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

[Malcolm]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Dodd" <atd7 at cornell.edu>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PNY GeForce4 MX440 - $40 till 2/29/04


> 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.

Thanks man :)  Sorry your card sucked.... I'll stay away.

Anyone have a link to a MX440 card on newegg that's the actual good card?

Thanks
Malcolm