Motherboard quality among brands

[mcraygsx]

Considering Asus Holds the Overclock record for ram and cpu? AsRock Has come a long way, however when it comes to OC out of the Big 4, Asus Holds the Crown just sligthly over AsRock, but hey both are from Pegatron. GA has a crap bios, MSI uses crap components on pcb, so Understock MSI/GA are ok, more like a OEM board from Foxconn/ECS/PCChips

While true that ASUS holds the crown but it comes at cost. To get best out of OC capabilities , you have to get into their Maximux line and those boards cost almost same as CPU itself. While Asrock offers same features for lot less. For example ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero ( Least expensive board in the lineup) Cost around $249.99 and in comparison ASRock Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming K6 (similar to taichi) will achieve similar results for $169.99. Of course more extreme overclockers can look towards APEX ($320+) or Formula lineup.

 

[eidairaman1]

While true that ASUS holds the crown but it comes at cost. To get best out of OC capabilities , you have to get into their Maximux line and those boards cost almost same as CPU itself. While Asrock offers same features for lot less. For example ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero ( Least expensive board in the lineup) Cost around $249.99 and in comparison ASRock Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming K6 (similar to taichi) will achieve similar results for $169.99. Of course more extreme overclockers can look towards APEX ($320+) or Formula lineup.

249 is still pretty affordable.

 

[mcraygsx]

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249 is still pretty affordable.

Not sure why you deleted your previous comment. Z370 is for Intel and latest X470 is for AMD.

 

[eidairaman1]

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Not sure why you deleted your previous comment. Z370 is for Intel and latest X470 is for AMD.

Because it's not applicable considering the op specs are intel and he did not specify what cpu he would be going with at this point.

Also x470 availability is not common yet, by the way Z490 would be the top AM4 Chipset that is yet to release. Most who bought a Crosshair 6 Formula/Extreme or x370 Fatal1ty/Taichi won't really move up unless there is a considerable reason to, right now there isn't.

 

[cdawall]

While true that ASUS holds the crown but it comes at cost. To get best out of OC capabilities , you have to get into their Maximux line and those boards cost almost same as CPU itself. While Asrock offers same features for lot less. For example ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero ( Least expensive board in the lineup) Cost around $249.99 and in comparison ASRock Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming K6 (similar to taichi) will achieve similar results for $169.99. Of course more extreme overclockers can look towards APEX ($320+) or Formula lineup.

Why would you cheap out on motherboard? Like the center piece to your entire system...

 

[eidairaman1]

Why would you cheap out on motherboard? Like the center piece to your entire system...

PSU and mobo

 

[Deleted member 50521]

I choose whichever one has best customer service. Probably EVGA for my next board.

 

[Fx]

In my home I have Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock. There is no definitive choice for me on brand. Every brand has good and bad models.

While many expensive models rate well, it is not exclusive: there are expensive duds. Likewise, some bargain-priced and mid-prices gems with many features and few bugs can be had as well.

Basically, they all get it right and wrong in varying amounts with each generation.

This, all day, but in general I primarily choose Asus or Gigabyte for my own personal rig.

My choice for a motherboard (after assessing features) basically boils down to review percentages on Amazon and to a much lesser extent Newegg. I have a system that I go by and it hasn't ever failed me.

Preferably, I want 5 star ratings above 70%. If it is >80% I know i'm good to go.
If I cant get that, I must at least have 4 and 5 star ratings when added together to equal >70%.
I prefer 1 star ratings to be <10%
I never buy a product where the 1 star ratings is >15%

 

[sneekypeet]

Considering the OP says on the last page that he bought a motherboard already and nobody batted an eye at it, it's time to close up shop.