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Asus ups the "Sexy" on Sandy Bridge
VooDoo_Papa
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in Hardware
Full on double rainbow@!
article on Toms
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/sandy-bridge-tactical-vest-sabertooth,11646.html
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Nice.
I used to be a huge supporter of Asus, but as of the last 3-5 years I've seen their quality go down a lot., especially on their mb components. They used to be all I used when building boxes for myself, family, or customers but I have gotten away from them because I've seen a lot of them go bad.
We won't even talk about how poor their customer service is anymore either. It never was great, but it's practically non-existent now.
Einherjar_LC says: WTB the true successor to UO or Asheron's Call pst!
Ah yes, the Can't-Aim-Screwdriver edition.
A Modest Proposal for MMORPGs:
That the means of progression would not be mutually exclusive from the means of enjoyment.
I can't imagine smothering 80% of the surface of the motherboard does any favors for cooling...
Still, it is rather sexy isn't it?
Asus boards are trash anymore. They use to be all I would use, until their quality dropped into the dirt.
I think it is ugly.
I also agree with others that commented on ASUS boards going down in quality.
You can purchase a good ASUS board for 45nm CPUs, the trick is looking at the components, and know what you are looking at, which most people have no clue, hence this new MB idea. Almost no one knows anything about MB components, so, simply cover them up.
For those of us that DO know what we see when we see it, this is, well, stupid.
It might make a nice bread warmer, may be.
Intel Core i7 7700K, MB is Gigabyte Z270X-UD5
SSD x2, 4TB WD Black HHD, 32GB RAM, MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning LE video card
Questionable what kind of alloy/polymer the "jacket" is made off. If it's mostly a polymer, melt-fest.
are these comments on asus quality based on personal experience? Because as long as I've been using asus I've had none, and I havnt seen any hardware reviewers state that Asus has gone down the tube. In fact, quite the contrary.
Always remember the general rule for reviews: those with negative experiences will always be the most vocal. Buying something and assuming it'll work is kind of a null hypothesis of sorts, so when your hardware works, you have no reason to proclaim it to the world (because it's just doing what it's supposed to do). That said, any negative experience will drive the poor person who's been through it to tell people, because unlike the person with the good experience, the person with the bad experience has just had something notworthy happen to them.
Asus doesn't have great customer service, though they're no worse than anyone else, and as far as the quality of their hardware is concerned, it's as good as anyone's. Their laptops and motherboards alike are very reliable. Now, it's true that I once had my hard drive controller fail on an Asus P5K-SE, and the computer absolutely failed to ever recognize any hard drives again, but I've been building and owning computers with Asus motherboards for years, and that's the first bad experience I've had. That P5K-SE was replaced by a P5Q that still works beautifully. My Asus A8N-E from five or six years back has basically been running strenuous games continuous for that time, and it's still going strong doing it (I made a hand-me-down gaming computer for a friend's little brother out of it a couple of years ago). I certainly haven't had any reason to complain about my Crosshair III that I purchased a year ago, either.
For that matter none of the Asus laptops (and even a netbook, which are notorious for unreliability) hanging around my house right now in the possession of various family members, some of them several years old, have ever given any kind of trouble.
I've had great experiences with the company, but again, that's just the expected outcome, so I usually don't take note of it enough to actually go around reporting on my experiences.
ya, makes sense. Everyone has a brand theyve been burned by at one time or another. For me its MSI but like you said, it doesnt necessarily mean theyre any worse than any other manufacturer.
One of the above posters mentioned that he had some knowledge on the quality of the capacitors that Asus uses and when I read this it brought back a really funny bit of drama between Gigabyte and Asus a couple years ago.
In short what happened was Gigabyte accused Asus of lying about the capacitors they used on their EPU motherboards and went so far as to illustrate this by using popped capacitors that came from a video board and saying these were taken from Asus motherboards. There was quite a bit more to the accusations, but what happened was Asus filed a complaint against them at the Federal Trade commission and also filed a law suit against them. The outcome? Gigabyte admitted the entire thing was fabricated and issued a public appology to them.
I still think theres a fair amount of FUD floating around from this and theres probably quite a few folks out there who took the gigabyte bait back then and were never inforrmed about how the whole thing unfolded.
Without ABIT there to keep them honest, seems alot of mobo manufacturers have gone downhill.
My top of the line FoxConn board is burning up memory sticks in the in both 0 and 1 slots. I'm being forced to replace it with an inferior board, besides.