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With DFI leaving the consumer motherboard business, should I worry about support?

Wouldn't count on any future BIOS updates. I don't think Abit is updating any of their boards anymore now that they're out of the motherboard game, if that's any indicator.
 
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.
 
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.

Thanks for the advice. I need ECC, which leaves me with the ASUS P6T WS PRO as the only real alternative. Unfortunately there are many reported Windows 7 compatibility issues...
 
It all depends on how long you expect to use the build. I personally wouldn't buy a mb from a company that is known to be abandoning that particilar product.
 
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