ASUS Responds Angrily To Gigabyte

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My last motherboard was an ASUS board, the A8N-SLI Delux. I was quite happy with that motherboard. That being said I did have to go through three memory manufacturers before I found a brand that would actually work in the board (all three were listed on the compatibility list, so take from this whatever you will).

I spent over two months researching motherboards looking for a decent board to build my phenom based system on. (Yes, phenom, oh the humanity. Actually I have found to the B3 stepping phenoms to be an excellent processor.)

What happened you ask? I ended up purchasing a gigabyte board. (GA-MA790-DQ6) Surprise Surprise. Anyone who has been watching ASUS lately has surely noticed that their AMD AM2(+) board selection has been absolutely dismal. None of the features I am looking in a board are available all on one board at a decent price.

At any rate I am exceedingly impressed with this board (and the fact that it worked with my selection of OCZ memory without a hitch).


I used to bank ok asus for the quality of their boards and the clean layouts with minimal trace length and a lack of extraneous components littering the board. They were very nice boards to look at, if not all that flashy. They have still stuck to that, however they are attempting to present their boards as better than they really are. They have trimmed features while adding advertising jargon, not a good combination. Gigabyte has been steadily adding features and at the same time has very much caught up with ASUS where board presentation is concerned. (their boards are still a little busy, but it seems to me that their engineering process in board layout has improved substantially.)

Anyways, thats my 2 cents.... or so.
 
The big problem I see there is not if their product are really reliable, or not as powerfull/efficient as other makes, but the divulgation of FALSE INFORMATIONS. Your mother never told you that telling lies is bad? here it's to the entire planet that they lied. And now, we must consider the fact that maybe other products from ASUS may not be what we are hoping. I think it's really stupid from a company to lie the the people that make them live, US consumers!
For sure, this is assuming they really lied, but i think they would defend themselves better if they really want to show that they are telling the truth.
 
[citation][nom]caamsa[/nom]I wonder what the numbers are concerning problems with ASUS boards? I have owned just about every brand of board you can think of and have not had a problem with any of them. Numbers please. Proof! Not rumors. [/citation]

I don't own but supported most if not all brand of boards. Yes, every boards have problems no matter I owned or I supported. But that is not the root problem this time.

The problem is Asus trying to lie again and again. After I read carefully what Gigabyte said and Asus responded. (Especially the model of motherboards) I would say Gigabyte is more trustworthy. After Asus responded, I am more convinced that Asus is trying to fool.

Asus is actually covering something fact by changing the motherboard model quietly in their respond.

I think the easiest way to proof Gigebyte is spreading rumor by doing a live demo in front of the press with the same setup of Gigabyte did to show Gigabyte is bullshit. But Asus have not done that so far! They should proof that by themselves!
 
I never like Asus products anyway. It's expensive and lousy support. I don't understand why people still buying their products for?
 
Same here, my first mobo was asus s533-x for p4. Its just run for 3 month. so, ASUS REALLY have to do an open test to the public about their product.If they want a trust from the consumer.
 
[citation][nom]JavaboY[/nom]I never like Asus products anyway. It's expensive and lousy support. I don't understand why people still buying their products for?[/citation]

What I can say is: Asus quality was very good long time ago (of course the price is also higher for their products compare to others). Few years earlier, Asus becomes just aiming at profit and less attention to the quality. Now, it looks the trustworthiness is lost as well.
 
Damn. I left Gigabyte because of the bad capacitor fiasco years ago. Oh and the horrible drivers, lack of support and hardware incompatibilities. Leaking piles of crap made all their mobo's useless liabilities. Now Asus has jumped on the outsourcing bandwagon. Might as well buy some Foxconn/HonHai PoS. They all suck equally now. Just buy on price.
 
i had an Asus P4SDX on my previous system(p4 2.8 GHz) , the capacitors didnt blow, but the mobo blowed my nvidia 5600xt's capacitors, was it the mobo did that or the card itself? i dunno, but the mobo was asus! 😀
 
now i have a P35-DQ6, i would say, it is great! 😀 great support, great overclocking, great look, everything great...
 
This is pathetic.. i'm sorry. Gigabyte made claims on Energy efficiency! Suddenly everyone has to pop up and say all the problems they've ever had with an ASUS motherboard. I'm sure that there are equally as many people with stories about bad Gigabyte motherboards too, its just because of what Gigavbyte said, everybody wants to tear down ASUS now and tell all their horror stories.
I've used ASUS for a long long time and never had a single problem, out of the box they bought and run and thats it. The other problem is that because this is Custom building computers, you have to take horror stories as a grain of salt because its a human being building such computers, and no humans are perfect, they screw up sometimes and just like to blame the motherboard or did something else wrong that they don't know about so they just blame the motherboard.
Gigabyte wanted a smear campaign against ASUS and thanks to you guys thats what their getting.
 
I was using a lot of ASUS mobo's... looked for X38 based ddr2 board, ONLY ONE available (excluding the awful "combo" releases)... stupidest ASUS prediction ever... decided to go to Gigabyte... some time passed, I've got X48-DS5... couldn't be more happy. Simple as that!
And now, seriously... I've been in comp business for over 15yrs (so it looks like solid exp.), and I seriously got concerned about ASUS mobos about a year ago when this P & X intel chipset stage developed... literally when EVERY new chipset (or revision) appeared, ASUS was a few steps back.
I personally don't give a damn about any of the manufacturers, but I REALLY LIKE (or hate?!) to see websites (includin' this one) making lousy explanations about failed products that THEY PRESENTED as a MUST HAVE just months ago... AWFUL!
Stupid (or not so...) questions: How many ASUS HIGHEST range boards have E-Sata port? Why? Do we need lousy WiFi implemented in board? Do we need additional transparent coolers for "watercooling solutions only"? Freakin NO! Give us THE motherboard and cables and go away!
 
I will never, EVER, again buy anything from ASUS! They got some of the worst AMD boards, and even their Intel boards have issues with sound whether onboard or not, among other things. My two most reliable boards ever have been Gigabyte's, and I also give them kudos for their outstanding support. I shouldn't even bother mentioning ASUS's support with any of you hardware wizzards, because you obviously know. I'd believe Gigabyte in its claims. Asus just sucks!
 
Every Asus board I've ever owned, Intel, AMD, all the way back to the Athlon XP days have always worked on the first power up, and are still running (except when I slipped with the screwdriver, but that's my fauly). I've had good luck with others, but not as universally as I have with Asus. I dont care if it draws slightly more watts than it says it does, they are totaly solid and stable. I havent used gigabyte that much, so I cant speak about them, but Even if Asus' board couldnt save as much power as it says it can on the box, I dont care. The fact that their specs are a little inflated does slightly concern me, but the proof is in the pudding. I'll be sticking with Asus unless they let me down.
 
ASUS lied to the public by shipping laptops with longer lasting batteries to be reviewed and posted online to sway opinion. Now this? IT's not going good that's for sure. Gigabyte FTW!
 
I've always been an ASUS fanboy, but in the last 4 years every single ASUS motherboard I have used has been defective. This includes motherboards for both intel and AMD chipsets. I have also had IWILL, Gigabyte, Abit, and other boards, but out of the 15+ computers I've built and maintained, only the Asus motherboards have had problems. Of course, I still have an Asus branded 8800GT..
 
Well, I just got an ASUS Rampage Formula board and love it so far - been near perfect. Only been a few weeks though and since this is my first build, I can't compare it to Gigabyte.

Also, when I checked reviews from popular tech. sites and NewEgg reviews, the Rampage Formula seemed far and away the best X48 intel chipset board out there.

Can't speak about their other boards and yes I heard their quality has gone down but I think right now no high-end product anymore is without it's share of pitfalls.
 
About Asus EeePC, 20 GB version is only 4GB SLC + 16GB MLC
Asus seems never mentioned this point, just saying 20GB. That is quite misleading. (HK is selling EeePC 900)

If you load WinXP (using the original) to C: (4GB SLC) then...
 
ASUS has earn about 20 times money in china motherland than in Indonesia。The world know that a big eathquak has hit china! Many company endow to the
victims of the disaster.ASUS only endow 43$，while it endow 350$ to the victims of the Indonesia tsunami！ASUS is a bullshit foolish and jerk!
 
I have an Asus P5N32-E SLI and my car got a flat tire the other day. Damn Asus and their lousy caps and poor power efficiency! You are getting my mechanic bill Asus!

Seriously though, I have been using Asus boards for over a decade and so far I havent had a single one die on me! I have seen alot of Asus boards, and I've seen them survive things that would have blown others, notably a P4C800-Deluxe surviving a power supply explosion (blew, caught fire etc). Changed the power supply and system was right back up. I build systems on a daily basis for work, and so far Asus has never failed me.

As for my P5N32-E SLI, sure, I had to upgrade the BIOS when I slapped in 6GB of RAM, but then again there was a sticker on the box, added after the fact by Asus, telling me I would have to do so should I ever want more than 4GB of RAM. I use OCZ Memory, no trouble at all.



 
Seriously - We are mostly power users on this site. (No pun intended) Who really cares about a power saving mode? How many of you even have a PSU rated above 85% efficiency?
 
I find it incredibly humorous that Gigabyte would attempt to make such an allegation. I have recently completed a very thorough series of tests and found that Gigabyte boards have better energy efficiency characteristics when the software Gigabyte provides with those boards is NOT installed. At least according to the Sisoft Sandra results I tabulated. This would lend to the concept that the power management of the P45 chipset by Intel and the Intel 45nm processors would be exceptionally power efficient with any motherboard.
 
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