Any Thoughts

[LDA]

I am starting my research into the building of a new gamming computer. Have spent most of today reading reviews at Newegg about problems people are having with motherboards. On the surface it appears there is Not a motherboard worth the money the manufactures are charging. Is it truely a crap shoot now? I built a low end PIII that is Still running fine today, which was a Gigabyte board. As I said I am building this for gamming, so is there one board that stands above the rest?

 

[jonpaul37]

what platform, Intel or AMD?

I have always used ASUS boards, no problems yet...

The way i look at things, out of 100 motherboards sold by a company, you may see 7-10 bad reviews, the rest of them don't take time to put in good reviews because they are busy enjoying their perfectly working product.

Now, out of those 7-10 bad reviews, 2 can be user preference, 2 can be legitimately bad motherboards, 4 will be because the user is a blatant moron and does not know how to properly replace a motherboard.

 

[LDA]

what platform, Intel or AMD?

I have always used ASUS boards, no problems yet...

The way i look at things, out of 100 motherboards sold by a company, you may see 7-10 bad reviews, the rest of them don't take time to put in good reviews because they are busy enjoying their perfectly working product.

Now, out of those 7-10 bad reviews, 2 can be user preference, 2 can be legitimately bad motherboards, 4 will be because the user is a blatant moron and does not know how to properly replace a motherboard.

LOL...I have to agree...just trying to get some feedback....like I said...I walked into the store bought the board....installed and it has been running ever since then....just seemed like a lot of people having issues....Thanks for the reply and have a great weekend....Ooh I am going the Intel route.

 

[jsc]

I have been building computers for more than 12 years. I have never seen a bad motherboard.

 

[runswindows95]

So far, I've built both my systems with Asus. The current one is 2 years old, and no problems as of yet. I built a few Gigabytes systems, and no issues either.