spacesurfer Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 ASUS supporter here. Build my system in 2004 and still going and going and going.... If I build a new system (in about a year), it will be another ASUS, unless I read reviews compelling me to choose another board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weEvil Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 (edited) Build my system in 2004 and still going and going and going....I got one built in 2001. Still perfectly fine. And its running with a small chunk of the board missing, I guess its not an important part. Edited June 19, 2007 by brucevangeorge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kooler Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 i know people that love there asus stuff and had good luck with it also ... but my self i have changed 36 asus motherboards last couple years and 12 graphics cards and still got 3 boards that asus had repaired and said there good but wont boot at all...and msi boards are right under asus in my book... 3 bad dvd drives, 2 bad psu's ,9 boards ,6 bad graphics cardsand i never had a msi board that had the intergrated sound last longer than a yearso i am a big dfi fan, weather it be intel or amd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Lets say 2% will go RMA max. wich is normal...You sold last couple years like 1800 mobos, 600 VGA cards from ASUSand450 mobos, 300 VGA cards from MSIIs this correct??Listen, I have like 1.2% RMA here with ASUS and about the same with MSI (don´t sell it here any more, but did it before). No one should complain if RMAs are less then 5% or so, that´s what I think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weEvil Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 i know people that love there asus stuff and had good luck with it also ... but my self i have changed 36 asus motherboards last couple years and 12 graphics cards and still got 3 boards that asus had repaired and said there good but wont boot at all...and msi boards are right under asus in my book... 3 bad dvd drives, 2 bad psu's ,9 boards ,6 bad graphics cardsYou know... if you go through so much hardware in a couple of years.. chances are you don't know how to use it.36 boards asus + 9 boards msi = 45 broken motherboardsDude. WTF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kooler Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 we started last year just using only dfi and abit and biostarwith very few come backsthe biostar board are the one that have the intergrated videoand the the other two is what we use for gaming rigs.the abit over clock morebut the dfi is more stable for a standard gamerbut i will never buy asus boards or msi psu's againgot two bad msi psu's in a rowbut the bad parts are from 7 different stores ,we do public and ebay sells1200 boards sold per quarter of year in each store,sold one store last yearoh, i got two 6 year old asus graphics cards that have done very well over the yearsand i got one test card that is a asus ti 4200i got no luck with asus but i know some people that love there stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weEvil Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 we do public and ebay sellsaaaahhh!You sell them!Anyways, how many boards you get back from each brand? For example, of the DFI sold per year, how many die and are to be returned?And what about ASUS? Surely to have that many bad ones mean you must sell them in huge numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kooler Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 the asus is 1 out 10 are bad...dfi is 1 out 40 or so...abit is 1 out 30 but it is usually something like sound or enet goes out so dont really count this since most gamers add there own sound and enet cardsbiostar micro boards are usually 1 out of 60 or morefoxconn 1 out 40jetway 1 out 40ecs 1 out 30pc chips 1 out 30evga 1 out 50intel 1 out 80gigabyte 1 out 40epox 1 out 40asrock 1 out 30msi 1 out 20.. and i think all of them lost there onboard sound after awhileaopen 1 out 40luck has it, i deal with newegg.com so life is good.. they replace it fast and sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Those RMA ratings are way to high, do you test them your self when they come back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kooler Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 yeah we test all products that people say is bad.. alot of times the problem is that people think they know how the adjust memory timings and cpu thru clocking software that comes packaged with the product.. like asus and msi dobut those numbers above are rough and true...but i buy stuff in volume packs like 20-50 mother boards together...but atleast i can say i never got a bad cpu and i can buy 60 sticks of corsair value memory and never get a bad onebut i buy some highend memory and get two bad sticks in a row Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Yeah, CPUs have a RMA rating like 0.3%, it was higher before when we still sold the AMD Duron/Athlon(XP) with those breakable cores.RAM we test directly with MemTEST, and we check if they are compatible with the motherboards (DDR2). We use A-DATA (V-DATA) most and RMA rating is around 0.3% too, just 1 in 330.Any way, can´t say that ASUS has more RMAs in the first year then others, in general I found that ASUS has a higher MTBF, Pc-Chips is the worst, but well, what do you expect for the price (They were good in 96-99 by the way). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kooler Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 i try to only buy really good stuff thanks to the reveiws on most websites, it make things a bit more easier to buy i usually dont have much problems with memory or hard drivesi bought some asus barebone cases last year (mb , case)wont do that againeverybody used to bring me there asus graphics cards after they would stop working..like the 6800gt's and 6800ultrasyou can flash them and they work for a couple more monthsof course i was flashing the gt to a ultra...lolit got so bad with the 6800 series that newegg would replace them with xfx brandah... i hate computersps. and cars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 By the way, EPOX just died in Europe and the USA, to much RMA. Keeps me thinking... 1 out of 40... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJARRRPCGP Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 (edited) My asus is still running strong too.Is it the newer generation A7N8X, the A7N8X-E Deluxe or A7N8X-X? I heard bad things about the A7N8Xs that were released before 2004 or late 2003. A common reported problem was BIOS chip corruption and/or just suddenly dies!I have the A7N8X-X, which don't have quite as much goodies as the A7N8X-E Deluxe, but apparently is a new version of the A7N8X. Edited June 28, 2007 by RJARRRPCGP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thauzar Posted July 27, 2007 Author Share Posted July 27, 2007 Hey everyoneJust to do a little follow up on the story.It's about 2 months since I sent my rig to the store and they detected the problem with my 7900GTO.Asus doesnt have replacement parts cause too many broke. After lots of paperwork and lost of times, I got 1 choice: take 200$ or a 8600GTSso I guess I got a new card that supports DX10 and (i didnt looked at the specs) i guess is better thant what I had.hope all works for good once I get my desktop back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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