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Favorite Mainboard company?

Abit has a high failure rate because of bad suppliers of some of their components. There's a thread about that within the last couple of days and an article. ASUS all the way. MSI boards suck too. Keyboard buffer was too small for bridge commander. It got upset when I held down 4 keys which was necessary. ASUS doesn't do that. Had a lot of blue screens (infinite loop) with MSI but magically went away when changed to ASUS.
 
I'd say Gigabyte is the best (reliability/stability-wise) but ASUS is right there, and certainly better for o/clocking.

JC
 
Where is Soltek? That's my vote. They make cheap and very stable motherboards and their software bundles are actually useful.

I think Asus is too pricey and MSI is too flaky.
 
Odd. No Tyan in the list?

Anyways, voted for Intel. Out of a hundred Intel boards, I've only seen a couple go bad. Whichever sloppy one that ran SDRAM through a memory translator hub...one of the i820s if I remember correctly...

Would probably place Gigabyte and Asus tied for second after Intel.

Then probably Supermicro and the rest in no determined order yet.
 
Supermicro. Their boards never fail and are stellar performers. Furthermore, they have a committment to Server Works chipsets, which I appreciate.
 
I woulda voted Iwill but they havent had a decent AMD board since the KT133 which was solid as a rock. they did have the best AMD implementation but I dont want to have to super OC my MB just to get average performance campared to Nforce and KT266A.

pentiums are going to have to pull even further ahead than they are before i give up my AMD loyalty, which would make me consider another company besides Iwill or Asus.

after a bad experience with gigabyte Im realy lovin this Asus Nforce, but its not perfect
 
Asus. I have one that's still running strong after 2-3 years, and my next upgrade will also include an asus mb.
 
My MSI K7T Turbo was sweet-@$$ back a year and a half ago. All red and cool *sighs* I just happened to break it on my own, so I really have nothing against MSI. It even OC'd my T-bird to where I wanted it. Score one for MSI!


(uses a schitty Shuttle now)

Down with Shuttle. boooooo.
 
I'm fond of Asus and Abit as I've had two of each of their boards and they've been good to me. My current board is the Abit TH7 II Raid and it's fantastic. Very stable and great overclocking options etc.

I had an Aopen board a couple of years ago which was a POS though.
 
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