Shit, if Asus is no good anymore, what brand is good nowadays?
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MSI is still on the come up. Can't think of a bad component they've released in many years.
ASRock is always rock solid.
Gigabyte seems to be making a comeback.
NZXT just started expanding on making components, and has really feature stuff. One to watch, though higher-end.
Isn't asrock asus
It's funny, ASRock went from a company I'd never fucking heard of to one of the top names in the space. I used to be like "what's this no-name brand?" and now I'm like "Oh ASRock, I know them."
Unrelated, I miss the old Gigabyte Dual BIOS, where it had a backup BIOS in case the default got corrupted. Which mine did, a lot.
EDIT: NZXT? Wait, this NZXT? https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/NZXT-Recalls-H1-Computer-Cases-Due-to-Fire-Hazard I'd personally wait a while before jumping all in on them. Fire hazards in components is a pretty big fuckin deal.
I miss the old Gigabyte Dual BIOS, where it had a backup BIOS in case the default got corrupted.
This is on many higher end enthusiast/overclocking type motherboards, I’ve had it on multiple MSI and Gigabyte boards.
I have an MSI currently, and when I was searching I never encountered one with a dual-BIOS. I'll keep an eye out in the future, thanks.
their enshittification is sad.
they were always my go to for quality motherboards. oh well.
All Asus mobos and graphic cards I owned died.
And as in my IT days we had whole rooms of machines with Asus graphics die too.
I avoid Asus components like the plague
Come back EVGA, please.
For desktop motherboards I've usually gone MSI but my gaming laptop is an Asus and is a little over a year old. It's worked perfect since I got it and I've had zero problems with it. The Nvidia GPU and laptop fans sure do sing when I'm playing games though
I got an Asus rog strix AMD board in 2019. Still working fine. Like everything I guess, YMMV.
The only issue I've had with it, even after a couple bios updates, is post takes forever. Like 20 seconds.
I actually do have an MSI laptop. I forgot I had read so many negative reviews of the Asus that I went the other direction. After posting that I got on my laptop and realized my mistake and remembered the negative reviews about them
I must be in the minority here because I've never had major issues with ASUS products, though the caveat here is I have only used their motherboards. I'm using an x570-PLUS right now and it has been solid since purchase.