what was your favorite motherboard ever?

[Zen_]

Soltek SL-75DRV4

First mobo I had that was a true overclocker delight. Adjustable core, memory and AGP voltage!

Seems strange that a lot of the companies that provided good value board for enthusiast are out of business. Abit, Albatron, EpoX, Soltek, among others.

 

[INSTG8R]

Had to have been my Abit AT8 32x Loaded with an Opteron 170 and 2 X1900's in CF and all on water.

http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/471

 

[NaMcO]

One of my favorites ever, ABIT IC-7 MAX3

Gorgeous at the time and a crazy overclocker too =)

 

[de.das.dude]

my first mobo. it never gave any problems.

the new asus one. its 2 months old and has started acting crappy already.


ECS RS482M-M V2.0

 

[INSTG8R]

One of my favorites ever, ABIT IC-7 MAX3

http://twojepc.pl/html/abit_ic7max3_msi_neo/mobo.jpg

Gorgeous at the time and a crazy overclocker too =)

Also had one of those too. Was a great board and was one of the few 875 chipsets that had the PAT unlocked.

 

[wolf]

its a tie for me, between these two;

Giga EP45-DS4P

And an Asus P6T Deluxe V2

EDIT:

special mention to a build I did for a mate, with this board, the Giga GAN680 SLI-DQ6

for its 10 internal 1 external sata ports and quad lan, and just copious amounts of everything;

 

[sapetto]

MSI PT8 NEO-V
This thing is still running in my parents PC

 

[overclocking101]

maximus extreme for sure

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...bWyDA&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=50&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0

and abit ip35 pro
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...page=1&ndsp=46&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=94&ty=32

 

[20mmrain]

This one.... I beat the absolute snot out of this board and it kept coming back for more! If I could just update the socket and use it for ever I would have!

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P

 

[wickerman]

The Asus A8N-SLI Premium has to be my favorite. Bought a few of these back in 2005-ish to use in some server projects (data dumps) and even now - nearly 6 years later - they are still going strong. And at the time, you just could not compete with the storage offerings, 4x SATA, 4x SATA II, 2x IDE..thats 12 drives just from on board The dual GBE and PCIe 4x just made it even better. Even used this board in my own gaming PC, and later that became a HTPC... I just can't kill these things

 

[overclocking101]

I owned one of them back in the day

 

[cheezburger]

asus rampage formula

P5K deluxe

intel DG41TY

 

[Robert-The-Rambler]

That is my choice, too

Wow, suprised nobody has mentioned the venerable MSI K9A2 Platinum. For F@H, this was the Holy Grail. I ran 5 of these 24/7 at one time. Only thing holding it back was the SB600 chipset. I still have 3 of these boards and call them into service as needed.

http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/v7bkyuj9owuq/837vca/k9a2-platinum-2d.jpg

I didn't really get serious until I started with that board. I currently have 3 of them in operation. Ah, the joy of quad crossfire and the expense.

 

[Grings]

My fave was probably the Asrock 939 Dual Sata2.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=939Dual-SATA2

I was upgrading from an nforce 2/athlon xp system with an x800 (still good at the time, but agp obviously) and didnt want to buy mobo, cpu and gpu all at once, or have to buy an nforce 3 board and then a pci-e mobo when i upgraded the gpu.

on a side note, i wonder if those cpu upgrade boards (am2) for these support newer phenom II's?, while i doubt they do, it would be awesome to see a 6 core on such an old mobo

Also, its a real shame nvidia bought uli, they were a company with some interesting idea's, i think it was another chipset of their's running sli that made nvidia buy them, and as they're out of the chipset business (other than ion) clearly they didnt make good use of the acquisition.

 

[Mr McC]

My fave was probably the Asrock 939 Dual Sata2.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=939Dual-SATA2

I was upgrading from an nforce 2/athlon xp system with an x800 (still good at the time, but agp obviously) and didnt want to buy mobo, cpu and gpu all at once, or have to buy an nforce 3 board and then a pci-e mobo when i upgraded the gpu.

on a side note, i wonder if those cpu upgrade boards (am2) for these support newer phenom II's?, while i doubt they do, it would be awesome to see a 6 core on such an old mobo

Also, its a real shame nvidia bought uli, they were a company with some interesting idea's, i think it was another chipset of their's running sli that made nvidia buy them, and as they're out of the chipset business (other than ion) clearly they didnt make good use of the acquisition.

Yeah, check out post 30.

I wonder if anybody actually used the socket upgrade option.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASRock/939Dual-SATA2/

 

[gR3iF]

Asus a7n8x- Deluxe...

Best Mobo ever, stable ocer, rock solid and since 2003 its under fire in my house

 

[kow_ciller]

Rampage Extreme

 

[yogurt_21]

second the A7N8X Deluxe

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 462(A) NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 ...

next would be my EpoX EP-9NPA+ Ultra was in my house fire, got blasted by water and hot cinders and yet it still ran, albeit with audio disabled due to the damage to that section of the board but hey that's what sound cards are for.

though it wasn't the best chipset I loved the looks fo my EpoX EP-AD580XR

 

[DRDNA]

MY favorits were the DFI landParty's then when I moved from AMD to Intel my favorit moved to being Asus X58 .... Lots of great mobos nowadays...

 

[(FIH) The Don]

new favorite

 

[DRDNA]

Now thats a SWEET mobo for sure..puddle of drewl gathering under my chin

 

[Tatty_Two]

Gigabyte GA x38 DQ6. Absolutely rock solid and flawless board IMO.

 

[(FIH) The Don]

thanks its even more delicious in irl lol

@ Tatty, GB will always have a special place with me, they might be the fugly duckling, but they perform 110% and are some of the most stable boards i have EVER owned

 

[Tatty_Two]

thanks its even more delicious in irl lol

@ Tatty, GB will always have a special place with me, they might be the fugly duckling, but they perform 110% and are some of the most stable boards i have EVER owned

I have to say, my current gigabyte GA EX58 UD4P is pretty much equal to it, this board just gives me more and more. It is my fourth x58 board (previously Asus, EVGA and DFI) and none of them came close.

 

[de.das.dude]

i should have gotten a gigabyte instead of an asus