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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."
Isn't ASUS the company that does not play well with Linux? I am not very interested, sorry.
I used to be a know nothing when it came to building computers. Typical wanna be computer geek was what I was. I would go places like the Slackware boards and Tom's Hardware to get information so I could further understand how to build a computer. In my search for knowledge I always came up with a top three motherboard manufacturer.
1. Asus
2. Abit
3. Who knows... long time ago.
So I bought Asus over Epox and continued with every upgrade swearing by Asus. What I got was crappy boards with no life span. It might have been the type of board I chose. It might have been a run of badluck. No matter what board I have gotten from Asus, they have a lifespan of about two years before utterly crashing completely. I kid you not.
I had a board that for no reason, after two years, decided that it didn't like the North Bridge chipset and decided to make it not work.
I had a board that was so bugged against one specific Nvidia card that no Windows or Linux OS could run with this video card and mobo combination. It has been nothing but badluck with about three of their boards total. (One was my fault but still amazed me that one power surge could fry the whole board but keep every other component intact and working properly)
So forgive my apathetic and very sarcastic "yea... an Asus article... yea..."
...what do you expect?
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