As allway Rgone, steller post.
That is a aspect I was looking fore.
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Iwill = Had no clue the consumer motherboard business would require so many resouces and hand holding.
This is the bread and butter of the "enthusiast Mainboard market" & DFI gave it a go for Sure.
The best tech support I ever experienced was from Gigabyte on the GA_7NNXP NF2 Product. The Only 4 dimm socketed NF2 board I know of,I had a personal tech that worked with me personally for 3 months to solve running 4 dimms on that chipset to no avail.I can not imagine the resources they attributed to that dilemma.
Thanks man. I try to do my homework. Having had a minor association with a motherboard manufacturer, my look inside gives a little more knowledge than I could have had otherwise.
IF we were as truthful as possible, this statement could be made for all those companies listed as "gone".
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Iwill = Had no clue the consumer motherboard business would require so many resouces and hand holding.
It appears the tier at which you produce motherboards, makes a giant difference in how your motherboard division prospers. Perhaps again that age old adage that size does matter. Price of nearly anything gets better as your tier in the industry rises.
Then the consumer is an odd bird. Time and time again, they state that they would pay more if the product had X features and was built to be bulletproof. In actual practice, the consumer seldom really coughs up that extra. The "majority" still buy based on pricing.
That puts many consumer motherboard makers into "looking for a niche" mode. DFI came on the scene with a motherboard that allowed many tweaks that were originally done with a soldering iron. There they made their niche home. As other companies jumped on the bandwagon with a greater tier rating, survival thru profits became key.
None of those motherboard companies have ever had all their "eggs in one basket", they all had their hands in many other electronic arenas. Maybe not in a "brand recognizable" look but they were not tied to only a single product.
When the markets and profits move so too do the companies in the electro-technical manufacturing enterprise. So when the requirement for so many resouces and hand holding exceed the ability to profit in a manufacturing area, the manufacturer has to retool its' thinking and market.
IF it costs more to compete than there are profits to be made; for whatever reason, then it is time to do something else for sure.
Gets down off soap box and you are now returned to your regularly scheduled programming. RGone...ster.
