Asus or Gigabyte ?

fergiet · 23 Jun 2011 at 10:33

Need to get a new board soon. As I have an AMD cpu I am looking at the new 900 series boards.

Asus or Gigabyte ?

I like the fact that Asus has the newer bios but is that enough to swing it?

:confused:

Vekiq · 23 Jun 2011 at 10:50

Asus has issues with their latest Intel boards, not sure if this affects AMD boards.

nuttyprot · 23 Jun 2011 at 11:13

In a no win situation as atm Gigabyte also have issues with the voltages on 900 boards it seems.

Clairvoyant · 23 Jun 2011 at 13:21

Vekiq said:
Asus has issues with their latest Intel boards

Sorry to hijack, what are these problems.

ademcg · 25 Jun 2011 at 20:37

Clairvoyant said:
Sorry to hijack, what are these problems.

Perhaps he is reffering to this:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18228911

robin66 · 25 Jun 2011 at 20:47

Go with what ever board has the best price and feature set for you. Both are well made boards.

The only thing between the two is that Asus don't have such a good RMA service.

Just to add, you might want to checkout MSI and Asrock boards also.

gareth170 · 25 Jun 2011 at 20:59

do not go for gigabyte ga-990fxa-ud5/ud7, these have voltage issues at the moment.

Asus Sabertooth 990FX seems fine

Quadcore14 · 2 Jul 2011 at 21:26

Get a Gigabyte UD3 as it is a good board and is quite cheap for the features. If you want something with more features look in to Asrock and MSI. Dont go with Asus as if there is a a problem their RMA service is not the best.

nuttyprot · 2 Jul 2011 at 21:51

Quadcore14 said:
Get a Gigabyte UD3 as it is a good board and is quite cheap for the features. If you want something with more features look in to Asrock and MSI. Dont go with Asus as if there is a a problem their RMA service is not the best.

Have you noticed any issues with voltages?

mjones1 · 2 Jul 2011 at 22:02

nuttyprot said:
Have you noticed any issues with voltages?

When running my cpu at 1.2v i dont get a single bit of v droop, when i raised the v core to 1.475 i only had 0.003 v droop which is excellent . ( Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3)

gareth170 · 3 Jul 2011 at 10:22

mjones1 said:
When running my cpu at 1.2v i dont get a single bit of v droop, when i raised the v core to 1.475 i only had 0.003 v droop which is excellent . ( Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3)

what cpu u running?

mjones1 · 4 Jul 2011 at 07:31

gareth170 said:
what cpu u running?

Just a x2 550, even as a quad core i don't have a v droop problem.

KiiYzOo · 4 Jul 2011 at 08:16

do you have a budget?

Ben Cole · 4 Jul 2011 at 09:01

Not specific to your uses but I always lean towards gigabyte. Had problems with Asus on numerous occasions but almost never with gigabyte.

gareth170 · 4 Jul 2011 at 10:50

mjones1 said:
Just a x2 550, even as a quad core i don't have a v droop problem.

oh thats why.

the vdoop seem to be with 6 core cpus

Skeese · 4 Jul 2011 at 23:38

Go with Asus

FatRakoon · 5 Jul 2011 at 03:36

Im in love with Gigabyte boards. So much so, that Im running 6 on my LAN and so far I have never had a single issue.

Asus on the other hand, the one board that I had good use out if was the A8N-SLI but every other one has simply died.

Never liked Asus.

MikeHunt79 · 5 Jul 2011 at 03:45

gigabyte

gurusan · 5 Jul 2011 at 04:46

Used a lot of boards from both manufacturers and have to say it's really down to color scheme or some other useless feature. Both are great.