Which motherboard brand has failed on you the most?

[ShadowFold]

I think Asus fanboys just inflated the Gigabyte number, because they are mad that Gigabyte called their favorite company, liars. LOL Its pathetic. :shadedshu

Or maybe Gigabyte just sucks at QC.

 

[Basard]

I've owned, in order of appearance: tandy?, intel, compaq, dell, biostar, msi, and gigabyte... played around with some asus and asrock. The only one it seems i've had a problem with was the ASrock, and I'm not even sure if that asrock has a problem...

the only bad luck i've had so far is with ram, hard drives, psu's, and cdroms.... thats crucial, mushkin, seagate, and asus--respectively.... crucial being the most disappointing, based on only their reputation i guess.... and the TWO asus DVD-burners out of three isn;'t very good either. although MY asus dvd burner does just fine with cat hair and nicotine surrounding it, the two other's my friend and sister-in-law owned died.

never really had a problem with a mobo though, thank god.

 

[philbrown23]

these are the boards and amounts I have had fail on me

Gigabyte=10 a few fried northbridges and a few caught on fire from the capacitors
evga 680i= 7 mostly bad cpas that caught on fire upon initial startup
ecs= 4 just all around crappy boards and knew they would die eventually
dfi= 2 not sure the cause for falure but I think it was the pci-e lanes just stopped working correctly


thats it all together I have owned 15 Asus boards and not one has died on me EVER

 

[spearman914]

I think popularity matters for dead mobos. Like the more mobos of that brand is sold the more likely the rate it will be dead. For me its ECS. That company should've made something better.

Originally Posted by philbrown23
thats it all together I have owned 15 Asus boards and not one has died on me EVER

Eventually it will

 

[DaedalusHelios]

I have owned many Asus boards, and many have also died.

I have owned a few Gigabyte boards and none have died.

Same with MSI, out of the three MSI boards I have bought, none have died.

I own two Asus 750i P5N-D SLI motherboards right now.... I hope they don't kick the bucket.

 

[VroomBang]

You'd have to compare the number of failing units divided by the number sold (=failure rate) , otherwise, this poll is massively skewed. Asus and GigaByte sell more than other brands, and will therefore most likely have more failures (in absolute numbers) than their competitors.

 

[spearman914]

You'd have to compare the number of failing units divided by the number sold (=failure rate) , otherwise, this poll is massively skewed. Asus and GigaByte sell more than other brands, and will therefore most likely have more failures (in absolute numbers) than their competitors.

Yea its just like every freakin person on earth bought only asus boards and everyone will vote for asus but no one voted for others since they never bought from that brand. But higher rate doesn't depend if the brand is screwed up or something.

 

[cdawall]

i have 1 dead MSI and one dead ECS but both are from socket A days also one dead Machspeed but that was replaced for free thanks to lifetime warranties woot machspeed

 

[hat]

I killed an Intel D865PERL... but that was my fault cause my antec smartpower was driving me crazy

 

[department76]

for the record, the only two DOA and/or bad boards i've ever encountered ber both ASUS. the first was an old VIA KT133 based board (my first build) that caused endless issues with the system until the problem was identified as the baord, which solved all problems with the system when the bad board was replaced. the second was an A8N-SLI Premium that had bad power regulators or something, it killed TWO psu's before we decided it was the board that was causing it. replaced it and that rig has run flawlessly for the last 3 years.

 

[Pandaz3]

I voted ASUS and I have Bought my last ASUS Motherboard, ( I like their Video Cards though)

I did have to RMA an Abit and a MSI, but both companies were very reasonable with their RMA's (The Abit had a voltage problem with the Dimms and the MSI was not rated for the CPU I used and went up in smoke, very professionally repaired)

ASUS was just a pain, ever increasing pain and finally unusable. Their RMA system is the absolute worst I have encountered. I had a A8N-E which they eventually (Last month) replaced with a A8N SLI SE, which is a big downgrade to me. I won't use SLI and be forced to use a sound card (Yes I have spare sound cards)

I was planning on upgrading the computer at my Mom's using this board and a 3800 Venice, XFX 6800GS to replace a NF7-S and 2600 Mobile, 9200 SE. I have found it has a bad Dimm slot (Nearest the socket) and now reliability worries make me hesitate. I don't care for the 1,000 mile drive one way to repair her computer. She's 85 and doesn't want to be without a computer.

It is bad when reliability becomes a concern.

Might have to use an ASRock.

 

[stolennick]

several boards died in my cases

6 asus ( 3x p4p800, 1x a8n, 2x m2nws)
3 dfi (1x x38, 2x lp nf4 sli)
1 abit ( the last one with via chipset for 939)

this is not including the number of boards, which were killed in oc action

 

[DaedalusHelios]

I voted ASUS and I have Bought my last ASUS Motherboard, ( I like their Video Cards though)

I did have to RMA an Abit and a MSI, but both companies were very reasonable with their RMA's (The Abit had a voltage problem with the Dimms and the MSI was not rated for the CPU I used and went up in smoke, very professionally repaired)

ASUS was just a pain, ever increasing pain and finally unusable. Their RMA system is the absolute worst I have encountered. I had a A8N-E which they eventually (Last month) replaced with a A8N SLI SE, which is a big downgrade to me. I won't use SLI and be forced to use a sound card (Yes I have spare sound cards)

I was planning on upgrading the computer at my Mom's using this board and a 3800 Venice, XFX 6800GS to replace a NF7-S and 2600 Mobile, 9200 SE. I have found it has a bad Dimm slot (Nearest the socket) and now reliability worries make me hesitate. I don't care for the 1,000 mile drive one way to repair her computer. She's 85 and doesn't want to be without a computer.

It is bad when reliability becomes a concern.

Might have to use an ASRock.

Yeah I have RMA'ed the same motherboard 4 times to ASUS and they never repaired it fully. They refused to replace it..... I didn't even OC on it and it was a 780i board that had cost me a ton!

They really don't care.

Gigabyte chooses motherboard colors like Asian preschool kids, but at least the boards don't break on me.

 

[tkpenalty]

Gigabyte and ASUS have relatively the same amount of motherboards being sold... ASUS has two ranges, their vanilla and black boards, I think their vanilla are the boards that suffer from the most problems... The store that I worked at avoided ASUS like a sore thumb due to the amounts of quirks, versus Gigabyte.

 

[Deleted member 3]

I dont think Intel boards can even OC for a crap anyway so why would enthusiasts buy them

Bad axe, Skulltrail.

 

[btarunr]

I dont think Intel boards can even OC for a crap anyway so why would enthusiasts buy them

That doesn't imply that they fail the most. My ECS board failed at stock speeds.

Intel BoneTrail gives you ample OC options on par with any X38/X48 board. All boards in their Extreme Series have OC options. Its just that apart from Extreme Series their other boards are those with integrated graphics that are targetted towards users who would probably never OC. There's a P35DP media series board (P35 + ICH9R) that comes with no OC options and very picky with memory. But that still doesn't amount to fail.

 

[Black Panther]

I had an ECS which failed after 6 years, and two Asrocks which gave up after 4 years.

 

[UnkAsn93]

Gigabyte and ASUS have relatively the same amount of motherboards being sold... ASUS has two ranges, their vanilla and black boards, I think their vanilla are the boards that suffer from the most problems... The store that I worked at avoided ASUS like a sore thumb due to the amounts of quirks, versus Gigabyte.

The store I work for differs. We have had no problems with Gigabyte or Asus, but we've used Asus for the past 3 years. No troubles.

 

[paybackdaman]

Not sure of the original manufacturer, but I had 4 Dell motherboards fail on me from people's computers I worked on. Each time it was the IDE controller that went. It wouldn't recognize anything. Jumper settings were correct, in bios the IDE controller was turned on. Yet, none of the drives I put in it were detected on either one. I tried reflashing using a bootable USB drive, but even after the flash it still didn't detect them. Then again, I have two DELL Optiplexes and 1 Dell Dimension personally, and I haven't had any problems with them at all. In fact, they are the easiest to upkeep. So I am pretty sure that these people just got a bad batch...and lived in the same area...and all needed them fixed in the same month...Now that I think about it...it was probably the bios revision that did it in. =/. Oh well.

 

[rick22]

Asus....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................another .....................RMA

 

[Evo85]

I have had 2 MSI boards go bad on me.. Kinda soured my taste for them.

 

[spud107]

iv had one msi board die, my ms-6373 k7n420pro, but that was my own fault for being too rough taking the nb cooler off, the rest in my sig still run to this day,
had a gigabyte die, but it was found in the street so probably already dying when i got it lol.

 

[allen337]

I didnt mention all the boards that died after 4 years of use because 4 years is kinda like end of life for a motherboard. Matter of fact if I have one that last 4 years Im very happy with the company and will do business again with them. Just pisses me off with asus putting out motherboards that are quirky and needing a bios update from the original box, then you spend the rest of your life waiting on them to release another bios to make everything else work on it. I have a p5wd2-e premium board ive had 4 years and the marvel raid still dont work on it. It is a good motherboard though. ALLEN

 

[msgclb]

I've had two ASUS boards fail. One failed the smell test and the other just wouldn't boot.

 

[Solaris17]

gonna have to say ECS