Asus turns Phenom II 960T (quad) into hexacore

[saaya]

ASRock makes better boards than Asus these says

better in what regards? price perf? im not surprised

havent used an asus or asrock board in ages, so idk...
sof told me the recent asus boards are pretty good, very stable bios and good efficiency... havent heard of somebody using asrock for quite a while...

i heard a rumor that lots of good engineers decided to join asrock instead of asus when the two split up... no idea if thats true though...

[[XC] Oj101]

better in what regards? price perf? im not surprised

havent used an asus or asrock board in ages, so idk...
sof told me the recent asus boards are pretty good, very stable bios and good efficiency... havent heard of somebody using asrock for quite a while...

i heard a rumor that lots of good engineers decided to join asrock instead of asus when the two split up... no idea if thats true though...

Let me explain:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1271597249

[saaya]

Let me explain:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1271597249

oh, i see... i think thats more of a support issue than anything else really... they should have released a new revision or released a hardware mod to you guys or offered to fix/upgrade the boards and solve the issue... or at least give you back your money...

this kind of errors can happen to every board maker i think... if they would have handled it properly, all would have been forgiven and forgotten...

Not true, ASRock has had their own engineering staff for the past few years

yes, but i heard quite some people moved from asus to pegatron recently...

so many that asus put a stop to it and people who now want to switch sides have to leave asus and work for a another company for 1 year before they can be hired by asrock.

thats what several people told me...
could be exaggerated or made up tho... theres a lot of gossip about hw companies here in taiwan

[bingo13]

i heard a rumor that lots of good engineers decided to join asrock instead of asus when the two split up... no idea if thats true though...

Not true, ASRock has had their own engineering staff for the past few years and has been filling out positions where ASUS provided support for the last year. ASRock was spun off from ASUS back in 2002 to be exact but some engineering resources (more like consulting recently) have been shared between the two companies for quite some time although that ends shortly. Even though Pegatron will be officially spun off this summer with the completion of the IPO, ASUS will still maintain a 25% shareholder stake in the new company.