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gigabyte for their support,and asus for there boards
Are you loyal to a particular mobo brand?
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Not had a single problem with my 3 Gigabyte boards. Had a problem with all 3 of my Asus boards. No brainer. 
MSI look tasty, but they have taken away PCI sockets for my sound card and I think their mosfet cooling look's a bit on the cheap side. Doesn't apply to the mpower edition though, omg I love that board.
MSI look tasty, but they have taken away PCI sockets for my sound card and I think their mosfet cooling look's a bit on the cheap side. Doesn't apply to the mpower edition though, omg I love that board.
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This.
Asus support is absolutely awful. The only plus side is motherboards don't generally fail if you buy the medium to top end.
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Totally agree. Asus top end boards for me have been the most stable and reliable boards I have ever used. They cost more but worth it in the end. Plus they look good.
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Gigabyte all the way.
ASUS boards packed in.
MSI board suffered boot loop of death
ASUS boards packed in.
MSI board suffered boot loop of death
I used to always stick with Epox (anyone remember them?), their motherboards were absolutely fantastic but ever since they left the market I've had about 4 Asus motherboards and all of them have done exactly what they've said on the tin. I'm always open to other brands though Asus are the ones I tend to look at first.
As regards to RMAs, I've thankfully never had a problem so I can't say anything in those regards.
As regards to RMAs, I've thankfully never had a problem so I can't say anything in those regards.
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When I come to think of it, I've had 15 motherboards since 1998, and my last RMA was back in 2004. Just my opinion, but I think if anything really is going to go wrong it would be within the first 28 days of purchase.The Asgard said:
I might give Asus another go at some point, apart from warranty I never really have any loyalty to any brand, it's more interesting to try something totally new.
Puts you off though when you go on bit-tech forums and see someone waiting 7 weeks already for an ASUS RMA, but like you mentioned, these things are probally very rare i.e. RMA's, consdering how many motherboards are sold.
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gigabyte for me. i had an issue with a very old socket 939 board following advice from the asian CS for giga and it screwed it up. contacted gigaman on here and he replaced it with a new AM1 board. i generally use gigabyte boards as i don;t have issues with them and with the UK support, tips the balance for me.
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I don't set out to but i seem to always buy gigabyte. not had a failure yet so not experienced their customer support but others seem happy enough with their dealings with them.
I've had a few Asus products but never ever again, the customer support is the worst I've encountered in any area.
Gigabyte will always get my first look in the future as recently they have helped me out bigtime, best customer(I wasnt even a customer at the time?!?) support ever.
Gigabyte will always get my first look in the future as recently they have helped me out bigtime, best customer(I wasnt even a customer at the time?!?) support ever.
Tried most of them. Abit, EVGA, MSI, Gigabtye & Asus even Chaintech.
I've sold loads of systems on to friends and family over the last 14 years (I'm a serial builder). The most reliable have been Asus and nowadays I don't stray far away. I've had a couple of decent Gigabtye boards which overclocked well but they always seem to have quirks or issues.... Bigfoot Killer network card disconnecting, AHCI slow to boot up, fussy about hard drives with partitions set-up on other computers etc.
My next board will probably be the Gene V or Maximus V Formula water cooled.
I've sold loads of systems on to friends and family over the last 14 years (I'm a serial builder). The most reliable have been Asus and nowadays I don't stray far away. I've had a couple of decent Gigabtye boards which overclocked well but they always seem to have quirks or issues.... Bigfoot Killer network card disconnecting, AHCI slow to boot up, fussy about hard drives with partitions set-up on other computers etc.
My next board will probably be the Gene V or Maximus V Formula water cooled.
Apart from Asus RMA problems, explain...
I do recall them. I remember they did make some nice nForce1/2 boards. Their boards were green with some weird heatsinks?
Out of curiosity, what board?
Not so much a "loyality" thing, but does anyone remember ECS?
Very popular in the purple shirt world store (When I worked there in 2006 anyway), the boards were funky coloured and remember one having a PCI-E and an AGP slot, my friend had one and discovered the AGP slot was really a PCI slot with a different connector.
Very popular in the purple shirt world store (When I worked there in 2006 anyway), the boards were funky coloured and remember one having a PCI-E and an AGP slot, my friend had one and discovered the AGP slot was really a PCI slot with a different connector.
been using gigabyte boards for friends/family builds because of the reputation for decent support, for myself tbh i'd be tempted to go msi again, after the initial problems with my current board and the 3930k, which were more the cpu than the board, fixed via bios, I've been really happy with the board it offers great features for the price, and i'd definetly try another.
A lot of my friends use asus boards only and whilst I know they offer some of the best, I get a bit confused by there line up at times and there high end boards are very expensive, if my means matched my ambition though i'd be buying rog boards!
A lot of my friends use asus boards only and whilst I know they offer some of the best, I get a bit confused by there line up at times and there high end boards are very expensive, if my means matched my ambition though i'd be buying rog boards!
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Abit, I solely bought their boards since I got my first Socket A many years ago.
My last board was an IP35 and when I upgraded I went with Gigabyte as my first non Abit board.
No idea why I stuck with Abit, apart from the fact they made exceedingly good motherboards
My last board was an IP35 and when I upgraded I went with Gigabyte as my first non Abit board.
No idea why I stuck with Abit, apart from the fact they made exceedingly good motherboards
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I've had MSI, Asrock and Gigabyte motherboards all without fault.
Wouldn't buy anything other than Gigabyte now though, since I found out they have UK based RMA service and warranty via serial number rather than proof of purchase! Always nice to know in case something goes wrong.
Wouldn't buy anything other than Gigabyte now though, since I found out they have UK based RMA service and warranty via serial number rather than proof of purchase! Always nice to know in case something goes wrong.