Preferred mobo manufacturer

My money's with Soltek currently.
So far in my experience their boards have been reliable, fast, inexpensive and stable.

Edit: Sorry I missed a few manufacturers. Unfortunately I can't edit the poll to add the others in...

Asus all the way!!!

Technical support & service are more important than who makes the 'best' mb. They all make cr*p sometimes.

Haven't tried many others yet but I know I love my Epox, as do most other people I know with the 8k7a+ :cool:

Another Asus all the way here

http://usa.asus.com/mainimages/logo.jpg

Chaintech's been stable for me

Asus & Tyan are a close 1st & 2nd in my books! :D

this is a hard one, It depends what im making and who its for and what its for.

I only go with:

Abit
Gigabyte
Soyo
Tyan

These are the only boards ive never had problems with and they are great boards to work with.

Asus I used to use tell 4 of my systems running asus boards died frying my cpu and memory. So after that Id never go Asus again

Abit without any shadow of a doubt.

Intel. I am sorry to say that I have less than 1 % RMA for Intel boards. This is nearly 75,000 system builds from my company.

MSI is #1 for returns.

If you asked this question a little over a month ago, I would've said ABIT. Now that I've built a system with an ABIT board, I'd have to say anything other than ABIT, abit sucks. Gotta do too many tweaks just to get the damn system stable! Should've stuck with Intel...what's that? You like abit, oh well, then you can play with it. Tweaking motherboards to make them work sucks, tweaking motherbaords to get more performance out of them rocks, try that with a KT7A non-raid system, yeah, lets tweak an abit board, stable as a see-saw. And I didn't experience instablility with just one board, I returned a couple just to get the same crap. ABIT sucks!

I'd have to say ASUS, Epox, DFI, Shuttle, Intel, FIC in that order, last of all ABIT, oh and of course ECS.

[quote]Originally posted by Jungleman:
<strong>Haven't tried many others yet but I know I love my Epox, as do most other people I know with the 8k7a+ :cool: </strong><hr></blockquote>

JMM....Epox's frontman. :D :p

I like Epox as well. Not too many customers will buy it though.

My 1.3 gamer runs the hell out of the Epox on XP with nary a bitch.

(This is for Lycia) My Athlon 1700XP runs the **** out of a P4 2.0 GHZ on my ECS MB..... :eek: :D

rawk

[quote]Originally posted by DocPC:
<strong>(This is for Lycia) My Athlon 1700XP runs the **** out of a P4 2.0 GHZ on my ECS MB..... :eek: :D
</strong><hr></blockquote>

I don't think the motherboard is a huge factor in that as an XP1700 would crush a P4 2.0 anyway :D :D :D :D

XP1700 is equal to an Athlon Thundebrird 1.7ghz..so imagine what that'd do to a p4 2.0..

How many MSI boards have you dealt with DocPC? I was looking at possibly sourcing MSI boards for new systems but if they have a bad rate of failure then I might start recommending Intel board based systems.

I have to say that my experiences with Asus boards before 2001 were all good but I've had some fairly major problems with them over the course of 2001, mainly with build quality. Has anyone else run into the same sorts of issues or have I been hit with an unlucky run of bad boards? Warranty is all very well but if the board has to be replaced several times then the clients start getting annoyed if they're losing business over it. I saw something posted elsewhere about Asus moving the manufacturing facilities for PC mainboards.

I was looking at using A-Bit boards for a while but it sounds like people have had issues with them as well.

The number of Soltek boards I've put in new systems is relatively small(less than 50 in the last year) but none have been returned and all run very stably although the first PCB model of the KT133A boards had a PCI slot issue. The problem is that as a fairly small manufacturer in the overall scheme of things, you never know when they might put out some crap boards although it sounds like they might be doing the new VIA badged motherboards in the short term.

I think the poll speaks volumes.

Asus are tops in my book. Intel's reference boards can't be beat either.