Who's your favorite motherboard manufacturer?

[Corporate Thug]

abit, they have been consistently producing great mobos for a while now

 

[pillage2001]

Asus.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I think Abit, Asus, Tyan, and Epox are among my all time favorites

Currently I think I like Shuttle only because they have Good boards at cheap prices (my AN35 Ultra nforce2 400 board was under 80 bucks, and its a pretty damn smooth board)

 

[sharkeeper]

Supermicro, baby! Never leave Earth without it!®

-DAK-

 

[KhoiFather]

MSI Baby!!!! Its rock solid for me so far but the only friggin thing I hate about is while I'm playing music, the sound would stutter and get all screwy if I open up a program unzipping/unrarring, and sometimes it does it for no reason. Geesh!

 

[eplebnista]

Biostar

 

[JBT]

I've only had Asus MSI and a junk PCchips all are running to this day the MSI dosn't like 166 FSB any more though. I like my A7N8X DLX the best so far =)

 

[Acts837]

Abit, Asus, & Intel

 

[tbates757]

6-18 months ago I would have said Epox all the way, now I'm leaning towards ABit.

Abit
Epox
Gigabyte
Soltek
ECS
...
Asus

lol... sorry I just don't like asus very much

 

[Motero]

epox

 

[brunswickite]

epox

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Asus for reputation and boards for a little more speed. Intel for systems where getting 1 or 2% more speed isn't a factor since they are among the most stable bunch since they don't have any extra frills including the ability to OC on their boards.

 

[MGMorden]

Abit.

I've used Abit (2 boards), Epox (1 board), Pcchips (1), ECS (1), Biostar (2), Aopen (1), M-tech (1), California Graphics (1), MSI (1) and Soltek(1). Abit has always had all the little features to play with and tweak, making it a very "fun" board . Others get the job done, but Abit has always felt like something special to me. I went cheap for a while and was using some other stuff, but I ordered an NF7-S a few days ago to get back to a board I can be proud to have in my system .

 

[Steven the Leech]

Epox
Gigabyte

 

[Slammy1]

I used to have a Tyan board I bought because I wanted the cheapest thing I could find in a PII. It had a 1 year warranty, and 13 months after I bought it the keyboard plug broke off the MoBo. I took it to a good shop, not the one that recommended the Tyan, and they said it's not worth fixing. But they recommended a board they said everyone there had, the P3B-F. And what a board; stable, fast, Asus supported the board for so long after it was sold. So when it came time to upgrade, it was simply a question of the best Asus board for me. I bought the P4P800-D, and after sweating over this thing, applying work arounds to things that didn't work that should work, several hardware conflicts, and a tech support that stops taking phone calls like an hour before they officially close I think I'll be a little faster on my next upgrade. Maybe in 9 months or so. I'm in the process of finding a home for my misplaced fanboydom, Abit seems the lead contender at this time.

 

[Spac3d]

Gigabyte

 

[novice]

MSI, although, I am enjoying the new Shuttle AN35N.

 

[thirtythree]

I like asus.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Asus, but I hate their website.

 

[dew042]

abit by far....
dew

 

[gagaliya]

intel original, rock solid stability. I made the mistake of getting the piece of *#(@&*(# epox board once since it was the first one out was the new via chipset, boy did i pay for that...

 

[modedepe]

Asus.

 

[MDE]

When they work Asus, but their tech support, website, and RMA process all suck. Otherwise Epox.

 

[BigJelly]

As a first time builder and one who expects to use this computer for a while (small upgrades in distant future), I found Gigabyte to make great MOBOs. I got the GA-IK8100 (i think thats the product code) and this is the best, 3 sets of duel channel DDR, 8USB2 ports, onboard lan, 2 firewire ports, and onboard audio. Only bad this is the chipset fan died after a week, so i just ordered a vantec fan (with copper heat sink).

 

[magomago]

Asus and Epox and ECS.

All three have been great experiences for me - though the Asus was EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING when I got a nforce2 back in November when they were still newer and had horrible bioses, lackluster drivers on nvidia's part, and a mess to set up....but once I got it set up I haven't looked back. The Epox setup went without a hitch...It actually powered up when I pushed the "power" button. For some reason whenever I build PCs there is always something that I forget that is stupid or something like that.

With my Asus it was a slew of things, with my friend's Epox nforce2 it took 11 hours to get it running (I guess I'm somewhat slow so when I think of something it hits me out of nowhere 4 hours later ) , the ECS was about 15 minutes to realize I had the "power" and "reset" button switch....but my brother's Epox KT333 worked immediately - and the ironic part was that it was the first pc I had built in a LOOONG time (back in octoberish)

Though if I had an option of another Asus I would probably just wait....it seems that new technology (or in this case - Nvid'as 2nd chipset) had problems that needed to be ironed out....though right now I'd have no qualms about picking a rev2 nforce2


I HATE HATE HATE Luckstar though...my god I'm not sure whether to blame the mobo or the stupid mvp3 chipset - I've never had so many problems (and lived with them! I could get my 550k6-2 to run stable at stock! I had to downclock to 500) in my life with them! Granted I've only built around 7 or 8 pcs in my 6 year "career" I have never had something as problematic as that.


Though if I could build another pc I'd try out that Soltek because I hear a lot of great things...