Motherboards are the same, as transportation devices are the same. In other words, techchick, and sewalk got it right IMHO. To add a bit to sewalk, I’ve had good luck with Gigabyte’s, I rate them with Asus. The rest of what s/he said was on the mark. Cheap motherboards have cheap BIOS, cheap slots, cheap jumpers, etc. Your Blue screens, can be caused by your motherboard, it’s not always Microslop’s fault. (However it generally is)