What I hate about the Eclipse SLi

Not sure where to post this kind of thing, but having spent a fortune (£3,500 to be exact) on my new build PC, I thought I'd make a quick list of why I regret buying the MSI Eclipse SLi MB rather than another manufacturer.  Maybe someone from MSI will read this and slap their designers about a bit
1)  It has 10 SATA ports and supports SLi.  What they don't tell you is that if you have 2 GFX cards, you cannot use 2 of the SATA ports as the 2nd GFX card covers them up.  I had to purchase an additional PCI-E SATA card, and now, obviously, 2 of my planned devices don't work until Windows has booted and the drivers are loaded.
2)  If you have a 2nd GFX card, it covers up the DLED and you cannot read the POST messages.
3)  Needing to use a piece of tape to fix the thermocouple to some component 
4)  Less than great documentation on the BIOS options
5)  Having only 2 USB headers on the MB.  With everything being USB these days, more headers would be good so I can connect up my multi-card reader as well as case-mounted USB ports.
6)   Poorly performing RAID implementation (or poor drivers) for RAID5
Anyway, that's my rant over for now.  I've always used MSI MB's (except my last one was an Abit), but this has really put me off buying another one.  I really regret it.

Quote from: Surreal-Killer on 05-January-09, 21:28:55
Not sure where to post this kind of thing, but having spent a fortune (£3,500 to be exact) on my new build PC, I thought I'd make a quick list of why I regret buying the MSI Eclipse SLi MB rather than another manufacturer.  Maybe someone from MSI will read this and slap their designers about a bit
1)  It has 10 SATA ports and supports SLi.  What they don't tell you is that if you have 2 GFX cards, you cannot use 2 of the SATA ports as the 2nd GFX card covers them up.  I had to purchase an additional PCI-E SATA card, and now, obviously, 2 of my planned devices don't work until Windows has booted and the drivers are loaded.
2)  If you have a 2nd GFX card, it covers up the DLED and you cannot read the POST messages.
3)  Needing to use a piece of tape to fix the thermocouple to some component 
4)  Less than great documentation on the BIOS options
5)  Having only 2 USB headers on the MB.  With everything being USB these days, more headers would be good so I can connect up my multi-card reader as well as case-mounted USB ports.
6)   Poorly performing RAID implementation (or poor drivers) for RAID5
Anyway, that's my rant over for now.  I've always used MSI MB's (except my last one was an Abit), but this has really put me off buying another one.  I really regret it.
1.)  I solved the SATA issue by connecting the sata cables to the ports BEFORE i put the cards in.  Mine work fine.
2.) What GFX card are you using?  I have 2 x GTX285's and they are NOT small. Yet I can still see my DLED.  Perhaps if you squat down to eye level vs. Looking from the top of the board down?
3.) Not sure what you are talking about. I know my Copper heat pipe was missing a plastic retention clip and spring/  Found it packaged UNDER THE BOARD (damn QA dropped the ball).  Clip was broken so I had to pay $5 for shipping or a new plastic clip for mine.
4.) I agree they need to document the BIOS much better.
5.) To be fair, most ALL the major sellers like Newegg and Tigerdirect list how many stat headders, usb headders etc there are.  Not knowing there were only 2 herders is the fault of the buyer.
6.) On board raid is always cheap bro.  Good raid cards can cost around $200-1000USD.  Hardware > Software.  I bought a mid line SATA Raid card for my box.  Have 3 raptor drives in Raid 0.  VERY happy i did it to.

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