OT ASUS experience

[Eberhard Roloff]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2009, Steven Vollom wrote:
>>> I am quite happy with my latest M2N-E board. Been a while since my last
>>> personal Asus board, a P5A :-D.
>> I heard that they had resolved the BIOS problems.  I have stopped worrying
>> since I heard.
>>
>> Steven
> 
> The newest bios for my board, an M2N-SLI Deluxe, file named 1604.zip, should 
> be renamed 1604.crash, cuz thats what it does, I haven't managed to get an 
> un-interrupted hour out of it yet.  version 1502 has some warts, but at least 
> its stable.  And they do NOT answer email either, jerks.  Last ASUS board 
> I'll ever own.
> 
well I live a happy life going by the rule:

Do not fix it, it it ain't broken!

So I do not upgrade a Bios unless the new Bios promises to fix something 
which I absolutely need and which the existing Bios does wrong.

I agree that your asus experiences offer much room for improvement.

In my experience Asus are about the only manufacturers that offer a 
decent CPU fan regulation which can really slow down the CPU fan to an 
acceptable level of noise.

I tried some MSIs and ASRocks over the years but I could not get them to 
properly control the CPU fan. And "always at full speed" is not what I 
would call a good fan control.

Eberhard