Are motherboards dropping in quality?

[Digideath]

Is the quality of motherboards dropping? Ie are the number of boards with issues rising? I've been monitoring this site for a while now and you have no idea how many people ive seen in troubleshooting or the cpu/motherboard/ram threads with issues that are clearly motherboard based. I don't even escape it myself. The bluetooth in my board isn't working properly.

Is it just me or do these motherboard manufactures need a good kick up the arse lol

[Jurrunio]

Imo they always generate the most problems out of all components in a system. That's just what happens when something's job is to combine everything else and offer more on its own.

[Cyracus]

From what I've seen mobo quality overall is improving. Cheap mobos still tend to be grabage though (Haven't tracked issues, but the ones I remember were often with bottom shelf boards)

[VIVO-US]

It's more likely that there are more things to go wrong than there used to be (sort of like how a luxury edition car with lots of gadgets can have more problems than the base model).  If things were still like the old days when you had separate cards for Wi-Fi, internet, sound and all that, the the number of complaints would likely be about the same as before.  I've built a lot of our work computers over the past few years using mostly low end motherboards from Gigabyte and ASRock, and so far, all those boards are still working perfectly fine.

[TheBean]

I would assume it would improve over time.. I think more and more people actually care about mobo quality/rgb/usb/etc so now quality is slowly rising. also, when a mobo will have problems usually they will be more catastrophic that are harder to diagnose and fix. so you get more posts about that. cpu and ram almost never fail and gpu's usually just have driver issues