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Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained (youtu.be)
submitted 6 months ago by Dragxito to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Shit, if Asus is no good anymore, what brand is good nowadays?

[–] just_another_person 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

MSI is still on the come up. Can't think of a bad component they've released in many years.

ASRock is always rock solid.

Gigabyte seems to be making a comeback.

NZXT just started expanding on making components, and has really feature stuff. One to watch, though higher-end.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's funny, ASRock went from a company I'd never fucking heard of to one of the top names in the space. I used to be like "what's this no-name brand?" and now I'm like "Oh ASRock, I know them."

Unrelated, I miss the old Gigabyte Dual BIOS, where it had a backup BIOS in case the default got corrupted. Which mine did, a lot.

EDIT: NZXT? Wait, this NZXT? https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/NZXT-Recalls-H1-Computer-Cases-Due-to-Fire-Hazard I'd personally wait a while before jumping all in on them. Fire hazards in components is a pretty big fuckin deal.

[–] deranger 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I miss the old Gigabyte Dual BIOS, where it had a backup BIOS in case the default got corrupted.

This is on many higher end enthusiast/overclocking type motherboards, I’ve had it on multiple MSI and Gigabyte boards.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

I have an MSI currently, and when I was searching I never encountered one with a dual-BIOS. I'll keep an eye out in the future, thanks.

[–] Ledivin 15 points 6 months ago

NZXT just started expanding on making components, and has really feature stuff. One to watch, though higher-end.

NZXT has always been some really mediocre stuff at ridiculous markup, I don't have literally any faith in this statement

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Isn't asrock asus

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it was spun-off from asus in '02, then acquired by a different spin-off in '10 which asus retains significant ownership of. so, yea, basically asrock is their "discount" brand,

[–] Blue_Morpho 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

ASRock makes high end server parts that Asus has no equivalent.

https://www.asrockrack.com/

https://www.asrockrack.com/general/products.asp#Server

[–] wreckedcarzz 2 points 6 months ago

Brb ima order 64gb ecc ram and an epyc to play minecraft

(/s obviously)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Not exactly. They were created out of Asus and are still related somehow, but I don't know the details.

[–] Hubi 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

+1 for MSI. I've bought GPUs from them for 10+ years and never once had a failure or even a minor issue. Got a lot of mileage out of the GTX 1080 I bought in 2016.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oof, my MSI 1080 died after allmost six years of service.
My first hardware death in 20 years of building my own systems, other than a drive.
Can’t blame them for it. It truly did its job, so I went with them again for my 3080.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I liked ASrock when they were in the ECS tier of quirky and weird. Got a Socket 939 board with the ULi M1695 chipset that was really nifty.

Then I had an awful experience with an AM3 board that claimed to run a FX-8350, until they edited their support list.

I grudgingly chose them for AM5 because it was $50 cheaper for the featured I wanted, and it's been okay, aside from me breaking the x16 slot clip due to hamfistedly removing a shipping-container sized GPU.

[–] just_another_person 2 points 6 months ago

Glad you brought up ECS. Not good for high-end computing, but really stable for low-end. I have a customer with an Athlon64 box I built them in a pinch almost 20 years ago now that just runs a POS system, and it's never caused him a single problem. Sometimes budget minded brands work in a pinch. ECS is not super well known, but always been great with customer service and advance RMA replacements. I wouldn't call their hardware super sturdy in some cases though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks! This will be helpful next time I have to upgrade my PC

[–] Dragxito 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Msi Lenovo I think

[–] just_another_person 21 points 6 months ago

Lenovo is now garbage aside from their Enterprise model offerings. The consumer level stuff is just reduced to junk now.