What are the mainstream motherboards?

Motherboard Manufacturers (Introduction)

1 line motherboard manufacturers

ASUS ASUS

ASUS this year's trend is stable, due to the relative maturity of ASUS technology and market operations, resulting in a gradual separation from the mainstream motherboard manufacturers

competition between the manufacturers, in the first-tier brands alone override it. This year, ASUS has gained success with its high-end -D and -X series,

coupled with successful growth in the notebook OEM space, and has purchased ECS's Apple-owned laptop manufacturing plant,

becoming the sole producer of Apple's notebooks. ASUS won the No. 1 spot by a wide margin this year

GIGABYTE

GIGABYTE has had a pretty solid year, with production capacity guaranteed since signing a foundry peace treaty with QDI and a bigger breakthrough in the extension of its high-end product line

than MSI in the foundry business. GIGABYTE's graphics division was able to secure NVIDIA's FX reference board design project for the first time, which had previously belonged to MSI. GIGABYTE's performance was good in the current year, and although it didn't make much of a breakthrough in terms of revenue, it was able to retain its current share of the pie in this year's downturn that saw a steady squeeze on the lower-end vendors and a lackluster demand in the marketplace. It's been pretty good to hold on to its current share of the pie in a tough year for low-end vendors and sluggish market demand.

FOXCONN Foxconn

FOXCONN has had a good year this year, and after acquiring Leadtek, FOXCONN has gradually begun to get involved in the high end of the market. This year, FOXCO

NN took OEM orders from MSI for HP and Gateway, and then signed a deal with Intel for the Intel desktop motherboards

100% production rights, kicking out the other two OEMs, ASUS and Albatron. And in one fell swoop, it

surpassed MSI and ECS in the OEM shipment wars, becoming the second largest motherboard producer behind ASUS. Next year FOXCONN should pay attention to its own branding

and not decline like ECS did in the past because it lacked its own brand value.

MSI MSI

MSI has had a tough year this year, firstly losing the best chance to renew its contract with DELL, and then the operation of its low-end motherboard brand is

not as good as it should be (or at least not as good as it should be compared to ASROCK), and then it has had a bad impact on MSI in the return of its products a year ago. Received

With the loss of OEM orders, the factory is not enough to start, the product and by the second-tier brands Abit and Albatron squeeze, resulting in MSI

This year's sales decline, the company's loss is a foregone conclusion, next year, we must pay attention to is to improve the design of the product, in the control of costs at the same time

To pay attention to the control of yields, otherwise to MSI's current yields. Next year, continue to slide, it is likely to fall into the ranks of the 2 line manufacturers.

ECS Elite

ECS is planning to transform its business this year, in a single motherboard production industry, ECS to challenge ASUS again, it seems that in the short term has been

not very realistic, ECS is now conservatively operating in the retail motherboards, and OEM motherboards are in the MSI and FOXCONN to start a fierce

competition this year, the biggest breakthrough is the production of notebooks. The biggest breakthrough was in notebook production, with Spandex, Quanta, Asus, and Lian Bao tied in the top

5, and OEM volume was also at a record high, but ECS still sold the Apple manufacturing plant in Suzhou to ease the burden of producing computers for different systems

. In terms of civilian motherboards, ECS's biggest innovation was the Photon series, which was described by the manufacturing industry as an excellent piece of "electronic commodity design

design". It's very reliable performance at a fraction of the cost.

2 lines of motherboard manufacturers

JetWay JetWay

On the production, JetWay topped 2 lines of manufacturers, the first throne, may be very surprised, in fact, JetWay is not only to MSI, such as

Tier 1 manufacturers to provide graphics cards and motherboards, but also to provide motherboards to a lot of companies in the domestic market, and there is no shortage of high-end products,

Way is the first motherboard manufacturer in the world to provide graphics cards, motherboards, and motherboards to the world.

such as onda, double sensitive 915 series motherboards, are from Jetway, Jetway's advantage is a wealth of OEM resources, the graphics card market

RadeonMobilty storm, in fact, is the result of Jetway a package, but it is the problem is, OEM object is too

single, and the largest OEM party MSI and sales The problem is that Jetway's sales next year are bound to be affected by the poor sales of its biggest OEM, MSI, and it looks like it's going to be tough to hold on to that No. 1 spot next year.

Abit

Abit and all the manufacturers in the middle of the different, Abit is a completely dependent on the retail market manufacturers, that is, Abit did not

there is no OEM business, if the retail market fails, then Abit's entire year of revenue also all gone down the drain. So Abit is very

attentive to the retail market, this year Abit in terms of revenue, in general, is a victory, to achieve a profit (because last year was a loss

loss), while the market share of a small decline, which is normal, after all, Asrock such manufacturers on the market to kill

the whole second-tier manufacturers are not good days. But the problem for Abit is to continue to strengthen the quality of its design team (which Abit

has actually been doing recently), because among these major producers, Abit's compatibility design is on the weak side.

And tech support is slow.

Epox Panasonic

Epox is having a bad year, just like MSI. The first affected is Europe, the third quarter of the entire European sales, residence

Ran less than 100K, let a big drop in the eyes, how to look at it is not like a 2-line factory a whole quarter performance, and then embodied

in the domestic is poor channel construction, product refurbishment continues to be high, and the technical support for new products, it can be said that all rely on the agents and

Business to give The result has been a decline in sales. At the same time last year, EPOX's sales were almost double that of

Abit, but now EPOX is barely on par with Abit. And now that EPOX's overclocking competition

is no longer just Abit, but Albatron, it's hard to predict the fate of EPOX if it doesn't make an effort to improve its current situation next year.

Aopen builds its foundation

Aopen has done its best this year in terms of products, launching a lot of good stuff and getting high ratings at home and abroad, but as a factory, from a production standpoint, its capacity and yield are low, which seriously affects

its performance in the market because product costs are too high and domestic channels are poorly built. The company has lost a lot of money this year due to high product costs and poor channel construction in China, but Aopen has done its best to be responsible for its customers, so we can't blame it too much

and we hope to improve its channels and sales next year.

Asrock

No need to say, it is too fierce, although from the performance of the performance is not any remarkable point, but by the low price and also

good quality, coupled with the ASUS factory is famous for the rate of control of the yield, the emergence of Asrock affected the entire 1, 2 tier motherboard manufacturers

commercial this year's sales, and now the The only ones counting on stopping it from encroaching are FOXCONN and ECS.

Albatron's Green Cloud

While it wasn't a big name in China a year ago, it's already established itself as a similar seller to Abit, and Albatro

n seems to be a bit better than Abit in terms of overall real-world performance (not test performance). This year, Albatron's volume wasn't

huge, but the growth rate was high, almost 40% domestically. However, factory profitability is not as good, and it's down from last year

. Hopefully, this newcomer will be able to leverage UNIKA's mastery of hype (heck, EPOX is also UNIKA's single-handed hype

) to compete with EPOX next year

FIC Volkswagen

FIC was one of Taiwan's biggest motherboard producers before '99, second only to ASUS and ECS, and has been one of the biggest in the country ever since Volkswagen switched to a

type of business in '99. p>

After the transformation of Volkswagen in '99, the motherboard industry has been tending to be conservative. 70% of FIC's motherboard business is said to come from OEM, and FIC has given OEM products to a lot of domestic

many companies, such as the AU13, a famous model that is branded by ON-DATA and 7 Rainbow to let everyone in China reach FIC's products in China

Land. FIC's motherboard OEM business didn't have any major breakthroughs this year, but its graphics OEM

business secured ELSA's 9600 order, which put FIC's factories well into full operation. But FIC's overall

situation is not optimistic, because under the brutal competition of the 2nd line, the production volume is the life of the company.

Now the DIY market can be described as a mixed bag, dazzling, in order to let you see this disturbance a clear and clear

white real ^_^, I'm going to staging the market common brand of each accessory to briefly introduce, so that you have a general understanding of the brand's

advantages and disadvantages, and I hope to help students to buy a machine.

This time, we'll start with the motherboards. Since we're talking about the DIY market, we can't just rank them according to shipment volume

, but rather according to a combination of channel sales, motherboard quality, and market reputation. We are still using the traditional

saying the introduction of the review:

Tier 1 brands:

The main features are strong R & D capabilities, fast launch of new products, complete product line, high-end products are very hard, at present

Recognition is relatively high is the following three brands:

ASUS: the world's first large motherboards Manufacturer, is also recognized as the first brand of motherboards, workmanship in pursuit of real and not

Hua, high-end motherboards are particularly good, overclocking ability is very strong; at the same time, his price is also the highest, but the middle and low-end of certain models

there are also relatively poor products.

MSI: Ranked in the world's top five in terms of shipments, MSI's annual campus tour has made it popular among college students.

The main feature of MSI is that it comes with a wide range of luxury accessories, but its overclocking capabilities are not great, and some of its mid- and low-end models are heavily shrunken

, which makes it easy for counterfeiters to take advantage of the situation.

GIGABYTE: Shipments are on par with MSI's, and it's always been known for its gorgeous workmanship, but overclocking is

also less impressive, and mid-range and low-end models are just as shrunken as MSI's, which is why they're often plagued by fakes.

Quasi-tier brands:

The three major manufacturers all have a **** the same "problem", that is, the main focus on the Intel side of the sales of

relatively small AMD platform more or less careless, so a few brands of motherboards specializing in DIY market

These are the first motherboards to be released on the market. Although they are not as famous as the Big Three, the quality of their motherboards is no less than that of the Big Three, so let's list them as

quasi first-tier brands:

ABIT: Always put overclocking as the first priority, and the workmanship and materials used are no less than those of first-tier brands

So it's been favored by many DIYers. In the survey of foreign famous media, the ascending technology is ranked after the ASUS and in the second

seat. Because of the ascending technology only do DIY market, motherboard shipments are not big, in the domestic reputation is still a little bit, so can only temporarily live in

quasi-line this position.

Panasonic (EPOX): the original name is Pan Ying, because in the country was robbed and renamed Panasonic. Similar in style to the Rising Technology, it has a reputation for overclocking

ability, and with accessories that are closer to the DIY user and a relatively lower price, it also has a lot of

supporters.

Second-tier brands:

Some aspects are slightly inferior to the first-tier brands, but all have considerable strength, but also have their own characteristics:

Foxconn (FOXCONN): belonging to China's Taiwan's Hon Hai Group, the current motherboard shipments have ranked the world's second

, catching up with Asus? Of course most of the OEM and OEM. Two years ago, once to "rich Ben" brand into the mainland market, but

failed to open the situation, the real own brand into the DIY market for more than a year, the current acceptance is not high, the product line is not

too complete, but I believe that by virtue of the strength of the strength of the Honghai can do better.

Elite (ECS): Shipments once surpassed Asus to take the top spot, but in the last two years it has unfortunately been overtaken,

and now ranks third in the world. Unlike other major manufacturers, ECS used to take the low-priced route, with mediocre motherboards,

overclocking capability was almost nil, and the accessories were all basic. But in just two years, Elite has tried to change that, launching a series of

high-end "EXTREME" series motherboards, and we're looking forward to better performance from Elite.

Intel (INTEL): Based on this name alone, his influence is definitely above ASUS, but it is completely OEM

, are currently manufactured by Foxconn, workmanship materials, however, can not be overclocked, accessories are also very few, for the DIYer

disgusting, more suitable for home and business use.

Diamond (DFI): A veteran motherboard maker, the LANPARTY series is a luxury, but the channel has not been very good, and

we have seen more motherboards from Diamond, but Diamond will step up its efforts to expand the mainland market, which is definitely good news for the majority of

DIYERs.

Albatron: Created by a Gigabyte executive, ALBATRON is a self-proclaimed "first-tier quality, second-tier price

," and it really delivers, with a price tag that's no less than the top tier of major manufacturers, and outstanding overclocking capabilities, but not much of a name at the moment

.

BIOSTAR: BIOSTAR is the world's sixth largest producer of motherboards, and has only entered the DIY market in the last two years. Although it has a number of unique technologies such as the "Nine

Wonderful Techniques," it has an average workmanship and overclocking capability, and it is also better suited for both home and business use.

CHAINTECH: The same motherboard manufacturers, and in the DIY market is also very attentive, the product line covers the high,

middle and low-grade, good workmanship, overclocking is also good, but the market channel to do not do a good job, the last two years in the less

See.

Jianji (AOPEN): belonging to Taiwan Acer Group, a very creative manufacturer, once the vacuum tube to do the main

board, workmanship materials are excellent, overclocking ability is also extraordinary, but the price is high, the channel is poor, the acceptance of the domestic

not very ideal.

Baiyu (ACROP): In the OEM market shipments are relatively large, and therefore can be among the world's top ten, in the DIY market is very

not as good, the trademark has been seized, sales have been greatly affected. The motherboard work is not bad, the "motherboard doctor" is commendable, but

overclocking ability is mediocre.

The second-tier brands of the hermit family:

The reason why these brands are listed separately is because they are very strong, but for various reasons, it is not very easy to

See in the market:

IWILL: A well-known server/workstation motherboard manufacturer, also launched a number of DIY motherboards, the quality of

Popular, but due to the DIY motherboards, the quality of the motherboards is not very good.

Masses, but sales have been small due to inexperience in the DIY market.

FIC: FIC is a veteran of the motherboard industry, and was one of Taiwan's top three motherboard manufacturers until '99,

second only to ASUS and Elite, with outstanding quality, but sales have gradually gone downhill in recent years, and now we can only see FIC's labeled

branded products.

Leadtek (LEADTEK): the famous graphics card manufacturers, is nVidia's top partner, in recent years into the motherboard

industry, the launch of the motherboard is also nForce series chipset-based, luxury workmanship, no expense spared, but the market acceptance is not high.

In 2004, Leadtek was acquired by Hon Hai, the development prospects are more optimistic, but I'm afraid that his motherboards will be surnamed "Fu".

Meijie (SOYO): Taiwan's first own-brand motherboards, in the Ben 2 era, Meijie's popularity is no less than

Asus and other first-tier brands. But then the mainland branch of Meijie unfortunately losses, had no choice but to withdraw from the mainland market at the end of 2001

market, although at the end of 03 and back to the mainland, but the entire market has been divided up, whether Meijie can make a comeback is still a

know number.

Syntax (SYNTAX): a motherboard brand from California, allegedly in Europe and the United States have a very high reputation, motherboard

work looks okay, but can we kill a way out of the middle of Taiwan's motherboard powers? Let's wait and see

.

VIA: VIA was originally a chip designer, and the launch of its own branded motherboards was the result of market competition

. Initially, VIA designed the P4 chipset did not get INTEL's authorization, the major motherboard manufacturers forced by INTEL's authority are not

dare to produce VIA chipset-based P4 motherboards, in this case VIA had to do their own motherboards, in fact, by other manufacturers

OEM, the workmanship materials are good, and the price is also very advantageous, with the subsequent VIA and INTEL With the later settlement between VIA and INTEL, the brand faded from the market.

Third-tier brands:

Three-tier brands:

With the ability to manufacture, and try to lower the price under the premise of ensuring stable operation, this is the main feature of the third-tier manufacturers

Currently, the market is becoming increasingly competitive, and some of the brands have disappeared, such as Xinming, Huaxin, Kirin, Dynasty, Zeling, Lian

Training, etc., and we will only introduce the ones that are still available:

Training. p>

ASRock (ASROCK): In order not to affect their high-end image, ASUS launched this new brand, the main purpose of

is to suppress the low-priced motherboards, including the elite, designed by ASUS technicians, produced in Shenzhen. The technology is quite innovative

but the motherboard quality is average.

Junstar (MBI): Seeing ASRock's popularity in the low-end market, MSI couldn't help but launch

this brand in the summer of '04, but the low-end market has been mostly taken over by ASRock, so I don't know if Junstar can hold its own.

AXPER: GIGABYTE's low-end brand, with the same purpose as JUNSTAR and basically launched at the same time, the three major

manufacturers in the low-end market will also start a fire fight.

SOLTEK: originally can be listed as a second-tier brand, motherboard cost-effective, and once to the VIA motherboard

Generation of labor, but in the past two years by the impact of the price war, the motherboard quality is deteriorating, and now can only be reduced to the third-tier brand.

JETWAY: It's still a good motherboard brand, with a series of special

color technology named "Genie", motherboard quality is general, once the P4X266A chipset motherboard named "848P "

QDI: The former Lenovo motherboard, belonging to Lenovo's QDI division, is the largest motherboard supplier in mainland China.

In early 2004, Lenovo separated the QDI division and set up an independent subsidiary, and the

brand of QDI became the most important supplier of motherboards in China. p>

The brand was born. But QDI's strength and reputation are not as good as that of the Taiwanese manufacturers, and I'm afraid that all we can do now is to spell out the price

.

Hao Xin (SHUTTLE): a strong Taiwanese manufacturers, the motherboard industry in the case of unprecedented competition in the transition to produce

production of quasi-systems, it is difficult to see his motherboards on the market.

Boden (XFX): the manufacturer is Taiwan's XFX Technology, which is a manufacturer that mainly builds graphics cards, motherboards are not

wrong, but again, relatively rare.

Ocean (OCTEK): Hong Kong's number one motherboard maker, red in the 486 era, and then due to market adjustments and

fade out of the retail market, although once returned to the mainland in '02, but failed to open up the situation, I do not know if you can see in the future.

Top Star (TOPSTAR): a brand from Shenzhen, with independent R & D and manufacturing capabilities, claiming to be China's No. 1 brand

, but he has a long way to go.

XinBu (SEAVO): workmanship is not bad, but the manufacturer is relatively low-profile, did not see what the market publicity, the product line is not

too complete, but also need to continue to work hard.

Golden Eagle (EAGLE): manufactured by Shenzhen Radium Light Electronics Co., Ltd. has been specializing in the low-end market for many years, in addition to the price

cheap outside of not much advantage.

Shang Sheng (ASZ): also produced in Shenzhen, the manufacturer is the Oriental Hengjian Electronics Co., Ltd. has a certain manufacturing capacity

, but also to some other brands to do OEM, but only cheap, the quality is not outstanding.

Incompetent brand:

This level of motherboards are mostly channel manufacturers, no manufacturing capacity, completely rely on other manufacturers OEM, so I call them

incompetent brand. The workmanship is basically third-tier, or worse, but there is no shortage of fine products,

such as Seven Rainbow's Dragon Warrior is actually the AU13 from Volkswagen, Onda's NK7U from Diamond, and some of Dual-Min's models from Green

Cloud, so keep your eyes peeled when you shop around. Here is just a list of the names of these brands without going into detail:

Seven Rainbow, Onda, Shuangmin, Midas, Omega, Shuojing, Yingtong, Spartak, Qixiang, Kendaland, Blue

Ke, Tongwei, Titanium, Shuangjie, Santi, Jianbang, Red Boat ......

Miscellaneous brands:

No need to say more, the price is low, the quality is poor, the return rate is high, it is best not to buy:

Zhongcheng, Zhida, Zhimeng, Liankuan, Jieling, Ke brain, Crown League, Kemeng, Taicun, Wanbanglong, Vesta, Kewo

Da, Jiejia, Huaqi, Huamei, Tianhong, Fenghuang Wei, Red Fox, Silver Fox, Yichu, Lian Sheng, Jiewei, Shuangshuo, Zhongling, Fu

Yang, SIP, Boda, Song Li, brilliant, Horizon, Sai Feng, Zhi Ming, Jie Bao ......

Trash motherboards:

Originally the same as those of the miscellaneous motherboards of the same hill of raccoons, but can do so much fame is not easy to do, can be called miscellaneous motherboards

board in the "leader"!

Mercedes-Benz: It is also the trademark of New World, which is a serious insult to Mercedes-Benz!

Baiyu: in order to distinguish Taiwan Baiyu, generally called it mainland Baiyu, the same by robbing the start, poor workmanship,

Serious interference with the market order.

God six: a more funny name, afraid to call "God five" lawsuit, so he called God six, the same work is more

garbage.

Wuliangye: in China, his name can be said to be a household name, women and children know, INTEL I am afraid can only look back. But

He himself does not cherish, looking for a miscellaneous motherboard OEM in Shenzhen, and then sold at a low price, losing money, then announced that the enterprise

into the IT industry, as a way to pull his stock? It's really a sad day for Chinese companies!

Lastly, the brand categories are artificially divided, the boundaries between the various categories is not obvious, especially between the three

line motherboards, incompetent motherboards and miscellaneous motherboards, can be said to be crisscrossed, my personal division is for reference only can. I hope that the information found on the Internet can help the owner