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Mass Motherboard Review

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the rating-and-ranking dept.

Niscenus writes "The folks at AnandTech are buzzing about this article originally posted here at CS. It's an extensive comparison of motherboard manufacturers, which is great for people who want to build their own system." All the biggies look to be here. Good timing for me since I'm planning on building a system in another month or so.

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  1. Bullshit by delay · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This review is just plain shit. They don't test any boards and just tell you what they personally prefer. You can see this on the review of intel motherboards. That's just prejudice. I can't believe the cheap crap Epox produces gets top scores and the quality boards of MSI are just at position 8. I have used several MSI boards: They are stable as a rock and are supported for years. On their homepage I find recent bioses for boards that are 5 years old. The guy who does the tech-support in Germany (just one guy I think, but he's very competent and quickly replies to email) has compiled a high quality faq, with everything you ever wanted to know about MSI boards.


    I have very bad experience with Epox boards: a friend of mine bought one, and even the parts that were on board had interupt-conflicts with each other. Really horrible design.


    But come on, let's be honest: Something that works for me (with my hardware) doesn't have to work for you and vice versa. This review is purely useless!

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  2. Re:In Case It gets Slashdotted by leiz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >the Abit KT7 in my dad's machine is the most twitchy and unstable board I've had the misfortune of using

    again, more anecdotal evidence, abit motherboards are popular and I too own one and I can just as easily say I go 6 month without rebooting.

    It's easy to blame the motherboard for other problems such as a cheap unreliable power supply or bad ram or a misbehaving pci (ahem, sound blaster live) card. Some boards/chipsets are more sensitive to these problems than others. (In your case, the 80 ECS K7S5As are from a different manufacture and they have a different chipset)

    I personally believe in buying name brand hardware backed by a good tech support and a good return policy. A lot of times it's the luck of the draw and people end up with bad boards. But I like the fact that ABIT is frequently releasing new BIOS revisions to add new features and bugfixes to their boards. I know the KT7 has had at least 10 bios releases in the past year. And of course, buying it from a store that you know and trust is much better than buying from some shady, cheap place just to save $10. I mean, who knows where they get their crap.