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Asus bad?

The P4P800 Deluxe I was using before I upgraded to the Abit IC7-MAX3 ran rock solid. Albeit, I did have to turn off performance enhancement mode in order to enable the fast timings on the RAM. Other than that, it ran stable and did not give me any problems. The same model board has been installed into about 40 of my customer's computers and I have yet to hear of any problems whatsoever.

Honestly, I have probably installed about 1,300 to 1,500 motherboards over the past few years. In my experience, every motherboard manufacturer has their ups and downs. Hell, I have seen brand new motherboards be dead right out of the box, from every manufacturer that I have worked with. And that is a very long list.

Even with all the new fault checking technology the manufacturers are using, their still can be a bad apple in the bunch. Taking into consideration the volume that they are pushing through, I would have to say that 1 or 2 boards bad out of a 1,000 ain't too shabby at all.
 
I agree with ACE. With any major manufacturer there will be boards that run solid, long-lasting etc and the boards that are either DOA or die soon after installation. Given, some manufacturers are going to make more crappy boards than others, higher failure rates and stuff like that. However, I would say overall ASUS makes good quality boards.
 
Meng-Chieh said:
How about the Asus comment?
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I have been using ASUS MB's for a very many years and I haven't ever had any problems or issues with them worth mentioning. I have used ASUS in all their chipset configurations too from Intel, SiS and VIA and every single one of them worked great and all gave me performance beyond what I was expectiing each time.

I just recently built a P4P800 system for my brother using ASUS and the system is F'ing BAD-ASS! Runs great and DAMN is it FAST!

So there ya have it all this of course is just me and my opinions!


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I have had several asus boards, including 3 A7N8X (2 dlx, 1 non-dlx) and all are still working to this day.
 
Well, though I havn't owned like 30 mobos like half the people in here my 1st build is the one in my sig and I must say... this board is absolutely amazing. ASUS+SiS= *drool*, not to say that Intel boards are bad, they are more compatible with programs that monitor stuff.... but this thing is BLAZING fast.
 
I've never liked SIS based boards ever. But I do have an Asus board at work with an older SIS chipset. It's been working 3 years in a row with no problems.
 
I think Gigabyte is garbage and I had nothing but problems with their mobo's since pentium 2 days.

Out of the 100 asus motherboards that have passed my hands I had only a handful with problems around 4 bad ones. I used p4c800 dlx -e and p4p and had no problems with them at all. Asus has rgreat warranty 3 years where gigabyte only has 2. My 2nd choice for motherboards is MSI.
 
:D I have an Asus P4P800-Deluxe and love it! I really have no loyalty to one particular brand, but really look for features I want first then worry about if people are getting bad boards or not. I've heard good things about Asus, mixed about Abit and Gigabyte and Soyo.

One thing though, how can I tell if PAT is working or not? .........nevermind, I don't remember seeing it in the features and I just checked the MB site and nothing on this under P4P800-Deluxe.
 
I had a P4P800 Deluxe recently until it died in a middle of idling Windows. Yep, just crashed.After that, whatever I do, no screen during boot up. Unplug CPU, no beeps, Memory...no beeps.... Looked at where the capacitors are, there are silver squares near the mosfets, bubbles...Fried P4P800Dx. In the process of getting the Abit IC7G-Max3 now. With the Asus, I noticed that there is a occasional vcore fluctuation....kinda scary.
 
2xP2B-F (still running after 6 years)
CUSL2-C (Died after 5 years of heavily Overclocked service)
P4G8X (still running)
P4C800 (still running)
P5AD2E Permium (running)

all but one ABIT board I ever owned, dead (4 dead mainboards)

I think the numbers speak volumes. I cant think of a reason to ever buy anything but ASUS.


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I haven't had issues with ASUS, but that's because avoid picking up revision 1.x's of mobos; most brands seem to have some sort of issues in the first releases of their products, which are discovered and dealt with by revision 2.x.
 
Built a quite a few systems using asus boards. I have an A7A266 that is still running after 4 (almost) years of faithful service. Set my brother up with a P4S333 a couple of years ago and that too hasn't had any problems at all. Have done other systems with asus, but cant remember which boards
 
The only problem related to my ASUS was the stupid installer (Me). Once I got my shit together, and learned what I was doing, The board has been running cherry, I'm very happy.
 
Meng-Chieh said:
I've been told repeatedly that Asus motherboards are prone to fry despite their reputation for good quality - is this true? How's Gigabyte?
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GA, usually the most common error on a GA board is the SW1 switch not being in the correct position, and the temperatures are over-read..

MD
 
I have owned a few ASUS mobos and I cant say I have ever had a problem with ne of em so I would highly suggest them..i m curious though how are they about their RMA service..I had an ABIT board a while back and they did replace it but I was not totally satisifed with their service
 
ASUS boards i have owned/built people comps with 22/ASUS boards i have had problems with 1
 
Haven't had any problems with my Aging Asus P3B-F and now my Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe.
 
Probably built in the neighborhood of 40 systems for people using Asus boards. 6 Have been dead out of the box. A7V133, A7V266, A7M266-D, N8X-X, N8X Deluxe, etc. Mostly AMD proc boards. Good stuff... MSI/Gigabyte is better. Additionally, every Asus board I have bought for myself, has died within 2 weeks. Don't like them. Sorry.
 
I'm still running on an A7V133. I experienced near-eternal grief trying to get the system to run stable. Eventually found some VIA chipset drivers that cleared everything up and it's been solid since. Seems the same problem exists (existed) with the SLI board as well...?
 
slamgoku said:
lotta boards dude. well, the only problem i have with Asus is the name. dont really care for the asus name.
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The only reason I buy Asus these days is because I already had a taste of other brands at one time or another and found Asus to be the least problematic. Your mileage may vary... BTW if I wasn't hooked on Asus, MSI would be my second choice.

PS. Let me add this. As much as I love Asus mobos, I will never buy any of their video cards again. Had one, (GF2-GTS days) and never again.
 
IFyou buy enough boards odds are you will get a bad one sooner or later no matter who makes them.

I have used Asus exclusively now for 6 years and so far so good. I would have to say that they are the finest quality boards I have ever used. Oh and no matter what the manufacuturer more often than not the user frys a board due to stupidity
 
I like the asus boards. The last couple of my machines (mix of light-duty servers and desktops) have been either Asus or Gigabyte. My current one is my first MSI, and I'm really digging it too.

All in all, Asus has been good to me, with pretty good BIOSs, and good BIOS updates. I'd have no reservations in reccomending them.

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I've had 2 Asus P5P800 boards south bridges fry in the last 2 weeks. I asked the rma department WTF and they bumped me up to level II tech support for info.
They didn't help much saying really nothing at all to cure the situation. We have nearly 80 Asus boards in the company I work for and 12 of them are P5P800 boards. Nothing against Asus support because their support staff are awesome and very sincere and apologetic. Asus support gets and A in my book.

I personally think it was a power issue resulting from the Antec 20pin power supply. We installed a 20 to 24 pin adapter on the RMA’ed board and are testing it for power issues. Everything looks very good so far.

Other than these issues I have never had a problem with an asus board in more than 10 years.
Sure a few tech problems, but I just had to learn how to use the board the right way.
I personally love using asus and abit products but when you want absolute stability in an Intel system use a built by Intel board.
 
My experiences with ASUS have been good too. Place I worked for was a reseller back in the mid to late 90's; I think their boards were at their absolute best then. I think they've made the occasional design mistake (no 4-pin 12v power connectors on Socket A mainboards) but by and large, they're good. My last one was an AV8X KT333 chipset Socket A board, which is still operational in a machine I built for someone else.

For those who have had to RMA boards though, I've heard of some horror stories of getting back unrepaired, poorly tested, or poor-condition equipment. I can't verify it myself, but those stories came from forum threads here, so I can't totally discount them either.
 
I had an p4p800-e deluxe running no problems for about 5 months, then randomly the southbridge burnt and bubbled, asus sent me an advance rma and were very nice about it, but the one they sent me only ran 4 days before burning the southbridge, I called them and they said somethign about not being able to rma that close together. so I bought a new intel board and am going to rma that one again and maybe put the rma'd motherboard in a new box. I was just mad that they couldnt rma it again untill the other one had been checked out and cleared. In the meantime the intel in running well, but the asus had more features.
 
I say Asus is crap.

My buddy sitting next to me, at a lan party, has just had his second A8N-SLI Deluxe have memory bank one take a crap.

I'm a computer tech by trade and have seen about 10 bad boards within the last year. The worst situation was having to rma a P4P800SE 3 times for blown chips, the second rma board was a refurb and was bad out of the box.
 
Hate_Bot said:
For Intel they are good, For AMD not so much
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Hmmn, knock-on-wood, but I've had really good luck with both their AMD (A8N-E) and Intel (P4PE) boards.
 
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