Favorite Mainboard

[Athildja-x64]

Not neccisarily the one you have now or even one you own.
What is your favorite.
For me it was the Old MSI K7T Master FAR
The first working Dual Athlon MP board.
I could Run Dual OC'd Durons on it at 1200MHz it had an AGP Pro Slot and no built in sound to mess up my creative SB Live card :P

Things were nice and simlple and fast on that board..

[drew and not u]

I still have a special place in my heart for the Asus P4P800SE. It was the first enthusiast motherboard I ever bought and the board on which I cut my teeth OCing (P4 2.8 @ 3.7, DDR400 @ DDR500). Granted socket 478 wasn't that long ago, but it's a solid board that's still running strong with that OC to this day.

[gvblake22]

Call me picky, but I've never really been 100% satisfied with any board I've owned or used. But I would have to say my very first Asus A7N8X was pretty good to me. Besides randomly not POSTing for the first day, it seemed to work great after that (I must have scared the demons away with my cursing). It didn't overclock worth crap, but I think that was mostly due to my RAM. After that it was pretty hit and miss. I upgraded to an Abit NF7-S rev.2 to get SATA, but it had some odd stability problems every now and then (was pretty good for the most part though).

Then I moved to s939 on a Chaintech VNF4 Ultra, which was a great performer, but lacked overclockability and the cooling was poor. From there I went on to my first DFI board, an NF4 SLI Infinity. That was also a decent board, but I kept getting lost in the BIOS with too many options; it was almost a chore to overclock.

Then it was on to AM2 with an Abit KN9 SLI. That was probably the worst board I've ever used. The thing could never hold an internet connection for more than about 30 to 60 minutes straight, and wouldn't work with my sound card out of the box (needed BIOS update).

After wanting to break the KN9 SLI in half, I decided it was time to test the waters on the Intel side and got hooked up with a Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 (rev.2). It seems to be a very stable board and overclocks fairly well, but I had some problems with the stock cooling and trying to use an aftermarket CPU cooler with a backplate (damn you CrazyCool).

I still do have an AM2 system as a backup rig with a 3600 X2 65nm Brisbane processor and a Gigabyte GA-M61PM-S2 mATX board. That Gigabyte mATX board has also been very stable but has almost no room for tweaking in the BIOS (can't change much on the memory besides the divider and CAS latency).

So I guess my two favorite boards would be the Asus A7N8X and Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6...

[Capper]

DFI NF4 SLI-DR

IMO, the best enthusiast motherboard ever. Great parts, best enthusiast BIOS, excellent features, and had a pretty big hand on introducing a whole new generation of system builders/DIYers to a great AMD processor series.

....problem is, everything they produced after that ended up being a buggy mess.

[MantaBase]

Fugutech Triton M500 series for Pentium Pro (which I don't think it actually supported). It was my first full build - and first overclock (120 to 133 IIRC).

I paid for one - it was bad. I returned it and they sent me the original back (fixed) plus a new one. No wonder they went under.

[polobunny]

All time favorite board I owned has to be my current one, MSI K8N Neo 4 Platinum v1.0.
All time favorite board I've worked with would be DFI NF4 SLI-DR, like Capper. It was an awesome board all over, enough that when my mobo was on RMA I thought of buying one and fitting it in my computer. =P
I've really liked the M2N-E too. Cheap board with nice set of features and interesting performance made it a real seller IMHO.

[Capper]

I'd put that MSI board up there, especially with the Creative sound built in.....but the problem is MSI never updated anything with it, and it wasn't available for very long.

Had they done a better job supporting it, it would have been a tough call between the MSI and the DFI board

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Capper

I'd put that MSI board up there, especially with the Creative sound built in.....but the problem is MSI never updated anything with it, and it wasn't available for very long.

Had they done a better job supporting it, it would have been a tough call between the MSI and the DFI board

I have to agree, MSI was providing less than stellar support for their board. Frankly not sure what's happening with the other boards right now.
At some point, the community took on modding bios to suits their needs and fix certain bugs as MSI would never reply to e-mails...

[Stormcrow]

DFI Infinity nForce 4. This baby was awesome, and the first performance board I'd ever bought and worked with. It had crazy overclock potential, a very clean nice layout with the connectors well spaced and in proper positions and was just overall user friendly. I even hard modded that sucker to a nForce 4 SLi. Fried it during a freak accident and upgraded to the 590 SLi, which while I like the chipset the board itself leaves something to desire.

[Yellowhello]

Well, the best motherboard I've ever had has got to be the ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus (my current one). Mostly because it's the second motherboard I've had and the first one I had was the ASUS P5ND2, and that board was a total mess.