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[quote]Originally posted by confus-ed:
<strong>Technical support & service are more important than who makes the 'best' mb. They all make cr*p sometimes.</strong><hr></blockquote>
True, they do all put out some crap sometimes...
Strange thing is that the Soltek quality control looks to be a lot better than Asus and Abit. The worst thing I've encountered with Soltek was an obvious design defect that they fixed with the next PCB revision. If you don't need the support and service, it's all good.
Abit seem to have a continuing problem with voltage regulator design and Asus were having probs with general design flaws when I was using their boards.
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[quote]Originally posted by Matridom:
<strong>Asus.. all the way..</strong><hr></blockquote>
Agreed...never had a problem with an Asus. I wish I could say the same about other boards :rolleyes:
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Asus for high end machines
ECS for lown end
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ASUS right now, but I'm open to whatever gives me the biggest bang for my buck... I think if I was to get a system right now I'd use Epox. I NEED AMD multiplier control, I'm sick of Intel bus speed overclocking.
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I have to say I tried many mobo companies and my opinion is mixed between ASUS and Gigabyte. Asus for performance and Gigabyte for features and hardware compatibility.
But I would go for Gigabyte
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Ive had an Asus not even post out of the box, and they havent answered 5 consecutive emails and 3 calls for an ME-99 i got from a local comp shop that went OOB 6 Mos after i got the board. It acted flaky after 8 mos (integrated vid) and went doa at 9 1/2 now I'm stuck with it. Asus is no better than anyone in my book and At least you can get a human being on the phone at epox, not to mention theyre a little less expensive and usually have more bios tweaks.....
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Not to argue Ahcoraj but Asus is probably the best RMA (return of hardware) company on the market. The return the defective products under 2-3 weeks no bills required... Get someone on the phone and ask for an RMA on your mobo, cause there's no reason you should be saying that about them
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i've never had a problem with either Asus or Abit, love them both. i've also had really good luck with Shuttle, Aopen and Fic. on the flip side, i've had tons of problems with ECS and MSI. i don't like them and will only use them if the customer insists.
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I had a A7V and was totally impressed with asus. . .great board. I also have a Soyo Dragon+ and i think its an even better board. Of course its newer but it took a lot less tweaking on my part to get it the way i wanted it. Also with the beast of a manual it came with, i havent had a problem yet!!! Soyo is on par with Asus in my book! I have to agree with most about ECS, good company, stable boards (cheap too!).
there's my 2 cents
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Epox has been the only bard I have built on in 3 years. I havent had really any probs except when I tried to sneak one of their low end boards in. Like all manufacturers they have some pretty poor low end boards sporting KL and KM and such chipsets. The 8KTA was bad never meant to run 24/7. Usually blew out after 8 to 10 months. 2 did on me but they were replaced with a newer better board at no charge and 1 of them was at 16 months so the 2 year warranty on Epox boards is good.
I have yet to see anything match the stability of my 8K7A+ yet or the support from Epox. SO I wont be changing anytime soon
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I am a huge ASUS fan. Two of my 3 Desktops are ASUS (A7V133 & P4B266LM). And I must say my latest experience with ECS (K7S5A) leads me to say this is an excellent choice on the low end ($54).
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Tossup between EPOX and ABIT
