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I would echo both these posts. I began building (not counting re-vamping KayPro Z-80 boards) in the late eighties, have never gotten a DOA MOBO; and, after fairly extensive research, decided GB was IMHO the best manufacturer to stick with...
That does not discount the possibility of getting a bad board; most QC these days, for these sorts of products, is statistical - i.e., they've decided to accept the possibility of some finite, very small number of defectives 'escaping', to minimize the expense of testing, and provide us with acheaper (well - let's say 'less expensive' 
) product. Then, there is also, for all electronics, the problem of 'infant mortality' - if it stays working for two months, it'll likely keep working well into technological obsolescence; but, getting through that two months, in a build with, say, thirty components, can possibly be hell!
The only major flaw I found in the initial assay was (and this appears to be endemic to all MOBO manufacturers) spotty, sometimes plainly incoherent tech-support - and this problem is vastly reduced by the folks here, and at TweakTown: if you've got a problem, you usually can get it fixed/figured out one place or the other...
That does not discount the possibility of getting a bad board; most QC these days, for these sorts of products, is statistical - i.e., they've decided to accept the possibility of some finite, very small number of defectives 'escaping', to minimize the expense of testing, and provide us with a
) product. Then, there is also, for all electronics, the problem of 'infant mortality' - if it stays working for two months, it'll likely keep working well into technological obsolescence; but, getting through that two months, in a build with, say, thirty components, can possibly be hell!
The only major flaw I found in the initial assay was (and this appears to be endemic to all MOBO manufacturers) spotty, sometimes plainly incoherent tech-support - and this problem is vastly reduced by the folks here, and at TweakTown: if you've got a problem, you usually can get it fixed/figured out one place or the other...
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I would echo both these posts. I began building (not counting re-vamping KayPro Z-80 boards) in the late eighties, have never gotten a DOA MOBO; and, after fairly extensive research, decided GB was IMHO the best manufacturer to stick with...
That does not discount the possibility of getting a bad board; most QC these days, for these sorts of products, is statistical - i.e., they've decided to accept the possibility of some finite, very small number of defectives 'escaping', to minimize the expense of testing, and provide us with a cheaper (well - let's say 'less expensive' ) product. Then, there is also, for all electronics, the problem of 'infant mortality' - if it stays working for two months, it'll likely keep working well into technological obsolescence; but, getting through that two months, in a build with, say, thirty components, can possibly be hell!
The only major flaw I found in the initial assay was (and this appears to be endemic to all MOBO manufacturers) spotty, sometimes plainly incoherent tech-support - and this problem is vastly reduced by the folks here, and at TweakTown: if you've got a problem, you usually can get it fixed/figured out one place or the other...
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