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Chachi wrote:
> J. Clarke wrote:
>> JF Fortier wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Never heard of DFI. Asus is a trusted brand name. Is that the only edge
>>>Asus has in this comparison?
>>
>>
>> I remember working in a hole in the wall computer store building '286
>> systems from components the owner bought from God knows where. They all
>> came through white-box no-name. One thing we noticed though was that
>> some of the boards had unusually shaped stickers on them containing the
>> letters
>> "QC". We started calling them "QC boards" and were happy to see them
>> because we never had a problem with them. Some years later I encountered
>> my first DFI product that came labelled as "DFI". And there on the board
>> was one of those oddly shaped "QC" stickers.
>
> lol... "QC" usually means "Quality Checked"
> You'll find them on *alot* of things...
Not with those same odd-shaped stickers you won't. Only place I've ever
seen them is on DFI. And it's not "Quality Checked", it's "Quality
Control".
>> So they've been around going on 20 years. Always rock-solid. They just
>> haven't been widely known as a brand because they didn't market to end
>> users until recently.
>>
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