[RESOLVED] Mobo best/worst

[Snommis69]

OK, my turn! Who makes the best (or worst) motherboard for the proc of your choice?
Best for me:
Socket 7 (ATX) = Aopen AX59Pro
Socket A = Asus A7V

And the list goes on..
Worst:
ANYTHING from PCCHIPS or SuperMicro!

Let the slamfest begin...

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[iateyourcat]

I like AOpen alot but man, my Asus boards are stable like rocks and they all run fast. I haven't bought a board since my P3B-F tho so I'm not up on the new boards..



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[Darren Wilson]

FC-PGA - QDI Synactix2E (rock stable and cost effective)

SS7 - Is there such a thing as a good SS7 board???

Socket / Slot A - Is there such a thing as a stable VIA chipset?

One mans opinion and I am sticking to it.

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[CPUMan]

Asus with VIA chipsets (P3V133 or P3V4)
Tyan with SS7 and Slot1

I have used both here and they are very stable and from a local vendor a good price to boot.

[K98k]

The best MOBO is the one you don't have yet and the worst is the one you just bought...at least that's how I try to explain it to my wife so I can get the money to upgrade!

[AlienDyne]

You always get what you pay for!

Best: Asus
Worst: PCCHIPS

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[CobraTekMax]

Best = Dead heat between Abit and Asus. My mind is with Asus, but my heart belongs to Abit.

Worst = FIC, hands down. We ordered about 20 FIC Socket 7 boards at the first of the year, and I could only get like 5 of them to actually POST, and to be honest, I wish I never would have gotten them to work, because it was nothing but headaches from the start.

Underdog = Chaintech. I've used quite a few of their boards, and they work quite well, actually. We use the 7AJA boards in our low to mid-range Duron/T-Bird systems, and they're solid as a rock. They have on board sound, but can it can be disabled. And they actually have an ISA slot, which you see less and less of these day.s

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[iamtheman]

Originally posted by iateyourcat:
I like AOpen alot but man, my Asus boards are stable like rocks and they all run fast. I haven't bought a board since my P3B-F tho so I'm not up on the new boards..

Without a doubt P3B-F is the best board I ever bought. My opinion of Asus went way up.


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[theBeast]

I usually recommend Asus for the serious shopper, or Gigabyte for the price concious shopper.
I've never had problems with either. The worst think I've ever RMA'd an ASUS for was a bad BIOS flash.
AOpen can make a pretty mean board also.

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[Jallentino]

I'm running a Tyan board now, I was using QDI but got bored with that.

[CREEPINGDEATH]

I am very happy with my ASUS - Cuv4x

It's been working perfectly since the moment i put it in.

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[runderwo]

Slot 1 -> MSI BX Master (personal system)

S370 -> Asus CUSL2 (EXCELLENT board)

Socket A -> MSI K7T Pro2 (haven't had Pro2A yet, but sure it's similar, very stable and easy to set up, and POST readout on board)

Super 7 -> Soyo 5EMA+ or Tyan S1598, both rock stable and cheap.

Darren: is QDI a decent brand overall, or just one four-star board? We had the opportunity to carry them but declined since we hadn't any experience with them.

[runderwo]

BTW there is actually one standout among PCChips boards. M741LMRT was our "value" board for a long time. Slot1/S370, everything onboard. It was very stable, and RMA was like 1 out of 10. It worked well and cost little.

M598LMR on the other hand was horrible, it was the Super7/SiS530 complement to M741 and was utterly trash. like 5 out of 10 RMA for various reasons, and just overall flakiness with many of the others. We ditched these after a few weeks of hell. This is the typical PCChips experience.

[Snommis69]

*UPDATE* I may have a new member of my "Most Hated Motherboard" list... I have a SS7 DFI board giving me fits right now....

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