Are Asus mobos really always very stable and have pretty few compat. issues?

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Tabb
Asus and Epox are my top choices when I ever by a motherboard 😀

I like to try a different brand every time I get a mobo in my OWN PC at home.

so far I've used:

Asus
MSI
EPoX
Soltek

my favorites so far have been MSI and Soltek.

 

[WyteWatt]

Yield exactly that way you get to try all kind of different mobo brands.

 

[oldfart]

Asus makes a good solid quality board. My only beef is they have had several models that they messed up on the overclocking features fairly badly. I've used about everything. Abit, Asus, Gigabyte, Epox, MSI, Soyo, Biostar, Shuttle, more that I cant think of at the moment. I've been happiest with Epox, Abit, Asus. Never liked the MSI boards I've had.

 

[WyteWatt]

oldfart yep i like Abit mobos too. I have a older Abit KT7A raid mobo and i still like it a lot but i think i need to upgrade to a ddr mobo with ddr ram. What mobo brand do you like the most out of Asus, Epox and Abit ? Or you like all three the same?

 

[oldfart]

I dont really have a favorite. Whoever makes the best one in a particular chipset. For instance, on the i845D boards, Epox had the best one hands down. 845E, Asus. 845G, Epox. 845PE, maybe Abit.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: imtim83
oldfart yep i like Abit mobos too. I have a older Abit KT7A raid mobo and i still like it a lot but i think i need to upgrade to a ddr mobo with ddr ram. What mobo brand do you like the most out of Asus, Epox and Abit ? Or you like all three the same?

EPOX. Abit is made by ECS. I have an ECS board and haven't had probs yet(knock on wood) but were i work i see dead ECS boards all the time. and Asus boards, since they make most of HPs motherboards, and we deal with that a lot too.

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: imtim83
oldfart yep i like Abit mobos too. I have a older Abit KT7A raid mobo and i still like it a lot but i think i need to upgrade to a ddr mobo with ddr ram. What mobo brand do you like the most out of Asus, Epox and Abit ? Or you like all three the same?

EPOX. Abit is made by ECS. I have an ECS board and haven't had probs yet(knock on wood) but were i work i see dead ECS boards all the time. and Asus boards, since they make most of HPs motherboards, and we deal with that a lot too.

ECS own Abit? Huh? That doesn't make sense financially since two of the same brand will be competing...the only difference is the name...

Well, I've tried SOYO, Lucky Star (are they still around!?!), Epox and now Asus. My SOYO was plagued with problems, the luckystar was okay...and the Epox is great. I now have a deluxe in my hands and am VERY excited for the rest of the parts to arrive so i can create a godly computer

But as i'm looking through the mobo I can see why they are rated so high, and why their motherboards cost a little bit more. I have 2 books -a quick install and a usersguide. then haev a quick install reference sheet, a big sticker that says "insert in Chasis" - it is a pic of the mobo with the quick lo down, I get a stick that says ASUS to put on my case...the last two are something that even the 8k5a2+ didn't have!

I'm now eager to try Soltek, but I don't think it will be for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time considering My asus board is supposed to last me through college (I have a 1700+ i nthere and I figure a year and a hlaf from now when Clawhammer is out I'll go buy the best Barton for dirt cheap prices and slap that sucker in there)

/me is VERY eager to try out the board

 

[Macro2]

ECS makes some boards for Abit and Shuttle.
This is more of a recent development.
Heck, I see AS rock boards with Amptron in the URL.
Who knows who is making what for who over in Taiwan and mainland China. as long as they have someone watching quality control they will be OK.

mac

 

[Sunner]

I tend to buy Asus mobo's.

I've tried others, and have had mixed luck, but with Asus I've never really had bad luck, just mixed good experiences.
That is, some mobo's have been less than spectacular in some areas, such as the P2B 440BX, which wasn't a very great overclocker, but on the other hand it's a rock solid mobo.

The big thing with Asus mobos for me is that they rarely give me any problems, even if they sometimes lack a specific feature or two that I want, but I can live with that, as long as they don't give me any headaches.

 

[CraigRT]

I am big on not having headaches too.
the only board I have owned that I have had headaches with is EPoX and (forgot to mention earlier) Soyo

the Soyo was a fanTASTIC overclocker, but the UDMA and 2nd IDE controller was giving me grief.
the computer worked fine.. but the UDMA did not. very stable though..

I am however going EPoX again, and I am pretty confident it will be sweet.

 

[Macro2]

Shoot, I've had some trouble with every MSI board I've used. Always something minor but a pain. The last one didn't like floppy drives. After several cables and several different drives it works ok. The one before that the thing wouldn't boot right and the red leds stayed on, black screen. A reboot fixes it. Still happens once in a while.



Mac

 

[Imported]

Most people with any pre-October manufactured P4T533 can say Asus didn't do very well stability wise with that motherboard.. I just RMA'd mine back in hopes of one produced after October.

 

[oldfart]

Shoot, I've had some trouble with every MSI board I've used.

Yup.

 

[Wuzup101]

Not saying there aren't other great board makers... but I doubt you will be disapointed w/ anything that you get from ASUS. Though you might be able to get it somewhere else for a better price... but ASUS won't let you down...

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Macro2
Shoot, I've had some trouble with every MSI board I've used. Always something minor but a pain. The last one didn't like floppy drives. After several cables and several different drives it works ok. The one before that the thing wouldn't boot right and the red leds stayed on, black screen. A reboot fixes it. Still happens once in a while.



Mac

That's really a shame.. I've utterly loved each one I have used.
one of the stores I regularly visit in town (strange as it is) ONLY carries MSI boards.. they are a large store in London and they stock only MSI, they will special order others, but if you buy a system, it's powered by MSI.

I've used:

K7T Turbo LE (fantastic board)
SIS 645 P4 (seems really good as well, and very, very inexpensive)
KT3 Ultra (also seems nice... seems stable.. what can i say.. works fine!!)

one of the guy's at the last LAN party had an MSI K7D Master-L. what a sweet system... dual MP1900+ on that badboy... ran totally awesome too. I have seen nothing but good with MSI.. I hope I can see something bad soon so I can report it... 😛

 

[RanDum72]

My first MSI board ran great for about 10 months, then died suddenly. It was the K7t-pro2 series that had bad caps. Luckily, mwave replaced it. I sold that mofo so fast I didn't even know where it went😉. A friend also had his MSI 815-based mobo die. I checked it and almost all large caps in it were leaking. Maybe current MSI boards are now OK but I still hesitate a bit on recommending it. On a positive note for MSI, their boards have always been really easy to setup.

 

[Texun]

I've had a few with AMD's and one with an Intel P4 and they were all great, very stable. I noticed the A7V's aren't favored much in this thread. I just built two of them and they went off without a hitch and have been perfect so far. Can someone explain what the general rub is with A7V's? I would like to know what to watch out for. I searched the forum before going with the first A7V266-C but didn't find much. The only feedback I got was positive.

Thanks,

 

[J5im8yo]

hahah SiS died on me in 1/2 year. Been using Abit K7ta v1.3 ever since on a TB 1000. I then switched to an XP 1700+ on the same board. Videocard died once, CPU burned once, RAM malfunctioning and the board is still alive. Although ABIT is quality stuff I'd rather try ASUS now I've the A7v8x sitting next to me wanting to get into my Cheiftain case but I want to return it and get an Nforce2 =) So far for me.

Abit is a 10/10
SiS is a 2/10 don't ask I just hate it
Intel is a 10/10
Soyo is a 9/10
Gigabyte is a 9/10
MSI 8/10

Asus I will decide when I start using it.

Hey what about IWILL?

 

[RanDum72]

hahah SiS died on me in 1/2 year

SiS is just the chipset. Do you know who made your motherboard with the SiS chipset?

 

[Mem]

My first MSI board ran great for about 10 months, then died suddenly. It was the K7t-pro2 series that had bad caps

Yep some had the bad caps ,I`m still using the original MSI K7T Pro(rock solid just like my Epox) which is still going strong over 2 years now ,Asus are a decent brand but I prefer Epox or MSI due to having excellent stability and better price over Asus.I do believe other brands now have stability equal to or better then Asus now.

🙂

 

[bigboxes]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: imtim83
oldfart yep i like Abit mobos too. I have a older Abit KT7A raid mobo and i still like it a lot but i think i need to upgrade to a ddr mobo with ddr ram. What mobo brand do you like the most out of Asus, Epox and Abit ? Or you like all three the same?

EPOX. Abit is made by ECS. I have an ECS board and haven't had probs yet(knock on wood) but were i work i see dead ECS boards all the time. and Asus boards, since they make most of HPs motherboards, and we deal with that a lot too.

Abit contracts with ECS to make their low-end mobos. That is all. Boards that provide little profit. So, unless you purchase their low-end mobos, you are still getting abit qual. 🙂

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: bigboxes

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: imtim83
oldfart yep i like Abit mobos too. I have a older Abit KT7A raid mobo and i still like it a lot but i think i need to upgrade to a ddr mobo with ddr ram. What mobo brand do you like the most out of Asus, Epox and Abit ? Or you like all three the same?

EPOX. Abit is made by ECS. I have an ECS board and haven't had probs yet(knock on wood) but were i work i see dead ECS boards all the time. and Asus boards, since they make most of HPs motherboards, and we deal with that a lot too.

Abit contracts with ECS to make their low-end mobos. That is all. Boards that provide little profit. So, unless you purchase their low-end mobos, you are still getting abit qual. 🙂

I will never buy an Abit board. A friend used to sell Abits and he had a huge return rate. Plus, they have a wonky replacement policy. I think it used to be $25 for a replacement or something like that. My friends have lots of Abits go bad on them.

Abits have a lot of features, but high quality isn't one of them.

 

[WyteWatt]

If you would of read Anandtech's Nforce 2 chipset mobo review you would known that Abit's RMA policy has changed. Abit is the only mobo company to do it too.