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Motherboard reliability??

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Kaieye

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I don't even work in this industry and I have seen so many broken motherboards that it is not funny. I do a lot of repairs on the side(not accepting $$) but as a hobby. But I have like five motherboards that have gone kaput. What's going on?
 
I have a friend in the auto repair industry who said pretty much the same thing ..
He wonders why all he sees are autos that need repair ..
 
There are more and more integrated parts on motherboards like sound card, Network Card/jacks, USB, etc. Then there are all the people who try to get a new motherboard and run IDE drives, even though the new SATA interface has been out for 3-5 years by now. Also you will see people try to run Memory that is incompatible for the motherboard. Then there are the motherboards that people either overclocked or they tried to power it with the wrong Power supply. Along the way people also try to screw down the motherboard directly to the metal plate or there is a connection between metal parts that ground out.

Some motherboards are just bad when they are made or they use lousy components or they use the wrong components altogether. Capaciters have different ratings and maybe they get mixed up or the supplier sends the incorrect or faulty part and it gets used anyway. In some samsung TV's it was like a lot of the wrong or capaciters that did not meet the specifications were used. Often it was in the Capaciters in the power circuits. They work for a while, and then they go bad.

It seems like the inferior motherboards are often the cheaper ones. Then once in a while some model is just a lemon. There are an awful lot of things that can go wrong with a motherboard, the least of all is just plain old operator error.
 
pias as long as you dont buy a ecs then your cheaper ones being inferior stands out😛 speaking of cheap this msi x58 im using is a piece of crap the nb is known to run hot and lol i cant get a 3.3ghzs overclock out of this without it booting 😛 but thats ok overclocking only buys time between needing to upgrade
 
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