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| Thread ID: 71065 | 2006-07-25 18:19:00 | Which motherboard brand is the best? | hamstar (4) | PC World Chat |
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| 473438 | 2006-08-01 11:25:00 | During my time retailing I had a far higher percentage of Asus boards with faults then ECS, If I remember rightly I only had a single ECS board go belly up, and I shoved them babies in many many many rigs, Used em for my personal rigs for many years as well . Though I only used 2 or 3 boards out of their range at any one time, and I looked into em beforehand and built a test rig before bundling them into packages, They always seemed to have a well priced stable board in their line-up that had performance on-par with the big lads, Though lacking in OC features ( which is good imo, Nothing worse then clueless sheep buying the latest board nominated as a killer overclocker then returing it as faulty 3 days later) . Imo the worst boards are those released with known issues or not pulled from the market after the issue is known ( Nearly went mad working on an MSI board that was released with an issue with the AGP slot, when any agp card was inserted the PC would crash , fully documented with no fix available) The second catagory for crap boards is ones released with no identification or drivers . Worthless crap and bundled into billions of supermarket PC's . Nothing worse then running an app like Everest to only be presented with no usable information . Personal preference . High end -Asus Secound choice-Gigabyte Budget- Selective ECS boards Crap I hate- Everything else but especially MSI for no worthwhile reason . Seen plenty of inferior and brken motherboards from every manufacturer we could name and a few we couldn't . Uh . . . . I still feel bad about the FIC board I sold over trade-me to some kid many many years ago . OK, Im over it now . Muhahahahahaha . |
Metla (12) | ||
| 473439 | 2006-08-04 00:44:00 | I have a personal preference for Asus. The worst board I have owned was a Jetway super socket 7 with an SiS chipset. It was my first home-built from scatch and it was pure consummate crap adulterated by the fetid pile they called a chipset. SKT174 I like Asus for their stability, my understanding is that, while they're not bad at OC they're not usually the OC'ers board of choice. Has something changed? |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 473440 | 2006-08-04 02:20:00 | The motherboard in my first computer (a DFI) was a good stable board, however the onboard video was a nightmare trying to get drivers for it. (the included CD didn't even have them) my first MSI, a KT4V which was pretty good, only required a bios update when I updated to an Athlon XP 2600+ The worst I've had was my previous socket 754 board, and MSI K8T Neo FIS2R, probably the worst headache yet (very bad problems with games crashing, video lockups, lots of random BSOD, ram had to have increase in voltage etc just to get it running windows OK) - and it was randomly turning itself off before I got rid of it - not sure if it was broken because I never tried to get a replacement But now I have my MSI K8N SLI-FI which runs like a dream, went perfect first go and even runs my non-matched ram in dual channel :) and 0 BSOD so far. (plus no video card stability issues) Only bought 1 Asus board, a Socket 370 CUSI-M, not great specs but runs well and solidly stable. A friend of mine bought an ECS skt754 with PCI-E (a rare breed SiS chipset) which really doesn't like gaming... Personally I reckon it's SiS's fault for such a weird combination of technology |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 473441 | 2006-08-04 03:27:00 | I seem to be using nothing but older boards now. That probably says something about the need to get a real job.. but as usual, i digress :D ECS are the pits from my experience, where as almost everything thing else i have scavenged has proven reliable to the point where they are obsolete long before failure. This is the resource i have built my home network from. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 473442 | 2008-01-29 20:55:00 | Well, I just see this forum and register to pc world just to let a post here - I'm wondering how many people prefer Asus over Gigabyte, actually my current MOBO is my first (and last) Asus mobo and it sucks!!!! I have the Asus A8R-MVP wich crash every time that I try to overclock it, no matter which one of the large set of overclocking options I select. Also it crash every time when I play old and not so demanding games like the Age of Mitology. I'm a programmer, somtimes I need to use compilers to do my work, what was may big surpise when (because my wife took my machine to chat) I took my old P3 desktop (that now belongs to my 8 years old kit) and see that the compilers respond much (very much) faster in this machine (obviously a Gigabyte MOBO). Maybe I had the bad luck to choose the worst mobo created by Asus, but in my personal experience Asus is not a good brand - Gigabyte Rules!!!!! - By the way, every time that I connect the headphones to my desktop I need to manual configure a second audio output and restart the MP3 / Sound application to hear the audio in my headphones. I contacted Asus support and they said: This can not be solved, this is the way in which the hardware was defined. Asus is bad, Asus is evil. |
camelo (10812) | ||
| 473443 | 2008-01-29 21:13:00 | hmmm.... this thread is getting a bit old, but I'll let this one pass to see if anyone's changed their opinions on MOBO's. |
Jan Birkeland (4741) | ||
| 473444 | 2008-01-29 21:38:00 | I use Intel | Enigmur (10547) | ||
| 473445 | 2008-01-29 21:57:00 | ECS a(biggest motherboard manafacture last time i checked, ). ASUS wins fourth time as world's best motherboard manufacture - 2005 www.itweb.co.za Amount of manufactured motherboards (in millions) Manufacturer 2004* 2003 ASUS 18.31 29.5 ECS/PCChips 8.06 18.36 Gigabyte 6.78 13.5 MSI 6.3 15 Not that quantity should be equated with quality. ASUS still rules. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 473446 | 2008-01-29 21:57:00 | :lol: :lol: Still Asus...but Gigabyte a close second. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 473447 | 2008-01-29 22:01:00 | Well, I just see this forum and register to pc world just to let a post here - I'm wondering how many people prefer Asus over Gigabyte, actually my current MOBO is my first (and last) Asus mobo and it sucks!!!! I have the Asus A8R-MVP wich crash every time that I try to overclock it, no matter which one of the large set of overclocking options I select. Also it crash every time when I play old and not so demanding games like the Age of Mitology. I'm a programmer, somtimes I need to use compilers to do my work, what was may big surpise when (because my wife took my machine to chat) I took my old P3 desktop (that now belongs to my 8 years old kit) and see that the compilers respond much (very much) faster in this machine (obviously a Gigabyte MOBO). Maybe I had the bad luck to choose the worst mobo created by Asus, but in my personal experience Asus is not a good brand - Gigabyte Rules!!!!! - By the way, every time that I connect the headphones to my desktop I need to manual configure a second audio output and restart the MP3 / Sound application to hear the audio in my headphones. I contacted Asus support and they said: This can not be solved, this is the way in which the hardware was defined. Asus is bad, Asus is evil. It would seem that board has problems alright (just search google for "A8R-MVP issues") but one bad board with a combination of ATi and ULi chipsets (I mean, wtf?) is not enough to say that Asus are evil. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
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