Which companies Manufacture their own Motherboards?
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It's really a very tangled web! Some companies make certain parts but not all of the board, others make the entire board sub x/y/z piece.
ASUS and Gigabyte 100% make their own boards, but sometimes sub contract durring periods when demand is greater than their manufacturing capacity.
I'm 90% Sure EVGA manufacture thier own stuff, not to mention the award winning life-time warrenty!
MSI perhaps, I'm unsure.
Biostar/Asrock I would be shocked if they did.
ASUS and Gigabyte 100% make their own boards, but sometimes sub contract durring periods when demand is greater than their manufacturing capacity.
I'm 90% Sure EVGA manufacture thier own stuff, not to mention the award winning life-time warrenty!
MSI perhaps, I'm unsure.
Biostar/Asrock I would be shocked if they did.
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Asrock is a subsidiary of Asus, so I would expect Asus to make them. Even Asus and Gigabyte don't make the whole thing. They buy the sockets and back-panel connectors, for example.
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Asus seperated from Pegatron who made their mobos and gpus. This is to compete with Dell and HP etc etc in the lappy business. Some Asus boards may be rebranded.
Pegatron are responsible for all the quality Asus boards btw.
So being a free agent ASRock grabbed them up and teamed up with them. Pegatron is making boards for ASRock now.
DFI had no boards after january. Small time player in a High End business they seem to taking a plunge and might be dead or might come up with another mobo with a million Bios tweaking features. Time will tell.
Gigabyte thx to their 2 OZ copper layer in the high end boards and their in house Overclocker are the top dog with the market share at the moment.
Pegatron are responsible for all the quality Asus boards btw.
So being a free agent ASRock grabbed them up and teamed up with them. Pegatron is making boards for ASRock now.
DFI had no boards after january. Small time player in a High End business they seem to taking a plunge and might be dead or might come up with another mobo with a million Bios tweaking features. Time will tell.
Gigabyte thx to their 2 OZ copper layer in the high end boards and their in house Overclocker are the top dog with the market share at the moment.
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http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100628PD208.html
"Asustek plans to outsource motherboards and graphics cards to ECS, say sources
Latest news
Monica Chen, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES [Monday 28 June 2010]
Asustek Computer reportedly plans to outsource some of its production of motherboards and graphics cards to rival company Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) as part of efforts to expand its outsourcing policy to reduce its dependence on Pegatron Technology, while boosting its profitability, according to industry sources.
Asustek declined to comment on market reports, although the company has recently accelerated its outsourcing strategy by adding Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Quanta Computer as its production partners for notebooks and Eee PCs and also including Foxconn as its OEM maker of Garmin-Asus smartphones.
Meanwhile, Pegatron is also reportedly soliciting motherboard and graphics card orders from Gigabyte Technology, which is currently cooperating with Foxconn International Holdings (FIH) and Global Brands Manufacture (GBM) for motherboard and graphics card production, the sources added.
"Asustek plans to outsource motherboards and graphics cards to ECS, say sources
Latest news
Monica Chen, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES [Monday 28 June 2010]
Asustek Computer reportedly plans to outsource some of its production of motherboards and graphics cards to rival company Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) as part of efforts to expand its outsourcing policy to reduce its dependence on Pegatron Technology, while boosting its profitability, according to industry sources.
Asustek declined to comment on market reports, although the company has recently accelerated its outsourcing strategy by adding Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Quanta Computer as its production partners for notebooks and Eee PCs and also including Foxconn as its OEM maker of Garmin-Asus smartphones.
Meanwhile, Pegatron is also reportedly soliciting motherboard and graphics card orders from Gigabyte Technology, which is currently cooperating with Foxconn International Holdings (FIH) and Global Brands Manufacture (GBM) for motherboard and graphics card production, the sources added.
Actually, I'm 90% sure that EVGA makes most of its own graphics cards but only does the final assembly, basic testing, and packaging on its motherboards. e.g. things like installing the plastic parts, sockets, heatsinks, jumper packs, etc. The PCB manufacturing and SMT work are done by someone else. I doubt EVGA even does the actual nitty-gritty PCB design beyond specifying the feature set, general layout, # of slots, peripheral chip selection (e.g. which audio codec or secondary storage controller chip), and the like. All the first tier motherboard companies make most of their own boards; ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ECS.
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Well It is time for me to be honest with you guys.
I had 3 different AM3 boards fail on me, in 3 different computers, in the past year.
My PC; Foxconn A9DA-S, which would not correctly read the my phenom x4 until I updated the Bios. And it would force the driver irql not less or equal error, till I undervolted and underclocked the ram to 1066 from 1333.
Family PC; ECS A880GM-M6, would not boot at all after 3 months of humming along perfectly with an x2. Had to RMA it. and the Replacement is not that stable. Randomly reboots every few hours for no reason, Can't find wtf is wrong with it.
Bro's PC; ASRock M3A770DE, ram slots just died one day. No explanation it's like they just said F-ck it. Ram was okay though.
The ECS and the Asrock both had Windows XP home, and I had 7 pro. All pc's had 4 gigs of 1333 ram, g.skill/corsair/kingston. And my brothers and I both had discrete gpus. Me 460 1gb him 4650.
Tell me wtf is going on?
I had 3 different AM3 boards fail on me, in 3 different computers, in the past year.
My PC; Foxconn A9DA-S, which would not correctly read the my phenom x4 until I updated the Bios. And it would force the driver irql not less or equal error, till I undervolted and underclocked the ram to 1066 from 1333.
Family PC; ECS A880GM-M6, would not boot at all after 3 months of humming along perfectly with an x2. Had to RMA it. and the Replacement is not that stable. Randomly reboots every few hours for no reason, Can't find wtf is wrong with it.
Bro's PC; ASRock M3A770DE, ram slots just died one day. No explanation it's like they just said F-ck it. Ram was okay though.
The ECS and the Asrock both had Windows XP home, and I had 7 pro. All pc's had 4 gigs of 1333 ram, g.skill/corsair/kingston. And my brothers and I both had discrete gpus. Me 460 1gb him 4650.
Tell me wtf is going on?
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Yeah tell me about it. As I was writing this post my PC shutdown 3 times due to driver irql error. I'm running all 4 cores at 1000mhz and under volted to 1.1.
@tl60
Asrock = Asus? So no.
Yeah tell me about it. As I was writing this post my PC shutdown 3 times due to driver irql error. I'm running all 4 cores at 1000mhz and under volted to 1.1.
@tl60
Asrock = Asus? So no.
try intel
shuttle?
Yeah I was thinking of going i3 but the prices were too high, and more cores for the buck made more sense.
I will be upgrading family pc to i3-2100 when I can, If I can only get a nice stable mobo though. Don't want to buy crap.
Might want to get a gauss meter and check your house for abnormal EMF, or maybe an exorcist.
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You've got that backwards. Asrock is the cheapo that uses some of ASUS fabs, but I've owned 4 ASUS boards from their P/X series intel chipsets and every one of them has been rock solid for years.
Asrock = No.
ASUS = Yes.
I'd agree with ZAP; info on PSUs?
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All 3 were no name brands that came with the case. They've all been replaced just incase.
I have a HEC 550W psu, and the other 2 are rosewill 500w.
Well I haven't owned any AMD boards since my old Athlon 4000+ on socket 939, so I can't comment on the AM3 boards, but the fact that all were on no-name PSUs that came with the case I'd be inclined to say that is more likely the problem.
I once made the mistake of using such a PSU, it lasted a month and took my Mobo with it! Never again was I cheap on PSUs, only rock solid OCZ/Corsair/Antec/Thermaltake/PCP&C/Cooler Master units for me! It's well worth the extra 50-100 bucks to have it actually work and never have to worry about it!
I once made the mistake of using such a PSU, it lasted a month and took my Mobo with it! Never again was I cheap on PSUs, only rock solid OCZ/Corsair/Antec/Thermaltake/PCP&C/Cooler Master units for me! It's well worth the extra 50-100 bucks to have it actually work and never have to worry about it!
Agreed, the big shadow behind many of today's PSU's who actually manufacturers the PSU's... FSP and Seasonic are two major's but there are a few other's.
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/psu_manufacturers
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Zap
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That explains it. :hmm:
A list 100x more comprehensive. The list is for known combined +12v output, but it does sort by the OEM (AKA actual manufacturer).
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I've been using asus boards for several years now and the only problems I've had were those I created myself, such as a leak in a liquid cooling system.
I just upgraded all the computer in my house with asus boards, 1 x58 sabertooth and 2 M4A89gtd pro/usb3 and all three went flawlessly.
only boards I've had fail was epox for bad caps and an asrock.
I just upgraded all the computer in my house with asus boards, 1 x58 sabertooth and 2 M4A89gtd pro/usb3 and all three went flawlessly.
only boards I've had fail was epox for bad caps and an asrock.
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Woow hold on a second guys. Before I replaced the PSU's I did some tests with my old Seasonic 600w psu. Same as before. Bsod's on all three boards.
Besides Rosewill is newegg's in house brand and it really ain't that bad. Also it's way better than that integrated noname PSU crap.
Besides Rosewill is newegg's in house brand and it really ain't that bad. Also it's way better than that integrated noname PSU crap.
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No, it MAY be marginally better than the no-name crap...or it may be the same.
From Zap's link:
At least they're not built by Deer...
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