Toad,
ASUS = Rock Solid for AMD and Intel.
Did I mention my sister's old NT Workstation? She was running a Celeron 433 with 128 MB (later 320 MB) RAM, NT Workstation Service Pack 5 (later 6a), based on an Asus P3B-F 440BX chipset motherboard and all generic parts? Oh yeah, and Office 97 and the other fun things that a college-age girl needs to function, such as ICQ, AOL IM, and the happy things.
She left it on an average of 4 months at a time. I kid not. I turned it off to upgrade parts and install Service Pack 6a.
I haven't seen a workstation YET take that type of abuse without seriously crashing.
Her new Athlon has an ASUS. Gee, I wonder why?
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I've seen ASUS motherboards take abuse that would make any other manufacturer's die. Case in point was that Celeron.
Mitch