Who makes the worst motherboard??

**ilovetheusers** · February 3rd, 2003, 10:11 PM

Tired of "Who makes the best ###?" questions? Well, how about a "Who makes the worst ###?" question!

Who makes the worst motherboards on the market today and why?

I'm asking because I'm planning on buying something in the next few months and it's gotta be cheap, real cheap and I'm hoping to stray away from the very worst of the cheap end stuff.

**Gollo** · February 3rd, 2003, 10:18 PM

Any PC Chips motherboard. They are just plain CRAP.

**DocPC** · February 3rd, 2003, 10:21 PM

Originally posted by Gollo
Any PC Chips motherboard. They are just plain CRAP.

Aye..........hands down.

**ilovetheusers** · February 3rd, 2003, 10:42 PM

Oh yeah, I have a PC chips as my internet backup PC and I can testify that it stinks. Now that they own ECS I assume that they will bite too.

How about aopen, biostar and chaintech? They make a lot of cheap stuff. Who's worse?

**Darksteel** · February 3rd, 2003, 11:06 PM

I have a chaintech vid card. It has a few problems, kinda irritating.

I almost bought a biostar motherboard...yeah...I'm glad I didn't.

**Jeff the Brit** · February 3rd, 2003, 11:52 PM

Got to be PCChips ... I shudder with horror evey time I have to work on one. BTW, anybody know of any PCI USB card chipsets that DO work on older PCChips mobos? Opti, Lucent and Agere don't seem very good on those, had some luck with CMD chipsets.

**Orangeman** · February 3rd, 2003, 11:55 PM

ECS K7SEM - Reason: Unintelligible English Tech Support, Few Instructions, Conflicting instructions, soldered in processor, overclocked processor, Misleading Specifications, RAM socket catches that break if you try to extract RAM, only takes certain AGP cards, ....should I go on?

**cookin chef** · February 4th, 2003, 01:15 AM

I'd be concerned about certain models from ECS too.

ECS has some good value boards even though they are associated with PCCHIPS.

Biostar boards avoid. I think chaintech and FIC are bad too.
I haven't come across many Aopen boards to make a thorough conclusion. I had real bad experiences from some different boards made by Abit. Never gone back too them.

Soyo??? Can't say. QDI???? They maybe okay.
any others???

**Gollo** · February 4th, 2003, 01:35 AM

Originally posted by cookin chef
I'd be concerned about certain models from ECS too.

ECS has some good value boards even though they are associated with PCCHIPS.

Biostar boards avoid. I think chaintech and FIC are bad too.
I haven't come across many Aopen boards to make a thorough conclusion. I had real bad experiences from some different boards made by Abit. Never gone back too them.

Soyo??? Can't say. QDI???? They maybe okay.
any others???

FIC makes decent value boards. I had an AZ11 for 2 and a half years before it pooped on me but I think that's because my PS went bad and it was a chain reaction. Soyo is decent. I have made a couple of systems with their boards and so far they have been solid.

**Wayward Clam** · February 4th, 2003, 04:59 AM

ANY company that supplies proprietary, "disposable computer" type mobos, I don't care how good the company is, if Soyo or Asus or Abit builds an eMachine style, motherboard, it's STILL gonna suck....

**NooNoo** · February 4th, 2003, 05:15 AM

Aopen I remember reading on a best mobo thread was defended heavily as a good motherboard in the cheap bracket. Might be worth checking the related topics on a thread with the word "best" in it

**Guts3d** · February 4th, 2003, 07:26 AM

P.C. Chips, without a doubt, Jetway, and Spacewalker, and finally Matsonic. So much trouble over the years....

**Outcoded** · February 4th, 2003, 07:46 AM

Pains me to say it, but I've seen a couple of PC-Chips baords over the years that weren't all bad, the M571 for example, and, although I wouldn't reccommend tham, a couple of their latter model boards.

Jetway, on the other hand...

**factory81** · February 4th, 2003, 09:51 AM

PC Chips, yea they suck. ECS is related with PC Chips and Ive seen people have horrible luck with certin chipsets (gettin the modem to work for example that comes shipped with some boards has been proven impossible on a few boards).Epox sucked for the longest time ever. Hell I remember the A7A266 from Asus off the Ali Magik 1 chipset, first bios revision you couldnt even make it post, new bios revision it posts but doesnt read cpu speed correctly, then we got a new bios and it finally would post and read everything right, but then just getting a stable chipset was needed.Any motherboards really with anything extra-propriatary on them suck and are bitchs cause they make you have to go out of your way to accomodate it. Customers end up paying alot more cause they either A. dont wanna make there own connection (how hard is it to give 12v, 5v,3.3v, etc to a device). Some people could make there standard ATX power supplies work with there propriatary mobo's but crank out the wiring diagrams and voltage meters cause you gonna need it.

**Radical Dreamer** · February 4th, 2003, 10:13 AM

Originally posted by Guts3d
P.C. Chips, without a doubt, Jetway, and Spacewalker, and finally Matsonic. So much trouble over the years....

Nothing wrong with spacewalker(shuttle)

I useed to use them at my old job, we had over 300 of em and only 1 ever went bad in the year that I was there

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