best motherboard brand

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icey_haj

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Which would you guys say is the best brand? I would personally always go for Asus, but I see that a lot of people for Gigabyte
 
gt_junkie said:
Ha ha! :D

Don't blame you - i wish i'd never sold my SLi-DR. :(

gt
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still got my ultra-d :D never sold it purely as no one would buy it due to the thermal grease all over the CPU socket (it got used with a Mach 2 GT for quite a while, so lots of sealent around the cpu socket as well)
 
Used to be an asus person but had really bad experience with them so for next build i am going gigabyte as they seem to have a lot of positive reviews from USERS not review sites.
 
I think it depends, every different socket it seems that one board becomes the people champion.

I would say that i like ASUS boards the best.

Worst i have had - gigabyte. (had an old p4 board that was a horrible clocker and had two S939 ones just randomly die.
 
This was my first and last Asus board. Don't get me wrong it's a good board now. It took them months to release a decent bios that did'nt break something else.

I have had no problems with Gigabyte and MSI boards but if i was going to buy one now it would be one of the DFI's.
 
Right now ASUS and Gigabyte.

My loyalties change tho.

Back in the AMD64 days I always had DFI, EpoX and MSI boards.

In the AthlonXP and Barton days it was always ABIT and MSI I went for.

In the P4 days ASUS and ABIT.
 
I don't really prefer any brand. I just go for the best one on the chipset i'm going for.
I've went Abit I440BX something or other with my PIII
I went with the Asus CUV4X-D for my dual PIII rig
I went with the ECS K7S5A for my AXP 1900+
I went with the MSI KT333 Ultra ARU soon after that
Then onto the Abit NF7-S with an XP-M 2500+
Then the MSI NEO 2 Platinium for my 3500+
Then the MSI NEO 4 Diamond which had my 4000+
and finally onto my eVGA 680I SLI.

:)
 
icey_haj said:
^ Are they really that bad?
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6 weeks awaiting for rma to go through with Asus after phonecalls never answered, e-mails never answered, sent off the motherboard never got it back, I gave up in the end & bought a new motherboard. :mad:

Gluttten for punishment I bought another Asus motherboard, which I still have in my old backup system which is still running after over 3 years, if nothing goes wrong then I would have no hesitation in buying another Asus motherboard, but since then I've gone back to Abit.
 
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I've got a Gigabyte board. It's absolutely terrible at overclocking and it refuses to correctly detect 1TB hard drives (even though that was supposedly fixed in a BIOS update, it wasn't).

That said, those are the only two problems I've had so far. And it is quite an old board. Intel 945PL chipset.
 
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