Here is a chart showing who shipped the most Motherboards in Q1

[damocles]

link

People always want to know who is biggest, nice to have a reference

ASUS - 6.76 (million)
ECS - 6.72
MSI - 4.91
Gigabyte - 4.625
ABit - 1.265
DFI - 1.027
Chaintech - 0.793
Biostar - 0.557


ECS is much bigger than i would have guessed

Oops, Q1- still have the AMD release on the brain
*Taiwanese Manufacturers

 

[MortaniuS]

Cool information!

 

[birddog]

you may want to post this in the motherboards forum also.

 

[CocaCola5]

ECS is big in Europe, atleast thats what i hear.

 

[Whitewolf]

Excuse me but what does ECS make?

 

[Wizkid]

I hadn't heard of ECS until recently, but my friend bought one for a cheap system and it works great. Since then he has ordered a 2nd one for another system and it too works very well. It's very stable and performs quite fast (one was based on kt133 and the other on kt133a).

I didn't realize that they were that big of a company though, I may start to seriously consider them for some of my builds.

BTW - for those of us in canada, NCIX has these boards for a very good price

 

[bex0rs]

ECS Homepage

I use one of their *highly integrated* boards in my FlexATX Guest / LAN box.

~bex0rs

 

[clumsum]

That's good information .......... but I would wonder how many units, of those shipped, from each of the top manufacturers' were shipped OEM to PC mfg's ............. and who is on the top five list for over-clocking, user installed mb's ............... ???

 

[Keego]

hey bex0rz

how is it that when I go to www.ecsusa.com I get popups to install the chineese language IE thing... lol

...sigh...

I'm suprised that many motherboards went out.. that's a lot but not when you think about it.. what is the world population at right now? well I'm getting out of this hardware business stuff give me a laptop anyday!

 

[BFG10K]

I can't believe that there's such a big difference between Gigabyte and ABit. I thought ABit was much bigger.

 

[jkellynewyork]

I used to use Asus but I wanted to build a very inexpensive motherboard and I heard a few good reviews on ECS motherboard k7vza so I tried it out. It is amazing. I have never had one problem yet. Bought it for another computer, same thing extremely stable.
I am buying another one right now actually.

They are not good for overclocking but for the people I build computers for they would never dare go near a bios screen or even unplug a cord from the back of the computer for any matter.

So I am happy for ECS they deserve a nice rank.
Hope great support keeps comeing from them in the future also.

The only thing I hope does not happen is that they boost up their price because they know that they have a reliable board and soon people will also and be willing to pay the premium.

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

*cough* Isn't ECS owned by PC-Chips?

 

[Keego]

:Q :Q :Q :Q :Q :Q :Q

 

[bex0rs]

*cough* Isn't ECS owned by PC-Chips?

There was a thread not too long ago that brought up this issue:

Are pc chips or ecs mobos reliable??????

Look specifically at the post by Modus.

~bex0rs

 

[LilScoooters]

ECS makes alot of there boards for commircial app's....mobo only machines...(smog testers,medical testers,enviromental machines...etc.....one of the original founders of ECS went and started PC-Chips....

 

[T2T III]

<< Well said Modus, we do have some intelligence on here instead of the &quot;PC Chips sucks&quot; >>


Sorry, but I was bitten by their &quot;fake cache&quot; scheme a few years back and, frankly, I still won't trust this company no matter how much they have improved. I just can't believe that a company would create fake cache chips (with markings), then glue them to their motherboards (along with a hacked bios to read &quot;256K Write Back Cache&quot. Therefore, I am entitled to say &quot;PC Chips sucks&quot;.

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

One of the reasons ECS sells so many mobo's is because they are a major OEM supplier. Ever wonder who made that generic <fill in the blank> mobo. Chances are it could be ECS...

 

[TunaBoo]

How do ya guys like biostar? I was reccomended it for integrated systems, or would you go asus over it? I don't really lke ASUS the most, I would rather use the more familiar PC-CHIPS even if it IS evil.