Preferred mobo manufacturer

[Draggar]

I have no idea who I'm going to go with next.

My system now has an ABit, but when I built it, I ended up with an Asus. The Asus was horrible, nothing but problems, I had to return it and ordered the ABit.

The ABit was great until 2 years later. they advertise it as being able to take 256 MB Dimms. Great! I ordered one.
It didn't work.
OK, returned that one. A while later, I bought 4 more when the price was down. None worked on the system. I lost $80 because of that (restocking fee). OK, so 256MB Dimms don't work on it...

They advertise the latest bois supports drives over 32GB. Great! I just got a 40GB. Update the BIOS, nope, won't support the full 40GB, even though they said it would. Now I have to run EZ drive (again).

After unanswered emails, calls, whatever to ABit, nothing was done to help me out, not even a "You're SOL" reply.

Both companies have left a very bad taste in my mouth. I'll have to do a lot of research (again) next time I build a system...

[CJK]

I prefer ASUS.

[DANIMAL]

Asus! Period
unless you have trouble with them then go ABIT but if you have trouble with them then stick with PC Chips.
and even go Soyo.
But stick with asus!

[DSTech]

I've never owned an Asus board but have mostly heard they were good. Most of my systems have used Abit boards, but I think I've always come up with some annoying (but not major) issues with each of them. My present board is a Shuttle AV40 and so far I love it, Rock Solid stable and not a single problem. As for "Favorite Mobo Manufacturer", I guess I really don't have the experience to say. I can say however that I do not like any board that doesn't have an Award BIOS, especially if it has PheonixBIOS or proprietory it's evil.

[talltech]

ASUS and MSI seem to be ok, all the home systems i have built for my self have run asus mobos' (A7v & p5a-b), my last emlpyer was using a supllier that built the majority of its systems with MSI boards and later ECS, the msi board in my opinion were stable, prolly not the fastest going around, most systems were word processor systems anyhow. the fastest syustem i had on my bench b4 i left was an athlon XP 1600 with DDR ram on an ECS, man, i would give any thing to have that box. it was sweet

[APCSI]

Aopen are absolutely the best. I use them exclusivley because they manufacture motherboards, video cards, modems, sound cards, cd-roms, cdrws, cases, keyboards, mice, hubs, nics, monitors and memory.