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A Look Inside the Labs of Asus
Kez writes "While in Taiwan, we had the rare opportunity to take a look around the Research and Development labs of ASUSTeK, well known motherboard and graphics card manufacturer. They had their latest dual chip 6800GT and 6800Ultra cards on the test beds (only two boxes full of which had passed quality control at that point,) and so grabbed some benchmarks while we were there."
Are you serious? Just about every office/computer/electrical store here sells boards like that. I picked one up the other day with 8 individually switched sockets + surge protection for AU$29...
Can you be more specific? I run linux and use mostly Asus hardware and I can't say any of it has cause any trouble.
This is not a turnip.
The Hexus.net article is just an advertisement, with links to places to buy the cards that were reviewed. The writer didn't have any technical insights because he apparently has no technical knowledge. For example, read this sentence, "35A from the two 12V rails on the ASUS PSU keep things ticking over." First, it says on the label, which is clearly visible, that the maximum is not 35A times 12V = 420 Watts, but 324 Watts. Second, neither the graphic card nor the motherboard nor the hard drives require that much 12V power.
Manufacturers make so much money from taking advantage of the technical ignorance of customers that it has in some cases corrupted an area of the industry.
No , Linux plays fine . Just the games makers (who often insist on using Direct-x as opposed to the more open and more widely supported OpenGL)and Graphics card manufacturers (specifically the chip makers) do not always produce reasonable drivers for the OS
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I hadn't heard that. I did a little research and found that ASUS has an anti-Linux attitude, which is unfortunate considering the motherboard for my first Linux box was from ASUS.
I will say that an anti-Linux or at least Linux-ignorant attitude is hardly unique to ASUS to though.
I had two servers from HP that shipped with Linux when I worked as a sysadmin for one shop. Even though HP shipped these boxes with Linux installed on them, calling HP and getting technical support for the Adaptec-based HP-branded SCSI card was nearly impossible.
Turns out no one there knew anything about Linux. They said they'd call me back when they found someone who knew something about my problem. I didn't get a callback until 3 days later and it turns out there was 1 guy at that HP helpdesk facility that knew anything about Linux and he just got back from vacation.
It turns out by then I'd already figured out that the card was defective and simply ordered another one and let purchasing sort out the refund for the other card.
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Second, neither the graphic card nor the motherboard nor the hard drives require that much 12V power.
No, they don't require that much power. But what particularly a video card does require is CLEAN power. HDs spin up and down, so their power usage varies... and since there's no such thing as a 'real' voltage source, the voltage supplied by the PSU does vary (however slightly) with amps drawn.
Putting your HD+Mobo and Videocard on a seperate rail prevents these fluctuations from affecting the stability of your (overclocked!) video card.
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They're not UK sockets. Refer to this handy socket identification page.
http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricit