> Maybe it’s your production environment that has requirements that don’t
necessarily map to other people’s usage ? There’s a lot of PCs sold today
for things that don’t require high availability, and again, it’s simple
enough to put a legacy video board into the system, or even go headless
for
that matter.
I don’t go to work in a Formula 1, but on my Honda Civic. So, I still
believe, do you have a fast graphics board ? Caveat emptor.
Whether you drive a formula 1 to work or just use it on the racetrack does
not impact other drivers.
The problems with the Caveat Emptor approach to Formula 1 video products (or
any other) in the PC world are that:
* The problems are not restricted to the knowledgeable purchaser
of the “hot product” but to the general user who thinks they are
getting a hot but compatible product
Vendors do not clearly state that their product is not fully compatible
and may interfere with the proper operation of otherwise normal
systems.
* A substantial cost is born by the vendors of other products that
the hot product interferes with.
The average cost of fielding a customer problem by phone is ~$150.
A lot of money was spent by vendors of USB products fielding customer
complaints about their products. The problem was that certain video and
other products would fail to release the PCI bus when they were through
(so they could get it again rapidly and improve their performance).
Unfortunately, this caused severe latency problems, which caused other
properly designed devices that needed minimum latency to fail. Of
course,
the customer didn’t know that it was the “hot card” because it worked
fine.
I really object to companies who want me to spend money solving problems
they have caused their customers, just so they can have bragging rights to
the “hottest” card in town,
Marc Reinig
System Solutions
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