J&W?

i throught it depends on the company who produces the board?

anyways i hope the J&W X48 comes in I need a good decent and cheap X48 board as backup as I m having problems with my ramapge(still works somehow)
 
AMG said:
i throught it depends on the company who produces the board?

anyways i hope the J&W X48 comes in I need a good decent and cheap X48 board as backup as I m having problems with my ramapge(still works somehow)
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Their boards are so xxxxxxx expensive because there are no actual competition at all. ;)

you may fill in the xxxxxxx by your imagination. :p
 
Without wishing to be offensive to anyone - the J&W X48 board was available at OcUK for quite some time and it was the cheapest X48 board and I'm pretty sure I was the only person who bought any.

Everyone bought the ASUS P45 boards instead, because they were half the price and clocked better.

Sorry guys, but it was 3 months too late in the marketplace and when it did arrive it was 70% more expensive than it could have been.

Things I would do if I was J&W?

1. Don't release spoiler pictures 3 months ahead of the actual release date. People will 'impulse buy' a hot item, but only if it's actually available.

2. Don't give any pricing indications until the launch price is set. Lots of people put off buying the X48 board thinking it would be £100-£125 at launch. When it actually did launch it was £170:eek:

3. Try and be the first to the market with a product. People with a product will recommend it and if it's the first one out there, it will get recommended. This is how ASUS are so successful. The first boards are almost always from ASUS. I do know this is very difficult.

4. Have a set of overclocked settings available to publish so anyone can start overclocking immediately, even if it's only a pitifully small overclock (20-30% is easy on most CPUs).

5. Don't come and go. It unsettles people. You need to have your brand in the market place for a long time for it to stick in their minds.

6. Keep making good boards!
 
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I did do some reserach of J&W, they are one of the top brand in the asisa (they are chinese i think) but they chose to remin over in that area unlike asus, MSI,gigabyte etc etc who went internation by doing the things you said above.
 
WJA96 said:
Without wishing to be offensive to anyone - the J&W X48 board was available at OcUK for quite some time and it was the cheapest X48 board and I'm pretty sure I was the only person who bought any.

Everyone bought the ASUS P45 boards instead, because they were half the price and clocked better.

Sorry guys, but it was 3 months too late in the marketplace and when it did arrive it was 70% more expensive than it could have been.

Things I would do if I was J&W?

1. Don't release spoiler pictures 3 months ahead of the actual release date. People will 'impulse buy' a hot item, but only if it's actually available.

2. Don't give any pricing indications until the launch price is set. Lots of people put off buying the X48 board thinking it would be £100-£125 at launch. When it actually did launch it was £170:eek:

3. Try and be the first to the market with a product. People with a product will recommend it and if it's the first one out there, it will get recommended. This is how ASUS are so successful. The first boards are almost always from ASUS. I do know this is very difficult.

4. Have a set of overclocked settings available to publish so anyone can start overclocking immediately, even if it's only a pitifully small overclock (20-30% is easy on most CPUs).

5. Don't come and go. It unsettles people. You need to have your brand in the market place for a long time for it to stick in their minds.

6. Keep making good boards!
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very good comments!
 
AMG said:
maybe we should get J&Ws attesnion to the world wide market :P
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Ken (kenofstephen) is the Worldwide Marketing Director for J&W. Having had huge amounts of support from him in the past, I know he wants to expand his market, he's just finding the UK harder to crack than most other markets.

J&W do sell direct, but technically they are competitors so I can't tell you how to get one.
 
Actually - while I remember - the SilentCool heatsink is excellent and keeps the chipset cool, but the design makes the 8-pin Intel power connector very hard to get to.

It's the same on both the JW-P45D2-ULTRA and the JW-X48D2-EXTREME.

Thanks.
 
WJA96 said:
Actually - while I remember - the SilentCool heatsink is excellent and keeps the chipset cool, but the design makes the 8-pin Intel power connector very hard to get to.

It's the same on both the JW-P45D2-ULTRA and the JW-X48D2-EXTREME.

Thanks.
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check out my pic. and you would see this is no longer an issue on the 785G. ;)
 
Hello do you have a P55 Chipset motherboard in the works for the upcoming i5 core Lynnfield Socket LGA1156 ?

I'll probally upgrade & may try something new.
 
och i might have to do that than if the price is right as I m in need for a second backup board on X48
 
J&W boards seem to be top quality and offer a nice saving. The personal touch of the support on their forums is top class compared top the likes of Asus. The only downside is that sometime important bios updates take a little longer than with the big brands.
 
sibeer said:
The only downside is that sometime important bios updates take a little longer than with the big brands.
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That would be the complete opposite of my experience. What BIOS update issue are you referring to?
 
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