Best Manufacturer

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Hi

Can anyone tell me what the best manufacturers of motherboards is? Maybe 2 or 3 so i can take a look and make my decision before buying.

Cheers
Adam
 
Soldato
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Are we talking build quality or performance?

Build quality - ASUS
Performance - Abit, DFI

IMHO Best low cost - ASRock (ASUS Budget brand)

ASUS also tend to have stable BIOS and good drivers.

I've never had a DOA board from anyone other than Abit, but I only buy Abit nowadays ;)
 
Soldato
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I've built systems using motherboards made by Asus, Abit, MSI and DFI and have not really had problems with any of them.

The only thing I noticed was that the system I built with the DFI board seemed slightly more unstable than the others possibly because DFI mainly make boards geared towards getting as much performance as possible from the components, but the problem was solved by flashing the motherboard to the latest BIOS.

Generally so long as your motherboard has the latest BIOS and fairly recent drivers installed in windows you should be fine.

Hope this helps
 
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