Motherboard Surprises

[xtc28]

Can anyone give examples of motherboards that have been a really good? Especially lower end boards. Even some good stories about Gigabyte, Asus and ECS. Even bad stories would be nice.

 

[jsc]

I have pretty much standardized on Gigabyte motherboards. They work and overclock well. I have a low spec ECS board in my work computer. I got it free from Fry's as part of a CPU bundle.

Last summer I - finally - pitched an eleven year old ACorp <something>TX52. And I am going to retire my 7 year old AOpen motherboard with an AMD Barton core CPU .

The only sort of bad story I have involves my eVGA 680i motherboard. It just does not like any, not even first generation, quad core chips.