Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 13:20:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: housley@frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net (James E. Housley), smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual MB Message-ID: <199905072020.NAA14597@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199905071836.LAA00890@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "May 7, 1999 11:36:43 am"
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> > I am in the process of building a dual 3.1-STABLE machine. I was > > looking at the Asus P2B-D. My normal supplier no longer deals with Asus > > becuase he was getting too many RMAs. Is this an old problem that has > > been sloved, or is it on going? Having been an authorized ASUS retailer for 5 years I can say it was never true. We sell 100's of ASUS boards/year and I think I have sent 2 of them back to the factory for repair. What is true on the other hand is there are a few companies who have cloned ASUS's product and flooded the market with these substandard low quality knock off's. ASUS sent out notifications on how to check for them and recommended purchasing from the authorized distributors ( which we always have). > > > > What other MB would you suggest. It is for a personal machine. > > Your supplier was probably buying on the grey market. Grey market can have some effect on product quality, but only if it is mis-handled. I've actually had a real problem with a local distributor, who is authorized by ASUS, who likes to tag the motherboard with those stupid white sticky tags. I found my failure rate on incoming product jumped 3%, so I went to check it out. Well, those boys in receiving are working any place they can with no regard to ESD or even decent handling of the product. I showed the distributor my numbers, pointed at the clue- less clones handling product and explained why I would no longer be doing business with them. > Asus are still > considered a good buy. See www.tomshardware.com for much more opinion > than you'll get here. > -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD http://www.aai.dnsmgr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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