I can't think of very many hardware vendors (especially in the enthusiast space) who seem to have done much UI design work past 2008 or so... AMD, Realtek, Giga

I can't think of very many hardware vendors (especially in the enthusiast space) who seem to have done much UI design work past 2008 or so... AMD, Realtek, Gigabyte et al, even Intel's tweak tools are all awful. Gaudy, nonscalable, and bitmap-heavy is the name of the game.