Worst mobo company of all times...

[Pocatello]

I have been buying Abit motherboards and nothing else, had two of them RMA.

 

[Megatomic]

DFI blows. I got two stinkers in a row (both DOA) back in the NF2 Ultra days. Never again says I.

 

[MagicConch]

Originally posted by: SinNisTeR
MSI has been nothing but crap to me.

 

[Cooljt1]

FIC

 

[sniperruff]

im glad soltek is not on it. stable as hell for me. =)

 

[bandana163]

Matsonic.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: czech09
I got a little bored and had this stuck in the back of my mind. ECS wins it unanimously for me...

looks like it wins unanimously with ATOT too... i can't say, cause i've onl had 2 mobos that worked just fine

 

[Aharami]

my ECS K7S5A ran fine for 2 years until i upgraded. I still have it

 

[Juno]

soyo boards are horrible.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
I don't see PCChips on that list...by far the worst ever.

 

[Steve]

PC Chips = ECS 😉 Same company, same boards on the same production line in the same factory. Just different paint jobs.


Where are FIC, Tyan, and Shuttle?

 

[psteng19]

Originally posted by: SinNisTeR
MSI has been nothing but crap to me.

Strange. I've had nothing but luck with MSI boards.

The best was the K7T Turbo2.
I had 3 of those puppies at once. Eventually gave them to friends (who aren't PC inclined) and they're still running today.

Still have 2 MSI KT400 boards running in my basement right now.

 

[SVT Cobra]

aibt...werent they not using cheap stuff on their mobosa while ago...

 

[KC5AV]

Out of dozens of boards I've used through the years, I've only ever had 1 go bad on me. It was an ECS, but I wouldn't let that stop me from getting another one.

 

[Schadenfroh]

PC-Chips and ECS

 

[Mark R]

Abit - definitely.

BH6: USB didn't work (at all) - however, apart from that it was a pretty good board.
KT7-RAID : Not compatible with Creative AGP cards, USB didn't work with anything more advanced than mouse or keyboard, caps eventually blew up
NF7 (had 3 of these): Not stable at stock speeds, USB hard drives kept getting corrupted (a BIOS update did fix this, but I had to wait a year for it), Cheap chipset fans seized after about 6 months

 

[Tiamat]

Soyo wasnt very good to me.

 

[MustangSVT]

god, soyo, what a pos.

ABIT is top notch.

ECS is great for the price, it ran 1600+ @ 2100+ for 3 years until it finally died 😛

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: eplebnista
MSI

Talk about bring a thread back from the dead.

 

[BrokenVisage]

MSI is so much better then DFI as of late.

 

[feelingshorter]

epox is a hella good company, their mobos have good overclocking options..

 

[imported_Reck]

i've never had a mobo flat out fail on me but me old kt7 suffered from bad caps and whenever the temp got above 45, it'd start crashing. best mobo i've used? shuttle an35n ultra. never ever had a bsod or any problems. awesome overclocker too.

 

[Borealis316]

<---votes chaintech for worst.

I love my DFI.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
I don't see PCChips on that list...by far the worst ever.

ECS is the "elite" division of PCChips. Which is, yes, by far the worst ever. Yes, some people have good luck with them, but overall they are the worst.

Of the few boards that I've had (PCChips, ECS, Gigabyte, Abit, and ASUS), the PCChips board had by far the most issues (and died the soonest). Strangely, the ECS board ran fine for several years, though it was never put under much stress (though neither was the PCChips).

 

[Aves]

I've only used Epox boards since the Socket 7 days so I can't really answer that.