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Article #22869Re: OT? Advice on new pc configuration
From: Marcus Durham
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 00:00
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 00:00
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In article <957212346snz@noelsys.demon.co.uk> Ernest <ernest@noelsys.demon.co.uk> shared the following with us in demon.tech.pc: >In article <nfergskjmhkngihudnbqbae76g3ah4g2ia@pink.semolina.org> > newsjan@pink.semolina.org writes: > >> I think the total count for Abit would be much higher than two > >Bit if a surprise for me that Asus is no longer a 'flavour of the >month'. When I was in system building mode , up to a year ago, I >always used Asus mobos and never suffered a single failure over >about 20 systems. > The ABIT's offer more for the money. The ASUS stuff seems under-featured and still uses jumpers which is a pain once you've used a jumperless board. >Have things changed lately? Or, is Asus just considered not the best >value for money? When a system's parts costs around 500-600, I've >never been fussed with the odd 30 quid. [snip] It's also down to what features are available, the online support, etc, etc. I also personally dislike the ASUS stuff as I've found systems with their motherboards to be unreliable. -- Marcus Durham The UMTSDW Homepage. News, Reviews, Features and Locations. http://www.zenn.demon.co.uk/drwho/drwho.htm
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,1ad7d9a78e82a9cf X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: Marcus Durham <Marcus@zenn.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: OT? Advice on new pc configuration Date: 2000/05/01 Message-ID: <6L6EOEALafD5Ewyi@zenn.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 618019993 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: zenn.demon.co.uk:158.152.3.230 References: <390d3e42.44436869@nnrp.gol.com> <tzKBAAAJMHD5Ewyd@zenn.demon.co.uk> <390cbb1f.194366@nnrp.gol.com> <t4ExiLAxOMD5EwCa@zenn.demon.co.uk> <390d7806.1578711@nnrp.gol.com> <nfergskjmhkngihudnbqbae76g3ah4g2ia@pink.semolina.org> <957212346snz@noelsys.demon.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 957218822 nnrp-13:14664 NO-IDENT zenn.demon.co.uk:158.152.3.230 Organization: www.zenn.demon.co.uk/drwho/drwho.htm MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: demon.tech.pc