Are you loyal to a particular mobo brand?

I was loyal to Asus, but due to crackling problems with my M-Audio sound card I had to swap whole platform and now I've got MSI brand as loyalty costed me too much nerves :)
 
used to be asus all the way until skt1155 when they brought slighly newer revisions of mobos with sata 6 when i just shelled out £200 a few weeks after

now its asrock fatality all the way on in the future so reliable.
 
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I guarantee none of you will ever buy ASUS again once you have to experience their abysmal RMA service.

How one company be so damn awful is beyond comprehension. Oh and even though they make motherboards for severe overclocking, if you remove the backplate to fit a cooler that will allow you to do the overclocking the board is designed for, it will void the warranty.

If you cover up the fact that you have removed it and are allowed to send it off, prepare for stupid shipping costs to the middle of nowhere and don't expect ever to see it or anything ever again.
 
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Gigabyte are loyal to me <3 so I am loyal back. Used a second hand P35C-DS3R for over 5 years and it's still going strong.

I find ASUS mid range are ugly, MSI don't have PCI socket, and Asrock I am not sure about, they used to be cheapo and I don't trust them currently. Also ASrock youTube videos put me off...lol.

I always used to have Asus boards, but after they kept failing just after warranty expired I never went back. I had P4C800-E Deluxe, P4P800-E, and some other one i can't remember the model of. :D

MSI put guns on their heatsinks, not cool. :D
 
PapaLazaru said:
I guarantee none of you will ever buy ASUS again once you have to experience their abysmal RMA service.
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Your warranty doesn't work with me :)
I've done 2 RMAs with Asus and except paying 16 quids for service and waiting a bit long - there's nothing abysmal there. They repaired my two motherboards which I've bought second hand.

Say frankly and truly: if people wanted everything now and for free, crysis wouldn't knock gently to country: it would just arrive like Normans did :)
 
I've only ever built one PC (the one in my sig) and find that the Asus motherboard has an easy to use BIOS and upgrading it via a USB thumb drive is very convenient. So I guess if I ever built another one I'd be tempted to stick with Asus due to the fact that I already know how to use it.
 
ASUS, but now gigabyte have changed away from blue boards...

Performance comes first OFC but aesthetics do come into play.

New gigabyte boards have both in spades!
 
Well after recent diabolical EVGA X79 SLi board, I certainly will stay with the big three as far as I'm concerned, I've just replaced the above mobo with a ASROCK Extreme 6 and usually have ASUS.... so don't think I'll be pursueded to go elsewhere.. I tried with EVGA, and failed.
 
Back in the day when i was heavily into overclocking and benching i would have whatever was the best board at the time regardless of who made it. Boards like the Abit NF7-S 2.0

In the last couple of years i have had gigabyte boards and am very happy with the choice to stay with that for my next purchase.
 
Used to be Abit back in the day as they used to have a good reputation for overclocking (this was over 10 years ago):
BH6
VH6
BD7-II

...but now I'm fairly agnostic. The motherboard I was probably most impressed with was my DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D, it was good for clocking and quite feature rich.

I normally go for fairly cheap motherboards costing about £70 and it has served me well, although my current board (MSI P55-GD65) was only around that price because of a launch promotion.
 
My first mobo was a mid range Asus board, it turned out to be total &*^%

After that I started using the Asus Rampage Extreme boards and have had no problems. I figured if overclockers use them and hammer the living daylights out of them they are going to be reliable for normal use.
 
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