ASUS UK RMA farce! Do NOT order ASUS motherboards?

Nelly · 2025-01-13T22:02:00+0000

Check this video out, motherboard ended up sent to Czech Republic for repair . . . . 6 times! Anything can be good if it doesn't fail, but once it does, kiss your Asus Strix premium tax in the bin.

Broken pins returned back to the customer with first RMA!

BUDFORCE · 2025-01-13T22:07:11+0000

Just don't order Asus motherboards at all.

Rroff · 2025-01-13T22:18:15+0000

Great to see things have moved on since I took a hammer to a Asus Striker board in around 2006 or so due to similar experiences.

rare · 2025-01-13T22:21:27+0000

Rroff said:
Great to see things have moved on since I took a hammer to a Asus Striker board in around 2006 or so due to similar experiences.

To be fair those nforce chipsets were flaky as hell at the best of times haha

Rroff · 2025-01-13T22:23:42+0000

rare said:
To be fair those nforce chipsets were flaky as hell at the best of times haha

Wasn't the nForce chipset which was the problem - though they weren't the best. There was various issues like any board flex at all eventually popping the south-bridge off the solder pads, DRAM sockets degrading, etc. and then Asus being a shower of just sending back boards just as faulty as a replacement and/or even the wrong product - so eventually I just took a hammer to the latest return and moved on, won't touch Asus again:

As I've mentioned a few times before had a similar issue with an Asus 8800GT which had the wrong chip on the board - eventually OcUK just sent me a new GPU of a different brand to sort it as Asus were absolutely totally useless, and then the final nail was the shambles with the original ROG Swift G-Sync monitor where they were just sending back other customer's just as faulty returns round-robin style until eventually they ran out and had to send me a new one which unfortunately died as well a few months later.