[mythtv-users] PNY GeForce4 MX440 - $40 till 2/29/04

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Tue Feb 10 12:52:17 EST 2004


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On Tuesday 10 February 2004 09:25, Andrew Dodd wrote:
> Quoting Malcolm <mythtv at lds.dyndns.org>:
>
>
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=
>161766&sku=P56-2732
>
> > Is this the card everyone's raving about?  Does this have the near
> > perfect TV out quality and stable drivers?
>
> PNY?
>
> Stay away.
>
> Stay far away.
>
> Their build quality is pretty bad, and their tech support nonexistent.
>
> It took me two months to return a defective Verto I bought last year - the
> vendor told me to deal with PNY, PNY just put me on hold for 3 hours then
> dropped my call without answering.  The card should never have made it
> through quality control - there were loose solder joints, and solder
> bridges on the card.  It's a miracle it only had memory errors galore
> (texture tearing, corrupted patterns of pixels in the framebuffer) and
> didn't fry my motherboard.

Huh. Another YMMV. Both my PNY cards are just fine. They're both GF4 Ti 
series, actually made by MSI and packaged by PNY. My personal preference of 
late is Chaintech though.

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