Motherboards

[Peter Gueckel]

Tom Wroblewski wrote:

> I use ASUS mobo's  all my builds for years without one problem, then again
> I may be the lucky one.  My most recent Sabertooth mobo is excellent, with
> AMD FX-8150.
> Before discounting any manufacturers boards, read the reviews on Newegg
> and Tigerdirect first.  Easy way to see how a  board rates.
> 
> Peter Gueckel <pgueckel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>I have had 2 different Asus motherboards over the years, and I always had
>>intermittent and difficult to assess problems.

One other thing I should add to the considerations one ought to keep in mind when 
buying a motherboard is the quality of the BIOS program.

With the ASUS and ASRock motherboards I have had, I noticed that the BIOS setup 
program was very difficult and ambiguous to understand. I got the impression that 
the settings were all poor translations and often left me puzzled.

With the Intel motherboard, I was greeted by a menu composed of very professional 
and well-written settings and explanations. I find good and unambiguous use of 
English in the manuals and setup to be a factor worth considering.