What is the best Motherboard manufacturer?

**mountain_rage** · July 2nd, 2004, 02:48 PM

Hi

I was wondering who makes the most reliable, friendly and performance driven motherboards. So many people tell me asus, I really have trouble believing that, again and again I seem to find asus mother boards frying. Out of 30 at my old school we had 4 burnout within a year. Could anyone tell me is it gigabyte, abit etc... Which is better? Im not talking specs or whatever I know how bus and such work. I just wanna know overall who is better.

**multi** · July 2nd, 2004, 03:58 PM

might depend if you want to overclock the cpu..sounds like you want it for an AMD chip?(sorry if you ment for intel..)

i would be interested to know the general feel what people think is good mobo for say the xp2000+ and up to the 3000+ (where the 64-bit cpus start i think)

i got a pretty lame board cause i couldnt afford DDRam at the time and had to get one that took SD+DDRam
so have been thinking asus cause you can up the clock speed with the bios from what i have seen....

**notbob** · July 2nd, 2004, 04:32 PM

i had good luck with msi, tyan has some nice boards

for the best info, check overclocking sites, since they test the stuff out

crap boards i had--iwill, alton, pcchips--all absolutely horrible

**origin** · July 2nd, 2004, 04:48 PM

most peeps hate on intel boards..but I have 2 cpu's at the house they both have intel p4 mobo's they both about 3 years old and run fine no need to replace much just like if i am expanding RAM or hdd space otherwise I like em. something to keep an eye for when buying a good mobo is to stay away from on board audio/and video simply because when it is all part of the mobo the quality of the audio video is usually made by the maker of the mobo intern it isnt that great compared to buying a video card made by ATI or NVIDIA or a sound card manufactured by sound blaster. So I would reccomend not getting a mobo with no audio/video cards on board. Hope this helps.

l8

**begoodbebad** · July 2nd, 2004, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by notbob

i had good luck with msi, tyan has some nice boards

for the best info, check overclocking sites, since they test the stuff out

crap boards i had--iwill, alton, pcchips--all absolutely horrible

I like PC Chips boards but they are not for overclocking, they are not designed for it and the bios is limited accordingly. They make great rock solid reliable boards at extremely low cost. I have an M848ALU, it will run any Athlon XP and DDR 400, has AGP x8, 5 PCI slots, LAN onboard and it cost peanuts. I have zero complaints.
On the other hand a few months ago when I decided to upgrade to enable dual channel on my 1GB of Kingmax DDR 400 I bought an MSI K7N2 Delta....it worked for an entire afternoon before dying.....so I reinstalled everything back onto the PC Chips and it's still there.....
I'm building a few PCs for different people this month and they'll all have PC Chips boards because I don't want any returns or problems but I do still want a profit margin while I undercut the local shops. If I was building for someone who wanted to overclock or needed PCI express or a 64 bit CPU I would choose something else accordingly.

**Ne007** · July 2nd, 2004, 05:19 PM

asus has been good to me

**hawkburn** · July 2nd, 2004, 08:06 PM

If your going with a Pentium system, I might suggest Intel as the manufacturer.

I've always though to myself.. who knows where the processor and technology is going to be in the next few years better than the company that develops that themselves. Asus, Abit, Gigabyte etc don't know all of Intel's secrets, but Intel does. I don't know as far as performance, but I personally use the Intel D875PBZLK, which does not come with onboard sound, but its mainly made for the more techy user who would want a high end sound card. I'm not particular on sound, so I picked up a 5.1 channel SoundBlaster for 20 dollars when on sale.

**multi** · July 2nd, 2004, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by origin

I have 2 cpu's at the house they both have intel p4 mobo's they both about 3 years old and run fine no need to replace much just like if i am expanding RAM or hdd space otherwise I like em.

they must of cost you a fortune 3 years ago...
pentium3 released around mid 2001?:tol2
pentium4 released around mid 2003?

**Squid_Ling** · July 2nd, 2004, 08:15 PM

Using the computers for gaming or simply word processing. Abit or Asus. The two best motherboard builders ive coem across. Being a computer modder myself, my Asus mobo has let me overclock my intel p4 2.4ghz processor to 2.88ghz. 20% increase and 440mhz faster. EASILY addjustable in the BIOS. You can overclock manually or by using preset configurations. DO NOT use an intel, msi (only the most recent boards are good stuff), gigabyte, soyo. DFI is also a great motherboard, but i suggest going to several computer websites such as...

www.rbmods.com
www.overclockersclub.com
www.tomshardware.com
www.tech-mods.net

i visit all on a regular basis and recieve constant updates on new parts.

shortly after new motherboard installation.
http://groups.msn.com/gamescreenies/shoebox.msnw

**Omyn** · July 2nd, 2004, 08:19 PM

I have only had good experiences with gigabyte.

Comes with nice documentation, alot of room for expansion, configurability for you speed freaks out there, and they make a good motherboard thats meant to last.

Comes with a nice software package too for overclocking your computer, antivirus programs and firewall software, and a great bios update utility.

Even though you may pay a little more with Gigabyte it is better to be safe than sorry.

I have been so pleased with their products they have made me a customer for life :]

I have seen multiple instances where Soyo boards were shipped with defective ram slots and I would stay away from them.

Motherboard makers to stay away from:
Soyo, PC Chips

**Squid_Ling** · July 2nd, 2004, 08:20 PM

lol...soyo..:error

**Omyn** · July 2nd, 2004, 08:24 PM

Dont get me wrong I dont think Soyo is a terrible motherboard maker, just too many of their motherboards are broken for some reason.

Why not make a poll of the worst motherboards :]