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Amptron website
I went to Amptron website today. Lo & behold they were advertising not only
Amptron(PC Chips} but also ASRock, Albatron & MSI. Do they actually own all these brands too? It was all very interesting as I had not been there in about a year or so. |
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"SPS 700" wrote in message news:1BM9b.367392$cF.109916@rwcrnsc53... I went to Amptron website today. Lo & behold they were advertising not only Amptron(PC Chips} but also ASRock, Albatron & MSI. Do they actually own all these brands too? It was all very interesting as I had not been there in about a year or so. Think of them like Wal-Mart They just buy stuff in ASRock is Asus.. Asus has like 4 divisions I think.. AsusPower, ASRock (economy brand), Asus (normal brand of 2+mil boards/ month).. and now like I think they bought out part of Epox? epoc? or whatever.. Albatron I have never been able to find much info on, and I wouldnt buy their kit for that reason MSI is a horrible horrible company.. It took me 3 years to get a warranty repair, the board comes back so I throw a processor in it and give it a whirl and the processor doesnt work, me being a silly ******* I just put another processor in the board and it's dead now too.. God bless my asus boards |
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ASRock is Asus.. Asus has like 4 divisions I think.. AsusPower, ASRock
(economy brand), Asus (normal brand of 2+mil boards/ month).. and now like I think they bought out part of Epox? epoc? or whatever.. Albatron I have never been able to find much info on, and I wouldnt buy their kit for that reason I think Albatron = PC Chips. MSI is a horrible horrible company.. It took me 3 years to get a warranty repair, the board comes back so I throw a processor in it and give it a whirl and the processor doesnt work, me being a silly ******* I just put another processor in the board and it's dead now too.. God bless my asus boards It is sad that we may think of Asus motherboards as being a quality product, for no reason other than almost everything else is worse. |
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I think Albatron = PC Chips.
The albatron website never loads for me, and I wasnt able to find much/any company info that was in english. It is sad that we may think of Asus motherboards as being a quality product, for no reason other than almost everything else is worse. I dont really feel this way. I think asus boards are quality boards, from design to production to what the end user gets and down to the level that they will get on items that need to be serviced. Some parts of asus do need to be address'd.. but I think that's the same with every large company.. I think they ship something like 2.5 million motherboards a month so some people are going to get duff kit. I think that many boards out there are of good quality (doesnt mean I would buy them)... The only company I have been sour'd by is MSI.. Refusing to do product returns in the UK because they dont have a RMA system in place. Then when it is in place they say the product only has a 1 year warranty, then they admit that it was a 2 year warranty but they say that they have allways had a rma system and allways given the warranty. Then they decide they will repair my board for 10£ (15$~).. so I do that and BOOM the board burns out 2 athlon chips when I get it back.. My complaint to them about that was ignor'd.. I went through much much much more than this little summary but all in all it took them 3 years to give me a board that would destroy 2 processors.. |
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"BoroLad" wrote in message d.com... In article , says... ASRock is Asus.. Asus has like 4 divisions I think.. AsusPower, ASRock (economy brand), Asus (normal brand of 2+mil boards/ month).. and now like I think they bought out part of Epox? epoc? or whatever.. Albatron I have never been able to find much info on, and I wouldnt buy their kit for that reason MSI is a horrible horrible company.. It took me 3 years to get a warranty repair, the board comes back so I throw a processor in it and give it a whirl and the processor doesnt work, me being a silly ******* I just put another processor in the board and it's dead now too.. God bless my asus boards http://www.albatron.com.tw/ been around since '84, became Albatron in 2002 I get about a 400ms ping.. the site was completly down the other day and it had this really really really cheap thing up saying "This site is being redesign'd" the azza site used to be worse http://www.azza.com.tw -- used to just not load http://www.azzaboard.com/ (usa site) -- check that bad boy out! WOOT |
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In article , .@.
says... "BoroLad" wrote in message d.com... In article , says... ASRock is Asus.. Asus has like 4 divisions I think.. AsusPower, ASRock (economy brand), Asus (normal brand of 2+mil boards/ month).. and now like I think they bought out part of Epox? epoc? or whatever.. Albatron I have never been able to find much info on, and I wouldnt buy their kit for that reason MSI is a horrible horrible company.. It took me 3 years to get a warranty repair, the board comes back so I throw a processor in it and give it a whirl and the processor doesnt work, me being a silly ******* I just put another processor in the board and it's dead now too.. God bless my asus boards http://www.albatron.com.tw/ been around since '84, became Albatron in 2002 I get about a 400ms ping.. the site was completly down the other day and it had this really really really cheap thing up saying "This site is being redesign'd" the azza site used to be worse http://www.azza.com.tw -- used to just not load http://www.azzaboard.com/ (usa site) -- check that bad boy out! WOOT Tiwanese sites are always unavailable outside of working hours, been that way for years! I get on ok from the UK, BoroLad |
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"Ed" wrote in message ... On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:07:00 +0100, "rstlne" .@. wrote: I think Albatron = PC Chips. The albatron website never loads for me, and I wasnt able to find much/any company info that was in english. It is sad that we may think of Asus motherboards as being a quality product, for no reason other than almost everything else is worse. I dont really feel this way. I think asus boards are quality boards, from design to production to what the end user gets and down to the level that they will get on items that need to be serviced. Some parts of asus do need to be address'd.. but I think that's the same with every large company.. I think they ship something like 2.5 million motherboards a month so some people are going to get duff kit. I think that many boards out there are of good quality (doesnt mean I would buy them)... The only company I have been sour'd by is MSI.. Refusing to do product returns in the UK because they dont have a RMA system in place. Then when it is in place they say the product only has a 1 year warranty, then they admit that it was a 2 year warranty but they say that they have allways had a rma system and allways given the warranty. Then they decide they will repair my board for 10£ (15$~).. so I do that and BOOM the board burns out 2 athlon chips when I get it back.. My complaint to them about that was ignor'd.. I went through much much much more than this little summary but all in all it took them 3 years to give me a board that would destroy 2 processors.. That just sucks! I feel for ya dude! It's like anything, if you get burned bad enough you'll find an alternative and probably never buy anything from the companies that screwed you. I can think of 3 companies I'll never deal with again, if I can help it! I recently bought my 6th Asus mobo, they just work great and keep on working (for me), 3 non-Asus boards died on me in 9 months to a year since I bought my first Asus board 7 years ago. I've built 3 systems for friends with MSI boards, they are all over a year old now, all still working fine Thank God! ;p Cheers, Ed While most have good experiences with Asus I am one who didn't and will try never to use an Asus product again. I have had good luck with many MBs. I tend to stick with brand name MBs and have had much better than a 50/50 chance of getting a good to great board. Do research before choosing and you can sometimes get a great MB from a company not known for great MBs for example: the ECS K7S5A from a mid tier company (Elite Group) using a mid tier chipset (SiS) became one of the most reliable and best selling MB in the last few years. I still have 2 working today that was as good as any Asus MB in its day and the K7S5A sold for $67 US. Today SiS is no longer mid tier because of the reputation of the SiS 735 chipset. Today I am using an AOpen AK79G Max and I couldn't have chosen a more reliable and fast enough for my needs MB. Most all major MB makers produce good to great and some real stinker MBs. Asus is popular because they make MBs that are OC'able more than any other that I am aware of. Epox makes a good board too. I have used Shuttle with great success and FIC also. Bottom line: don't get an Asus MB just because it's an Asus. Do some research and get a board that fits your needs and is reviewed well and has been out for little awhile so you can read the newsgroups and get the feel of how others are doing with the MB. Nystagmus |
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