glimse comments on Redditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protections

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I gave up on Asus after a motherboard went up in (literal) flames when a cap blew a month into owning it. The RMAed it and the new one was DOA. They blamed my power supply and wouldn't do a second return..

I bought an ASRock and it ran flawlessly for 5+ years. Yeah...it was definitely the power supply that was the problem, Asus..

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Wow that's pretty extreme. I found their RMA process to be pretty shitty and I didn't quite have those terrible issues. I did have to send I think 3 different boards back to them. They were slow and required a lot of communication to get it done. It's been years ago so I forget details but I remember each time, until the last time, thinking I just had bad luck.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

My story was from 15+ years ago when I was less knowledgeable and assumed Asus was the best because people on [H] said so. Afterwards I looked into it and found tons of people having similar RMA woes and I learned to research further than the HardOCP community forum lol

Haven't bought an Asus product since so I have no idea if they're still bastards

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Gotcha. My issues with Asus spanned from probably about 1999 to 2018. I think they are probably still bastards. I too have owned "lesser" boards that seem to all universally be less troublesome than Asus ones were

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