Motherboards Cons And Pros

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I just want to open this forum to discuss the pros and cons of different motherboards supporting AMD CPUs (since most of here are AMD users just like me now :) )

DFI
MSI
ASUS
ECS
RedFox
Winfast
Gigabyte
EpoX
AsRock

any other brands of mobos?
 
for the manufacturers I know a descent amount about:

DFI: best overclocking, most features, very stable
more expensive than most

MSI: great overclocking, lots of features, very stable, relatively inexpensive
can't think of anything wrong with them....

Asus: best Intel boards, but "ok" AMD boards, except the A8N32-SLI (which is a good board)
a bit pricey for their better motherboards

ECS: cheap
not so reliable

Gigabyte: descent quality, highly stable
not good overclockers, general architecture is a little slow

EpoX: cheap
not so good quality
 
Gigabyte - Rock solid, (nice looking), reasonable overclockers IF you have the 'pro' version of a certain model. For all those whom say "their aren't enough tweaking options", press CTRL + F1 in the BIOS to unlock everything (Voltages, RAM timings, etc.).

So far I've used 3 Gigabyte mobos, no problems with any of 'em. Then again, I have never experienced the 'high end' (DFI, and such) of MOBO's, so I may be missing a lot.
 
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