A7N8X Deluxe
You know, I saw rave reviews for this motherboard when it came out, to my surprise, I purchased one, and after 3 RMA's, they've shipped me a broken board everytime. Then ran me through hoops letting me know the board acting unstable was a fault of mine somewhere.
I think people should voice their opinions about bad products considering I even spent time and extra money to get that board tested at local computer stores just to make sure it wasn't me alone that was experiancing the problem. I finally gave up, threw my hands in the air, and bought Abit. No problems since.
Anyways, processors tested on it were:
Athlon 2800+ Barton Core
Athlon 2100+ Thorton Core
Athlon 2000+ Thoroughbred Core
I had give it a pair of corsair DDR 400mhz sticks, it seemed to work more stably on one stick, but not by much, at least I could browse webpages before it went under or corrupted the hard drive. Even then, I bought some Kingston 64Mx64 memory believing that the tech support group said "ONLY THIS MEMORY WILL WORK WITH YOUR CONFIGURATION" was being honest.
Of course, before then, they quickly wrote it off to the processor overheating, so I called up Newegg.com, talked with them for a bit, consulted a few of the local computer firms, and eventually, found a really nice heatsink that AMD recommended that claimed to cool up to a 3600+, some arctic silver 5, and soon set it up. There was no difference.
So, at that point, After buying two 512mb Dimms to make my nice 1GB system. I'm out $258 as well as the $30 x2 spent on getting the motherboard tested.
Is there any suggestions as to what I should do with this.. incredibly hightech paperweight? This pinnacle of Asus' ability? Even the 5950Ultra my friend had purchased went bad. So, I'm left to wonder... what SHOULD I do?
Oh, before you ask, I even had a Thermaltake Truepower power supply, tech support finally escalated me to RMA. But in the end, it was always, for their protection, end user fault of somesort.
Mind you, it doesn't help that the CSR tech support agents were contracted out to some firm out in Tennessee... nowhere near California where Asus is based.
puke: ASUS