This undercover warranty investigation is a one-year follow-up from our series that investigated ASUS for motherboards incinerating AMD CPUs, at the end of which ASUS promised a number of improvements to its then-anti-consumer warranty processes. Spoiler alert: They’re still anti-consumer. We sent our ASUS ROG Ally Z1 Extreme in for warranty repair for issues with the left joystick (“drift”). The device also had a broken microSD card. ASUS then pointed to the world’s tiniest scratch and tried to charge us $200 for it under threat of sending back a disassembled device if we didn’t pay within 5 days. It felt like extortion. If you’re wondering whether ASUS is worth buying, the answer for anyone who values support should be “no.”

We have now tested ASUS’ motherboard and ROG Ally warranty and RMA processes. Both have been anti-consumer experiences.

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    AMD laptop processors have the metal plates too close together or all the way together, increasing heat can help speed up the core speed. AMD uses rectangles or like rhombuses or shapes carved out. Keeping them locked was just keeping them closer together to prevent real computing. They all became business competitors trying to get information to make their own parts or they couldn’t sell computers. They may all just have not liked Intel, nothing about computers did much for the military or the military was the only ones using computers that weren’t the ones that are sold online or in stores and no one gets contracted to make them, or they were the originals that I made, they use things like oscillators and can connect to different hidden or unconnectable computers.

    This is why they didn’t like Intel and everyone became a group supporting AMD, selling computers is realistic but the market is slim. Even we try and sell computers in capitalism that we make but you have to pretty much make every part and resistor. Selling high end designer smart or computer handheld phones costing 5 to 10 grand was more realistic but same issue, no one can afford unless they do something big and new. This is why nothing really mattered about money, all we really had was capitalism when we don’t want to sit around parasites anymore.

    I didn’t use Intel or AMD even though I made them, I used Scorpio because that’s what the point in silicon was. Computer processors use silver or anything that works, Nvidia uses silver, Intel I thought was silver but may be stainless steel, AMD we don’t know and I don’t know who makes them, the actual AMD processors were probably stolen and duplicated, but Taiwan would be making everything that goes into it, so AMD may just be that way on the examples or patent sheets. The laptop CPUs came after, the AMD thread rippers were for like business website servers like for online shopping. But yeah AMD could also produce its own graphics, everyone became like outlaws because of Intel that tries to keep everyone just sitting there, it could be eating meat related because they’re goats, nvidia got like this too, a computer program or game monopoly and duplicates or cracks games and makes them, this is why nothing was really made anymore but apparently there’s still new call of duties, they may just want to know about what’s getting produced, AMD may not want anything organized, AMD is heavily weed related. People smoked lots of weed. The real issue is just capitalism goes on not socialism and getting high or seeing people can make people say hello or socialize, and everyone actually just starts robbing each other or robbing you because of carbs and things, this is why we were all still like companies because everyone is usually alone. You just build a house anyways or find a lot. But lots are kind of Microsoft windows related. Like you couldn’t necessarily just walk anywhere across fields or grass and do capitalism. No one says anything but no one really does this and capitalism doesn’t go on that comerica way, where computers exist in houses, with laptops you may bring it and sit somewhere but laptops were also business related, sometimes a computer was a phone or for communication and helping the person store information and even print things. It wasn’t always about programming unless it helps the one person using it. Selling the program on discs or renting it out use to exist, but there had to be some way to get paid or no one else would need to use it. But it didn’t real need to cost money to each individual user unless no money has been brought in from it, sometimes a bank buys it, banks or an individual always generate money same with branded places.

    A computer was much more than playing a video game on it, it didn’t matter if a computer could run a console game, if anything the console program software would cost a hundred bucks up to a full console price. Or those guys just sold the games or manufactured them, some people didn’t use computers or produce anything at all. They fo other types of capitalism. But scamming can or does ho on if one person doesn’t regulate it and that’s what comerica is, one person regulating it. Without regulation not much even gets organized you may or may not want it regulated or money is never used, comerica hasn’t done what it originally did yet before or around the 9/11 terrorist attack.

    This is why Nvidias graphics were better, because it was just discs and then shaders, like that get installed in call of duty. It’s possible to use gold and to not even seal processors but oxidation may take place but who knows, sealing scorpios were to hide the insides from everyone’s eyes. At one point only after market companies or businesses like mp3 players still operated and places like Apple were just another company. All computer software had windows to open and close or exit out, Microsoft was different and may have different features. They all had to do some type of deal with windows (the current way it is) or the software wasn’t usable or they go there and rob them all if it installs.

    They may make all the AMD processors the same exact way. Back ten years ago gaming laptops didn’t really sell that great. It’s like they thought everyone could sit around just staring at c code software, this happens sometimes, this is why it became programming everyone does but wasn’t that possible or easy without a unlocked processor or certain program for making them, or without knowing coding to do in notepad or other blank windows.

    Sometimes everyone’s after money so no one studies what they’re manufacturing or selling and can’t answer any questions to you when you don’t do this every day but they apparently do when listed as a company. Those plates just need to be further apart because the cpu just works how it works, other computers that seem more desirable are a graphics processing unit as a monitor and give off a satanic feeling, they use more power and probably shoot mass amounts of ions out of them.