Most reliable brand of motherboards ?

[steve2470]

My Asus board died last week and my Gigabyte board might be toast also, DOA.

Your opinion on mobo "out of the packing box" reliability, please ? Thank you in advance for your time !

Steve

 

[sandorski]

Asus or Gigabyte. More info on your problems seems to be the proper route to take. Seems like the issue may be more than just bad luck.

 

[stevech]

I've hand a number of ASUS motherboards over a span of say 15 years. All AMD based.
Never had one fail.

ECS - poopoo.

 

[Andres3605]

i have used a variety of Asus, MSI and Gigabyte with not a single fail (10+ builds in the last 5 years across all sockets).

 

[Zap]

I've probably used all brands except Jetway, and I've seen bad boards from all brands.

The most successful boards I've used have been ones that I left BIOS alone, used a good quality PSU and use stock voltage components.

 

[nenforcer]

My sister and her husband are still using a MSI K7N 420 Pro nForce Pro Socket A DDR 266 MHz board that I built for their wedding in 2002.

I just recently upgraded the memory to 1 GB and the CPU to the fastest it supports, an AMD Athlon XP 2600+.

I'm amazed the thing is still working but it really hasn't had a whole lot of use since they don't game.

No Manufacturers builds their boards to fail, sometimes you just have better luck with others, as any maker can have a dud or poor quality control on a single line.

That said, as you can tell by my Sig, I've always felt ASUS had the top of the line boards.

 

[sangyup81]

ASUS but it matters more whether you're buying a budget board or something more expensive that can be better built

 

[pcgeek11]

I like Asus and have only had one failure after a year of service and Asus repaired it under warranty.

 

[thescreensavers]

Asus and gigabyte

 

[ensign_lee]

I vote gigabyte.

Small sample size, but of all 3 boards they sent me, 100% of them worked whereas with ASUS 0% out of 2 worked.

 

[lsv]

It all depends, when you hear horror stories it's from people that are a) angry their hardware failed and b) have the time to whine about it

I've only had Asus boards but I was considering a Gigabyte board at point one and I'd use pretty much any board if it had the features for the price

 

[mmaestro]

The plural of anecdote is not data. My first Asus board failed, the replacement's doing fine. That's a 50% failure rate. Of a sample size of 2. IMO a better question to ask is who has the best customer service for if something goes wrong. I asked that question when my first board failed, and the overwhelming response seemed to be "EVGA" FWIW.

 

[lsv]

The plural of anecdote is not data. My first Asus board failed, the replacement's doing fine. That's a 50% failure rate. Of a sample size of 2. IMO a better question to ask is who has the best customer service for if something goes wrong. I asked that question when my first board failed, and the overwhelming response seemed to be "EVGA" FWIW.

Good point. This.

 

[you2]

I can't really talk about brands but my msi kt33 lasted forever and so far my dfi-lan4 hasn't died. I had an alberaton mb that lasted 7 years and an asus board that lasted 5. Hum. I don't think I actually have a mb that has failed (though the alberaton is suspect as that system has started to random reboot).
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I see more complaints on asus than any other brand but I think they also sell the most so perhaps to be expected ?
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I hear the best think about biostar. but no one buys them anyways.

 

[ensign_lee]

The plural of anecdote is not data. My first Asus board failed, the replacement's doing fine. That's a 50% failure rate. Of a sample size of 2. IMO a better question to ask is who has the best customer service for if something goes wrong. I asked that question when my first board failed, and the overwhelming response seemed to be "EVGA" FWIW.

Yeah, I'm really sad that EVGA didn't make any P67 boards until waaaay late in the game.

 

[HeXen]

i've seen DOA on Asus and Gigabyte, also failures in under 2yrs as well. But overall Asus is very rock solid.

 

[nenforcer]

Yeah, I'm really sad that EVGA didn't make any P67 boards until waaaay late in the game.

They just released their Z68 boards, as well, in case you hadn't heard!

 

[ensign_lee]

They just released their Z68 boards, as well, in case you hadn't heard!

Haha well I'm not about to switch my motherboard out now!

 

[Athadeus]

Asus somewhat quirky but fairly reliable in my experience. Intel most reliable period.

 

[xXCrossCheckXx]

i have had ECS, Asus, XFX and EVGA boards. i have to say that i liked asus' boards but EVGA takes the cake for me. Their Customer service is astounding imho. my daughter spilled a cup of soda on my case and saved everything except for the mobo. cleaned my mobo and rma'd it to EVGA. they sent me a new one no questions asked.

 

[Ayah]

Intel server boards, Supermicro and Tyan.

 

[Texun]

ASUS and Gigabyte are the only boards I've used for the past 5 or so years. Both are solid as a rock and have been exceptionally reliable.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

I've probably used all brands except Jetway, and I've seen bad boards from all brands.

The most successful boards I've used have been ones that I left BIOS alone, used a good quality PSU and use stock voltage components.

This.

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

My experiences have reinforced the old say that you get what you pay for. I have good luck with Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, and almost any board as long as I am not buying the sub-$100 boards. In the past when I have used a cheap board to make a system for someone it comes back to haunt me most of the time.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

 

[ZipSpeed]

I used mostly Asus boards over the years with a splash here and there from other manufacturers with no issues. I even I have a ECS based system at work still chugging along for almost 10 years. Only time I ever RMA'd a mobo was when Asus screwed up and released a BIOS that was corrupt.