Poll: Which motherboard manufacturer are you loyal to?

Which manufacturer?

  • Asus

    Votes: 56 37.1%

  • Gigabyte

    Votes: 27 17.9%

  • MSI

    Votes: 10 6.6%

  • ASRock

    Votes: 9 6.0%

  • EVGA

    Votes: 6 4.0%

  • Varies

    Votes: 31 20.5%

  • I Hope Corsair comes out with a Motherboard line soon.

    Votes: 12 7.9%
  • Total voters
    151
I have a bunch of ASUS boards and a few EVGA.

Never had issues with ASUS.

Had to RMA two EVGA boards and one broke, but was so old it wasn't worth the effort.

Currently running: Rampage Formula, Rampage III Formula, Rampage IV Formula and EVGA P55 FTW 200 and a Gigabyte P65DS3.
 
Considering I have bought 1 Asus, 2 Foxconn, 1 Biostar, 1 MSI, 1 Gigabyte, and now an AsRock, I guess I cannot even say what I favor. :( All the boards did what they needed (so far) and so I am happy.

Edit: I guess I will vote for the "I hope Corsair makes mobos" since the more manufacturers there are, the more choices for me. :p
 
The thing you have to learn about Asus is that if you're buying a launch product, be ready to pull your hair out. Their launch BIOS's and stability blow complete donkey nuts. Once they get their shit together, it's all gravy from there.
 
I've had Asus and Gigabyte, mostly Asus over the years. I loved my Gigabyte EP45-UD3P board, and would be loyal to Gigabyte based on that board alone. But over the last couple years I built three Z68 and one H67 builds with Gigabyte boards, and 3 out of 4 died far too young. So Asus is my go to brand right now.
 
Bought a lot of Asus boards but not so now even z67,z77 weren't up to par
Gigabyte or MSI (latest)
Seem to have less issues with newer bios styles(ufei)

I think a lot of what gets bought depends on how bad the last board was and unfortunately for it how good ones memory is with its frustrating performance:D
 
I always seem to have Asus boards. Either it comes with one (laptop, the board that was inside the rendering nodes) or it's the right board with the right features at the right price. On the main I was going to try a Gigabyte originally, but the Asus I got in the end had more complete features for a lower price (and was black which matches the color scheme). :D
 
For servers I go strictly Intel as I can get warranty parts (which I hardly ever need) overnight free shipping. I guess being a partner helps as well. Still, no other vendor gives me that response time. This includes Supermicro, Gigabyte, Asus, etc.

For my own desktop I've been gigabyte for the last few. For our entry desktops we sell at our store it's gigabyte, for everything else, it's Intel branded for stability/warranty. For custom systems it's whatever the customer wants.
 
I've used mainly Asus and Gigabyte over the years but right now my Asus P5K is really frustrating me. My 8800 GTS died and I replaced it with a black friday 7970 I picked up for the same price as a 660Ti/7950. The problem is Asus placed all 6 SATA ports face up directly behind the x16 slot. The 8800GTS blocked 2 ports while the 7970 blocks 4. Whoever planned that out really didn't think things thru.
 
Poik said:
I've used mainly Asus and Gigabyte over the years but right now my Asus P5K is really frustrating me. My 8800 GTS died and I replaced it with a black friday 7970 I picked up for the same price as a 660Ti/7950. The problem is Asus placed all 6 SATA ports face up directly behind the x16 slot. The 8800GTS blocked 2 ports while the 7970 blocks 4. Whoever planned that out really didn't think things thru.
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You have to remember that that board was designed in a time where E-ATX cases were very uncommon and 10" long graphics cards didn't exist.

Many cases of the time had hard drive bays very close to the edge of the motherboard, so sideways ports would be extremely hard to access.
 
+1 Abit

Asus now, Gigabyte before, then a bunch of Macs (Foxconn boards?), preceded by Intel 915GAG (built one of the original hackintoshes based on the $999 developer preview kit Apple had), then a Tyan Thunder 2, which I upgraded to after getting the duallie bug of Abit BP6. Everything before was crap.
 
tunatime said:
i can say this i am never buying another asrock mb ever. my x79 rig kept randomly locking up and was having post issues, so i rma it (pain in the ass) got a new mb back after 2 weeks and it ran for about a month and now this board is having problems to where 1/2 my sata ports stopped working and it is unstable to. asrock tuned me down for another rma.
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That should have been covered by the federal credit card law because you bought a product with a warranty but didn't get the warranty.

What happened to Tyan?
 
I've used MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock, EVGA, Asus. The only boards that never give me any problems are Asus.

The new MSI Z77 Power looks really good, though.
 
Oh don't even get me started on ASUS -.-

Only two companies I have yet to have any problems with over the last decade + are Gigabyte and FoxxConn ( and this includes FoxConn's OEM boards ).
 
Not really specifically loyal but I have had more ASUS boards that any others. I have had Gigabyte in the past and just picked up the newest Z77X-UP7 for my new build replacing my ASUS Rampage 3 Forumla.

MSI I have had terrible luck with. Obviously others do not but the 3 I have had were all bad.
 
ASUS make the best Motherboard IMHO, build quality is great and BIOS updates are also quick and come more often than rivals. I've had nothing but problems with Gigabyte and ASrock boards, I wouldn't buy them again.
 
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