Most consistent board manufacturer

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I am aware that most comparisons are motherboard specific, however I am wonderwing which brands the users here have had the least problems with. Gigabyte to me on paper should be excellent, but maybe I have just been unlucky, the boards of theirs I've had have always been problematic with audio glitches and failures. MSI and Asus on the other hand have been absolutely painless every time I've used them.

What are other people's experiences like?

Maybe a mod could set up a poll:

Which mainboard manufacturer do you have the most faith in?

Asrock
Asus
Abit (miss them)
DFI
EVGA
Gigabyte
Intel
MSI
Other
 
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you never used a gigabyte?


mine would be asus, all the MSIs i owned were fualty or DOA
 
i've only ever used abit, asrock asus and now gigabyte.

the abit board i had (old socket A) was brilliant, never had a problem with it :) shame they're out of the business now...

got the asrock for a second system (cheap board at the time [socket A again]), good little board, but no frills.

had 3 asus boards now (old socket 939, good board) and 2 rampage formulas; killed one cos of a water leak but the second one lasted 2 months before it just stopped working; no idea why... gave me a load of blue screens too, so not too impressed with it.

had the ud7 for a couple of weeks now, really good board, although i'm finding it a pain to get my i7 stable at 4GHz. i'm sure with a bios update it'll get some stability improvements.
 
Updated my post to add a couple of manufacturers. As I said, with Gigabyte I may just be unfortunate, but with one of their boards currently being RMA'd I am having a hard time choosing something suitable for my i5 750 in the MATX format as gigabyte make the p55m UD4 but I don't want to go with them. The best asus option is about £40 more :(
 
Most consistent I'd say Intel, but they're hardly exciting boards to use.
Favourite brand is Asus, but I'm not buying from them again until they stop ******* people with rmas. Currently using Gigabyte, can't fault my UD5. Will probably buy Gigabyte next time as well.
 
Performance wise, Gigabite or Abit. The IP35 Pro, and the DSR2 most notably.

Have used Asus a lot in the past, but the boards I've used have never clocked as well as some of their competitors. At stock though, they've been good and feature rich which has what has normally swung me to them.
 
I have had a few makes of boards, Asus, Gigabyte, Asrock and Abit come to mind, of these I would have to say the Gigabyte boards (EP45 UD3P & P55 UD5) have stood out as the best for me, above the next manu., Asus...
 
My last 5 boards have been Gigabyte. Never had problems with them.

I did have an ABIT board for my Athlon,way back in 2000, my very first build, was crapping myself before turning the power on. It worked ! That was a good board.
 
Last 3 motherboards were MSI (MS-6199VA), MSI (K8N Neo Platinum) and Gigabyte (GA-P55M-UD2).

Like you, I was hesitant in replacing my mATX P55M-UD2 with the same model, but it's been great so far. My problem was with the P55 fragile socket pins - a common complaint - and not the motherboard manufacturer.

I looked at the P55M-UD4 and Asus Maximus III Gene as potential replacements, but couldn't justify the extra price for my build.
 
I've only had Foxconn, Gigabyte and Asus, but all three were great and gave me no problems. The Asus is the best so far, but the other boards weren't exactly premium stuff so not a real comparrison.
 
Ive built 2 Gigabyte Boards no problems at all, and the new Dolby Sound Chips are amazing,
Had my first sapphire 939 board and it was nothing but trouble 2 years of constant issues took it to an admin team in college and loads of tech mates and not one could fix it, anyway it ending up killing itself when i upgraded the memory nothing special and it decided it wasnt gonna boot. even replaced the bios chip for £9.99 and nothing :( been put off that but it was back in the day of crossing technology, this board had HD sound Gigabit lan and standard, sata 1 ports and sata2 ports but in the end i think its over complicated setup was doomed from the start.
 
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Last 3 motherboards were MSI (MS-6199VA), MSI (K8N Neo Platinum) and Gigabyte (GA-P55M-UD2).

Like you, I was hesitant in replacing my mATX P55M-UD2 with the same model, but it's been great so far. My problem was with the P55 fragile socket pins - a common complaint - and not the motherboard manufacturer.

I looked at the P55M-UD4 and Asus Maximus III Gene as potential replacements, but couldn't justify the extra price for my build.
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It's funny you mention the P55M-UD2 as my potential replacement may up being the Asus H55 Evo. It's about £20 more expensive, but has a better power phase and a Lotes socket than the gigabyte. It is not sli which I never intend to use and it doesn't do raid, but again, with SSDs I don't see this as an issue as I will just run a NAS anyhow. I have only found one review but it seems solid.

The current Asus p55 MATX board doesn't have as good a power setup and the Asus Mamimus III Gene is too expensive for what it is.
 
Gigabyte and ABit have generally been solid for me, not had many MSI. Asus, although I've had considerably more of theirs, I have had about half a dozen dodgy ones in the past. Either DOA or design issues that later fixed via bios or second revision. Overall probably ABit were most reliable, RIP.
 
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Ive only ever used an msi, a few asus boards and an evga.

Most of the asus boards were fine, bar a couple of s939 sli boards, msi one never gave me any bother, the evga 680i packed in and evga's support service was far worse even than asus. Definitely a manufacturer who i avoid like the plague.
 
Allways been asus for me right from slot a and there graphics. I did like my soyo dragon though. but now my new pc build came with gigabyte ud5 from oc been fine so far, but why dont they make the boards bigger to accommodate cross fire and sli with there huge coolers. if its not the cpu cooler its the power supply getting in the way and thats in a haf 932.
 
ASUS so far has been quite good, i have chucked a fiar bit of various settings at most of them and they deal fine, had a gigabyte a few years back and first one was DOA second wasnt bad but by no means up to the standard of the ASUS i used to replace it.
 
I was gonna use an EVGA LE on my current build, but after recieving 2 DOA boards in a row I went with ASUS. Ive had no problems yet (actually the rampage 2 extreme is amazing).

A friend uses tpower biostar x58 on hes build and he loves it (great value), but for me its ASUS all the way.
 
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