timsdf wrote on 2022-09-18, 19:50:What's the problem with asus? Disregarding lowend boards on mainstream sockets (which are with all manufacturers questionable) I don't see any reason to call asus x58 boards bad like that. Specially with x58 gigabyte boards can be very unstable.
I've pulled 3 ASUS sabertooth X58s out of ewasted systems recently and all worked fine. I'm typing this on a sabertooth X79 which has been powered on 24/7 since 2016 and is also fine. My old gigabyte LGA1155 board before that was on 24/7 for 4 years and was fine, other than USB 3.0 ports not working if I applied the UEFI BIOS update. Whatever.
Generally speaking, every motherboard manufacturer has similar reliability over long term periods like 5 years, in the same way that hard disk manufacturers and product lines all roughly even out and none are "better" or "worse" overall. There's always going to be the odd dud like the IBM deathstars or seagate ST3000DM001 or whatever, and plenty of anecdotal experience reports like what I just posted here, or someone going "I bought 3 asus boards and they all failed asus sucks". And motherboards often have dumb quirks like flawed BIOS updates or janky controller chips. Statistically speaking, it all evens out, so one should take anecdotal reports with a bucket of salt. And since none of the hardware that's relevant to the purpose of this forum was sold with the intent of it lasting 20+ years, one can't really form opinions of manufacturers based on its reliability if used today.
Except OCZ. We can probably all agree OCZ became objectively terrible before they went out.