Not trying to knock the OP, but I've bought a lot of ASUS products over the years and I've never had one fail on me. Never had any experience of an RMA with them though.
Steve! havent seen u in a while since u quit being a reviewer.
I have had many horror stories with ASUS as well believe it or not.
And this is even knowing someone from ASUS.
Infact, one of my RMA's required one of the department heads from RoG department themselves to personally hand me a new board, because RMA kept refusing it under BS reasons, which pissed off that department head himself.
So he got a review sample for me, stamped it and mailed it out as a RMA instead because even he even said it was BS.
ASUS from my perspective is very picky and depends on if they have a surplus or not. Infact i would like to state if ur RMA is taking place over 2yrs on a life cycle on a product... (some RoG products have 3 yr warrentys) then its a lottery draw on getting it replaced or fixed.
Will i buy ASUS?
Yes, they make excellent stuff, however, a bit on the pricey edge.
But i know the guys at ASUS, i know exactly what there doing when they design boards, and how they are made.
They are great boards, but i think the RMA department needs a over hall especially since they got big with tablets + laptops + PCs + (asus makes almost everything now). So there RMA department is forced to use monkeys as overflow.
"ASRock is now owned by Pegatron, which itself was a subsidiary of Asus incorporated in 2007. Pegatron has since been spun off and is no longer connected to Asus, so now the ASRock brand Asus created is a direct competitor."
ASrock used to be the OEM board maker for ASUS, which ASUS owned.
ASRock didnt bring out any boards earily, they were all shipped to asus, which then asus branded theres.
ASRock is easy to compare to like Foxconn, back in the days. They just made boards for the big buys, and not consumers.
It was when they started to branch off and become independent that hey started to bring out there own line.