Motherboards

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Rick, what boards did you friend move to?

Net Llama! wrote:

> On 12/28/02 21:01, Rick Forrister wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Ah yes, recyled returns, that's another Asus trick.  Just last week i
> got back 3 boards from them.  All 3 were still broken, two were beta
> boards (the rev # on the label indicated it as such), and the 3rd had so
> much dirt & dust on it that it had to have been sitting on a shelf for
> months, exposed to the air.  Needless to say, i've sent them back for
> another round of replacements.
> 

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