Asus

AStaley said:
Had 3-4 Asus motherboards, one failed and Asus’s support was basically contact the reseller in this case Amazon who swapped it without quibbling. Same with my Asus router, redirected straight back to the reseller.
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How old was the motherboard you sent back, and how long ago?
 
Fr0dders said:
On the flip side i've only ever bought Asus and never had a problem. I genuinely believe that all the big brands are about the same in terms of reliability with the mass market consumer stuff unless you're being weird stuff off Ali Express or Ali Baba
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This TBH, I've only ever had one board fail on me and that was a Gigabyte.

I'm basically brand agnostic - I just buy whatever best suits me in terms of features and price point.
 
It’s not just Asus, I’m afraid.
Had to RMA one of their PSUs for coil whine and they’ve replaced it.
Bought a Sapphire 6800 XT and the screws weren’t tightened properly. Delta was almost 30C. To avoid an RMA during the shortage of GPUs, done it myself. Weeks later noticed that anything with RT would cause a crash. Not that I care too much for it, specially as I using an AMD card, but the card was defective. Tried an RMA, and it was denied. Just because I tightened the screws they should’ve.
The only motherboard that I ever had failing on me was a Gigabyte back on AM3. Was their most expensive model and the first high end motherboard I bought and the RMA process was a pain. In the end the shop decided to offer the refund and they had to deal with Gigabyte.
I don’t have a particular brand that I wouldn’t buy. Just depends on the product I want at I price I want.
But the easiest CS to deal with was EVGA.
 
for my main gaming PC's, always used asus motherboards, only got other parts based on price/availability from them.
Have only had one bad experience with quality of some pre fitted water block connections (on nforce 790), otherwise they have been good, which is why i was still using them for motherboards.
Nowadays, I keep looking at others, but I am not sure who is worthwhile, I dont like MSI much, AsRock have their issues currently, I guess gigabyte, and at least avoid the ASUS premium tax for nothing.
 
All manufacturers produce stinkers form time to time, I've only ever had one board fail and that was a gigabyte.. It wouldn't particularly put me off buying another gigabyte product.

It's easy to get caught up in the hype storm though.

Buying a motherboard is easy. Ignore the brand. Buy based on spec/features/price and get on with your life.

Easy!
 
BUDFORCE said:
Anyone else not a fan?

I've not purchased anything Asus for a good few years now.

Over the years I've had several motherboards, all have had issues. Onboard LAN controllers failing, onboard sound failing.

I had an Asus laptop and the connection behind the screen was dodgy, so you had to open it at the right angle.

Reading through these forums, particularly after Zen 3 dropped almost all of the issues on new systems were on Asus boards.

Know a guy who works in IT, networking mainly and setting up hardware, doesn't like Asus.

I see they market their products well, I'll give them that, but in my opinion they are a C grade at best manufacturer charging A grade prices.
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I've had countless Asus boards for the past 10 years and so far not had a single issue
 
It's a brand I've always refused to buy after my experience with the Transformer TF101 Android tablet. It was one of the first devices to use the nVidia Tegra SoC, but you wouldn't have known - the performance of it was worse than my Nexus phone at the time which had a much weaker SoC.

It was the IO that really let it down, it would literally freeze if there were apps being installed/updated in the background.

To top it off, you know how device manufacturers put plastic windows or segments on things like tablets and phones to allow WiFi and GPS signal through? Yeah, well Asus on the TF101 didn't think that was necessary and it was renowned for awful WiFi and GPS. They allowed you to apply for a free dongle to get around that but that attached to the pogo pins for the keyboard so you had to choose between the keyboard or useable WiFi.

Some of their phones over the year have looked interesting on paper spec:money wise, but it's just a brand I simply refuse to buy.
 
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Mekrel said:
It's a brand I've always refused to buy after my experience with the Transformer TF101 Android tablet. It was one of the first devices to use the nVidia Tegra SoC, but you wouldn't have known - the performance of it was worse than my Nexus phone at the time which had a much weaker SoC.

It was the IO that really let it down, it would literally freeze if there were apps being installed/updated in the background.

To top it off, you know how device manufacturers put plastic windows or segments on things like tablets and phones to allow WiFi and GPS signal through? Yeah, well Asus on the TF101 didn't think that was necessary and it was renowned for awful WiFi and GPS. They allowed you to apply for a free dongle to get around that but that attached to the pogo pins for the keyboard so you had to choose between the keyboard or useable WiFi.

Some of their phones over the year have looked interesting on paper spec:money wise, but it's just a brand I simply refuse to buy.
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Thats not asus fault. any android tablet from back in that day, even the nexus ones were rubbish and had same issues you mentioned.

I hate the fact that some people in this thread are bashing ASUS when literally other manufactureres have had issues.

As the saying goes, the people who do have issues witha. hardware are the oens that are the loudest. i bet you that the majority of ASUS users have had no problem at all.

Im here at home with one of my NAS systems that has a ASUS board running 24/7 since i built it 5 years ago and touch wood it will still run nice for longer!
 
jonneymendoza said:
Thats not asus fault. any android tablet from back in that day, even the nexus ones were rubbish and had same issues you mentioned.

I hate the fact that some people in this thread are bashing ASUS when literally other manufactureres have had issues.

As the saying goes, the people who do have issues witha. hardware are the oens that are the loudest. i bet you that the majority of ASUS users have had no problem at all.

Im here at home with one of my NAS systems that has a ASUS board running 24/7 since i built it 5 years ago and touch wood it will still run nice for longer!
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Of course it's Asus' fault, you completely ignored the ridiculous issue of them not even knowing the basics of including a plastic window for WiFi and GPS signals to pass through.

On the performance front, you're also completely incorrect there - as I said, my Galaxy Nexus with a Texas Instruments OMAP SoC did not exhibit any slow down when apps were being installed.

The XDA forum section for the device was awash with people trying to find resolution to the god awful IO performance of the device.

The Nexus 10 tablet was released just over a year later, which I also owned and it was a night and day experience.
 
Mekrel said:
Of course it's Asus' fault, you completely ignored the ridiculous issue of them not even knowing the basics of including a plastic window for WiFi and GPS signals to pass through.

On the performance front, you're also completely incorrect there - as I said, my Galaxy Nexus with a Texas Instruments OMAP SoC did not exhibit any slow down when apps were being installed.

The XDA forum section for the device was awash with people trying to find resolution to the god awful IO performance of the device.

The Nexus 10 tablet was released just over a year later, which I also owned and it was a night and day experience.
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My nexus and many others were not fine..

It's been widely known the nexus did not run well.
 
Mekrel said:
Of course it's Asus' fault, you completely ignored the ridiculous issue of them not even knowing the basics of including a plastic window for WiFi and GPS signals to pass through.

On the performance front, you're also completely incorrect there - as I said, my Galaxy Nexus with a Texas Instruments OMAP SoC did not exhibit any slow down when apps were being installed.

The XDA forum section for the device was awash with people trying to find resolution to the god awful IO performance of the device.

The Nexus 10 tablet was released just over a year later, which I also owned and it was a night and day experience.
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My apple iphone 4 would drop signal if I held it...everyone remember that...holding the phone would bridge the antennae gaps, so basically hold a phone to use it and it becomes a brick...solution was i got a free case...well not a case, it was a plastic edge that wrapped arount the phone leaving the front and back clear....cos that's the design i was looking for when I bought it...so along the same lines, of course it's Apples fault and they should know better and no one should buy their stuff....fast forward, they don't care and now sell over 50% of all phones in the US....every manufacturer has duds...that what reviews are for
 
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My nexus and many others were not fine..

It's been widely known the nexus did not run well.
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I think my experience of the TF101 vs a phone with hardware specs that could have been considered mid-range (Nexus were never about high end SoCs) speaks volumes.

I fail to see what you're struggling to understand here? The TF101 was updated to ice-cream sandwich and still suffered from poor IO speeds, so even the software version was excuse doesn't hold up because 4.0 was what the Galaxy Nexus shipped with. You're saying Nexus' didn't perform well - which further backs up my point that the TF101 under performed considering it couldn't manage .apk installations without coming to a complete stop yet the Galaxy Nexus was absolutely fine.

Craig_d1 said:
My apple iphone 4 would drop signal if I held it...everyone remember that...holding the phone would bridge the antennae gaps, so basically hold a phone to use it and it becomes a brick...solution was i got a free case...well not a case, it was a plastic edge that wrapped arount the phone leaving the front and back clear....cos that's the design i was looking for when I bought it...so along the same lines, of course it's Apples faul and they should know better and no one should buy their stuff....fast forward, they don't care and now sell over 50% of all phnes in the US....every manufacturer has duds...that what reviews are for
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This isn't comparable though because

1) you're comparing an issue where Apple correctly included antennae, but had the downside of them being shorted by how the device was held. Compared to Asus who didn't have the basic knowledge of requiring a non metallic gap in the case to let signal through.

2) Apples case solution didn't result in the device not being able to be used as intended. Asus' adapter solution meant you could either have working WiFi or the keyboard dock attached. You couldn't have both.
 
Mekrel said:
I think my experience of the TF101 vs a phone with hardware specs that could have been considered mid-range (Nexus were never about high end SoCs) speaks volumes.

I fail to see what you're struggling to understand here? The TF101 was updated to ice-cream sandwich and still suffered from poor IO speeds, so even the software version was excuse doesn't hold up because 4.0 was what the Galaxy Nexus shipped with. You're saying Nexus' didn't perform well - which further backs up my point that the TF101 under performed considering it couldn't manage .apk installations without coming to a complete stop yet the Galaxy Nexus was absolutely fine.



This isn't comparable though because

1) you're comparing an issue where Apple correctly included antennae, but had the downside of them being shorted by how the device was held. Compared to Asus who didn't have the basic knowledge of requiring a non metallic gap in the case to let signal through.

2) Apples case solution didn't result in the device not being able to be used as intended. Asus' adapter solution meant you could either have working WiFi or the keyboard dock attached. You couldn't have both.
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er..

1) it was shorted by holding it...that's a fairly big design flaw that the designers failed to take into account...that a person needed to hold the phone in their hands to use it
2) yes, if i held the phone in my hand i lost signal, so either i had to get a case pronto, or i had to hold the phone at the bottom as if i held it normally it wouldn't work

I'm ok you hating asus, and being against their design, but don't defend another company when their design is also ***p..I still loved the phone when i got it in the case...doesn't mean it was a good design...and if it wasn't fauly, why did they redesign the anntenae gap lines for every phone since
 
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