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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?
    Life is what you make of it...so please read the instructions carefully.

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    Re: Asus notebook with Foxconn Motherboard

    Foxconn makes tons of OEM products for lots of companies. maybe they actually build the motherboards that ASUS 'designs'. and since it's a OEM product that most people won't see they don't stamp there name on it.
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      Re: Asus notebook with Foxconn Motherboard

      Originally posted by craigwatanabe View Post
      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.
      Maybe Asus should hire Foxconn to spread their thermal paste, too...
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        Re: Asus notebook with Foxconn Motherboard

        Originally posted by LocalMotion View Post
        Foxconn makes tons of OEM products for lots of companies. maybe they actually build the motherboards that ASUS 'designs'. and since it's a OEM product that most people won't see they don't stamp there name on it.

        Asus manufactures their own motherboards. It's what put them on the map.
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          Re: Asus notebook with Foxconn Motherboard

          Originally posted by craigwatanabe View Post
          Asus manufactures their own motherboards. It's what put them on the map.
          i realize that. but obviously they have foxconn doing something for them now
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            Re: Asus notebook with Foxconn Motherboard

            Originally posted by LocalMotion View Post
            i realize that. but obviously they have foxconn doing something for them now
            That's like Chevy putting their nameplate on Ford vehicles and selling them as Chevy.
            Life is what you make of it...so please read the instructions carefully.

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