Depends on your 'expectations'. Its my view that its generally better to buy a mass-produced, very 'common' motherboard. Because it will have a much larger community of users around it, and likely, better overall long-term support.
I had an extremely common and popular Asus board, that I bought in 1996, which hackers were still providing updates, such as large disk (ie: 500gb+) support as late as 2002-2003. Originally, it was limited to 2gb disks, and then later, 128gb disks.
I also bought a relatively obscure Asus board with a lot of onboard stuff (when onboard was considered relatively ghetto!). Asus provided all of a couple BIOS updates for it, and then basically abandoned it, leaving behind many problems.
So my suggestion -- find a board that's commonly used by enthusiasts and OEMs alike, from a mass-market vendor, and run with that. "LanParty" and DFI itself was never a particularly successful brand, and these boards likely aren't of much interest in the aftermarket BIOS mod community. I don't want to sound like an ASUS fanboy, but they do sell the most number of boards, especially to OEMs, and hence, they have the resources to do more sustaining engineering/support on products rather than just quickly abandoning them.
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