About ECS motherboards and its latest reliability on socket FM2 boards

[d6bmg]

lol @discussion & post of this particular thread.
*peace*

On the whole I'd still recommend an ASRock or Biostar over ECS to be honest. And yes ECS boards usually have a lot of features for the price, but it's the little things you don't get in the board - for e.g. nearly all Asus boards come with powerful surge protection circuitry and the MemOK automatic memory tuner for maximal RAM compatibility, and you're rarely going to find such features in an ASRock, Biostar or ECS board (sometimes ASRock has similar features though). Of course these things are moot if you have clean power and a good UPS at home. And memory compatibility is always luck of the draw, though things like MemOK are a saviour when you install an incompatible module. Note that usually you will not run into such issues, so it may or may not be a big deal for you.

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[topgear]

^^ In that case you suggest for ASUS/GIGABYTE/MSI motherboards?
Socket AMD FM2.

just get ASUS F2A85-V PRO

Thing is I guess ECS will get better over time as they have started manufacturing boards for Asus and surely they will learn a thing or two by studying those designs.....but their problem is not their hardware (they have improved on the quality front), it's their software and BIOS that holds them back at this point.

@topgear: MSI's newer boards don't have the exploding VRM issues, they worked around it by imposing voltage and thermal limits. The consequence is that these boards now have limited OC options compared to Biostar/ASRock as the VRM quality itself hasn't really improved.

ECS' golden boards usually come with a few bells and whistles as well as a very fancy box so they may be priced a bit higher but the black series should be easily in Biostar's range.

in that case it's still a no go IMO.