Asus P5N-T Worst MB ever ?

I hate Asus mobos nowadays.

They went from being rock solid stable to highly unstable by either adding stupid features or restrictions or just not testing them properly at all which is supported by how many beta bioses they produce (if you can even download anything from their website that is as its permanently stuck @ dialup speeds). Getting any support is a joke as well.

Asus=Epic fail:mad:
 
Asus's support is pretty lamentable, but I believe the issues we're discussing have far more to do with Nvidia. The 680 and especially 780 are acknowledged rogues, one only needs to look at other forums (evga's for instance), along with various review sites, all of which report the same or similar problems with non-asus solutions (multiple RMAs, fried memory, data corruption, overheating northbridges etc).

I've never had any such problems with Asus boards based around Intel's chipsets, indeed, I've found them superior to every compeitor with the exception of Intel themselves, who they rival.
 
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Not a fail vote from me - top effort!
(Mind you, I once had to be restrained from throwing a dive computer from the 12th floor of a Singapore hotel 'cos it failed to calibrate!):eek:

Anything Asus P5 is utter crap...
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Bit worrying as I'm thinking of buying a P5Q - just as well I don't live in a town house!
 
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This is the best thing you can do with that POS board, IT IS THE WORST BOARD EVER MADE, it drove me nuts when i worked at overclockers!

I bet you feel loads better now
 
AWPC said:
I hate Asus mobos nowadays.

They went from being rock solid stable to highly unstable by either adding stupid features or restrictions or just not testing them properly at all which is supported by how many beta bioses they produce (if you can even download anything from their website that is as its permanently stuck @ dialup speeds). Getting any support is a joke as well.

Asus=Epic fail:mad:
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Asus Intel = Epic Win

Asus Nvidia = Epic Fail :p
 
I've just thrown my Asus mobo in the spares cupboard, OC clearly have no intention of admitting it doesnt work and i cant afford £30 every time i try to RMA it....£140 down the drain cos OC like to treat their customers like clueless rtards.

Anyone want to buy an Asus P5N32-E SLI? it works, honest...OC say so.
 
PCZ said:
I build lots of systems and have many of my own
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AWPC said:
I hate Asus mobos nowadays.

They went from being rock solid stable to highly unstable by either adding stupid features or restrictions or just not testing them properly at all which is supported by how many beta bioses they produce
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smilertoo said:
I've just thrown my Asus mobo in the spares cupboard, OC clearly have no intention of admitting it doesnt work and i cant afford £30 every time i try to RMA it....£140 down the drain cos OC like to treat their customers like clueless rtards.
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Guys,

There's no real way for me to say this without causing offence (sorry in advance) but it may well be the case you do not have the required skill, patience and trouble-shooting nous to be a competent system builder :(

Ranting about hardware is nothing more than a self-serving bias, in short that means it is easier for you to blame your apparent Epic failure to build a stable system on the hardware than to admit to yourself your just not cut out for this technical malarky! :o

For starters, anyone who buys an nVidia chipset to run an INTEL based system has clearly done no research into the subject before purchasing said hardware. It's been well documented there are several teething problems with these boards yet a few end users have managed to overcome the odds and build great systems although I'm sure they were either lucky or perhaps possessed the *right stuff* to see them through technical difficulties.

Lastly if you cannot build a stable system using an ASUS/INTEL combo then I would seriously consider finding a new hobby or perhaps paying a system builder to spec n craft an uBer box for you, sounds like going this route would save you all a load of grief and if your prone to destroying hardware in a fit of frustration it may actually work out cheaper in the long run to let someone else do the hard part for you.
 
Fair play for snapping it.

Whats nice about breaking an object you hate is that you've ultimately killed it for being a POS, also its instant. You didnt take it down the shop in a huff you snapped that mofo and then basked in the waves of instant justice as the weight of its terribleness lifted from your life and dissolved in to a happy memory in mere moments.

10/10 :D
 
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Wayne Asus P5 boards using the nFail chipset are a heap of crock no other way to say it... please don't defend this they should have never seen the light of day.
 
should have gone for an intel chipset in the first place. nvidia chipsets arent all that great at the minute
 
Big.Wayne said:
Guys,

There's no real way for me to say this without causing offence (sorry in advance) but it may well be the case you do not have the required skill, patience and trouble-shooting nous to be a competent system builder :(

Ranting about hardware is nothing more than a self-serving bias, in short that means it is easier for you to blame your apparent Epic failure to build a stable system on the hardware than to admit to yourself your just not cut out for this technical malarky! :o

For starters, anyone who buys an nVidia chipset to run an INTEL based system has clearly done no research into the subject before purchasing said hardware. It's been well documented there are several teething problems with these boards yet a few end users have managed to overcome the odds and build great systems although I'm sure they were either lucky or perhaps possessed the *right stuff* to see them through technical difficulties.

Lastly if you cannot build a stable system using an ASUS/INTEL combo then I would seriously consider finding a new hobby or perhaps paying a system builder to spec n craft an uBer box for you, sounds like going this route would save you all a load of grief and if your prone to destroying hardware in a fit of frustration it may actually work out cheaper in the long run to let someone else do the hard part for you.
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This is to assume that the owners of said boards were not amongst the early adopters. I was, with an ASUS P5N-E 650i and currently a DFI 680i LT. I actually like the 680i chipset a lot.

I think it is fair to say ASUS is now crap. I was building a friend's PC with an ASUS P35 board and it sucked. It was problematic from day one. I am quite au fait with clocking and troubleshooting but after spending one full day trying to get it to POST regularly, I got him to send it back (apparently it was working fine too, though it obviously didn't like the 3 different CPU's [from E6400, to P4 3.0GHz HT, to E2220], 2 PSU's, 3 different sets of RAM or 2 graphics cards - despite trying all permutations of the above). I have found their goods to be severely lacking in quality and proper QA testing. They seem to release a new board when they find an issue. They have more revisions than any others.
 
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