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Redditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protections
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this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
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My story was from 15+ years ago when I was less knowledgeable and assumed Asus was the best because people on [H] said so. Afterwards I looked into it and found tons of people having similar RMA woes and I learned to research further than the HardOCP community forum lol
Haven't bought an Asus product since so I have no idea if they're still bastards
Gotcha. My issues with Asus spanned from probably about 1999 to 2018. I think they are probably still bastards. I too have owned "lesser" boards that seem to all universally be less troublesome than Asus ones were