It is one review, and not only do people not base their buying decision on one review, nor should they, they should not base their buying decision on a bunch of reviews that are based on cherry picked motherboards, hand delivered from Taiwan that AREN'T true representatives of actualy store shelf product.

At my work, near the end of the KT7 craze, the RMA dropped a great deal. Only 4%, which is still high, but acceptable. Then suddenly, a good deal of the boards we had put out on the street came back either dead or flaking out in some aspect. This bumped the RMA rate back up to 8-9%. Because of this, I am proud to announce that we have COMPLETELY discontinued carrying any Abit product of any kind.

If you only make 15% markup on a motherboard, a 15% RMA rate eats ALL of your profit and that does not take into consideration overhead for techs to test the product, shippers to ship out replacement product and an RMA person to process the RMA. A company would be foolish to think they could survive selling this garbage. If you make more money on a board by making a higher profit margin or because you actaully integrate the boards and include labor as part of your final price, then I'm sure it can be justified.




regards,
jon

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