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worst manufacturer.....Biostar is my vote whats yours
worst manufacturer.....Biostar is my vote whats yours
Worst Motherboard manufacturer...
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Back before I knew what I know now. I bought a socket 775 ECS board and a Pentium 4 3.0. Anyways, this was my first build ever and it did nothing but BSOD constantly. I didn't overclock at all either. At first I thought it was something I was doing wrong and was trying all kinds of different things. A friend told me to ditch it and get a Gigabyte board and I didn't have any problems after that.
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as long as you want to run stock ECS is fine but here at OVERCLOCK.NET that just wont cut it!
Originally Posted by TheSandman  i challange people to get an ECS board and try it, you will be pleasantly suprised |
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I knew gigabyte wouldn't get many votes on this. They've been pretty sweet these past 3 years.
Asus makes sense...i'm sure many people have had one die on them.
Biostar does make some pretty terrible motherboards, check out any of their super low end boards.
MSI does have a bunch of flaky boards, but they're getting better it seems.
Gigabyte owns and probably will for a while longer.
Foxconn I don't have any idea about. I've seen a few systems with their boards, and they were all very old...
I'd like to add 2 brands to this list, possibly a third. XFX, eVGA and Intel.
I'd vote for XFX because I had their support tell me that they don't make motherboards, when I had a KT600-ALX...on my lap when i made the call. eVGA becuase i've had to replace so many 680 and 780i boards, i'm pretty pissed at nvidia. their graphics cards seem to die pretty often as well...
I've had problems with every Intel board i've ever used. They all suck and will have swollen caps a year and a half after you bought the damn thing.
Asus makes sense...i'm sure many people have had one die on them.
Biostar does make some pretty terrible motherboards, check out any of their super low end boards.
MSI does have a bunch of flaky boards, but they're getting better it seems.
Gigabyte owns and probably will for a while longer.
Foxconn I don't have any idea about. I've seen a few systems with their boards, and they were all very old...
I'd like to add 2 brands to this list, possibly a third. XFX, eVGA and Intel.
I'd vote for XFX because I had their support tell me that they don't make motherboards, when I had a KT600-ALX...on my lap when i made the call. eVGA becuase i've had to replace so many 680 and 780i boards, i'm pretty pissed at nvidia. their graphics cards seem to die pretty often as well...
I've had problems with every Intel board i've ever used. They all suck and will have swollen caps a year and a half after you bought the damn thing.
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ECS, definitely. It's a budget board and not a gaming board, but that still doesn't mean I should get half of them DOA...
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I've had iffy luck with ECS. A K7S5A I gave to a friend of mine killed itself after two weeks. I was not impressed.
My roomie's ECS SiS741 board, though, worked like a champ from day 1 and I only sold it because I had no further use for it.
I still wouldn't use ECS for anything seriously mission-critical, like if you need to run a reliable work machine or whatever.
Speaking of Gigabyte. I've been pleasantly surprised by the robustness of the two Gigabyte boards I've been part of a purchase for. One was a split between me and Unknownm to get his Phenom X3 running because my DFI board was a total POS again. It fired up and has been working like a champ.
I got the AM3 version of the 790X-UD4P for myself, and it's been just beautiful. Lots of tweakability without going seriously overboard like DFI, an easy flash update system, and seems to be an excellent overclocking board, both CPU and RAM. I have some DDR3-1333 that seems to be fine at 1600 on this board.
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I think I'll be switching to Gigabyte from now on. Asus has had a good run with me, but like all things, they come to an end.
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Originally Posted by TheSandman i challange people to get an ECS board and try it, you will be pleasantly suprised |
My roomie's ECS SiS741 board, though, worked like a champ from day 1 and I only sold it because I had no further use for it.
I still wouldn't use ECS for anything seriously mission-critical, like if you need to run a reliable work machine or whatever.
Speaking of Gigabyte. I've been pleasantly surprised by the robustness of the two Gigabyte boards I've been part of a purchase for. One was a split between me and Unknownm to get his Phenom X3 running because my DFI board was a total POS again. It fired up and has been working like a champ.
I got the AM3 version of the 790X-UD4P for myself, and it's been just beautiful. Lots of tweakability without going seriously overboard like DFI, an easy flash update system, and seems to be an excellent overclocking board, both CPU and RAM. I have some DDR3-1333 that seems to be fine at 1600 on this board.
I think I'll be switching to Gigabyte from now on. Asus has had a good run with me, but like all things, they come to an end.
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I have never actually had an ECS board go down on me (both of mine are in prebuilt OEM eMachines/HP machines), but judging from the reviews on Newegg and other sites I am indeed afraid of buying their boards. The stories of DOAs, bugs, and poor construction has scared me sufficiently.
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NOOONE.
NOOOOONE of the above listed manufacturers, are worst than they.
They take the cake.
The other manufacturers, I SWEAR IT, are GOOOD, in comparison.
I like ECS board - I just think they have poor packaging, and the company lacks.. finesse.
I see their boards as simple, but effective.
MSI isnt the GREATEST, but I LOVED their SKT 939 Boards.
GIGABYTE mobos, are typically, peices of WORK.
ASUS MAKES GOOD MOBO's. nice features, good lifetime (BUT THEY HATE DIRTY POWER WITH A PASSION)..
Ashrock = do doo.
Originally Posted by duocpu2.4 Absolutely agree, they are the worst ones. |
NOOOOONE of the above listed manufacturers, are worst than they.
They take the cake.
The other manufacturers, I SWEAR IT, are GOOOD, in comparison.
I like ECS board - I just think they have poor packaging, and the company lacks.. finesse.
I see their boards as simple, but effective.
MSI isnt the GREATEST, but I LOVED their SKT 939 Boards.
GIGABYTE mobos, are typically, peices of WORK.
ASUS MAKES GOOD MOBO's. nice features, good lifetime (BUT THEY HATE DIRTY POWER WITH A PASSION)..
Ashrock = do doo.
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I've had some goods and bads with Asrock. An Asrock SiS741 board for my brother pooped after about six months or so.
My other brother's i845GV based mobo had problems holding a sync lock in the integrated video (basically the image would blink in and out, or roll sometimes). The AGP (AGI, really) slot worked fine so I whacked in a Riva TNT64 and called it a day.
The real workhorses which really raised my impression were these two:
First the ConRoe 1333-D667 i945 board, which has been a nice, solid board capable of handling all the Pentium Ds as well as all the Celerons. I have an E1200 in there right now at my dad's and it's a nice little guest machine.
Second the 4Core1600Twins-P35. VERY nice board. I leaned towards it after I read up and found overall positive reviews, plus it was about $100 when an equivalent Asus board would have been somewhere around $130 or more. I had a Pentium D 945 and later a Core 2 Duo E6600, then even a Q6600, on it and each of the CPUs worked very well.
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My brother currently has that board with the Pentium D 945 and he hasn't had a problem with it.
So I wouldn't necessarily discount Asrock, especially their more recent motherboards. They seem to have ironed out the quality control issues they used to have.
My other brother's i845GV based mobo had problems holding a sync lock in the integrated video (basically the image would blink in and out, or roll sometimes). The AGP (AGI, really) slot worked fine so I whacked in a Riva TNT64 and called it a day.
The real workhorses which really raised my impression were these two:
First the ConRoe 1333-D667 i945 board, which has been a nice, solid board capable of handling all the Pentium Ds as well as all the Celerons. I have an E1200 in there right now at my dad's and it's a nice little guest machine.
Second the 4Core1600Twins-P35. VERY nice board. I leaned towards it after I read up and found overall positive reviews, plus it was about $100 when an equivalent Asus board would have been somewhere around $130 or more. I had a Pentium D 945 and later a Core 2 Duo E6600, then even a Q6600, on it and each of the CPUs worked very well.
My brother currently has that board with the Pentium D 945 and he hasn't had a problem with it.
So I wouldn't necessarily discount Asrock, especially their more recent motherboards. They seem to have ironed out the quality control issues they used to have.
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You know - I think Id have to agree with you.
They're arent that bad - I just think they're limited (as to be expected from a more budget-geared line).
The Issues I've had were with software TBH - I dont think their manufacturing process is wanting - I dont their they're frail boards that Die easily.
Still - Gimme an ASUS anyday
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They're arent that bad - I just think they're limited (as to be expected from a more budget-geared line).
The Issues I've had were with software TBH - I dont think their manufacturing process is wanting - I dont their they're frail boards that Die easily.
Still - Gimme an ASUS anyday
well i have had my ECS for the past 3 years with no problems what so ever, then my DFI was a DOA,ASUS let me down with 3 RMA's on a P5NE-SLI, and now my EVGA is good.
u forgot JETWAY( i hope i spell it righ) in that list
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wrong sockt, that waht happen when u dont read the whole thing
u forgot JETWAY( i hope i spell it righ) in that list
wrong sockt, that waht happen when u dont read the whole thing
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MSI, all the people that voted biostar, go look at the Tpower series. do your homework before voting
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I vote Biostar. Never had good luck with them. My ASUS and Gigabyte boards have been awesome. I highly recommend them.
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