don't keep enough stock to support the 2-3 years. At least that is what my supplier told me.

I had a 939 board fail after 18 months and Asus don't have any. After 2 months of aggro I finally got a motherboard but the box was battered and some of the contents were missing. Very poor service.

It was an expensive (at the time) Asus A8N 32 SLI Deluxe. The replacement is still running fine though even though I had to wait 2 months for it.

My current MB will be my last Asus Mainboard for a while. (P5E3 Deluxe WiFi)
Great Reviews everywhere but really a crap MB which becomes unstable as soon as you OC it only a bit.
Main Problems are Memory Timings (Corsair DDR3 1600CL7 barely runs stable @ 1333), the Jmicron Controller, which will make your Video and Sound playback choppy unless you disable it completely
and last but not least only a slight OC will make the USB Ports unstable (KB & Mouse will switch off sporadically.
Only on moderate (below default!) setting everything runs stable.
Basically a lousy Board especially when i think back what crazy things i did with CUSL2-C or the P2B.
Those where solid Boards and new Bioses came even three years after release!

With my then 350€ P5E3 Deluxe I don´t know what Bios to use; they all have issues. Since V. 1415 almost a year ago Nada ... no support.

Guess i have to switch to a Gigabyte board next time before they get lazy.

But I´m also abandoning my fondness of SE Mobiles. You can´t breathe on those things these days without any corrosive damage! Not even mentioning all the other things SE does wrong these days.
My next one will be a Samsung; at least the build quality is decent.

And I´m glad that i went ATI after my NV6600 which was a great NV card.
I wouldn´t mind to get a product from these Brands again because I am sort of used to them (UI,etc...) but not until they get their Act together again.

Rant off.

Yours,
Jörg A. Königseder

Maybe 50% of the defective motherboard market

Would be nice if motherboard makers would actually bugtest them before releasing them to market.

So many motherboards I get nowadays are nearly unusable until flashed with the latest BIOS which makes them boot at least.

Asus has been selling defective goods for years. As long as suckers keep buying defective goods, that's what the profiteers will continue to deliver.

Chewei Lin is being told by the analysts what the world + dog have known for quite some time. Asus is not the company it was before, and because of this it will NEVER be the compnay it thinks it can be.

it's not just their R&D that full of bull!