What is a good and STABLE motherboard?

[Neverbehind]

Well, I have been building a new computer with DFI nF4 Ultra-D. While I am pretty impressed with the options in BIOS, I am much less so with the board stability and picky and fragile manner. Right now I encoutered a big problem with installing windows and from reading other people's posts at DFI-street forum, it seems there is no fix for it yet. Meanwhile browsing the forum I gained a lot of knowledge and understanding of all sort of problems that might occur (just from about 20-30 new threads each day) in different stages such as booting up, installing OS, installing programs, running programs and OC. My original plan was to build a computer for OC and to run program smooth on it. (It makes no sense to me to have a high Prime score if you enter a game and crash 2 hours into it). And right now I am stuck at stage 1, so there are potentially more problems later on and I just want to know from all your MB experienced users, what's a very stable motherboard that still offers some OC capability. By "some" I mean I don't use sub-zero cooling, I don't even use water, I just use AIR cooling. Those extra OC options in DFI are good on the eyes but they might be overkill for someone who relies only on AIR cooling. So that's what I meant by "offering some OC capabilities".

Please help, thanks!

 

[Creideike]

Althought there are other options and the bord has its flaws as well (chipset fan), the Asus A8N-SLI Delux has been one of the most stable bords I have ever ran, and aside from one RMA I had to do (just a bad board) it has been running great since early January for me. It does not have the OCing options or breadth of settings that DFI has, and I still believe that you can't get your memory into T1 at certain OC settings like ppl would like, but aside from that it offers everytning else you need to OC without fancy things for liquid cooling. Hope this helps!

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: Creideike
Althought there are other options and the bord has its flaws as well (chipset fan), the Asus A8N-SLI Delux has been one of the most stable bords I have ever ran, and aside from one RMA I had to do (just a bad board) it has been running great since early January for me. It does not have the OCing options or breadth of settings that DFI has, and I still believe that you can't get your memory into T1 at certain OC settings like ppl would like, but aside from that it offers everytning else you need to OC without fancy things for liquid cooling. Hope this helps!

I was going to come in and comment on the SAME exact board. It is an excellent board, many many options, and stable as heck so far. I run a 3200+ in mine and do video editing along with flash work and have no problems whatsoever. I'm really happoy with the options it provides with oc...nothing to excessive, but enough if i want to try it out.

 

[notanotheracct]

epox 9npa+ultra - OC potential almost as good as your dfi, alot less problems.

 

[BTA]

I didnt see if you needed SLI or not, but I'll throw up a vote for the Chaintech VNF4/Ultra.

Have two systems running them right now with no problems.

 

[Fallengod]

:beer: EPOX 9NPA
:beer: ASUS A8N-E

I personaly just bought the epox myself. Havnt yet tried it, for I do not yet have my video card, PSU or CPU yet, but seems to be well recommended.