[PushinTin]

I have used ASUS motherboards for years and would NOT use anything else. I have read all the reviews and I have NEVER had any problem with any of my Homebuilt PC’s. Just built my Son a ‘Striker Extreme’ system that he is running maxed out setting on all the latest ‘vidiot’ games. I have NOT seen this new laptop, but trust ASUS above all others. I will knock their Customer Support, however I think that it’s very strong possibility ‘Customer Support’ is a term of the past everywhere!!! They do have a great Forum page where I find all my information anyway.

[Hardastarboard]

‘Customer Support’ is a term of the past everywhere

I've had good luck with Linksys support, even though it's based out of India.

[txzman]

I’m with you. Have tried them all, will only buy ASUS anymore.

[djf]

Ditto re: Motherboards

I get stuff from a PC recycling place, used boards and power supplies, etc.
The ASUS stuff I’ve tried is very solid - I have an old P2L97 dual slot SMP board that I put a matched pair of Klamath core Celerons in. These are processors designed to run at 300 MHZ. But they have no “lock” on them. I’ve overclocked that board to around 525mhz, it’s got 512meg of RAM on it, for a ten year old piece of equipment, that’s pretty dm good.

I just got an ASUS CUR-DLS with dual PIII’s each running at a Gig. That one has 2.5 gig RAM, it’s rock solid.

Over the years, I’ve found their stuff to be very, very good.