Word of warning

[ComradeBadger]

Today we got a shipment of Foxconn Winfast Socket A motherboards (and some 939 ones too) . Me and a co-worker built 3 systems using these motherboards and a Winfast GeForce 3 Ti 500, WinFast GeForce 4 MX4000, and an MSI GeForce 4 MX440 [All AGP]. All of the boards displayed idenical symptoms - they wouldn't accept just any video card, they wouldn't boot with certain cards in the AGP slot. 1 motherboard would only boot with the GeForce 3 Ti, another wouldn't accept any graphics card until the 3rd WinFast GeForce 4 MX4000. The last machine wouldn't accept any graphics card we tested in it, not even the Inno3D 6600 or Sapphire X550 (which so far have proven perfect).

We even tried out more and more of the boards. All of them displayed the same errors.

Steer clear of Winfast - apparently this isn't an isolated incident.

 

[xLostx]

but i just bought 500 of everything! ;(

 

[giant384]

what is the x550 never heard of it

 

[ComradeBadger]

This: http://www.ati.com/products/radeonx550/