Recommendations for electronics

I haven't had much luck lately with my reprap electronics, I have a gen 6 board and was using it fine with printrun (pronterface). It recently started to do things wrong and I suspect a hardware fault (tried many different software solutions, it always fails to print properly), I am ready to buy replacement electronics and was wondering what other reprapers would recommend to replace it.

I like the five D firmware as I know my way around the code and I have skeinforge set up and it was doing well with the five D on the gen 6.
I like the look of the RAMPS electronics and have found a potentially good source.
I also really like pronterface.

Does the five D firmware work well with ramps?
Has anyone had any trouble with a "skeinforge - printrun - ramps - five D" setup (or similar) or would this be a good combination?

Thanks, Dan.

FiveD is ooooooooold! You want RAMPS and Marlin firmware. Trust me, it'll blow your mind.

Will marlin work with all the G-Codes that five D understands? (mainly [G1, G0] X Y Z E F) as my skeinforge is set up for this. Also, is it easy to get it to work on a ramps setup?

if so then I will consider using marlin and not five D

Yes, I believe all modern firmwares will understand those, Marlin included. Marlin can be a little tricky to set up (especially the endstops) but we'd be glad to help you live over IRC in #reprap.

Agreed. I would not suggest anyone make a machine with any other firmware besides marlin at this point. It is pretty messy right now, but it works so well and is still being actively improved.

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Thank you for your opinions, I will be getting a RAMPS board and using marlin.

I have Gen6 which came with FiveD. FiveD is terrible. One thing you will need to pay attention to when you upgrade is setting the Z max feedrate properly. Some mathematical quirks of FiveD I never did unravel seem to prevent going too fast on Z, but all other firmware will happily try to move Z way too fast and stall unless you set it to something reasonable (eg 240mm/min, or about 4mm/s).

(I just bought RAMPS to replace Gen6, but I've been running Sprinter and Marlin on gen6)