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Poll: Which motherboard manufacturer has the best UEFI menu?

Which motherboard manufacturer has the best, easiest to understand, and most comprehensive EUFI?

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Peat Moss

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I did this poll back in 2021 and was just curious to see if anything has changed 4 years later.
 
the easiest and most straight forward ive used recently was an acer of all brands...
 
I prefer Asus' UEFI, however, I'm in it infrequently enough that I'm not going to pay the Asus tax for motherboards just for a UEFI anymore.

Currently, I'm using a Gigabyte board where I hate the UEFI, but I got it for $50 cheaper than a less featured Asus version using the same chipset.
 
I try to just use Gigabyte boards but I have to tip my hat to Asus and MSI as second.
 
Asus UEFI is best now imho, but hate the Asus tax and their general service / warranty / return history
MSI is decent as well, but not quite as polished as Asus.
Asrock is generally very good but the proclivity to nerf x3d chips can’t be ignored
Gigabyte UEFI is a mess, though they recently very high quality and performance boards.
 
Peat Moss said:
I've added Acer. Thanks.

Had no idea they made motherboards.
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idk if they make it but its what its branded as in their oem systems. obviously its not as fully featured but its clean and well laid out.
 
Asrock always has the most options and msi has the best and fastest layout so those are my top 2 in no particular order. Asus tends to rename stuff and gigabyte is slow now. EVGA is clean but they hide a lot of options not that it is relevant now since they don't make board anymore.
 
With what i've played in the latest years, i would say that Msi has the easiest to understand with the essentials easy to reach. Asus seems to be the most comprehensive, but sometimes it's just to much for their own sake. Kinda reminds me of DFI, just not as finicky. Gigabyte seems too old school, in the bad way.

If you are chasing records i would go for the Asus. For day to day use, Msi would be my pick.
 
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ASUS bar none. That said, my current MSI motherboard is a solid step forward for MSI and I think they aren't too far behind. GIGABYTE's had the most trouble of the big three figuring out how to implement a GUI interface from the start. As a result, its seen the most redesigns over the years as a result. ASUS nailed it out of the gate and reiterated on it. MSI found something that worked and mostly iterated on it though its first foray into the UEFI world resulted in the Clown BIOS. With Click BIOS II it did OK, but I'd call it inefficient at best. Though it was easy enough to use it wastes a lot of screen real estate on fluff bullshit. It's tried out numerous tools and features which just weren't ultimately that useful. MSI and to a lesser extent GIGABYTE, have always been pretty bad about having unnecessary submenus for one or two settings that would have been appropriate in a higher level menu that was already in the right category. Finally though, their latest BIOS is pretty solid and I have few complaints.

ASRock's interface still shows its ASUS lineage as the two companies were linked when they got into the UEFI game. ASRock has evolved independently, but iterates the way ASUS does. It feels less polished to me but its solid. EVGA is literally irrelevant in the market and has been since the X79/Z77 era. Not only did they lose their good engineers but it put a lot less R&D budget into their boards and they paired down models until they only had one or two enthusiast models commanding a premium without really deserving it. BioStar is better than you'd imagine, but frankly isn't on par with the other guys. Their UEFI is fine for what it is though. I haven't heard of Acer motherboards being a thing ever, but as an OEM their interfaces on their own desktop and mobile lines have been adequate and bog standard. Nothing more. Quick Google search doesn't come up with any enthusiast / DIY market type brands so I have no idea why they'd be in a poll like this. You might as well add HP Pavillion and Dell into the mix if you want to go that route with the poll. Which frankly makes no sense to me as large OEM UEFI's are adequate for non-enthusiast users at best.
 
Voted ASRock since last time I was shopping their manuals and documentation were the least shitty. They're probably not the best if you just dive into the settings blind, but if you don't mind some reading it seemed like they actually document their shit.
 
MSI is IMO the simplest and cleanest. Asus is pretty comprehensive but you almost have to know where something is before you try to find it, and I strongly object to the fan nannyism (at least on the couple AM4 Asus boards I have) to the point where I will avoid Asus going forward. Asrock is meh. Gigabyte is a bit weird and non-obvious to navigate but it's all there somewhere.
 
These are the results from the poll in 2021.

The breakdown is amazingly consistent for Gigabyte, AsRock and MSI. Asus managed to have an even stronger showing in the new poll, going from 52.4% to 69.2%


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Asus for sure, but I don't pay the Asus tax just for the UEFI because I'm only in there when there's a bios update after I set it the first time. I'm on a Gigabyte board and I don't like it, but I can generally find what I'm looking for.
 
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