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scrollmaster   11-08-2008 at 01:58:37 PM

I've already purchased nice antec case, Thermaltake 750w toughpower power supply, dvd burners. Will use current monitor for now to save money but will upgrade that after christmas.

Computer will be for my 5th & 7th grade kids games and also for household use for us to get on internet. I'm experienced in hardware since pc days and dos but idiot about gaming. I have $700 put away to finish cpu/mb/memory/videocard and really need to stay within to that if I can.

I've been on Newegg looking at ASUS Rampage LGA 775Intel & Intel Core2 Quad Yorkfield Q9300. What thoughts do ya'll have?

Appreciate any help ya'll can give.


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bobbknight   11-08-2008 at 03:32:29 PM
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Asus is great up to the point where you need to RMA a motherboard, then they fail miserably.
I had an Asus motherboard that experienced a partial failure of the southbridge chip that controls the raid function.
I sent the board back to Asus for RMA and received 4 bad boards over a 6 month period until I email bombed them. They finally sent a new board that they had promised me prior to the 4th bad board.
With a level of poor service like that I do not recommend Asus.
DFI has a great P35 chipset board with the BloodIron, if you do not need 2 video cards.
With a 700 dollar budget 2 video cards would put you over it anyways.

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Bronze Home Brew badge Proximon   11-08-2008 at 05:35:46 PM
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bobbknight wrote :

Asus is great up to the point where you need to RMA a motherboard, then they fail miserably.
I had an Asus motherboard that experienced a partial failure of the southbridge chip that controls the raid function.
I sent the board back to Asus for RMA and received 4 bad boards over a 6 month period until I email bombed them. They finally sent a new board that they had promised me prior to the 4th bad board.
With a level of poor service like that I do not recommend Asus.
DFI has a great P35 chipset board with the BloodIron, if you do not need 2 video cards.
With a 700 dollar budget 2 video cards would put you over it anyways.




*nod*

Personally I've never had a problem, but it's certainly true that ASUS service seems to favor Asia, or at least I hear that.

Gigabyte seems to compete well with ASUS currently.

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