Grollub
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Joined: 10/9/2005 From: Lulea, Sweden Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Grollub Oh, you got the dreaded ASUS bug . I used to run ASUS MB's in my earlier rigs and never had any problems with them. (Luckily) switched to a Gigabyte MB for this one and is even more satisfied. Good quality for a pretty good price. Never tried MSI although they usually get good reviews. My P4 was rebuilt back in the early 00's using an MSI high end board (Neo- series ....designed for overclocking etc). Great board and performed just as advertised on the boot up screen...."Fast...reliable...stable". Ran for eight years of heavy use without a hitch......till it caught fire. (and that was most likely due to a defective power source.) I purchased a used one of the same model off Ebay to replace it as i still use the P4 as my Win98 box (and along with the 486 i found...i still have it) The core2 machine....yeah, serious pisser. I tried every fix i could find via research, including removing the CMOS battery to reset the BIOS completely. Nothing worked....even had it worked, there was no fix from ASUS so i'd litterally have had to leave the machine on for the rest of it's service life.....kind of hard when your living out of your car! Scrapped the MOB....and the case and now i'm carrying around several hundred dollars worth of spare parts in the trunk of my car. I should probably sell the CPU.....might get a few bucks for it......still a spry CPU. Howdy, Nik and Per. What is it that's so special about "gaming" machines? I do lots of very graphics intensive drawings for patent applications and lots of engineering drawings for the toys we build for the military, but have never had any issues with a good old standard machine (does have 4 Meg RAM and a 1 Gig HD, though). What is it that gaming machines do that makes them so pricey? or need all that extra oomph? John, Actually, T hits the mark, concerning me at least. Guilty as charged. The price does not justify what the machine can do (as compared to "normal" machines) and I don't *really* need a graphics monster just to play games. It gives a certain satisfaction, though, to be able to run any graphics heavy game without the slightest hickup. The funniest part, though, is evaluating components before you have even built it, and then to put it together.
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