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Are there really any good motherboards out there?

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ingeborgdot

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I have been looking at newegg for motherboards as I am thinking about building another computer. Are there any good ones out there? According to the ratings there are too many bad eggs😉I am not a gamer but I need a good motherboard because I work it hard with video editing. I like a well built board but there seems to be so many negatives toward them unless you want to pay 300 for one. Anyone care to comment on this.
 
Keep in mind, every manufacturer will have at least a 1-3% failure rate.

Let's take this board for example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813128358

428 reviews. 79% of them 5 eggs.. 5% 1 egg.

Take into consideration the amount of people that bought that board. Who knows how many NewEgg have sold. All you or I know is that 335 buyers rated it a perfect board, while the others, not as perfect, or downright useless (5%).

Most people will only post about their bad experiences with a certain product. Of all the satisfied customers with the aforementioned motherboard, there's probably a small percentage that came back to leave positive feedback. I know I've bought things from the Egg that I haven't left feedback for, good or bad.
 
if you're looking at newegg, many (but not all) of the reviewers on there leave negative feedback because they're idiots who:

(select all that apply)

(1) - don't know how to overclock, and blame the motherboard
(2) - have a non-motherboard related problem, and blame the motherboard [for example, random BSOD due to something stupid they did, refer to (1)]
(3) - don't know how to set ram timings or voltages, or try to use exotic ram like DDR2-1287 @ 2.5V or something, and blame the motherboard
(4) - don't know how to install a motherboard properly, and get problems
(5) - are simply claiming something truly idiotic that makes no sense, like "Gigabyte sucks... I'm getting 40C idle on my E8400 which is totally unacceptable!"

reviews on newegg have to be taken with a few dozen grains of salt. good or bad.

the only way to know if a particular item has a problem is to weed through the bad reviews, and pick out people who clearly know what they're doing, and had a legitimate problem.

 
I'm fairly happy with my DFI LP LT X48 T2R board. Three PCI-E slots, loads of features. Then again, it did cost me $260 each. (Bought two of them.)

If I were in the market for a mobo now, I'd definately get the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P. Great overclocking, even for quad-cores. Then again, I had no trouble getting my Q6600 to 3.6Ghz on my X48 board either.
 
I don't care what platform right now. I want something that will take the extra push that I give it when I render large video files that take an hour or two of hard work at each setting. I want something that will take the coolest cpu out there. I want something that will handle quad core. I will do a slight oc but only about .4 is what I like to go.
 
Most people will only post about their bad experiences with a certain product.
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QFT.

if you're looking at newegg, many (but not all) of the reviewers on there leave negative feedback because they're idiots
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QFT again.

Thought process: you buy a shiny new board, pay a few hundred bucks, it works great: who do you tell about this? Real studies show that it's about 2-3 people.

You buy a shiny new board in a box, and it's DOA, you can't get it running, it doesn't run correctly: you tell 10-20 people, maybe more. Because you are pissed off.

Another study showed that a very high percentage of returned electronics work fine: the buyers have trouble figuring out how it works, give up after 20 minutes, and return item as "non working".

Keep in mind, every manufacturer will have at least a 1-3% failure rate.
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QFT; they could bring that rate down to zero by doing torture testing, "Sigma Six" this and that, and make that $300 motherboard a $900 motherboard because of the cost and time of doing all that testing. Somewhere at Asus and Gigabyte there is a spreadsheet the calculates failure rate/testing costs/warranty costs: it costs them less to have you do that last 1-3% of quality control, and to send you a new motherboard if there is a problem, rather than testing the other 99 boards for a week or two. (Or, as noted in some other threads around here for MSI, sell a board that doesn't work, then ship a replacement board that doesn't work and is all bashed up. Nice.)

Note sure what your budget is, but if you want a powerful reliable video editing machine:

http://store.apple.com/us/brow...ly/mac_pro?mco=MTE2NjQ

Mac Pro. Not cheap, but, all top shelf components, and with Apple volume discounts, it's cheaper to buy it from them than assembling it yourself. Can run OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows just fine.

To get a top quality motherboard, consider server boards:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...yCodeValue=713%3A10780

Supermicro: about 170$$:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813182151

Some highly reated boards here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...8372%2CN82E16813121341

Some highly rated AMD boards:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...1362%2CN82E16813128377

Combine the above with one of the new Phenom IIs, which AMD did get right (read some of the reviews) and you can get quad core video editing goodness.

Note: one this I like about AMD is that you can use ECC RAM: essentially the same price as regular DDR2, and, justs adds a bit (no pun) more reliability, especially if you are doing long video processing runs.

Anyway, worst case scenario: you get a DOA board: you return it, get a new one. Newegg is very good about returns, or, buy locally, so you can swap out a problem board right away.

GL, have fun,

NX


 
Originally posted by: wired247
if you're looking at newegg, many (but not all) of the reviewers on there leave negative feedback because they're idiots who:

(select all that apply)

(1) - don't know how to overclock, and blame the motherboard
(2) - have a non-motherboard related problem, and blame the motherboard [for example, random BSOD due to something stupid they did, refer to (1)]
(3) - don't know how to set ram timings or voltages, or try to use exotic ram like DDR2-1287 @ 2.5V or something, and blame the motherboard
(4) - don't know how to install a motherboard properly, and get problems
(5) - are simply claiming something truly idiotic that makes no sense, like "Gigabyte sucks... I'm getting 40C idle on my E8400 which is totally unacceptable!"

reviews on newegg have to be taken with a few dozen grains of salt. good or bad.

the only way to know if a particular item has a problem is to weed through the bad reviews, and pick out people who clearly know what they're doing, and had a legitimate problem.
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I agree with these comments...You really have to take NewEgg reviews with a grain of salt...A lot of those negative reviews are bogus & it was the person's first build, or whatever so they say the product sucks.
 
I've seen 1 egg reviews on arbitrary things like the ide slot was the "wrong" color, or other silly things that don't affect product quality
 
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