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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."
Its always someone elses fault with Linux isnt it.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
The problem with ASUS boards is actually the bios. Their ACPI implementation is not complete. I've had a lot of problems with FreeBSD 5.x on ASUS boards, especially the nforce2 chipset models. I think GNU/Linux handles ACPI bugs better or at least in a similar way to windows.
Aside from the stuff above, I used to love asus. They sold certified Solaris x86 compatible motherboards in the late 90s. I had a nice solaris box running on a SiS chipset of all things. It worked for years. Anything before the softbios era was great. After that, they've never had a stable bios implemenatation and the ACPI bugs in more recent boards limit my use oF BSD. My last home built was a MSI board with an nforce2 chipset.. works great on FreeBSD 5.x (well the sata controller wasn't supported till i hacked it!)
MidnightBSD: The BSD for Everyone
I noticed that powerstrip too. Some time ago I made something like this primarily because my soldering iron doesn't have an on/off switch. I got a few parts from Lowe's and made this: http://www.ikeweb.net/switch.jpg
The night lights serve as visual indication of whether that section is on or off, or they can be unplugged to give extra ports.
It actually has been very useful in testing things but something like what is in that picture would clearly be better...