best looking motherboard of all time?

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anybody got a favorite?

I might be building a new rig soon and it seem like most motherboards suffer from general but ugliness and no attention is paid to colors etc....

the gigabytes are the worst IMO
 
malicious said:

anybody got a favorite?

I might be building a new rig soon and it seem like most motherboards suffer from general but ugliness and no attention is paid to colors etc....

the gigabytes are the worst IMO
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dont forget asus , ugliest mobo's i have ever seen.
i like those XFX matx boards XFX MIA78S8209 AM2+/AM2 , green with all black connectors, or the EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 black with green.
Sure there are some nice DFI boards too with not too many colors on it.
 
i just went through 17 pages of mobos on newegg for 775 procs and 90% are fugly to me.....

doesn't anybody make a board with nice copper/amber colors? All the orange ones are hiper/sting my eyes/UV insanity ORANGE........

yea the DFI/EVGA/XFX black and green ones are nice - LIME green they are
 
funny thing is once u find a board ....finding a matching videocard and soundcard etc.
 
well most of the time I can just fine one with black pcb and take off the oem cooler for aftermarket or water.....
 
The ASUS P5K3 "Black Pearl" looks better than most, but still has too much color going on. When will mobo manufacturers realize we don't all want a damn crayon box to explode on our motherboards?

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true.....

asus i particularly in love with the white pci slots

if a manufacture just made a 100% black board i would buy it.
 
malicious said:
well most of the time I can just fine one with black pcb and take off the oem cooler for aftermarket or water.....
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did that with mine , and i peeled of all the labels, dont know why there have to be hundreds of labels on a videocard or mobo , PSU ....
im still waiting for a nice green and black matx board with decents chipset and layout.
 
I swear I think most of the MB outfits have someone on staff responsible for ensuring their boards look as ugly as is humanly possible. I would like to see a carbon fiber looking MB with copper heat sinks and heat pipes. All other interfaces in either dark grey or black.
 
msabo said:
I swear I think most of the MB outfits have someone on staff responsible for ensuring their boards look as ugly as is humanly possible. I would like to see a carbon fiber looking MB with copper heat sinks and heat pipes. All other interfaces in either dark grey or black.
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yea carbon would be sweet
 
imo the blue/black PCB (e.g. IP35 Pro, IX38/48 etc.) abits are pretty restrained.
Gigabytes (MSI are pretty bad too) do look like an explosion in a paint factory.
 
i had an epox ep9npa sli that was pretty subdued and nice looking...

the 'ol msi k8nneo2 was a pretty decent looking board...

also the shuttle an35n ultra was a very minimalist looking board...
 
I like the skulltrail color scheme....the DFI has always been an eye sore to me...glad I don't have a window ;)
 
I like that Skulltrail Intel X48 mobo thingy. Looks good. Better than most I've seen. I currently have a DFI... eh. Great board, but too many colors. Its mostly black/orange.... with some yellow mixed in for who-knows what reason. Computer cases get the whole "computer as art" concept. Motherboard manufacturers? Not quite there.
 
I had an old athlon system that I matched as best I could.

Red MSI motherboard (w/ white PCI) not sure which model it was
Red ATI 9600 AGP
Red Typhoon NIC
Black SB Live 5.1

The live wasn't red, but that was the best I could since couldn't find a red sound card.
 
yea sapphire makes some decent looking boards.

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the foxconn black ops is nice, and asus had a nice looking board, several years ago, their first black pearl board. it was an 815 or 820 chipser board. also the whole soyo black dragon/black label/black edition boards were beautiful, black pcb, dark maroon plastic, and no lime green or yellow crap all over them. for simple beauty, the asus p2b and p3b, and also the dfi ultra d. or maybe i just remember them as beautiful because they worked so good. the dfi dk series are nice,too.
 
Hey,While its a good motherboard i dont care if it was pink is it going to enter a contest?I own Asus,Asrock,Msi,Etc.just read the reviews and dont think the higher price is better that is a no,no.:)
Good Day
 
HighTest said:
Intel gets the colors right with their BoneTrail and BoneTrail 2 boards (X38 and X48 chipset based boards).

I've one of these and they perform pretty good. HardOCP didn't rate them well, but I bring up the issue in terms of how it was related and then how the Gigabyte board was rated here: http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1032887653&postcount=103

For a great forum thread about both boards and tweak settings, see: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=166289
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The DX48BT2 is indeed a good looking motherboard. (I prefer the D5400XS though.) In any case it wasn't rated very highly because it didn't overclock worth a piss. Its' really that simple. That and the feature set is weak given the price of the board. Why is that hard for people to understand?

Overall I like the board, and I realize that newer BIOS versions have brought the overclocking potential way up. I know as I have two of these boards and I've done the testing myself. Morry used an old BIOS as that review was written before the newer BIOS was released. In any case even with the newer BIOS versions the lack of BIOS options and relatively poor overclocking compared to other boards makes it a poor choice for the enthusiast. If the price was about $50 less I'd recommend the DX48BT2 all day for people not wanting to do a ton of overclocking or looking for someting as the building block of a reliable OEM build. Short of an extreme price drop the board will never be a good value.
 
Dzhezkov said:
Soyo Dragon was pretty sweet back in the day. I had one, died on me though.:(

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That's because most Soyo boards were junk. At least that was my experience with them. They did have some sweet looking boards though.
 
I only owned the Dragon, so my experience would have to be along those same lines. Fast when it worked though. ;)
 
I know ASUS tends to make some of the ugliest ones.

The Sapphire boards are nice.
 
Nice to see other people remembered that AOpen tube motherboard. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title. I never could get myself to buy one though. IIRC, the 845 chipset was on it's way out. I bought an 865 instead.
 
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