Asus Motherboards are Junk
 

This is what I see every day. Piles of Asus garbage motherboards. Their video cards, monitors and laptops are all fine though.

These are all marked to be returned to the vendor

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I agree.... My friends 790 board started losing the PCIE slots the other week after 3 years, and i had another friend lose his i7 to an asus board with a mild OC...

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i had a crosshair 2 and i will never go back again. I had all kinds of odd issues with the board. and asus support sucks.

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I've only owned one and it too lost power to the PCIe slots. They won't get me twice.

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I'm on my 3rd, about to by a 4th... never had any issues.

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I'm running an P5E right now that I got from Trace, and my wife was running a new P5N-D up until I got her the sandy bridge setup from TGS's contest, now her old C2D is going to me mom to replace her old P4

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I've not had any trouble (that I didn't cause myself) with any of my last 4 Asus boards. I lost a PCIe slot on my last one, but it was due to a watercooling leak that fried parts of the board and the gpu. Expensive incident.:( They've always been 'rock solid' while heavily OC'd 24/7...just like it says on the box.

There was the NB incident with the Formula IVs, but Asus offered to take care of that. I just fixed it myself. A dab of TIM was all that was needed...not worth the shipping time.:rolleyes:

Out of curiosity, do those boards going back say what's wrong with them? Someone may have ordered the wrong board or didn't like the color. lol

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think asus is bad, should try rocking a ECS mainboard one time.


they don't really "stop" working, but one parts fails, and then another and then another

i had a ECS board (cant remember the model name) but it was socket 462


well first one of the IDE slots went, and then the other.. so i used a PCI ide card.

then the board suddenly forced itself to 4x mode and would never go to 8x again.

then two of the five PCI slots stopped working.

and i had to give up after the rest of the pci slots stopped working.

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I've been running a mixture of ASUS & Gigagbyte boards for years, and never had a single problem with any of them (including an ASUS P5B Deluxe and an ASUS P4M800). That is, until my latest build for my parents using an ASUS M4A785-M board I got as part of a bundle. The video wouldn't work 50% of the time (whether I ran it through onboard or a discrete card), and when it did, the board would throw out a "Bad BIOS Checksum" error, regardless of whether I used the original BIOS or flashed it to a newer version. The board refused to even POST with RAM in either of the "B" slots. I think I posted a thread in the Chatterbox about my horrible ASUS Tech Support experience (link forthcoming), but I did get an RMA and the identical replacement motherboard worked just fine.

@Twigsoffury - I feel your pain about ECS motherboards. Made the mistake of using an ECS once in a relative's build - NEVER AGAIN. After less than 6 months, the motherboard developed a short where it would randomly shut down for no apparent reason. After essentially rebuilding the machine twice with different CPU's, RAM, hard drives, and cooling systems with no effect, I finally swapped it with an ASUS that has proved to be no problem for the last 3 years.

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It's definitely not the color. It's any number of things, like dead PCIe's, bad SATA ports, not responding USB ports, etc