Buying a motherboard!

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Buying a motherboard!  

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  1. 1. Which motherboard should I buy?

    • GIGABYTE
      21
    • MSI
      5
    • ASUS
      49
    • Other (please tell me which!)
      3

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Grand Master

SirEvan

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MSI has terrible quality and support :no:

Asus, Gigabyte, and abit are all great brands.

your source? I've been extremely happy with my MSI K9A platinum board with my AMD athlon X2 5000+....not a single problem, and its very stable...so not sure where you're getting your data?

Having said that I'd also go with EVGA or asus boards as well, and maybe my next choice when i rebuild my pc.

Grand Master

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MSI is a manufacturer that often goes overlooked, unless you look in the right places. I've used MANY MSI MBs and they've great. I've used Abit... problems with the board. I've used Gigabyte...again, ran into problems... I've also had problems with ASUS and MSI (on one occasion). It's really about what you want to do with your computer. Motherboard wars are about as bad as OS wars. Ford vs. Chevy, Toyota vs Honda.. or what ever.

I've had the luxury of building many systems with many different parts, and MSI just does what I need it to do.

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Budious

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Bandwagon?

I jumped on the Asus Maximus Formula bandwagon... seems to be a mistake so far... it's a rock stable board but does not live up to the price tag and features that it was boasted to be an extreme overclocking board. My former gaming rigs ASRock motherboard had more umph for the money as a budget product and overclocking potential.

Grand Master

gummyz

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How is it the worst choice?

I'm sure his words were meant as "not recommended" or "there's better out there". The board is pretty good tho, but for the price, it's not really worth it. Considering that there are newer chipsets out there and Nvidia is releasing a new chipset very soon.

I think chc would agree (but I don't care if he doesn't lol), that an Intel chipset on an Intel CPU is the number one recommendation. I am sure alot will agree also. There's only a few reasons to get a chipset, other than Intel, on an Intel CPU. One of the biggest and main reason is for multi-GPU support. There is nothing wrong with getting a non-Intel chipset for Intel CPU tho, it's just my preference, and preference for many others.

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