Which motherboard do you recommend to people? (complete)
- Thread starter Ku-sama
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First- Gigabyte
Second- DFI
Third- Asus
Second- DFI
Third- Asus
Iluvpenguins
New Member
Asus for the win!
Asus, DFI and Intel here. Asus has great features and very stable, DFI is good for AMD, Intel doesn't have much for tweakers, but is an unbelievably rock solid and fast board.
Abit sucks, Gigabyte I guess makes one or two good boards, MSI rots, ASRock is Asus' budget line that I'm not too keen on, PCCHips can be a real pain in the ass, but good for budget PCs, Biostar should give up and start building cars or something, ECS is really good for low end business machines, Soltek can be alright, Tyan I don't have much experience with, Sapphire makes video cards.. lol, so does EVGA. What does Jetway make? Airplanes?
Abit sucks, Gigabyte I guess makes one or two good boards, MSI rots, ASRock is Asus' budget line that I'm not too keen on, PCCHips can be a real pain in the ass, but good for budget PCs, Biostar should give up and start building cars or something, ECS is really good for low end business machines, Soltek can be alright, Tyan I don't have much experience with, Sapphire makes video cards.. lol, so does EVGA. What does Jetway make? Airplanes?
I agree MSI makes really good video cards but there boards Suck Butt!
funkysnair
VIP Member
lol, my friend is trying to sell me an msi board!!
think asus is the one for me, lots of features and tweaking-
ive used pc chips, msi and tyan and i think my tyan is the best out of the three but not the best
think asus is the one for me, lots of features and tweaking-
ive used pc chips, msi and tyan and i think my tyan is the best out of the three but not the best
In the (old) days I used alot of Tyans, havent thought about that brand in a long time!
funkysnair
VIP Member
well i never heard of them, but i got the board with my cpu's so thought i would give it a go...
think there into server boards really
not too bad
think there into server boards really
not too bad
When I used them they were good boards, back then I changed to Soyo, cant remember why! Still have a old Soyo board, If I.m not wrong cant remember the model number but I think Soyo was the first AMD board with DDR ram!
Saurian
Member
I used to love Soyo, I was sad when I found that Soyo was out the motherboard business.
Asus, DFI, and Gigabyte. My Asus I had was damn good, even if it did have a Via chipset on it, and my next board will likely be an Asus or a Gigabyte. As said, if I were going AMD I'd be definately looking at DFI boards.
Asus, DFI, and Gigabyte. My Asus I had was damn good, even if it did have a Via chipset on it, and my next board will likely be an Asus or a Gigabyte. As said, if I were going AMD I'd be definately looking at DFI boards.
pbdr
New Member
I've said it before and may say it again; I'm fairly sure the "PC" in PC Chips stands for "Piece o'Crap".
My last rig, not built by me, ad a PC Chips MOBO with an Atlon 2000+, it never actually registered the CPU as anything but "unknown CPU type 1.67 GHz", even after bios updates.; and that was just the start of the crappiness....
My last rig, not built by me, ad a PC Chips MOBO with an Atlon 2000+, it never actually registered the CPU as anything but "unknown CPU type 1.67 GHz", even after bios updates.; and that was just the start of the crappiness....
m0nk3ys1ms
Active Member
I couldn't agree more.
pbdr
New Member
Yeah, but that doesn't mean you have to buy a bad board; most higher "ranked" companies (at least in this survey) have multiple offerings the <$50 range.
pbdr
New Member
Absolutely, I'm not saying "only by an ASUS" I'm saying, "Do yourself a favor, don't buy a cheap board just cause it's cheap"...
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