Motherboards

[Rick Forrister]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 12:39:22 -0500
"Brett I. Holcomb" <bholcomb at intergate.com> wrote:

> Just out of curiosity what experiences have you had with Asus?  I've used 
> them for several years with no problems but that has been on Windows (and a 
> Caldera) system so Windows probably masked any problems <G> - I'm open to 
> feedback!  
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> > On 12/28/02 08:43, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> >> What brands of motherboards have you had good luck with?  I run AMD
> >> processors and do NOT want a VIA chipset (I don't want it for Intel
> >> either <G>).
> > 
> > Tyan boards are fairly good.  I'd avoid Asus like the plague.


I've a good friend here in the L.A. area who builds high end systems for a living.  They supply several of the render farms in the Hollywood area, etc.  They formerly used a lot of ASUS motherboards, and had good success with them.  A couple years back, the failure rate started to creap up on them.  Then they started having problems with ASUS warrantee support - long delays, getting "replacements" that were obviously recycled returns (and sometimes still not working), lots of other fun and games.  They no longer handle ASUS products at all.

rickf