Originally posted by: gba
yeah.. it is kind of hard to understand how come a company that puts out high end products is skimping on bandwidth. I, too, sure do like their MBs, though.
You should have seen the begging and sometimes chiding over weeks and weeks that it took before MSI finally donated a new server to its own all-volunteer MSI Forums. They were using an old Pentium III server with 512MB RAM since the forums opened that, and get this, the forum administrators paid for out their own pocket.
I figured MSI was going to really "splurge" and donate a refurbished dual PIII with 1GB RAM, but
MSI came through with dual Xeon 2.8GHz, 2 x 15KRPM U320 SCSI drives in RAID1, 2 x 1GB Reg. ECC RAM. It has since been upgraded to more RAM and RAID5, IIRC, and one similar for backup server. The damned thing was so fast that MSI actually moved all of its web servers to the forum server, including downloads. Or maybe that was the plan for the new server all along. :frown:
But ASUS, cripe! I'm pretty sure I didn't have to wait as long for pages to load while MSI's servers were OFFLINE as it takes for ASUS forums. Its been bad for months and months now, but this is inexcusable for a company with resources like ASUS.
What kills me is that companies like ASUS, MSI, HP, DELL, and the like don't even have to pay any staff or employees to man their forums and provide technical support. Idiots like us are willing to go there and work for free!