radarblips

June 04, 2010 at 11:05am

There is 1 simple rule that I live by when choosing a motherboard, BUY EVGA, if not buy ASUS end of story.

DOOMHAMMA

June 04, 2010 at 9:33am

I forget these guys exist until articles like this popup.

I like to buy from MSi, Asus, and Gigabyte.

Current pc uses an MSi 790FX-GD70. Actually had it kill itself on me, but MSi was awesome and gave me a brand new retail box to replace it. (Almost sold the replacement for the 890FXA-GD70, or the Asus ROG equivalent).

PC before that (still running), uses an Asus M2N-SLI I think it is. Not a bad board, never had issues with it, but its old now.

LatiosXT

June 04, 2010 at 7:57am

While I never purchased a motherboard from this company, one thing was for certain, I did love their ATX/BTX hybrid design where the memory modules ran parallel to the airflow.

And that seemed to be the only time I ever saw a motherboard designed like that.

Caboose

June 04, 2010 at 7:51am

 I had 1 DFI LANparty board. I replaced it a couple months later with an ASUS board. I found that DFI's support page was crap, calling their help desk was next to impossible. I gave up and trashed the board.

I found that the LANParty series of motherboards were more flashy than functional. It's always sad to see a company go under, but on the other hand I'm kinda happy that the LANParty is not around anymore.

 

-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-

warspite721

June 04, 2010 at 7:22am

I have two gaming rigs built around their LAN Party T2RS Plus Mobos and they have been solid performers for me.  What I found second to none was DFI's support forums... the guys there were fantastic in helping me solve problems and get the most out of my gaming rigs.  I, for one, will miss the LAN Party series... they were awesome!

zebeste

June 04, 2010 at 7:07am

The first motherboard I bought was a DFI LanParty UT3200 Express (or something close to that). That picture reminds me a lot of it.

huhhuh

June 04, 2010 at 7:06am

I got their Socket 939 board (the top line) NF4 SLI-DR. It crapped out on me before one full year in service. It kind of fell a sleep and I could never get it to boot up.

It looks like there had been a bug with USB keyboard that attach w/o having the jumper inside taken out (or some other non sense procedure requiredwhen attaching the USB keyboard) . My issue started on the first restart after buying a wireless USB keyboard/mouse combo.

Should I say I paid premium $$$ for this crap ($375 to be precise) ?

TechJunkie

June 04, 2010 at 5:29am

I bought the DFI Lanparty 790FX M2RS model as soon as it was released and it worked flawless through the 2 years I had it. I since upgraded back in October (to build my brother a PC using the DFI), to the MSI 790FX GD-70 only because it was cheaper and newer and not because I had problems. To this day, almost three years later, the DFI is still rockin in my bro's PC.

I would continue to use DFI but they seem to be more expensive than the competition. Also, the black and yellow didn't match my decor any longer ;).