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Mainboards - Shopping for new ones ... and looking for some hints.
kyanwan:
I've always been a fan of Asus, but - it's been a while since I've had a real "favorite". Asus has been treating me good for the most part - but a few of their boards have been ... meh ... real disappointments.
Specifically - I'm hating the integrated sound - and some of the SATA controllers ... leave a lot to be desired.
Any suggestions for an all-around great brand?
I'm leaning toward AMD - but I'm open to Intel.
Things I look for myself - stability, stability, and more stability. I don't like surprises. Sad thing is - it's looking like EVERYTHING has changed in the market. It's starting to piss me off. My traditional favorites are now, well, names that have grown on being names.
( Even good old Supermicro. They're not so great anymore ... makes me sad. I remember their boards being the absolute best I've ever used. )
Anyone care to introduce me to something that might interest me?
relic2279:
Can't really help you as I've been out of the game for a couple years, but as far as stability and reliability goes, I believe most of the newer motherboards/power supplies (2 years and newer) are no longer affected by the capacitor plague that was going on for nearly a decade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
So whatever you buy should last you a while and not prematurely fail. I've had 3 motherboards and 5-6 power supplies fail on me within the last 10 years. :-\
Deucal:
read hardware review like at
Tom's Hardware or guru3d.com etc. ;)
Just put down your basic needs and wants first (is it a gamin rig or something else), so you can easily filter out what you don't want.
kyanwan:
Been there done that. Every time I go read reviews I keep running circles around this dead end road I've been on for years... and I always end up with ASUS.
It's funny - I've even been DIGGING trying to find other brands, doing my best to not pick ASUS - and I still end up with ASUS.
It's pretty bad. LOL!
--- Quote from: relic2279 on March 12, 2010, 08:23:25 PM ---Can't really help you as I've been out of the game for a couple years, but as far as stability and reliability goes, I believe most of the newer motherboards/power supplies (2 years and newer) are no longer affected by the capacitor plague that was going on for nearly a decade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
So whatever you buy should last you a while and not prematurely fail. I've had 3 motherboards and 5-6 power supplies fail on me within the last 10 years. :-\
--- End quote ---
Well shit. That explains the insane amount of power supplies I've gone through in the past few years. I've trashed at least a half a dozen iirc.
Proin Drakenzol:
ASUS is still the best for Mobos. Corsair is (imo) the best for RAM. Creative is the best for audio cards, afaik (at the non-pro level at least)
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