower that is.. so to say I'm p***ed off is an understatement.
I spent a £160+ on an MSI P7N Diamond mobo because I felt that a nice steady upgrade path would be to drop in extra 8800GTX's as time went by, first SLI and then Tri-SLI.... I would also add whatever was the latest and most powerful socket 775 CPU that there was available at the time, thereby hopefully giving me incremental upgrades in GPU & CPU power..
This seemed like a reasonably good idea to me and I explained this to OcUK sales and the guy seemed to agree, I asked if this mobo was indeed capable of such a thing and was told yes of course, no problem..
I currently own a £900 paper weight (thanks to other as yet undefinable problems, I'm currently awaiting newly purchased RAM) but I now find that once I actually do get the thing to install an OS, that it then isn't even capable of doing that which I bought it for, Tri-SLI... I could have saved a lump of cash and gotten a cheaper SLI board.
GTX8800 in first slot means that I can't use my Tuniq Tower as its fan speed control can't reach the 3rd fixing bracket position, it needs to fit in either one of the first 2 positions taken up by GTX card... I also lose one of the short PCI-E slots
GTX8800 in second slot means that I lose my only PCI slot and cannot use my S/card, this motherboard does not have onboard sound and anyway I want to use separate card, thats another reason why I bought a mobo without onboard sound.
GTX8800 in third slot means that I lose last remaining PCI Express slot but worse than that I have to unplug my front case connection for firewire, and it would appear that I would crush the wires going into JPF1 and JPF2 (HDD Light, Power, Reset Switches etc) I didn't try pushing the card all of the way in for fear of damaging them...
So if I were to try to fit 3 x GTX's in my PC as things stand now, then I would have my CPU fan speed control loose inside the case.. I would not be able to have my souncard fitted as it does not fit the only remaining option on the board which is a 1 x speed short PCI-E slot and even then it would be jammed tight up against the middle GTX card even if it did fit... I would have no connection up front for firewire and maybe even power/resets etc
I'd like to return this board and exchange it for another, it doesn't even have to be cheaper, infact I don't mind paying more if the board that I'm getting is value for money, but what really bothers me, is paying over the odds for a board because I believed (and was told) that it would be capable of doing what I wanted it to do without it effecting all of my other components... It plainly doesn't..........
So... I'd like to know your thoughts and suggestions if you would..
Do you think that I am entitled to be able to exchange it for another board that will actually do what I paid for, I don't actually care now if its Single or SLI, just a good board that does what it says on the tin??
Thanks for any input fella's
Dave.