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So my boy bought an Asus G1S notebook with all the bells and whistles (HDMI output, blah blah blah) for around $1200. About a year later it dies and his US Marine Techie friends tell him his motherboard is toast.
He brings it home to me and I dissect it to discover, no the motherboard isn't gone, but the CPU fried because the heatsink didn't have enough thermal paste applied. Simple repair and this baby will see the light of another day again.
BUT in taking this laptop apart, I discover this motherboard is in fact a Foxconn motherboard.
ASUS is known for making motherboards themselves (and supposedly really good ones at that), so I was literally floored when I made this discovery!
Why would a well-known motherboard manufacturer (who just recently started making their own notebooks), use a rather cheap and unreliable motherboard as Foxconn, in their recently introduced laptop computers? Why not use an ASUS mobo instead?
He brings it home to me and I dissect it to discover, no the motherboard isn't gone, but the CPU fried because the heatsink didn't have enough thermal paste applied. Simple repair and this baby will see the light of another day again.
BUT in taking this laptop apart, I discover this motherboard is in fact a Foxconn motherboard.
ASUS is known for making motherboards themselves (and supposedly really good ones at that), so I was literally floored when I made this discovery!
Why would a well-known motherboard manufacturer (who just recently started making their own notebooks), use a rather cheap and unreliable motherboard as Foxconn, in their recently introduced laptop computers? Why not use an ASUS mobo instead?
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