Are evga motherboards any good?

EVGA is a good company. They make quality products. Same can be said about ASUS. Of course you're gonna hear horror stories. There are horror stories about any company that produces consumer products. You really can't go wrong with ASUS, EVGA, and occasionally MSI.

evga support is meh, trust me on this. They are on nice on the outside but meh. They aren't very smart either, this is coming from perosnal experience. I was on their forums and had about 10k posts, but banned falsely I might add. No apeals, no nothing, and once they are through with you they don't care. They pretty much refused to rma some of my stuff. DFI is alright, but not much better than eVGA, oddly enough I've had the best customer service with asus. So keep that in mind :)JigglyWiggly_

Asus? The company that kept me on hold for an hour several times and never calls back when you use the call back system. They once told me that a 1.8 vcc is safe for a 45nm cpu, I was having odd readings because of their crappy pc probe or some other software on their disc thai I installed like an idiot. Have you ever been through an asus rma? it's a nightmere. Their customer service is second to worst only to MSI, but their products and bios support is amazing. I have acctually heard nothing but horror stories about Asus. Here is a review of Asus customer service by a very trusted poster at XS and professional reviewer, btw.

http://www.benchzone.com/page.php?al=asustek_evaluation

I have had nothing but great service from Evga they go way above and beyond the call, no other company that I have used comes close exept for mabey OCZ. With all of that said unless you have a need for sli for some reason stay away from Nforce boards. Sli is not worth the hassle, imo. Nforce boards are pretty bad.

[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"]evga support is meh, trust me on this. They are on nice on the outside but meh. They aren't very smart either, this is coming from perosnal experience. I was on their forums and had about 10k posts, but banned falsely I might add. No apeals, no nothing, and once they are through with you they don't care. They pretty much refused to rma some of my stuff. DFI is alright, but not much better than eVGA, oddly enough I've had the best customer service with asus. So keep that in mind :)artiedeadat40

Asus? The company that kept me on hold for an hour several times and never calls back when you use the call back system. They once told me that a 1.8 vcc is safe for a 45nm cpu, I was having odd readings because of their crappy pc probe or some other software on their disc thai I installed like an idiot. Have you ever been through an asus rma? it's a nightmere. Their customer service is second to worst only to MSI, but their products and bios support is amazing. I have acctually heard nothing but horror stories about Asus. Here is a review of Asus customer service by a very trusted poster at XS and professional reviewer, btw.

http://www.benchzone.com/page.php?al=asustek_evaluation

I have had nothing but great service from Evga they go way above and beyond the call, no other company that I have used comes close exept for mabey OCZ. With all of that said unless you have a need for sli for some reason stay away from Nforce boards. Sli is not worth the hassle, imo. Nforce boards are pretty bad.

Nforce boards are pretty bad.

artiedeadat40

I just built a rig with a Evga730a and a AMD 600+3.10 dual core.I have to say,so far,so good.Have not had one problem with install boot,anything.It fired right up and then i ran the drives that came with the Mobo.There are plenty of options in the BIOS and the layout is nice.Mine cost 89.00$ at Tiger.I couldnt be happier with CPU+ Mobo as of today..The 730a is also rated 5 star customer review on Tiger.....Also,i had to deal with EVGA support 2 weeks ago.I had a 9800GT overheat and burnout.I dont know what the other people were talking about,theyr customer support was awesome for me.I was talking to a tech in 10 mins,had my card RMA'd in 20 min,then had my new card by next week.I could not have asked for better customer support.

Here's the deal on Motherboards or anything in general.. you can ask here for Real-world experience..but, don't ask if they're any good. Check reviews, check places like newegg that have extensive customer reviews..you'll know, at the very least, what you're getting into..what are its shortcomings and what to expect straight out the box. I don't own an evga board, it's an XFX 780i, but, EVGA makes the same board, looks about identical, but, what i'd suggest is look more at chipsets than just brands. I know Nforce chipsets get a bad rep, but, mine has been pretty great. I'm running perfectly stable, q6600 @ 3ghz, 4gb 1066 memory, and an gtx 260. Everything works fine. Now, getting around in the bios, and overclocking, yeah, it was tricky, but, then again, overclocking isn't supposed to be easy, it's a very involved process and you do a lot of it by trial & error, so, out the box, everything ran fine. Use google and check reviews on it..but, be careful which reviews you trust and don't just believe the first site you see, a lot of them have it in their best interest to give favorable reviews to certain brands over others.. why? cuz they get free shtuff. :P just some stuff to keep in mind, i could be wrong, but, i don't think i am.

I wouldn't put to much stock in the reviews on Newegg. Some of them are informative but many of them consist of people claiming "high" levels of experience and they trash an Intel based motherboard cause they're AMD chip wouldn't work in it. And yes, I have seen reviews that are like that.

I wouldn't put to much stock in the reviews on Newegg. Some of them are informative but many of them consist of people claiming "high" levels of experience and they trash an Intel based motherboard cause they're AMD chip wouldn't work in it. And yes, I have seen reviews that are like that.

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