Asus motherboard scandal

From the Bleeding Edge -

Gigabyte has openly accused rival Asus of lying about the power-saving capabilities of its Energy Processing Unit (EPU) in its new motherboards. Asus had previously claimed its EPU motherboards trumped the power-saving performance of Gigabyte DES equivalents.

Asus has claimed power savings of up to 80.23% from its EPU boards, but Gigabyte claims Asus has made no changes via firmware, design or component changes, and in an act that if true, can only be interpreted as gross cynicism if not outright fraud, simply changed the numbers on product advertisement and packaging. Worse, Gigabyte claims Asus is fooling its customers by using poor-quality capacitors which are known to likely to blow under load.

In addition there are suggestions that a journalist may have been involved in commercial espionage with Asus against Gigabyte.

Source article here.