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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Shit, if Asus is no good anymore, what brand is good nowadays?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Isn't asrock asus

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

their enshittification is sad.

they were always my go to for quality motherboards. oh well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Come back EVGA, please.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

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