Motherboard quality/longevity inquiry

[TheTemest]

I'm going to build a home/office system for my brother and have a question (looking for opinions) about motherboard manufacturers and reliability. The board is going to be a microATX/FM2+ and I'm leaning toward a Gigabyte board. However, there's also an ASRock and an ASUS board that would do the job as well. If it was you doing the build, what manufacturer would you look to as providing a quality board that will "last"?

 

[yeskay]

I'm going to build a home/office system for my brother and have a question (looking for opinions) about motherboard manufacturers and reliability. The board is going to be a microATX/FM2+ and I'm leaning toward a Gigabyte board. However, there's also an ASRock and an ASUS board that would do the job as well. If it was you doing the build, what manufacturer would you look to as providing a quality board that will "last"?

Get the Gigabyte Motherboard

Why Gigabyte Motherboard?

Because they make stable, durable and performance oriented products with lowest RMAs. See the images below:

What is RMA?

Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) is a part of the process of returning a product in order to receive a refund, replacement, or repair during the product's warranty period.

Gigabyte with least RMA percentage over the past two years

Major Motherboard and Graphics Card Manufacturers RMA Ratings

Read the full article here - Reliability report: Gigabyte top for motherboards, MSI for graphics cards

Cheers!

 

[QSV]

Yep, go with Gigabyte. Just to give a real life example: I have been using Gigabyte in about a dozen of PCs in the last 6 years. They are all still running daily and not one has failed so far.
I also use ASRock (not so much yet) and used to use Asus a lot. Every single mainboard of Asus failed after a few years max.

 

[andreii707]

Personally I use an ASUS motherboard. I have been using it almost contantly for the past 4 years and had no problem at all. Overall Gigabyte may be better, as the others have said, I have no experience with their motherboards, only their GPUs.

 

[TheTemest]

Thanks for the replies. I was leaning toward the Gigabyte board primarily because of the chipset being offered, but the hard, cold RMA stats cannot be denied and the tipping point for me going with the Gigabyte board. (Really kind of surprised to see ASUS boards ranked as they are. Like @andreii707 I'm currently on year 6 of my ASUS laptop board and have no complaints).
Thanks again.