GIGABYTE says it will sell 5 million motherboards in Q1 2014

wazza300 · 16 Feb 2014 at 01:24

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/35433...wsletter&utm_medium=ttemail&utm_campaign=ttcs

Bart_Hunt · 16 Feb 2014 at 02:19

As long as they retain the build quality, the more the better.

hawkhench · 16 Feb 2014 at 08:24

PCs are dea....wait a minute

atomic7431 · 16 Feb 2014 at 09:58

Bart_Hunt said:
As long as they retain the build quality, the more the better.

build quality?
Sigh, if only.

stulid · 16 Feb 2014 at 11:55

atomic7431 said:
build quality?
Sigh, if only.

Isn't your problem due to bent socket pins? I seem to remember reading.

atomic7431 · 16 Feb 2014 at 11:57

the first one was yes, and your point being?
The second one isnt though?

stulid · 16 Feb 2014 at 11:58

atomic7431 said:
the first one was yes, and your point being?
The second one isnt though?

Perhaps it is again and you should take extra care when dealing with important fitment of parts.

atomic7431 · 16 Feb 2014 at 12:04

stulid said:
Perhaps it is again and you should take extra care when dealing with important fitment of parts.

lol wow now thats judgemental to the extreme.
So this is automatically something i have done? Obviously it is i should have realised because no where else could this have happened its simply impossible right? Well No !
The second one sent to me has a garbled display on the motherboard error readout on the board and refuses to boot and has no bent pins at all?
But wait that must be my fault too right?

I have built numerous machines over the past ten years and ran my own business for 8 years with great success and i passed this on due to family commitments etc I have never ever had bent pins on a motherboard until now.

I find it funny how because a hardware had damage or something wrong with it its automatically user error, unreal.

stulid · 16 Feb 2014 at 12:23

So many users deny doing anything wrong when assembling parts and claim to have taken extreme care yet I've seen many horror stories.

atomic7431 · 16 Feb 2014 at 12:26

stulid said:
So many users deny doing anything wrong when assembling parts and claim to have taken extreme care yet I've seen many horror stories.

dont tar everyone with the same brush its bad practice and seems to be a typical response these days.

wazza300 · 16 Feb 2014 at 12:30

your lucky it wasn't an asus board,they would have flat refused bent pin repair,gotta hand it to gigabyte they do look after you

stulid · 16 Feb 2014 at 12:31

atomic7431 said:
dont tar everyone with the same brush its bad practice and seems to be a typical response these days.

Don't patronise me.

atomic7431 · 16 Feb 2014 at 12:33

stulid said:
Don't patronise me.

Im not, but you were quick to judge.

Wizzfizz · 16 Feb 2014 at 12:35

now now girls

setter · 16 Feb 2014 at 12:35

wazza300 said:
your lucky it wasn't an asus board,they would have flat refused bent pin repair,gotta hand it to gigabyte they do look after you

That and the fact that they have no uk/european service. Saw a post in gpu section where an rma for an asus titan gpu took over 6 weeks to be sorted. I do like asus boards but ive always been wary with regards to support. The first year not so much as youll be dealing with the retailer.

atomic7431 · 16 Feb 2014 at 12:35

wazza300 said:
your lucky it wasn't an asus board,they would have flat refused bent pin repair,gotta hand it to gigabyte they do look after you

Its something i will be looking at a lot more closely, i even took pictures of the replacement board i got, seems extreme but everything needs Proof these days.

wazza300 · 16 Feb 2014 at 12:37

don't get me wrong asus make some great boards and I like them a lot,but they lack the customer service

setter · 16 Feb 2014 at 12:42

Tbf the last asus board i owned that had any issues was an s939 sli board. The chipset fan failed, (very common on theese boards) it was only a simple matter of swapping it out for another fan i had spare so no need to rma it. Ive owned a further 5 or 6 asus boards since then and all have been very reliable.