29 Jan
2009
29 Jan
'09
2:50 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Bob van der Poel <bob(a)mellowood.ca> wrote:
R.Wolff wrote:
Everyone has different results and their own horror stories but I'm
personally +++ on Asus. I've owned maybe 20 Asus MB's over the last 15
years and I've never had problems with any of them. They've all
outlasted the cards I've plugged into them or the power supplies that
were driving them. The only one I totally lost occurred when a VGA fan
died and that card caught fire. Glad I ran that box in the garage. ;-)
I've owned very few other MBs except those that came in pre-built
machines - eMachines, Compaq, Dell, HP. eMachines were junk (my wife
has one now...) Compaq actually used Asus in one machine, and Dell was
generally way to expensive for what you got technically. I like Asus.
(As this message probably communicates....)
Cheers,
Mark
Hi,
are you talking about this particular board? Or ASRock in general?
My current board is an ASRock as well, and it's a better performer than my
previous Gigabyte which cost me twice as much.
Because from all the info I could gather, this board is looking like a winner.
Very good reviews, good performance, good capacitors etc.
Just in general. The board I had was a AM2NF6G-VSTA ... I went though 3
boards under warrenty over a 3 month period. Don't recall all the
reasons, but I think one developed a bas USB port. The last one I put it
in a new box with 1 gig of ram and it is running fine for my wife, but
her computing demands don't go much past checking her gmail account. One
problem I had with the asrock boards was when I added ram ... they
worked, but then crashed from time to time. The price difference
between that board and the ASUS M2N-SLI wasn't much more that $30 as I
recall ... and it has been solid since I built the system. Life is too
short to screw around with flaky hardware.
The local vendor I got the asrock board from told me (after) that he
wasn't going to be carrying them (all) anymore. Good price, but too many
problems. He makes no money sending back dead boards under warranty.
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