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Jarkko Mattheiszen
The FU guy.
My last PC had an Asus K7V8X-X and my current one has the P5B-VM. Not a single mobo problem with either of them, if you don't count the K7V8X-X's integrated Ethernet adapter that got fried because of thunder, but that was completely my own fault 
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So far, I have tested:
MSI: No problem
Gigabyte: No problem
Abit: No problem
Asrock: No problem
And I just finished assembling my new computer with an Asus Mobo. No problem. I updated the Bios with the Asus update Manager... No problem.
Maybe I'm just a lucky bastard.
MSI: No problem
Gigabyte: No problem
Abit: No problem
Asrock: No problem
And I just finished assembling my new computer with an Asus Mobo. No problem. I updated the Bios with the Asus update Manager... No problem.
Maybe I'm just a lucky bastard.
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So far, I have tested:
MSI: No problem
Gigabyte: No problem
Abit: No problem
Asrock: No problem
And I just finished assembling my new computer with an Asus Mobo. No problem. I updated the Bios with the Asus update Manager... No problem.
Maybe I'm just a lucky bastard.
MSI doesnt have drivers to all of their Mobo's, Abit has alot of dodgy bios-versions.
Asrock is really good for the money though, except that the northbridge gets warm as f*ck unless you install a fan in the chassi-side.
A friend of mine in the USA who builds desktop audio workstation (that's DAW for people who aren't dumb!) advised me each step of the way. The Abit IP 35 Pro was perfect. Easy to overclock as well. I have a Q6600 running at 3.0ghz no problems.
You know, I keep hearing bullshit about "Oh no, flashing ASUS BIOSes causes the world to end and Abit motherboards kill puppies and MSI funds terrorists HALP!" and things like that... and not once, having installed, used, and recommended hundreds of these, have I run into this problem. Keep in mind that when I build someone a system I guarantee that if something goes wrong due to my incompetence or faulty hardware recommendations my ass will fix it for free and that I follow up with technophobic customers to make sure everything is going fine just in case they're afraid to call.
Jeff
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Notuern
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I havent had any problems with Asus at all, but MSI is a bitch if the mobo is a year old or so.
I know about 4-5 people who cant get drivers or biosupdates to their mobo's because MSI removed them from their site(And they cant be found anywhere else on the internet.).
Now, i dont think MSI makes bad mobos, its just the support from them that is fubar.
Notuern
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Having the latest bios can make your computer go way faster then before, so i guess its not just "if it aint broke".
*cough cough* BS *cough cough* ... got any proof for that? Unless you have a motherboard with a locked multiplier and they decide to unlock it in an update, it's not going (or really really highly unlikely) to go faster with a flash anyway (and someone who knows about overclocking wouldn't get one of these motherboards in the first place). Flash's are for when you have stability problems, so ... if it aint broke don't fix it. Or maybe you could point me to some benchmarks where a bios flash has added 2 frames to some shit 3d game no one cares about or maybe it's taken 0.384 seconds off your superPI 1M test.
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Wow, you really have a huge attitude problem. :Smug:
Well, the point is that a bios update can actually make youre ram more stable, they can ad support to a specific brand of ram, cpu etc. which in the end makes a hell of a difference in performance.
Doing a simple thing as updating your bios you can remove HUGE bottlenecks in your system, which might make your performance boost with about 20% in ram/cpu-demanding software.
But hey, im just bullshitting you, seriously, because I really dont know shit about computers, honestly, I dont.
