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Gigabyte, but I really miss Epox!
Most consistent board manufacturer
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just an update, my motherboard just came back from Gigabyte and it has a broken cpu socket pin 
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Have had at least one board from each manufacturer...only one that died was the Gigabyte, which I replaced with an AsRock. I favour Asus as I liked the layout and colour/theme for a start. Had to recently replace the northbridge fan on the A8N-SLI SE mind 
Tend to use Asus and Gigabyte for budget system builds.
MSI 6178 2000-2002
GIGABYTE GA-SINXP1394 2003-2005
ABIT NF7 V2.0 2002-2005
ASROCK 4CORE-DUALVSTA 2005-2009
ASUS A8N-SLI SE 2005-PRESENT
ASUS M3A79-T DELUXE 2009-PRESENT
Tend to use Asus and Gigabyte for budget system builds.MSI 6178 2000-2002
GIGABYTE GA-SINXP1394 2003-2005
ABIT NF7 V2.0 2002-2005
ASROCK 4CORE-DUALVSTA 2005-2009
ASUS A8N-SLI SE 2005-PRESENT
ASUS M3A79-T DELUXE 2009-PRESENT
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Gigabyte are the ones I see fail the least when working in repairs. They're definitely made more reliable, and all the boards I've had were rock solid, bar the Realtek AC97 audio in two 2004 boards deciding not to function after about 4-5 years. Not sure why, but happened to both.
I would definitely recommend gigabyte, but their support service has been woeful in helping me with my MA78GM-S2H. After a little complain I'm getting somewhere now though, refreshingly.
Asus I have found to be slightly flaky, same with MSI. Abit were always pretty reliable, Asrock tend to be cheaper but not bad, never owned an intel board (of any merit at least), and certainly not an EVGA!
So GB it is, and my next board will be one of theirs.
I would definitely recommend gigabyte, but their support service has been woeful in helping me with my MA78GM-S2H. After a little complain I'm getting somewhere now though, refreshingly.
Asus I have found to be slightly flaky, same with MSI. Abit were always pretty reliable, Asrock tend to be cheaper but not bad, never owned an intel board (of any merit at least), and certainly not an EVGA!
So GB it is, and my next board will be one of theirs.
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Asus, Gigabyte and Abit (in no order, I like them all pretty equally), Abit being the only company I've never had an issue with, Asus/Gigabyte can be forgiven because manufacturing problems happen.
On the other side of things I've had nothing but problems with ASROCK, Jetway and DFI and would never even consider buying any of them ever again even for an uber budget system.
On the other side of things I've had nothing but problems with ASROCK, Jetway and DFI and would never even consider buying any of them ever again even for an uber budget system.
