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Sounds like Asus took all the people who knew what they were doing and |
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understood customer service and exiled them to ASRock <G>. That way the good |
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ones don't contaminate Asus! |
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On Saturday February 25 2006 07:35, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Saturday 25 February 2006 07:55, Jarry wrote: |
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> > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: |
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> > > Thanks. I believe Tom's Hardware liked ASRock, too. I'll add them to |
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> > > my list. |
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> > AFAIK, ASRock is nothing else, then just daughter-company of ASUS, and |
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> > its primary business-area are low-end (cheap) products which ASUS did not |
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> > want to sell under name "ASUS". But I do not say they it is a bad choice, |
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> yes, Asrock is a daughter, in their 'how to build a computer' video, they |
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> even use Asus graphic cards, BUT: |
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> their support is better. They regularly release updated bios', and when I |
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> had a problem with my elderly scsi controller, I got an answer in less than |
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> 36h, which totally solved the problem. |
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> They officially don't support linux, but when some people had problems with |
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> the K7S8X and some knoppix versions, they released a bios, that fixed the |
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> problem in a few days. So they are good guys in my book ;) |
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