Boogityboo04
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@Acclamator: I never actually noticed his list, but that is ridiculous. Since when is EVGA crap?
raybay said:eMachines has the third-highest sales in the world, and the number one highest mother board by a whopping margin.
Considering eMachines has almost exclusively used PCChips for their system boards for past several years, how do you figure? Recently, Emachines has been using Asus as well, but I fewer Emachines that I used to...raybay said:PCChips don't do many fancy, high-speed things, but they very rarely fail. Good solidd board for people who don't do gaming or photo editing.
I have worked on several emachines systems, one in fact, the Bestec PSU had a capacitor physically blow out and ruin the system. The ECS mobo had no bad caps or anything, it just wouldn't post. The reason the Bestec PSUs in HPs and newer compaqs never fail is b/c they use a more high quality model of Bestec PSU. I have opened a Bestec PSU out of a compaq and it has a totally different array of parts than the one I pulled from our emachine before it fried it. They were similar, but not the same. The model out of the compaq was ATX-250-12E Rev. D, when the one from the emachine (the one that is responsible for failures) is the ATX-250-12E Rev7. Besides, I have had 2 bestec PSUs fail in HPs as well both because of the fan and failed capacitors. It's easy to tell the ones in emachines are much cheaper because they never have those green status lights on the back of them. The ones in HPs and Compaqs have Green LEDs that light when there is power going to the PSU and blink when there's a motherboard issue, instead of frying it like the emachines version.raybay said:Bestec power supples are NOT the reason eMachines motherboards fail. They fail regardless of the brand of the power supply. Bestec is used in HP, Compaq, and Gateway without any more failures than any other.
The eMachines boards are made as copies under license in Korea... from several designs by Intel, FoxConn and so on. They fail in huge numbers because they are badly built, and cannot withstand the humidity, the lack of humidity, or the heat... their capacitors, and southbridges fail... among a lot of other things.