OT ASUS experience

[Steven Vollom]

On Thursday 19 February 2009 02:29:23 Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 February 2009, Steven Vollom wrote:
> >>> I am quite happy with my latest M2N-E board. Been a while since my last
> >>> personal Asus board, a P5A :-D.
> >>
> >> I heard that they had resolved the BIOS problems.  I have stopped
> >> worrying since I heard.
> >>
> >> Steven
> >
> > The newest bios for my board, an M2N-SLI Deluxe, file named 1604.zip,
> > should be renamed 1604.crash, cuz thats what it does, I haven't managed
> > to get an un-interrupted hour out of it yet.  version 1502 has some
> > warts, but at least its stable.  And they do NOT answer email either,
> > jerks.  Last ASUS board I'll ever own.
>
> well I live a happy life going by the rule:
>
> Do not fix it, it it ain't broken!
>
> So I do not upgrade a Bios unless the new Bios promises to fix something
> which I absolutely need and which the existing Bios does wrong.
>
> I agree that your asus experiences offer much room for improvement.
>
> In my experience Asus are about the only manufacturers that offer a
> decent CPU fan regulation which can really slow down the CPU fan to an
> acceptable level of noise.
>
> I tried some MSIs and ASRocks over the years but I could not get them to
> properly control the CPU fan. And "always at full speed" is not what I
> would call a good fan control.
>
> Eberhard
You are great my friend.  Cudos to you.  Still waiting.
Steven