GamingWizard

I too was an ASUS fanboy until recently. Always had the Strix GPUs and ROG motherboards. Always had an ASUS laptop too. I have never had to RMA so much stuff made by other brands. I remember RMAing my 2x GTX 1070 Strix' a combined 5 times due to broken LEDs. (They always died after 6 months of use). One of the times they returned me a card with a bent fin stack, which I promptly returned back to them, because I don't want broken stuff back. Also RMAed the ASUS laptop mentioned in my other comment two times, due to the glue holding the chassis together literally falling out through the hinge area. One of my Z170 Strix motherboards started sweating and couldn't power more than ~3 USB devices at a time. RMAed it, but got it refused since the sweating was normal and they couldn't replicate the USB issue. I replicated it immediately when I got it back, but bought a powered USB hub instead. I RMAed another motherboard for another friend 3 weeks ago. Brand new Asus Prime motherboard with a brand new AMD CPU. The PC would BSOD every 10 minutes, without load. Swapped the SSD, but that didn't help. Turned on EXPO and it seemed to work, but then it BSODed every 2 hours instead. New CPU and swapping DDR5 didn't work either. Updating the BIOS always failed, luckily BIOS flashback never failed or else it would've been a brick. I don't know if this was related to the EXPO scandal or not. I don't think I will buy anything else from ASUS anymore.

Yeah and who picks out the SSDs and assembles the laptops? That's ASUS, and they have a responsibility to make stuff that doesn't break after literally 14 days. Normal people aren't going to know that their SSDs are broken, their either going to warranty it forever or buy a new laptop, like my friend did. Super wasteful and it says something about ASUS QA team and how little they care. How do they manage to ship literal e-waste to their customers?

I'm sharing my experiences with Asus after this whole CPU/EXPO debacle. It ended up solving itself afterwards, but only due to me being tech savvy. In 2016 I bought a midrange UX430 laptop. It worked fine for ~6 months, but then one day it bluescreened. Turned out the SSD was dying. I didn't bother warranting it, since I had a leftover SSD and didn't want to be stuck without a laptop. I'm still using the laptop today and it works fine. Around the same time as I bought mine, a friend bought an almost identical laptop, only a bit fanciener. His broke after 14 days. 14 days and he had to warranty it. He got it back and it broke after 2 days. He was so frustrated that he just went ahead and bought a new 1000 dollar laptop. He gifted it to me, I changed the SSD and gifted it to his dad minus the cost of the SSD. That laptop is still working flawlessly today. I know this is very anecdotal, but how is it possible for ASUS to create laptops with SSDs that lasted a combined 7 1/2 months over technically 3 laptops? And how many people ended up doing as my friend and just buying a complelty new laptop? That isn't very consumer friendly nor sustainable. I would also like to shoutout Armoury Crate for auto-installing without my authorization and for receiving a clearly used 360 Ryoujin AIO even when I paid full price for a new one (but that might Komplett.no fault) (Also regarding Samsung, thanks for still not fixing the intermittent disconnection issues on my g9 oddesey. I love having a seizure whenever I use my screen, even on the newest FW)

Can't afford it ;(

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My g35 broke after 3 years of solid use and I'm looking for a replacement. I looked at Hyper x cloud 2 and the Arctic 5. Does anyone have any recommendations for a new headset with decent audio, fake cheapo surround, comfortable headset for around the same price as the two recently mentioned headsets? All answers and opinions are appreciated!?

I'm using a Mad Catz Rat m wireless mice. Mad Catz strike 7 keyboard. Logitech G35 headset. Razer Vespula mouse pad. HP w2207h 1680*1050 monitor. The equipment is 3 yrs old and the mice sucks?.

Thanks everyone, gonna use Cuda core' build

Thanks, the i5 is fine and it looks better than mine Im not on the red side, but many people have suggested it over the gtx970. Noob question, will I be able to upgrade from a AMD to a Nvidia?

it looks beastly op, but its overbudget ;( Do I need a Xeon, wouldnt a i7 be better??

OK another update: I replaced the evo pro With just a 850 evo Thermal compound is gone The price of the mobo is roughly 126USD I really want full ssd http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jyG3K8

i dont really care about oc so its ok if it cant do that

Thanks, made an update to pc: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qsdnWZ

Thanks Paraletic will check

I had red dots covering the screen, but my HDMI cable sucks and is almost broken. Try to play a bit with the HDMI