My biggest takes from the GN news video are that Asus has been the top brand in motherboards for too long, and that's starting to show in their products and how they react. Safety systems not working, dangerously high voltages to ensure EXPO profiles work (it wouldn't surprise me if their XMP profiles in Intel boards are also higher than the competition) and now also pre-production BIOS? Really? There's no excuse for that.
Now, I understand that a full recall might be unreasonable, but their mild and mostly passive reaction to the whole problem is as far from the appropiate response as possible.
On another note, the comment about board partners expecting a sub $500 price point for the upcoming AMD GPUs is worrying. I know that the video may have been fillmed in Monday, and since then we've had newer rumors about it, but there's no f*cking way AMD will price the 7600 that high. That's a product that needs to be less than $400 to even have a change to sell some units.
And if he's talking about the 7700, the more of the same. We're seeing how the market reacts to overpriced products these days, and that price won't convince anyone to buy them.
Please excuse my bad English.
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