Very well said...but part of the reason that mistakes by good companies are so noticable is because the company usualy issues a public recall. And the other part is that when A-data ram is bad, people say, "It's A-data, what did you expect?" and when Corsair ram is bad people say, "You must have a bad mainboard or something, lets dig into this"
You haven't given one shred of evidence that supports your Asus problem claim, not one. So there's nothing to divert from. And you do in this website? How are you any better than they are? How is any advice given by you in this thread any better than that given at Tomshardware, a site dedicated largely to PC technology? You keep downplaying the fact that you haven't provided one shred of genuine evidence beyond your opinion to support your claim. Again I have no issue with anyone recommending Gigabyte boards or any other board of good quality. I recommend them regularly based on price and need, but never by demeaning another perfectly good product or choice such as Asus. One of the reasons I rarely come to AD's hardware section anymore is because it's hard to ignore those members passing out incorrect information that could limit an OP's choices. This is also the view of many of the old timers including Praetor who was a well known mod here. So many highly skilled builders have floated through this thread only to turn and run after dealing with a few of its disingenuous regulars. In my view a person a person has to have built at least a couple of dozen computers just to be considered moderately experienced, and more than 100 to be considered to have any level of expertise. Most reviewers on tech sites can claim builds in the 100's and their opinions hold weight in my world. http://www.techspot.com/review/43-asus-p5n-e-sli/
To be honest, I think A-Data actually gets an unnecessarily bad rep. I really don't hear that many horror stories. Granted, my own experience with cheap RAM is enough to put me off. As far as passing blame goes, it's the attitude most people (often myself) take since it tends to be the most likely outcome. A known reliable part tends to take a lower priority in diagnosis than a known troublesome one. However, standard system diagnostics usually dictates that RAM be tested first, so perhaps it's not such a good example. Soph: So what evidence would you like? All the faulty boards sent in the mail? This is my point, there isn't any means of providing hard evidence to support stuff like this. If you're blind enough to think people would lie about this to give companies a bad name I truly pity you.
xEzekialx, I'm in no way an experienced builder but have learned this, I do read a lot and mostly thru life's experiances to make my own final conclusion, what I came up with on these PC builds is that many of those so called pro opinions on many big time sites are bunk, I would not trust 90% of them. I stick with peoples experiances mainly on forums like this one, regular people in the trenches who have nothing to gain from thier opinion like advertising, competing for the buck etc. regular people who also read and learn from different forums as well as from friends who also have nothing to gain but just to tell the truth. Sure your gonna get different opinions even from these forums, do a little research on who has the most and best knowledge on a number of PC building forums, thru the years I have learned who they are here, but that's just my opinion, sure your gonna get different opinions and even arguments here, but many times I have learned more from two guys arguing about different point of views on parts, manufaturers, products etc. than some corporate PC test sites, use these people here for knowledge, in the end make your own conclusion.
This is exactly the point I'm trying to make. Yes, opinions will differ, but you don't have other external bias coming in. You can form your own opinion from what everybody else says.
