Which motherboard brand has failed on you the most?

[Deleted member 38767]

My to latest MB are ASUS and I had only problems with them - both went RMA over 6 months.
I'm dealing with RMA every day (thats my job) and from what I've seen ASrock are at the bottom.

 

[btarunr]

Guess I was wrong, not many vote for ECS. Could be because not many made the mistake of buying them.

 

[Wile E]

Guess I was wrong, not many vote for ECS. Could be because not many made the mistake of buying them.

I did, once. The reason I can't vote for it is, it didn't stay in my rig long enough to fail. lol.

 

[oily_17]

Asus A8N32 last week.Well maybe not died but think it is on it's way out.Been getting loads of BSOD's and bios checksum error last week.

Although this could be due to the fact my PSU died on me lately in this PC.

 

[btarunr]

I did, once. The reason I can't vote for it is, it didn't stay in my rig long enough to fail. lol.

But it did fail, didn't it? I used a KN1 Extreme on a 3500+, no OC, winter, the capacitors suffer diarrhea in two odd months' use. :shadedshu

 

[Wile E]

But it did fail, didn't it? I used a KN1 Extreme on a 3500+, no OC, winter, the capacitors suffer diarrhea in two odd months' use. :shadedshu

No, didn't fail. Only used it for a short time. I replaced it because of my severe disappointment in it. lol.

 

[Judas]

If we are talking about Dead boards then Asus.... for me had 2 dead A socket boards can't remember version number lol,had also 2 faulty ones the Asus crosshair and the XFX 790i but they weren't dead

 

[AsRock]

Gigabyte with a VIA chipset. And a PC Chips mobo with Intel chipset. I learned my lesson NEVER again.

This was back in PII days i'll never try them again well maybe VIA if they can prove they can do better than INTEL HA.

 

[CDdude55]

Gigabyte failed on me. It was a nforce3 motherboard, but i really think it was my fault since i didn't use any caution(it was my first build). Now i have a 680i SLI SE motherboard and people have said they are bad and die alot. But i have not seen it fail to this day. Maybe it is because i don't OC or maybe i just got lucky and got me a good one.

 

[onry]

i have had more pcchips boards die on me than anything else.
BUT as for when i was workin in a local pc shop it was ecs and biostar boards i saw that failed

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

None died on me but the hardest to work on and identify to get drivers was P Chips.

 

[CrackerJack]

Same why here, never had one to die on me. The worst board i've every had was a sapphire x580. Bad drivers and little to no overclocking.

 

[HTC]

With the exception of the one that came with my pentium 100 MHz, every board i have ever had was an Asus board.

Thus far, i had problems with the first: 1 of the COM ports didn't work. Took it to the store i bought it from and had them take care of it (found the problem 1 week before warranty ended): had it back 1 month later working perfectly.

None of the others gave me problems except my current one, though i'm not sure if it's a software or hardware related problem.

Dead motherboards? Nope: i have been lucky, so far!

 

[ghost101]

So Asrock > Gigabyte or Asus? Lol.

This survey is completely flawed.

 

[AsRock]

So Asrock > Gigabyte or Asus? Lol.

This survey is completely flawed.

HEHE i think that too. I'd say stay away from VIA chipsets and PC Chips. ASUS for me been ok they finally fixed my det ram issue.

Best mobo i've had has to be ABit and this ASUS mobo i am using next to be honest how packed this mobo is they have done a good dam job with it.

I vote PC Chips THE WORSED.. Maybe put ECS there too ?/ Never tried them my self but heard some crap about them.

 

[allen337]

You will find the most popular (motherboards bought) will have the most failures. If asus sold 100 motherboards and foxconn sold 10 how can you compare them for being good or not? Ive had dead Asus,Ecs,Gigabyte,Abit,Soyo,and MSI. The most dead were gigabyte probably because Ive had over 60 gigabyte boards. ALLEN

 

[imperialreign]

You will find the most popular (motherboards bought) will have the most failures. If asus sold 100 motherboards and foxconn sold 10 how can you compare them for being good or not? Ive had dead Asus,Ecs,Gigabyte,Abit,Soyo,and MSI. The most dead were gigabyte probably because Ive had over 60 gigabyte boards. ALLEN

I just realized that too, looking at poll results so far . . . the most popular board makes are leading in failure rates


in hindsight, I think this poll might be inherently flawed

 

[Threeflow]

Over the years I have had:

2 Abit boards
3 Gigabyte boards
5 Asus boards
1 DFI board
1 MSI board
1 Intel board


Of those, I have had the following fail:
2 Abit boards (both Socket A) -- No Post
2 Asus boards (both Socket A) -- No Post
1 Intel board (Socket 775) -- No Post
1 MSI board (Socket A) -- No Post
1 Gigabyte board (Socket 775) -- Dead IDE port


As you can see, and I'm sure anyone who remembers can attest to this, the Socket A days were filled with unreliability!

Overall I have been quite please with all the ASUS and Gigabyte boards I have owned in the past, and own to this day.
My higher end machines that currently use ASUS and Gigabyte boards, use the ones with all solid state capacitors (ftw!)

 

[Darknova]

Asus.

I've had 4 Asus boards in the past, 3 Socket A, 1 939.

The socket As all had the same issue. AGP died. 939 lost all USB ports and LAN.

Those were the last Asus I've ever owned (they were bought one after the other).

Since then I've had MSI, Abit and Foxconn. Never had any of those fail, and the only one I wouldn't buy again is MSI due to it's piss-poor BIOS support.

 

[jonmcc33]

Asus will probably be on top because it's the most popular selling.

I ruined an Asus A8R-MVP when I flashed the BIOS so I don't blame Asus for that one. An ECS K7S5A just up and failed on me.

 

[Gam'ster]

A fujitsu-siemens D1625 skt 478 generic O.E.M board, weird stuff started happening, usb ports on/off when they felt like and no O/C options well it wouldn't but still lol. It run very well for 3/4 years or so.

Cheers
Gam

 

[bretts31344]

Asus will probably be on top because it's the most popular selling.

Exactly. Even if all the companies had the same failure rate (which is unlikely), the most popular brands would lead the poll since there are so many motherboards sold.

I didn't vote since none of my motherboards have failed. I use three Asus boards and one Asrock board. Everything has been flawless and is still in use.

 

[Gam'ster]

Asus will probably be on top because it's the most popular selling.

Yeah pretty much, its like when these Car reliability surveys are done and the most expensive usually German or equivalent cars are bottom and cheap rubbish at the top why??, cos most German and the like exec cars are usually sales rep or company cars 40 -50K miles a year ( how many of those are looked after properly without a service contract ) and mostly retired ppl use the cheap rubbish and do 2k a year hmm i wonder which one will give up the ghost first and of course units sold come into it, more will break out of 10k than 1 k u get the idea.
Sorry for off topic but J.D Power and other surveys do my nut in.

Cheers
Gam

 

[molnart]

I never had a failed board, I still have a working Socket 7 Intel board from 1997 (at least it was working when i tried it last time, 6 months ago).
btw, i'm surprised MSI isnt on top. quite popular and quite crappy boards IMHO. or if a board is bad out-of-the-box it does not count as failure ?

 

[DaedalusHelios]

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