I own a lot of electronic stuff and NOTHING has ever died in 2 years in my
whole life. You do the math. Asus is CRAP!!
Thanks for trolling by, but you're quite wrong.
Asus is not immune to bugs or defects, but among all major
manufacturers they have consistently set a standard for others, a
standard only rivaled by (previous) Intel motherboards with
lesser features.
If you're never seen a failure in < 2 years, it's not proof that
Asus is crap, but rather that you've been quite lucky, or dealt
with very few systems. Unlike many manufacturers, Asus builds
boards for longer term service. If yours failed in 2 years it's
most likely the failure was due to failure mechanism outside of
Asus control.
Determine EXACT failure point and then get back to us about who
was to blame. Asus does not make the power supply, chipset,
chips, nor original bios code. Of all potential failure points,
Asus has historically built boards as good or better than
competitors, done what they can to build decent products.
Perhaps the better question is, if Asus now falls below "your"
quality standards, who do you presume builds a better product?
It's certainly not ECS/PCChips/Matsonic/et al., DFI, Tyan,
Biostar, Chaintech, Epox, Jetway, Soyo, Leadtek, Shuttle, Syntax,
Soltek, or any lessor known brands. I'm NOT knocking ALL of
those brands, but relative to Asus, they all make certain
compromises. Abit, Gigabyte, MSI, and AOpen are closer to Asus
quality, and on particular boards, may beat Asus, but on average,
I'd choose Asus over any other brand, and have... Of the 4
systems I use at home most often, 3 are made by Asus:
A7N8X, A7N266-VM, A7V333
All 3 boards have been overclocked to their limit, tweaked,
modded, customized and perverted in ways never imagined by Asus,
and they just keep on going.
The only problem I had recently was when I took an A7V333,
completely submersed it in detergent solution and scrubbed it
clean (board came from owner who HEAVILY smoked). I'd removed
battery but not bios chip, so after board had dried I had to
reflash bios chip... board is still rock-solid even for a VIA
chipset... For all the Via bashing I've seen in recent years,
boards based on their chipsets can be quite stable if properly
designed, set up properly, without other devices that are known
to cause problems in themselves. That's not an endorsement of
Via though, it's a budget solution that can work fine but not the
way to spend a lot of $$$$ for a high-performance system, rather
an observation of myths long-since passed.
In summary, if tomorrow I had to randomly choose a manufacturer
for my next "mission critical" PC system mainboard, Asus would be
at the top of the list. They are sometimes pretty expensive
though, I could understand picking MSI or Gigabyte instead for
cost reasons but not for any other reason.
