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Asus was good way back before Pentium 4. And the overclockers like them because they don't mind replacing a mobo every 3-6 months. But if you want something stable, look elsewhere. Ditto for Newegg.
I can only get started with the problems I and others have had with both Asus and Newegg. I've run into other troubles with both Asus and Newegg, but this is the most relevant to the discussion as I had one order I did that concerned both, I had to threaten to sue Asus to get a bad batch of P4R800-V Deluxe motherboards returned for a bunch of builds I was doing. After Newegg misrepresented the boards as being Win98-compatible (which a customer needed), it turned out they were also not even in Win2k-compatible, despite what Asus claimed. Even a BIOS update didn't help. Never had major problems with any other motherboard. And Asus has traditionally been finicky on memory, so whatever savings you get on the board you lose in buying premium-branded memory. Asus' replacing a bad board with a newer one is merely a matter of economics as it would have been much more expensive to bank some boards 'just in case they got some returns' than to simply provide a newer one.
Also, good customer service is the one you don't have to use in the first place. I'd rather buy a product that I don't have to return than find out how helpful/unhelpful the manfacturer or seller is. Returning stuff is expensive.
The thing is, if Asus was one of the only motherboard makers and Newegg was the only product vendor out there, then sure, I could see dealing with them. But there is enough competition and enough good products out there that you don't have to take those chances.
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
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