It’s one thing to recommend not to buy a certain product because you have had a certain experience with it. Every company produces mediocre or bad products from time to time and it’s good to let people know so they won’t make the same mistake.
But honestly: trashing all products from a whole company is a bit over the line in my opinion.
I understand your frustration. It’s always annoying when equipment fails - especially if it was expensive and from a renowned manufacturer. However an SSD or HDD failing a few days after warranty runs out normally is simple bad luck and has NOTHING to do with quality control. They don’t build those SSDs themselves and unless some serious overheating is going on (which would indictate a design flaw and a large number of the same laptops having the same issue) you usually can’t predict electronics failure. In general complex electronics either fail very early after a few days or they never fail. Everthing else is random chance or the user’s fault.
I’ve been buying computer parts for over 30 years now, and I’ve seen floppy drives shredder a 5 1/4" floppy disk. A new SD cards fail while shooting photos, I have fried a motherboard with static, probably killed one CPUs with overclocking (which fortunately isn’t possible anymore) and another with a broken pin and of course I had a few hard drives fail most probably due to old age - they are mechanical after all.
That said:
my ASUS boards have always been very good. This is my fourth in a row, and I had the ability to test the stray MSI and Gigabyte and chose to remain with the ASUS each time. Also had an ASUS RTX 3070 which was running well, keeping cool, and was easily OC’d and undervolted. My current Gigabyte RTX 3080 TI isn’t quite as accomodating there.
Admittedly this time with the new AM5 board I had a few problems with DDR compatibility in conjunction with the new 7000X3D CPUs but ASUS released several firmware updates in a row to counter the problem, and the memory runs like a charm now.
So now call me a fan-boy and be done with it but I still think what you’re doing here is out of line. ![]()