Asus quality

/slightly random

So as some of you might have heard I recently +- ruined my brand new gaming laptop with a liquid spill WASD side (highly conductive liquid). The core functions seem to have survived, but the keyboard was doing the standard liquid spill story (i.e. press space and you get a bonus "e" letter and maybe a "4", some keys not working others triggering a variety of letters)

So I've been using a USB keyboard to patch things over.

Today I randomly decided to give the laptop keyboard another try...and its absolutely perfect. Haven't made a single typo in this post.

Anyway...I'm kinda blown away by the whole thing. I was reasonably impressed that the core laptop functions survived a big conductive liquid spill (while switched on & didn't even flip it upside down in time)...but the shot keyboard recovering full functionality from a sticky conductive liquid spill given time....thats a new trick :eek:

So going forward Asus ftw :)

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Originally Posted by HavocXphere

/slightly random

So as some of you might have heard I recently +- ruined my brand new gaming laptop with a liquid spill WASD side (highly conductive liquid). The core functions seem to have survived, but the keyboard was doing the standard liquid spill story (i.e. press space and you get a bonus "e" letter and maybe a "4", some keys not working others triggering a variety of letters)

So I've been using a USB keyboard to patch things over.

Today I randomly decided to give the laptop keyboard another try...and its absolutely perfect. Haven't made a single typo in this post.

Anyway...I'm kinda blown away by the whole thing. I was reasonably impressed that the core laptop functions survived a big conductive liquid spill (while switched on & didn't even flip it upside down in time)...but the shot keyboard recovering full functionality from a sticky conductive liquid spill given time....thats a new trick :eek:

So going forward Asus ftw :)

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I recommend Asus to clients as well but only if they won't pay a little extra for a DELL. They are nice for their price range but my only gripe is that, the cheaper units are sealed along with the battery. Partserve now also services ASUS which makes it so much easier for clients to have their hardware problems sorted.

I worked for the company way back when and I personally will always buy Asus where possible. Truly a great product!

Well now I'm gonna rain on some parades, Asus in SA are useless...In fact they don't do any of their own rma's anymore and have now use partserve...which in itself is a gigantic fuck up, partserve is only good at swapping out consoles...that's about it.

I will never recommend asus products to any of my clients just because of their lack of after sales service in SA.

a bit off topic -
[MENTION=21]The Joker[/MENTION] - out of curiosity, what is your most recommended brand?

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Originally Posted by Mephisto_Helix

a bit off topic -
[MENTION=21]The Joker[/MENTION] - out of curiosity, what is your most recommended brand?

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Motherboards and Graphics cards: Msi
Power supplies: Seasonic, Antec, Coolermaster V Series
HDD: Western Digital
SSD: Intel, Samsung
Ram: G.Skill, Corsair
Pc Cases: Corsair
Monitors: Samsung and Acer (Their new UHD Monitors are spectacular)

My overall fav brand with excellent local support would have to be MSI (Who also use partserve now for their notebooks :wtf:)

Notable mention: Galax

For their 9xx Graphics cards, which have been superb.

Whoa, comprehensive response, thanks bud

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Originally Posted by The Joker

Motherboards and Graphics cards: Msi
Power supplies: Seasonic, Antec, Coolermaster V Series
HDD: Western Digital
SSD: Intel, Samsung
Ram: G.Skill, Corsair
Pc Cases: Corsair
Monitors: Samsung and Acer (Their new UHD Monitors are spectacular)

My overall fav brand with excellent local support would have to be MSI (Who also use partserve now for their notebooks :wtf:)

Notable mention: Galax

For their 9xx Graphics cards, which have been superb.

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Is it just me or did that brand just appear out of thin air? Only recently started hearing about them? I'm guessing its a rebrand/rename of something or other?

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Originally Posted by HavocXphere

Is it just me or did that brand just appear out of thin air? Only recently started hearing about them? I'm guessing its a rebrand/rename of something or other?

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It is indeed. KFA2 and another brand (the name of which escapes me now) joined forces to create GALAX.

It's interesting to hear from Joker about the perception of quality from Asus. I have fortunately never had to deal with after-sales service from them, but my perception of their components is very good. I have used Asus virtually exclusively for 5 years and I have always been impressed at the quality and performance of the hardware. Maybe if I have to deal with their service if I have a problem my perception will change.