Asus mobo is well known expensive, but how can they cheat their users like that? would like to see what's their response to this..

the statement really hurt those asus customer include me because i just bought asus motherboard. i hope asus will clarify this as soon as possible.

say TAKNAK to asus..

asus oso got a reputation as time consuming in RMA proses. 

hmm... juz awhile ago, i tot Asus and gaygaybyte had a joint venture... or something... right?

so the joint venture... is to create such a drama in the ICT world?

The thing Gigabyte is trying to say is that they only use Japanese-made solid capacitors in their range of motherboards that they claim to have solid capacitors installed, whereas Asus only uses Japanese-made solid capacitors in some of the motherboards, but not in all of their motherboard range that claim to have solid capacitors installed on their motherboards. That is what Gigabyte is trying to say. Not that all Asus boards don't use Japanese-made capacitors.

IMO, in the critical areas such as the CPU area, I believe Asus really installed Japanese made capacitors, they will use non-Japanese made solid capacitors in not so critical areas.

It's the other way around for me. DES or EPU is not that important for me. It is because I run my CPU at full speed most of the time e.g. Gaming & etc.

You don't care about solid capacitor or not? I assume you are not an overclocker? These solid capacitors are very important for your system to run stably. What you meant was you don't care whether they are Japanese made or not is it? It's not that the capacitors burst or don't burst, who doesn't want a motherboard that has the quality to run for as long as possible?

If you are someone that likes to fiddle with BIOS settings or overclock your system, you don't need or want to turn on EPU/DES I suppose.

EPU or DES greatly relies on your FSB or VCore to save energy. So you should just turn it off if you happen to own a motherboard has this feature.

Asus did not mention about the claimed 80% power saving.

I noticed a few fans of particular brand claiming that the other brand has more RMA and so. The case now is the claim by Asus that their product perform better than it's actual performance. Whether or not your board RMA-ed before does not prove whether it's a reliable board or not. Your board is only a minute sample of all the boards they produce in the world.

Yeap yeap, but not very significant if 1 PC only.. Let say if you have 10 PCs, the amount would be more significant.
It is because EPU can shut down idle hard drives while DES don't do the same. That's why they insisted to attach 3 hard drives to show that EPU are more energy saving.

It seems like that if EPU or DES is turned on, the multiplier is locked at 6. 

Here is the news :-

ASUS Responds Angrily To Gigabyte

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-giga...board,5403.html

I second that... 

After TweakTown... THG said they will conduct its own independent comparison of the ASUS P5K series and the Gigabyte EP35-DS3L. That would be interesting... 

Mine did blow out after 4 1/2 years, taking the PSU and CPU with it. Not sure about the cause though, anyway it was a good board at that time.

I don't really care anyways, but I never considered Asus's P35 after reading reviews on them drawing more power than Abit's and Gigabyte's before EPU came out. Their press statement does little more than to make people more suspicious about their P5K EPU boards.