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What is the best motherboard manufacturer based on reliability, performance, setup, functionality, user friendliness, customer service, warranty/RMA etc.

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Message edited by mychael616 on 12-04-2007 at 06:21:51 PM

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I've never had any truble with Gigabyte boards, they offer most features and their prices are about right most of the time.

An Asus died on me once, so no more Asus for me for a while.

Reply to SirCrono

Imo it's too wide a criteria esp. as user abilities/expectations vary greatly & mobo manufacturers have good/bad models.

Asus have something like 50% of the mobo market so should in theory get ~50% of your votes in the poll.

abit USA aren't a mobo manufacturer as such but the US subsidiary of Universal abit (nitpicking I know but Tom's Hardware isn't a particularly US centric site so abit USA aren't relevant to a large % of the readership)

Reply to BUFF

For me, Asus was always best in features and reliability.
I think Gigabyte or MSI is best for extreme overclocking.
I had trouble with Abit before, but I know it's a big company and around a long time so I must have just had bad luck.
From what little I know, DELL makes it's own motherboards. They should be included (even though you can't buy just the Dell motherboard)

I actually like that Toms is not US centric, even though I'm American. I think this gives a better perspective on the world as a whole. (Not showing much stupid US 2-Year phone plans and showing non-Microsoft International standards for example)
My 2 cents.

Message edited by enewmen on 12-04-2007 at 07:21:11 PM

Reply to enewmen

Dell buys from/contracts Foxconn, among others. Asus makes good Intel chipped boards, but iffy AMD boards. I buy Gigabyte, Abit, and Biostar, personally.

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Reply to utaka95

Asus is my favorite

Reply to ComputerCustomizer

Have had no problems with Asus or Gigabyte. Have had problems with Biostar.

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Reply to turtle1

I like DFI (I seem to be alone in that). Always rock solid, always run well in and out of spec (for procs, etc.). I was upset with Asus when they slapped a defective fan on the southbridge in the Deluxe board and slapped a heatpipe that would not work in an inverted configuration on the Premium board once. Other than that, Asus is pretty good, too.

Reply to russki

I voted for Gigabyte, but have also had good results from Biostar. The former have more performance features though; not fair to compare a $130 mobo with a $80 one.

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Reply to jtt283

This is when I must ask.........are you going to ask this for EVERY SINGLE THING in a computer?

o and i like Gigabyte

Reply to Silverion77

-lol- maybe

Reply to mychael616

Gigabyte has great price/value/performance. But I believe MSI has beaten asus as they claim.

Reply to aklass

I absolutely love my DFI.

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Reply to Scotteq

Had Asus, MSI and ECS, never had any trouble. Asus full of features, MSI great overclock and ECS reliable.

Reply to rolli59

I am sure all the manufacturers make great products....but I think that DFI has the edge in Build quality.

I have the 35P Lan Party

Reply to bart797

Gigabyte - never a single problem on my nforce4

Many of my friends had Asus boards, and they all had some issues, always something else...

Memory fried, gameport didn't work, raid failed (!), southbridge coolers failing, agp ports frying new vga cards... on and on.

And when it happens, it's always: "maybe I just got a bad sample, Asus mobo's are great!"

Reply to Zeka

I've always liked ASUS boards. Recently I got a Gigabyte board to give them a try. Hope I won't be disappointed.

Reply to gwolfman

I still have an Asus A8V-E Deluxe and when I bought it 2 years ago it's north bridge fan came broken.. and never got it repaired. Instead I put a fan "on" my graphic card and cooled the north bridge that way.. until now

Plus there's the fact that their website sucks. They don't offer the CDs that come out of the box etc.

Reply to Pharaun

Considering Price performance ratio i am voting for Gigabyte, but I am having with good run with ASUS also. I hate ECS MBs' and for best reliability and durability i think stock Intel boards are great.

Reply to lolitha

ASUS

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Reply to chookman

ASUS and Gigabyte.

Reply to starcraftfanatic

wow, im surprised by the number of results Gigabyte got. respect!

Reply to cruiseoveride

Wish I could have voted for both ASUS and GIGABYTE as they are both good manufactures and I have yet to have an ASUS or Gigabyte board die on me.

PS: Had MSI, ABIT and DFI die on me, after that I never brought from any of the companies. I have been happy ever since.

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Reply to Shadow703793

mychael616 wrote :

What is the best motherboard manufacturer based on reliability, performance, setup, functionality, user friendliness, customer service, warranty/RMA etc.

I'd have to say for Intel based system it's definitely between Gigabyte and Asus. As of late I have been VERY impressed with Gigabyte boards specifically my GA-P35-DQ6 rev 1.0 board.

My Asus P5W-DH board was pretty good but nowhere near as good a clocker. My Asus P5K-E WIFI/AP is pretty awesome so far though.

Reply to AnGeLuS69

The Forum subject is excellent.
Changing the main board is a big pain in the .... if you still can find a board who works with your CPU & chipset
I am troubleshooting computer.
In my area (thailand) I see mainly Asrock, Asus, and ECs mainboard
and think that Asrock is > to Asus > ECS

Reply to Anonymous

I've built systems with about a dozen Asus boards and never had a single failure.
I've used one Abit and one Gigabyte and they both died after about a year of use.

Reply to gatorbill

AUS lives forever (I've got a 9 year old P3 still chugging along), but support stinks. Gigabyte has the fancy stuff, I'm getting Gigabyte next time for the thick pcb and dual BIOS. ASUS has bad AMD boards, so maybe I'll go ASUS if I want 775/1366 or w/e Intel has up their sleeve in a few years. If I'm getting AMD, I'm Gigabyte all the way. Learned my lesson, got a stinky ASUS M4A78 PRO for my Phenom II that can't OC 5h!+.

Reply to computabug

I got a gigabyte (for AMD 4000) a few days a go, its great. Upgrading bios is easy and upgraded it from F1 to F10 (for Phenom X4) without any issue. ASUS and MSI once dumped me with wrong bios. I loved the gigabyte PCB colour toooooo. I had an Intel to for atleast 8 years before it broke down, it lacked performance but was rock solid.

Reply to krishanum

Had several Asus boards - all been fairly good, a couple with small issues which were sorted out on community boards and not by their support staff! Had a couple of Gigabyte boards, got a P35 now in one machine - good price/performance and would say either Asus or Giga are great, go for whichever is better for what you require, price/features wise.
Have had a few god-awful boards from Asrock, ECS and MSI, these were a few years ago but once bitten...

Reply to MMclachlan

Where is the EVGA? In this moment I have a MSI K9A2 Platinum, as works great for my.

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Reply to saint19

May the death screams of 10,000 rats claim the soul of ABIT.

Why don't you guys EVER include ASROCK in your surveys or categories?

Reply to wayneepalmer

I like Gigabyte.

Reply to jsc

I'd like to know why Tyan was not on this list? They are the best. Clevo is awesome too, but I've only seen them in laptops like Alienware, Sager and Xtreme PC.

Reply to stdbuk

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