To the firey bowels of hell with MSI!

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:27 am

First off I'm posting this because I seriously think it will save people trouble. The point is obviously to avoid MSI products, but here is the story made short:

- Video card breaks down so I ship it for replacement
- I get the same card back 1 month later and it burns out the first day because it was assembled wrong by some asshole
- In the next RMA form I explain what happened and ask for a real replacement this time and ship it off
- The email I received from them was marked that they would replace it ASAP and use rush delivery... sounded good
- I get my video card back 1 monther later AGAIN totaling 2 months of waiting and it doesn't work AT ALL on any computer I tested it on
- Each time I sent in the card I got the exact same one back down to the little scratch and finger print
- The only thing changed was the serial number on it so I can't try to ship it back again but I saved my old serial number just in case of shit like this...
- 2 friends of mine had the same thing happen to them when their MSI video cards broke down, one being an FX5200, another being an FX5650 Ultra, and mine being a Ti4200
- I LITERALLY don't know anyone with an MSI video card that didn't break down at one point or another

So to sum it up, for your own good stay the hell away from MSI products especially the video cards. Noxious says his is fine... how is now? Blew up and you can't send it back? Thought so.

soulmata · Post by **soulmata** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:35 am

You now officially know someone who is happy with his 2 MSI products that have not failed.

Product 1:

MSI K7D Master Dual-Socket 462 Motherboard
2GB of ram, rock solid fucking stable.

Product 2:

MSI GeForce 6600 NX TD256E PCI-E 256mb HDTV capable video card

It is in my dual-core P4 system and with the latest nvidia-kernel drivers, it fucking stomps in linux.

I love it.

Ownd.

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:40 am

Hey soul just wondering, how long have you had your video card and do you know if all MSI products are manufactured in the same place? I know my card was built in Thailand.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:08 am

I am VERY tempted to buy a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum to ease my transision to the Athlon64 (as to keep AGP and to stick with an nForce chipset), for I have heard it is the best nForce3 motherboard around.

Anyhoo, my video card is a BFG, they are very nice.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:50 pm

One more vote for MSI. My NX6600GT is great. I've had zero problems.

xaimus · Post by **xaimus** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:12 pm

I have an old Baby AT MSI motherboard with a Pentium MMX on it that has been working well in almost constant use ever since I got it. It is damn stable, and has survived my mindlessly adding a PCI video card to it while it was on.

soulmata · Post by **soulmata** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:24 pm

FireKnight wrote:Hey soul just wondering, how long have you had your video card and do you know if all MSI products are manufactured in the same place? I know my card was built in Thailand.

The motherboard is more than 3 years old, the video card is a few months old.

No idea where they were built.

kamaitachi · Post by **kamaitachi** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:03 am

MSI is great. I have a Neo4 Platinum SLI. Taiwan is MSI's home nation.

AntoineWG · Post by **AntoineWG** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:19 am

Everybody has a bad experience with hardware at least once. My NEC monitor crapped out on me in less than a year and a half. Then they sent me 5 lemons. They finally sent me an upgraded new monitor just to shut me up. It worked out for me in the end. Just bitch at them and they'll eventually give you a brand new upgraded card.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:31 am

I did that with my first PC came from a company called AST. Anyway, within the first week, the modem blew something and refused to let go of the phone line. Less than 3 months in and the hard drive blows. Then the floppy drive and cdrom. In then end, I dont think anything was original. The second time it blew something I raised hell at the store I bought it in. The repair company gave me a call a week later telling me that the store had packaged the computer improperly, and the case, power supply, and whatnot were severely damaged, and they were sending me out a newer model. (Personally I think we made such a scene that they took it in back and beat the hell out of it.)

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