Asus X99 MB would fry your CPU? is this real!???

[readers]

Just saw this on overclock.net

So I was just reading this
http://www.overclock.net/t/1561131/5960x-dead
and
http://www.overclock.net/t/1556616/asus-x99-sabertooth-owners-thread/30#post_24099763
then on the same forum Asus rep kinda went we don't know nor do we care here:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1510328/...-north-american-users-only/8320#post_24195351
http://www.overclock.net/t/1510328/...-north-american-users-only/8320#post_24195557
So you guys think I should change my pending Asus Sabertooth X99 order to MSI X99A SLI Krait Edition??

Anyone had this happen to them or knows more on this??

 

[dave_the_nerd]

It's not that they don't care - it's that they can't be helpful unless they see it happen repeatedly in relatively controlled conditions where they can watch the failure happen.

That's just engineering.

 

[Wall Street]

I would change the order. Given the reputation it has, I wouldn't buy anything with an ASUS OC Socket. Similar failures happened on Socket 1156 boards where the Foxconn socket was known to fail but the Lotes socket was just fine. There is nothing that can be done to prevent the failures and it is just luck of the draw (and back in the 1156 days, a ton of motherboards ended up failing).

The MSI SLI Krait looks fine choice. I personally would just get the Gigabyte X99-UD3 and pocket the $70 price difference, but I guess that is why I don't have an X99 system.

 

[Rebel44]

That is one of the reasons, why I buy expensive component, only if they provide 3+ years warranty.

 

[readers]

That is one of the reasons, why I buy expensive component, only if they provide 3+ years warranty.

Sabertooth got 5, but don't think it cover the CPU... If it only killed the MB, I wouldn't care as much, but taking CPU with it....

 

[Kenmitch]

Sabertooth got 5, but don't think it cover the CPU... If it only killed the MB, I wouldn't care as much, but taking CPU with it....

Guessing you've never experienced the Asus RMA process before.

I wouldn't have even looked at the Asus MB at all. I just skip past Asus offerings all together. Fear of having to deal with another Asus RMA keeps me from even considering one of their products.

The MSI Krait looks like a interesting MB. I'd have went for that one even if it was twice as much as the Asus.

 

[readers]

Guessing you've never experienced the Asus RMA process before.

I wouldn't have even looked at the Asus MB at all. I just skip past Asus offerings all together. Fear of having to deal with another Asus RMA keeps me from even considering one of their products.

The MSI Krait looks like a interesting MB. I'd have went for that one even if it was twice as much as the Asus.

How many bad ones you had? Orr was that just 1 really bad RMA?

 

[froggermuted]

If it was that common they would have reproduce the issue in their lab allready, that's when I realized that I still bought an asus board.

 

[Kenmitch]

How many bad ones you had? Orr was that just 1 really bad RMA?

1 motherboard, 1 really bad RMA experience ( early 2012) is all it took for me. Wasted like 2 months on multiple RMA's and in the end the lone issue was never fixed. Board wouldn't stay powered off. Would shut down completely but would magically power back on all by itself. Didn't matter if it was in the case, on a box, with power supply X or Y, 1 memory stick or two, 2500k, 2700k, etc. it would still power back on.


Think I wound up just selling it on craigslist to somebody that didn't care if it wouldn't stay powered off. It was otherwise functional as everything else worked....Go figure.