Who offers best motherboard warranty?q

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What company currently offers the best warranty on their motherboards,
with minimum hassle to get a replacement?

Also, who supports their boards the longest with BIOS updates?

Thanks!

P.S. - anybody know of a mboard manufacturer that uses those more expensive
"solid" tube capacitors on their boards? I was really hosed once when I
bought 4 boards with the cheaper capacitors on them - the ones with the hash
marks on top that allow expansion and swelling. All of the boards failed
within a couple of years due to swollen and completely busted open
capacitors.
 
OhioGuy said:
What company currently offers the best warranty on their motherboards,
with minimum hassle to get a replacement?

Also, who supports their boards the longest with BIOS updates?

Thanks!

P.S. - anybody know of a mboard manufacturer that uses those more
expensive "solid" tube capacitors on their boards? I was really hosed
once when I bought 4 boards with the cheaper capacitors on them - the ones
with the hash marks on top that allow expansion and swelling. All of the
boards failed within a couple of years due to swollen and completely
busted open capacitors.
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Wrong question. You should be looking for reliability, not (who is going to
correct their mistake after-the-fact). What you are looking for is AOpen.
Nothing else is even close. Asus is at least ten pegs lower, in terms of
quality. -Dave
 
OhioGuy said:
What company currently offers the best warranty on their motherboards,
with minimum hassle to get a replacement?

Also, who supports their boards the longest with BIOS updates?

Thanks!

P.S. - anybody know of a mboard manufacturer that uses those more expensive
"solid" tube capacitors on their boards? I was really hosed once when I
bought 4 boards with the cheaper capacitors on them - the ones with the hash
marks on top that allow expansion and swelling. All of the boards failed
within a couple of years due to swollen and completely busted open
capacitors.
Click to expand...

My Asus board is three years. There are others offering three year
warranty.

For solid (polymer) caps, Gigabyte has been using them a fair bit. On Asus,
it might be the higher end boards that get the better caps.

For BIOS updates, it can vary according to the popularity of the board
(or the sheer number of different models of boards they created). Some
server type boards might only see a BIOS or two. Some enthusiast boards
have BIOS releases up to 20 or so. I don't think there are any rules of
thumb. And in some cases, the manufacturer can be quite stubborn (some
tiny thing needs a trivial change, and no BIOS is ever released to
fix it).

Since a number of BIOS releases are purely for new CPU type recognition,
they aren't doing that much for an existing install. About five BIOS
releases, seems to be enough to solve most of the initial problems
(i.e. the problems that wouldn't have existed, if they weren't in
such a rush to put the product on the market). As long as they issue
BIOS releases for about the first three months, that should solve
most of your problems.

Paul
 
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