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What`s your favourite motherboard brand over the years?

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Man, I must have had the luck of the draw with all my AMD boards. The two I got for celeron sucked though.

MSI, Gigabyte, Asus SS7, and Epox.

I'd have to say the Gigabyte, simply because after building 2 athlon systems with it from the ground up, I did not have ONE SINGLE problem. We're talking a dream. I threw in all the cards, connected all the stuff, then just installed the OS. Then after throwing the gigabyte board into a small case, 250w PS and cheap generic ram, and an OS already installed, it went off without a single hitch. I can't complain about it and the stability made my day.
 
Asus was my long time favorite, for years ever since my first pentium when I upgraded from a 486! Now MSI is my favorite cause they have great prices and there boards a high quality built! Stability from MSI boards seems to be the best also. So my fav now is definetely MSI (MicroStar INTL).... Sorry ASUS just seems like your products become more buggy with every new board released!
 
My first favorite, when I was building 486 boards, was American Megatrends. They were good, stable boards with excellent documentation. Tyan made some really good Super7 boards. Lately I like ASUS and ABIT.
 
I do like Asus very much, but I loved my ole workhorse Abit BH6. That board is what...2 years old and you can still run p3's in it.

Anyway:

1) Asus
2) Abit

Inosuke
 
In the past I've been partial to Epox and FIC. I'm looking at Abit or Asus for an impending upgrade; leaning toward the Abit.
 
I now have two aopen boards that I'm very happy with. They aren't real popular but don't show up with problems on the forums either. Cheap to buy, easy to find and very good quality and stable.
 
I've used Asus since my first 486 build about 5 years ago. There was just one instance where I used something other than an Asus and that was when I used a Supermicro Pentium mobo. Ran into so many stability problems I ended up returning it and replacing it with, you guessed it, an Asus. So I my vote would be for:

#1 Asus
 
during the 386 and 486 era, it was BioStar and Soyo for me. Pentium years it has always been ASUS for me
 
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