Half of 731 Voters Believe ECS to Be The First One to Leave Motherboard Market
We raised a vote days before to discuss who would be the first one to leave motherboard market. Lots of readers participated in our vote, and have left lots of thoughtful speculation. According to our vote results until 17:00 PM today (Chinese time), 50% voters of total 731 readers believe that ECS would be the first one of five top mobo manufacturers to leave motherboard market. As you can see, 27% and 13% voters chose MSI and Gigabyte respectively. But only 10 percent voters think it would be Asus.
Of course everyone has his own opinion and way of thinking. Who will be actually the first one to quit motherboard market? Just let’s wait and see.
The last but no least, thanks so much for everyone’s vote and comment.
January 19th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
i voted for ECS in the beginning w/o thinking b/c that’s the smallest brand of the four. To me Asus always is the biggest brand in this market and Gigabyte is the up&coming popular mid-range budget brand. So if ECS makes the cheapest mobos wouldn’t they get the bigger share in the budget market? and truthfully i really don’t know where MSI stands.. probably somewhere close to Gigabyte. But as a mobo consumer i have purchased a P6N Diamond the year before and a K9A2 Platinum last year and both ended up being sold due to the lack of satisfaction on functions and wanted a more powerful build.. I ended up w/ Gigabyte EP45-UD3P. so w/ that thought now i would’ve voted for MSI. my 2 cents
January 19th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
(My English isn’t good enough, sorry for that.)
This poll shows us this is why public are misinformed when it comes industry facts. Consumers thinks they are always right that because they are the reason of exist of industry. But fact is customer never be right they just ‘demanders’ of their needs what are they ‘thinks’. And think is easily manipulated by who are the control force of greed.
ECS sold more than ASUS and Gigabyte and everyone is thinking ECS isn’t good because they have some issue on Mobo especially BIOS. Who need the top notch quality BIOS? O.C’ers right? ..and what is the ratio of o.c’ers to casual user? 3% maybe? 5% top, I think. Just look at sale numbers of O.C equipment and entry or intermediate level Mobo count then you will see the facts.
I’m too old to be fan of any brand so I think ECS and GigaByte is stay in OEM market but ASUS and MSI will be quit within 2009. Here is the list why:
ECS – They have plenty of source to produce cheap mobos and they have no focus other product. They don’t have luxury to quit and build another business.
Gigabyte – They are focusing to R&D to extend reliability and performance in Motherboard technology and it’s only concern they got.
ASUS – They started to be brand PC with Eee . Actually its enough to prove they got vision oem market is going to die. I mean fall from grace in near future. Almost every analyst told this in last couple of years.
MSI – They have very good productivity in Mobo business but they never be number one which is they always want to be. They are always fair with Intel/AMD products. They have 50% product rate in AMD and Intel Mobo ratio. They need to extend their quality in Brand computers.
When think of others like Biostar and Foxxconn I think they will be merged with Asrock or become to SoC developers.
DFI, what they doing other than Lan-Party? Focusing on another thing lately but no one knows.
By 2010 hardwares is going to be cheap, cheaper and almost free. Are you going to o.c your cpu to 50% who cares. You are just 3% percent market. Look at world news children is killed in every way and who cares. They are just 0.1% of population.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Very true Patrick Jane. It’s more like Biostar, Foxxconn or DFI that’ll quit. Asrock being a low end department of Asus is likely to stay to serve the budget market. MSI again, has proved to be reliable boards but who knows about them? very few…
January 20th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
People tend to think asus won’t be quitting just because of all the marketing they do, the whole Republic of Gamers thing and the flashy mobo names.. they give the feeling of being much more present on the market whether it’s true or not