I had an ASUS GPU do the same thing once, never had that happen before with any other brand.
I’ll also argue you shouldn’t skimp out on a motherboard.
I once owned an Asus Ranger VII. When I turned it on for the very first time, it lost its magic dust, and fried my RAM.
RMA found the MB was faulty, so they covered the RAM too.
This is from ASUS too, so I can only imagine how the chances of this sort of accident rises as you reduce the cost.
Reaper948@lemmy.world 6 months ago
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think Nexus and Jay found a lot of Asus products had problems.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t think I’ll ever buy an asus board again. I’ve had so many problems over the years with their boards. I used to think they were quality
glimse@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I gave up on Asus after a motherboard went up in (literal) flames when a cap blew a month into owning it. The RMAed it and the new one was DOA. They blamed my power supply and wouldn’t do a second return…
I bought an ASRock and it ran flawlessly for 5+ years. Yeah…it was definitely the power supply that was the problem, Asus…
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wow that’s pretty extreme. I found their RMA process to be pretty shitty and I didn’t quite have those terrible issues. I did have to send I think 3 different boards back to them. They were slow and required a lot of communication to get it done. It’s been years ago so I forget details but I remember each time, until the last time, thinking I just had bad luck.
glimse@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My story was from 10+ 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
phx@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
ASRock was an Asus spinoff but was later bought by Pegatron (which is part of the Asus holdings).
deranger@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Pegatron sounds like it’d be the sex worker Transformer
glimse@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well the spinoff seems to be better
ABCDE@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Their laptops are equally shit.
aniki@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Fucking thank you! I feel like I am taking crazy pills when these kids start praising ASUS “quality” and my 20 years in IT and 30 years of being a lad has taught me that Asus and acer are some of the cheapest, most garbage crap you can buy.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’d go 1. Acer 2. Asus 3. Dell
That’s just from my experience. Acer are the most wank I’ve ever had the misfortune to come across. Asus are little better, but slightly. Constant overheating, super noisy laptops. Dell was almost as bad (if not worse in some ways) in that they were stuttering and super loud. How can you produce gaming laptops, send replacements which still have the same issues? Oh right, because it’s inherent in the models. How no one picked up on it is beyond me. Return the third one I got and never thought about getting one ever again.
Went for a MacBook and never looked back. My Switch, Xbox and Deck do me for games.
Zozano@aussie.zone 6 months ago
What brands do you recommend for laptops?
JCreazy@midwest.social 6 months ago
I know it’s all antidotal but I’ve been running Asus boards in my PCs for years and I’ve never had a single problem.
voracitude@lemmy.world 6 months ago
*anecdotal
Also, when someone wants to say science is wrong because they’ve personally seen different, it’s “anecdata” (that’s not an official word but I like it 😂)
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Man I thought so. It struggles to boot if I have kt keyboard and mouse plugged into the same USB set. So I can use one of USB2 and one on USB3, but not both on either