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View Poll Results: Worst manufacturer for motherboards?
Biostar 33 10.48%
Foxconn 11 3.49%
MSI 27 8.57%
ECS elitegroup 214 67.94%
GigaByte 8 2.54%
ASUS 22 6.98%
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Old 10-11-09   #11 (permalink)
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Well I can't really say there is anything major wrong with ecs Ive never owned a ecs board. But out of the choices I would have to say ecs.
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I've only had Gigabyte boards (3 of them) and I'm the blame for the loss of my first 2. They also have a warranty, love these boards. Seeing I've only had Gigabyte it's hard for me to hate on anyone hah.
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Biostar is the only board out of those that failed me.....Support told me to update bios....Did on phone And board died and reset while bios flash...Support said they couldnt do crapp.....So F biostar
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I have had nothing but (I need to read the Terms of service more) from MSI, 4 motherboards purchased from them, all but one of them had hardware issues within 6 months. I will say that I have not bought high end MSI motherboards and have gone rather with the value ones, however that really isn't an excuse.

I don't really like the gimped BIOS in ECS motherboards, but the hardware itself has been solid.
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My biostar board has been just fine

That said I might have gotten a Gigabyte board....
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Yea there support done on forums.....And parts been flimsy is there only problem....OVerclocking isnt THAT bad....But better bios would be helpful other than that ECS passed with me
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The most dead boards I've seen were ECS, so another vote for ECS.

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If anyone wants to Test a ECS boardi got a Low profile 760G Biostar board That can be used for folding rig ..(ofcourse when my posts reach spot for FreE)
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Gigabyte and Asus shouldnt be on that list.I choose ECS but i should of went with AsRock.I had one AsRock board that was terrible.Oh no Asrock on the list.It should be
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This Biostar has its bios probs but im votin for....biostar but only because of this and that ive only used msi previously and that k8T board was perfectly fine then.
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