Best or worst MoBo's ever

[Fhistleb]

I'm just curious to see what your guys/girls favorite and most hated companies and specific motherboards are.

My favorite motherboard is the one i'm using now an Asus M4a88TD-V EVO, I remember the worst I had was some weird mobo that we picked up at a swap meet..... stupid thing blew up XD

 

[gorcorps]

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[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Asus Maximus Formula II P45 board - DIE ASUS

 

[mfenn]

Worst: MSI RD480 Neo2, it used some POS ULI southbridge whose support dried up after Nvidia bought them out.

 

[stargazr]

Best: Asus P4PE

 

[Slammy1]

Best would be my P3B-F system, still working fine at a friend's house. My latest build will be the first non-Asus build since then.

 

[stevech]

Worst: Most ECS
Best: Most ASUS (two M2N-MXs with a zillion problem-free hours on them)

 

[Dasda]

Best: Asus and Gigabyte

Worst: Biostar

 

[DominionSeraph]

Abit BH6 was one of the more popular of the excellent 440BX motherboards. They had a LONG run.

 

[kowalabearhugs]

Abit BH6 was one of the more popular of the excellent 440BX motherboards. They had a LONG run.

Agreed. The BH6 was the board I grew up on. It supported my Pentium III 450@512 and Celeron 533A@896.

 

[dac7nco]

Worst: A PC Chips 486 board was my ... they were blatantly fradulent; the cache chips had no traces!!! Heinous Fuckery, Most Foul... I once had a computer that you dropped to re-seat chips, and that was better.

Great but Vexing: EVGA's SR-2, for not including optical audio or Intel NICs in an over-wide ultimate enthusiast board.

Best: The Gigabyte P43 board in my HTPC; it just works, and I love it.

Daimon

 

[Meghan54]

Worst....PC Chips, older Biostar, FIC, among others

Best.....most Gigabyte, Asus, the rare MSI, Intel

 

[Rhezuss]

Best: ASUS...my current being the M4A77D (AM3/DDR2).

Mostly used ASUS and 1 Gigabyte when I bought a Thunderbird 1200MHz back in the days. Used one ASRock and loved it too, the 939Dual-SATA2 which had AGP and PCI-E plus the addon card for AM2/DDR2 support, awesome little board it was.

My next probably gonna be ASUS, ASRock or Gigabyte again.

 

[synchris]

worst mobo ever had: Asus Maximus Formula

 

[richaron]

worst mobo ever had: Asus Maximus Formula

Interesting use of first post...

Tho did bring up a bit of nostaligia, I probably had more fun on my EPoX 8KHA+ than any other board I've owned.

 

[Eug]

Best: Asus P2B.

The Abit BH6 was popular amongst the overclocker geeks, but the Asus P2B was way more stable.

 

[DigDog]

my vote goes to Gigabyte : 965p_DS3
was the cheapest, best overclocker back when FSB could still top off (i think this girl does 500), had SATA when half the market had IDE, a great bios, ICH8 which is a monster jump ahead from 7, and all for a whopping $60 new.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Worst: Asus A8N E (fan kept failing) and bios/driver/compatibility issues, P5N E SLI support issues

Best: MSI P55 GD65

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

Best? The one I currently have in my sig desktop. It's been incredibly stable, looks great, is future-proof, and has features only found in $200+ boards.

To be honest, I always research before I buy, so I've never had a board I'd say was bad or even "meh" in comparison to others.

From what I've read ECS seems to be the worst, although they're improving.

 

[synchris]

Interesting use of first post...

Tho did bring up a bit of nostaligia, I probably had more fun on my EPoX 8KHA+ than any other board I've owned.

I think there is too much hatred against Asus from a good brand became, a crappy one

 

[Topweasel]

Hmm I usually spend almost most of my time picking boards as apposed to other parts of my builds, so I rarely ended up with one I disliked.

If I had to pick one it would be either the Tyan Trinity 400 S1854 or Soyo SY-7VCA, both were in my infancy of building computers. The Tyan I got because it was the first 133a board available. The Soyo because it was available. I was looking for a good overclocker to replace what I felt was an ancient BX platform, with my BH6. After that I got Asus or MSI only from that point on till I got this Intel DX79SI I got as a gift. Not as bad as other Intel boards I have worked with, but USB is a bit funky.

As for best. Well its hard to say. I loved my A7N2-Deluxe, best integrated sound ever. My My A8N-SLI Premium was pretty sweet. I swapped that in from the Deluxe version that had a fan die, but it was 5 dollar part to fix that, and ran well and 24-7ish for 2 years before it went.

 

[Topweasel]

I think there is too much hatred against Asus from a good brand became, a crappy one

They are the number 1 supplier of branded and second biggest supplier of un-branded or rebranded boards out there.

I don't think anyone would ever recommend against an ASUS mobo, its just you hear a lot of issues because of the volume of people who use them.

That said they are starting to have QC concerns creeping towards a dangerous level and issues like the DCu II's for the 7950 and 7970's is a tad worrisome when you are talking about $400-$600 depending on when and what you bought.

They have always had crappy support, but it was a non-issue because it used to be that you never ever had to deal with them.

Better way to put it. They used to be a step above Gigabyte and MSI, now they seem to be closer to their level.

 

[synchris]

They are the number 1 supplier of branded and second biggest supplier of un-branded or rebranded boards out there.

I don't think anyone would ever recommend against an ASUS mobo, its just you hear a lot of issues because of the volume of people who use them.

That said they are starting to have QC concerns creeping towards a dangerous level and issues like the DCu II's for the 7950 and 7970's is a tad worrisome when you are talking about $400-$600 depending on when and what you bought.

They have always had crappy support, but it was a non-issue because it used to be that you never ever had to deal with them.

Better way to put it. They used to be a step above Gigabyte and MSI, now they seem to be closer to their level.

yeah maby u right and i am overreacting but before this motherboard i had another one so called premium motherboard which is torn away... plus i have UPS line interactive an APC one and a good premium PSU...

 

[pitz]

The Abits were horrible. BH6. BP6. I spent many a'flamefest telling the overclocker fan boys to stop recommending them merely because they overclocked a bit better than the other boards.

Best boards must've been like the Asus P2B-D. i440BX, dual CPU's. Very nice board, had one in service for 11 years, 24x7.

 

[Topweasel]

The Abits were horrible. BH6. BP6. I spent many a'flamefest telling the overclocker fan boys to stop recommending them merely because they overclocked a bit better than the other boards.

Best boards must've been like the Asus P2B-D. i440BX, dual CPU's. Very nice board, had one in service for 11 years, 24x7.

Agreed. It's almost like Abit engineered instability at stock just to make sure it would overclock better. Once companies like Gigabyte and Asus started to really throw money at the overclocking crowd there was no reason to put up with "quirkyness" of the Abit setup. That said the BH6 was pretty stable for me.