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Originally Posted by Reece
I'm choking Subman .... cough cough!!   |
Hahahaha! I'm done with ASUS. Between drivers and a noisey design, I've had it. I paid $200 for my last board, and have bought them since 1991 (or '92? Can't rmember, but I have over 10 years history with them). They used to be one of the best way back when. I remember installing 1MB of cache (in a day when 128k was good!) on an ASUS board. Their quality lately is a noisey design. I have my old ASUS right next to me and it had so much noise in the soundcard that it was annoying. Especially when you cranked your speakers with no sound being generated. I could clearly pick out when the CD-ROM was accessing above the fans in my system, and knew where it was in its access cycle!
My new Gigabyte (who I have also bought in the past) does not have this problem. It's probably the 2 oz solid copper layers, but that's another story. I ahve another problem with the Giagbyte - the stupid sound selection only allows for side channel when doing quadrophonic or 5.1 sound? WTH? This is a driver problem though and not a hardware problem. I might load an ASUS driver to fix the problem.
Anyway, with each motherboard I have ever owned (I've only owned cutting edge version so this may be part of the problem), there is always some pluses and minuses. Do not even ask me about ASUS RAID drivers and Linux support..... The Gigabyte so far has had only one problem - that side speaker driver thing. I think this ranks as the least amount of problems on any motherboard upgrade I have ever done. My last Gigabyte had a more anoying problem is why it didn't rank higher - it had dual BIOS's and the system treated them sperately. WHen one shut off, they other started, meaning you had to shut your system off twice. This new one has dual BIOS's and doesn't have that issue. It works properly as a backup.
As always, just my 2 cents.
-S