Features - QOTW: Which motherboard manufacturer do you trust most?

[luigipogi1234]

asus

[Krusher33]

I went from ECS to MSI to ASUS and I'll honestly say that I'm stick with ASUS from now on. I'd like to give Gigabyte a chance though.

[Onkston]

I've only bought two motherboards so far, the first was Asus, which failed after about 5 years, but that was 5 years of pretty heavy use, so I think it did ok. The one I bought to replace that was ASRock, it's a nice board and I've had no problems so far. So I guess I'd say either of those two. When buying though I always do plenty research and will buy most brands if the product is right.

[weta]

I always used ABIT until Universal took them over, then DFI until they stopped making enthusiast boards. I'm currently using ASRock motherboards.

[Ross1]

none? ive had bad asus boards, ive had bad gigabyte boards, bad asrock boards... and also good mobos from all 3 of those.

brand loyalty is something i will never, ever understand.

[Obscurity]

Gigabyte. Asus as second choice.
MSI fill their boards with too many pictures or shapes of guns and plaster "MILITARY CLASS" all over them, its kinda childish really. The boards themselves are decent but the aesthetic puts me off completely.

[Biscuit]

Gigabyte. Asus as second choice.
MSI fill their boards with too many pictures or shapes of guns and plaster "MILITARY CLASS" all over them, its kinda childish really. The boards themselves are decent but the aesthetic puts me off completely.

You say msi are the worst for that... Really?

Think you need to double check your sources!

[danroyle]

asus and msi for me, Although always found asus Bios chips to be a little flakey

[Shavaunt]

I use Gigabyte myself, but generally use ASUS when I build for other people.

[zeb_wren]

I have an ABIT KT7A-RAID going strong 12 years after purchase and overclocked.

[Bloodbath]

Gigabyte and ASUS

[eugenius]

Supermicro, Tyan, Intel, Asus.

[Badgerblack]

Hello All.

A) Buy an ASUS motherboard.
(Fan boy / employee / ‘freebie troll’?) nope.

B) I registered 'especially' so I could post a reply
(Really big wow u say?) Indeed.

C) Still reading? /rant>


In my overly long ‘IT background’ history of 22 years, ASUS motherboards are by far the most reliable & compatible motherboards you can buy.
They may not be the #1 ‘best value for money’ (uhuh?) or absolutely teaming with ‘cutting edge’ features (insert yawn) but who actually needs a board with 12+ USB ports & 4 x Gen3 full speed PCie lanes?

I work have worked, gamed and abused many MANY manufacturers motherboards for 3 decades now & its ASUS motherboards that don’t fail / boot perfectly with my RAID / Fibre / NIC and don’t BSOD when my office gets over 30 degrees (sure about that?) simply put, yes.
I’m not going to name other manufacturers here because there isn’t any need to. I have clustered Hyper visors on free / open source SANs with ASUS motherboards that have cost 1/30th of industry standard ‘kit’, delivered 4 x better metrics (stroke.. storke..background trumpet…?) and they have never needed a ‘premier’ support call
at 3am etc. Lucky? Nope, ASUS do their homework.

You can tell I don’t ‘write’ professionally, I really don’t care. I do care about transparency & honesty, buy an ASUS motherboard.


Steve@hiuptime.co.uk

[winsong02]

Gigabyte - had 3 Asus boards fail, 2 because system fan headers didn't meet specs and wiped out a +12v land and 1 because the CPU fan header stopped working (couldn't get the fan to spin up). Did all the right things to isolate the problem.

[Kovoet]

Asus has never let me down and I have had them since the old P4P800E and that is long back. I have had nearly 20 of them already, my favourite being the Gene series.