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khaleel5000

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Is it just a myth or a reality that mercury motherboards are not of good quality then their counterparts manufactured by intel asus etc?
 
Originally posted by: khaleel5000
Is it just a myth or a reality that mercury motherboards are not of good quality then their counterparts manufactured by intel asus etc?
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I don't think they are in buisness anymore. So the answer to your question is best replied with a no, they are inferior to ASUS and Intel.
 
Originally posted by: khaleel5000
Is it just a myth or a reality that mercury motherboards are not of good quality then their counterparts manufactured by intel asus etc?
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What Googer say is true, plus, for an Intel chip a board made by intel is always superior. Even though intel boards don't have all the bells and whistles as other intel compatable boards, intel MADE boards are the most stable (for intel chips).
 
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Originally posted by: khaleel5000
Is it just a myth or a reality that mercury motherboards are not of good quality then their counterparts manufactured by intel asus etc?
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What Googer say is true, plus, for an Intel chip a board made by intel is always superior. Even though intel boards don't have all the bells and whistles as other intel compatable boards, intel MADE boards are the most stable (for intel chips).
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Asus used to make boards for Intel, not sure if they still do.
 
Originally posted by: Sunner
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Originally posted by: khaleel5000
Is it just a myth or a reality that mercury motherboards are not of good quality then their counterparts manufactured by intel asus etc?
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What Googer say is true, plus, for an Intel chip a board made by intel is always superior. Even though intel boards don't have all the bells and whistles as other intel compatable boards, intel MADE boards are the most stable (for intel chips).
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Asus used to make boards for Intel, not sure if they still do.
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yes they do
 
I am aware they sell motherboards with their own name on them. They have 4-5 Motherboard manufacturers build boards for them. Asus and Foxconn make moast of them (top maker was Asus but now Foxconn). They actually make very little outside CPU, Chipsets, and NIC chips, almost everything else is outsourced.
 
Originally posted by: Topweasel
I am aware they sell motherboards with their own name on them. They have 4-5 Motherboard manufacturers build boards for them. Asus and Foxconn make moast of them (top maker was Asus but now Foxconn). They actually make very little outside CPU, Chipsets, and NIC chips, almost everything else is outsourced.
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All mobo companies have components from various vendors, no one mobo company makes everything on any mobo, that would be financial suicide. Intel designs the board, most of the chips on the board and othe companies make the non essential components, like Foxconn makes basically all the PCI, PCIE and agp slots for pretty much all mobo companies. But an intel board compared to any other intel compatable board, is mostly made from intel developed, designed and manufactured intel parts, sans the caps, slotes, et al...
 
No you don't understand Intel doesn't even put these boards together. The complete construction of whole boards are handled by these manufactures. Ever Wonder How in the world Asus says they are going to sell 55 million boards if 120 mill are all that are being used and intell sell 85-90 million of them. Foxconn, Asus, using their large production capabilities build these boards for Intel. Hell Foxconn almost only made boards till just recently when they started selling some under their own name. Retail boards only account for about 20-25% of board sales almost every mobo maker makes boards for an OEM.

I am willing to bet you won't believe that almost non of the big OEMs make their Laptops, they just choose Proc, memory, hard drive, and optical drive, and build a shell around the chasis.
 
Originally posted by: Oyeve
I completely understand, as I stated no company makes a complete board, its finacial suicide.
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foxcon would be the closest to making their own boards, but not everything
 
Originally posted by: Oyeve
I completely understand, as I stated no company makes a complete board, its finacial suicide.
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You don't understand. You seem to think that they do more then design and request the boards. They don't, all and i mean all of the production of their boards are handled by other manufacturers, the provide a design and the chipsets and request a certain number from each manufactuerer. They don't make anything beyond the chipset, and they don't put anything together but maybe the actuall retail packages (they probably out source that).
 
I under standd nobody makes the whole board but they handle the actuall production of it. This is not the case with intel as they don't produce anything but the chipset and don't even handle the production of the board.
 
Originally posted by: Valkerie
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Originally posted by: Topweasel
Intel doesn't make any motherboards.
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Um, YES they do.
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Intel mobos are much more prefered than almost any other 3rd party boards out there when it comes to Intel's sockets
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Perferred and Most used are 2 different things. Intel boards on the retail (or DIY) market are one of the lowestest sellers. Most people are not given a choice when they have a Inel board in their machine (and most of them would probably choose intel anyways). Its one of those things where stats can be used the wrong way.
 
Originally posted by: Topweasel
I under standd nobody makes the whole board but they handle the actuall production of it. This is not the case with intel as they don't produce anything but the chipset and don't even handle the production of the board.
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I know, but the outsource manufacturers have to make the Intel boards to whatever Intel specifies, which is why they are the most reliable mobos for intel cpus. Overpriced but highly reliable. I only use Intel branded mobos for building servers, for all others i use ASUS or Gigabit, I used to use A-bit but had some issues with them for the last couple of years.
 
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Originally posted by: Topweasel
I under standd nobody makes the whole board but they handle the actuall production of it. This is not the case with intel as they don't produce anything but the chipset and don't even handle the production of the board.
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I know, but the outsource manufacturers have to make the Intel boards to whatever Intel specifies, which is why they are the most reliable mobos for intel cpus. Overpriced but highly reliable. I only use Intel branded mobos for building servers, for all others i use ASUS or Gigabit, I used to use A-bit but had some issues with them for the last couple of years.
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Exactly, I just wanted to make sure you understood it. Intel does design it (and over all is one of the best designers) they just don't handle any of the production after that. So in in the end they don't make any motherboards (they just design them).
 
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