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Asus Starts Industry's First Fully-Automated Graphics Card Production

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Asus' new production method is an industry first, and it should deliver more reliable, higher quality graphics cards than before.

Just a couple of days ago, Asus started a new production method for its graphics cards called Auto-Extreme. This is the industry's first fully-automated production process, according to Asus.

The idea behind Auto-Extreme is that when parts of graphics cards are built by hand, it introduces the chance of human error. The new production process fully automates all the steps of PCB manufacturing, which includes rolling the spools and manufacturing the MOSFETs. A handful of these PCB components used to be soldered to the PCB by hand, but now that everything is fully automated, it can be done with much more precision than before.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-auto-extreme-graphics-card-production,29252.html#xtor=RSS-998

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It won't help if they keep on insisting sending factory overclocked cards out the door without testing, and using cheaper memory that are not 100% guarantee to run those overclock stable :o
 
So it started "just a couple of days ago" according to the article yet the 20th anniversary cards have been around a few weeks at least.
 
Auto Extreme? Why not add Titanium HD Bluetooth USB3.1 in there if they are going for a marketing name.
 
If this does indeed reduce bad cards, it may introduce bad batch's, thousands of defunct cards is just brutal.

I doubt that will happen, but the possibility is there and ASUS quality is down like every other manufacturer of late...
 
StriderX said:
If this does indeed reduce bad cards, it may introduce bad batch's, thousands of defunct cards is just brutal.

I doubt that will happen, but the possibility is there and ASUS quality is down like every other manufacturer of late...
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While bad batches do happen, it being fully automated will drastically reduce this as qa testing should, in theory at least be a great deal easier.

Example, batch of 100 cards, they take the first, 50th and last cards and qa check them, they're all fine, they have good reason to belive every other card in the batch is also fine, or first and 50th are fine, final card isn't, pull cards 51-100 from the batch for further investigation, no bad cards exposed to the public.

Of course this depends entirely on how stringent Asus' quality control is.
 
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