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ASUS To Raise Prices In The UK By 9%
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This!
Without a doubt Asus produce some nice components with good features but for the price I'd rather buy comparable products from other manufacturers.
A 9% price hike means they're even less likely to get any of my disposable income.
I don't really get why Asus are seen as the "premium" brand. Gigabyte produce very nice motherboards for comparison, and Sapphire compare extremely favourably with Asus's graphics cards. Monitors I'm not an expert in - I buy Dell as they're very good, but they're not gaming monitors so it's not a fully apples to apples comparison.
Personally my next motherboard may well be an ASRock one as although they're something of the underdog, they're the only mboard manufacturer that seems willing to do wild and crazy things and try something different (like their four M.2 / U.2 socket x99 motherboard for when you want Four PCI-Ev3x4 SSDs in RAID.
Personally my next motherboard may well be an ASRock one as although they're something of the underdog, they're the only mboard manufacturer that seems willing to do wild and crazy things and try something different (like their four M.2 / U.2 socket x99 motherboard for when you want Four PCI-Ev3x4 SSDs in RAID.
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But it uses 20p a day more electric bro!
And the 1060 fully supports async and the 980ti doesnt.
no but, yeah but.
I agree but some items are worth a premium & I like there motherboards and bio's, I went with a ROG Z97 Hero for my 4790k and have had zero issues with it, However after watching there hawaii cooling fiasco and then watching how they had the cheek to expect early Grenada buyers to buy them with the Hawaii coolers I've lost faith in there gpu products, I've owned around 5 or 6 Asus gpu's over the years and only had a problem with one (560ti DCUII) but still, trying to push flagship gpu's with heatsinks made for cooler chips twice in a row killed my trust in them as it did with MSI.
There Z107 Maximus Hero motherboards a lovely looker though, If I was going to upgrade to that chipset I'd definitely grab one.
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Holy Moses the 1080 strix cards are £800 now!!?
And people wonder if the new titan will sell well.
If there are people that will buy 1080's at that prices. It goes without saying that new titan x will sell great.
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I always bought their motherboards and never had a problem with it so to me they are good.
Also heard good things about some of the ROG monitors but not seen it first hand
I think they built up a good brand image but it does seem they are starting to lose it now.
Never liked their graphics cards though, usually buy MSI, also like EVGA
Gigabyte lost a bit of my respect when they made the 'waterforce' product,
and havent seen anything that looked aesthetically good from them recently
Also heard good things about some of the ROG monitors but not seen it first hand
I think they built up a good brand image but it does seem they are starting to lose it now.
Never liked their graphics cards though, usually buy MSI, also like EVGA
Gigabyte lost a bit of my respect when they made the 'waterforce' product,
and havent seen anything that looked aesthetically good from them recently
Asus SHOULD be great, but somehow they always end up, somehow, screwing the implementation up. There support is actually terrible.
Most of the older guys remember Asus in the old days, when they actually had quality products. They lost their way. It wouldn't take much to sort it out though, that's the odd part.
As far as the product goes they are pretty decent - atleast the G-Sync high refresh rate jobbies and some of the problems may stem from AUO who make the actual panels or even the G-Sync FPGA itself which seems a bit haphazardly slapped in there. The problem ultimately though is when those problems do rear their head no matter who is the actual cause of them Asus don't live upto what you'd expect from a premium brand in regard to sorting it.
Agreed. For years Asus did by far the best quality sound cards, the xonar range.
Would have been great except they just didnt bother with drivers. I think with my first xonar card I had one driver update in three years.
If i hadnt been for the superb none asus unified drivers I would have given up on Asus sound cards years earlier.
I recently looked at buying a STX card but discovered things hadnt changed and drivers were still an issue.
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Are sound cards still needed? I've never bothered with them and based on the onboard implementations I didn't think sound cards mattered anymore. My current Asus board has SupremeFX which sounds like it offers just about all a gamer would need.
https://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VII_HERO/
sounds cards still far superior to onboard sound although onboard has improved a lot over the years.
but your dont get the same high quality components used on the boards as the cards. There is good reason Asus's top sound card costs £175. You dont find they fit £175 of sound circuitry to their £200 boards
Although that board you linked to comes pretty close, as good as it gets, but I presume that is their top of the range board???
but your dont get the same high quality components used on the boards as the cards. There is good reason Asus's top sound card costs £175. You dont find they fit £175 of sound circuitry to their £200 boards
Although that board you linked to comes pretty close, as good as it gets, but I presume that is their top of the range board???
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Holy Moses the 1080 strix cards are £800 now!!?
Unfortunately, we cannot control retailer pricing strategies, a huge number were pre-ordered so they are raising price to match supply and demand. That is well above our SRP. Regards.
to be fair no more than other manufacturers. I think from memory Asus managed to supply ocuk about 10 in the first 6 weeks. Clearly that is abysmal.