Gotta love Asus support

[Superguy]

I submitted a trouble report ticket regarding the A8N-SLI Premium a few weeks ago, to find out more information regarding the vCore issues, what could be done, and what I could do on my end.

I checked on the incident and it was listed as closed. No email, no response. Nothing.

Gotta love their customer service attitude ... not.

 

[doc2345]

Yep, but you just kinda have to get over it.......... I and many went through this same situation with the P4C800Deluxe-E for what seems like a few years. They could never fix the problem (vcore), nor did they seem to give a sh!t..........

Guess life goes on.......

 

[RoosterKooster]

Assus can kiss my smelly sus.

What was all the hype about this new SLI-32 MB? Jesus, folks, don't you realize ASUS is crap! I have $179 worth of crap with a flaky vcore that might burn out my $500+ cpu at any moment.

 

[akugami]

For what it's worth, when I had to contact ASUS support for my A8N-SLI Deluxe northbridge fan problem I got quick and prompt replies. If anything was bad about my experience it was the long postal time to mail out the fan.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Asus has always had voltage fluctuation and overvoltage that works fine for normal users but can be a bummer for overclockers.

I'm still a big fan of their boards (esp for non-overclockers), but you're right their customer service sucks arse. Also, some of their overvoltage is utter nonsense! I have a P4PE that runs a P4 2.4B (1.525Vcore, set to either 'Auto' or 1.525V in the BIOS) at 1.60-1.62V. WTF is that!?

I wish Abit wasn't on the brink of death, hemorrhaging money and dropping in quality; they used to be such a good company in the NF7-S / IC7 days. Sigh...

 

[Superguy]

*mistake post ... can't delete*

 

[Superguy]

The last Asus board I had before this was a TUSL2-C, based on the 815E B-step chipset. That thing was a tank.

I'm thinking of dumping this in favor of the MSI K8N Neo4 Plat (non sli). Or is the grass no greener on the other side of the fence?

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Superguy
The last Asus board I had before this was a TUSL2-C, based on the 815E B-step chipset. That thing was a tank.

I had one of those too, and it was awesome. As was its forerunner the CUSL2. And their P3V4X was one of the most stable and competitive VIA-chipset based motherboards of its respective time ever (leave it to ASUS to get a VIA chipset as stable as anything).

I'm thinking of dumping this in favor of the MSI K8N Neo4 Plat (non sli). Or is the grass no greener on the other side of the fence?

It's certainly no greener on the MSI side. DFI is a much safer brand these days, Epox is better, Gigabyte, etc. MSI isn't a reputable motherboard company, in my opinion (just like ECS, etc). The best you can say about them is 'sometimes they don't have very many problems' .

 

[KarenMarie]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

It's certainly no greener on the MSI side. DFI is a much safer brand these days, Epox is better, Gigabyte, etc. MSI isn't a reputable motherboard company, in my opinion (just like ECS, etc). The best you can say about them is 'sometimes they don't have very many problems' .

been building with Gigabyte boards since 1996. love their products, and their customer support.

in fact.. reading this thread has made me realize that my own thread is silly...i should not consider an MSI board when i can just stick with gigabyte.


thanks.

 

[Superguy]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: Superguy
The last Asus board I had before this was a TUSL2-C, based on the 815E B-step chipset. That thing was a tank.

I had one of those too, and it was awesome. As was its forerunner the CUSL2. And their P3V4X was one of the most stable and competitive VIA-chipset based motherboards of its respective time ever (leave it to ASUS to get a VIA chipset as stable as anything).

I'm thinking of dumping this in favor of the MSI K8N Neo4 Plat (non sli). Or is the grass no greener on the other side of the fence?

It's certainly no greener on the MSI side. DFI is a much safer brand these days, Epox is better, Gigabyte, etc. MSI isn't a reputable motherboard company, in my opinion (just like ECS, etc). The best you can say about them is 'sometimes they don't have very many problems' .

The CUSL2 was an awesome board as well. I had that, and got the TUSL2-C later when I started reading about the Tualatin Celerons with the 256K cache getting 50% overclocks. I came close on mine. Let's just say I had some pretty pissed friends that I was beating their P4 and Tbird setsups with a Celeron.

I've looked a lot at the Gigabyte boards as well, but I haven't been able to find definitive answers on how well they overclock. I was looking at the K8NXP-SLI, but it seemed to have issues with overclocking. The reviews were a little old though, so that may have been fixed with a bios update. But I haven't seen any info to confirm or deny that it's been fixed.

The Gigabyte 850E board I have though has been a tank. Running nearly 3 years now and is in my wife's system.

MSI has generally been a good brand for me in the past ... our OEM at our last job used their boards and they had a low failure rate, and the last couple systems I built on their boards were decent. That said, all but one used Intel chipsets (did an NF2 for my bro-in-law's XP repair), so maybe they're as good on the AMD side.