Are ASUS Motherboards reliable?

[poobear21]

Looking to upgrade my motherboard due to some video problems I'm having with my current motherboard (syntax p4SVX400). I purchased an ASUS P4S800 Prescott. Does anyone have any reviews on this board as far as it's reliability and compatibility. Please respond if you have heard anything. Thanks

[duffman_108]

I havn't used that board but ASUS does make very good motherboard. The ones i had always work great. Never had trouble on any of them with my Pentium and AMD P.

[EvilRick]

I've not used that exact board, but, I recently built a couple of systems using ASUS.

An ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe and an A7V400-MX. Both didn't give me a bit of trouble. I've got an older A7M266 that has been rock-solid stable for awhile now as well.

ASUS has always been a top performer in my book.

[dejha]

Like everyone else - I don't have that specific board, but my experience with ASUS has been phenominal. I've had 6 boards from them - only had a problem wiht one, and when I contacted tech support to replace it they upgraded it to a higher version of the same board.

[Ubik]

I guess I'm the exception to the rule, as my experience with ASUS was absolutely horrid. Then again, that could be because I was working with SiS-based motherboards.

Anyway, I got an A7S333 motherboard in late 2002 and, long story short, it had a defective IDE controller. I tried installing Windows XP on no fewer than six drives before my friend and I were able to figure out the problem, and it not only wiped all the data on my 40GB drive but rendered my old 20GB completely inoperative.

I RMA'd it to MWave.com, and they sent me a replacement... and this one had a defective controller as well (although in a different way that didn't eradicate my data again). I had to RMA it again, and only the third one ended up working properly. Until one of the RAM slots conked out on me, that is.

Generally, though, from everything I hear ASUS is generally a reliable company. Just get something with a decent chipset, e.g. NOT a SiS.