Asus not as good as gigabyte?

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so i have a mate to solemnly swears ASUS just make POS mobos. from the A8N the P5N, the P5Q series and the P45. He has used about 4, all have died on him including a Maximus 2 formula, but he has had the same amount of GB boards, from P965 to X38 to X48 to P55 and all have been perfect for him. he now only recommends GBs, and never asus and practically stomps on anyone that even mentions asus.

I personally just ignore him, but he recommends so many systems a day, i am getting annoyed at what he tells those people asking for help.

So i just wanted to know, OcUK, what company sells more, and which company have more RMAs?
 
i used to think the same, i had a p5w dh die on me. But I think it's totally level pegging these days. The build quality of my m489gtd pro is leagues ahead of the old p5w. In reality gigabyte boards are no better these days.
 
I would say Asus have had more RMA's due to the fact they were seen as enthusiasts boards whereas Gigabyte were the 'everymans' motherboard. Because of this the Asus boards were abused more with more voltage etc.

Today though both are regarded as enthusiasts boards with more or less matching capabilities. I have had/tested many of each over the years and I used to hate gigabyte boards (mainly because of the rainbow style looks!) but I love my UD5 that I'm using now. Personally I have had more Asus boards fail than gigabyte but the last one that failed was the p5wdh. The replacment P5B deluxe and then the almight blitz were perhaps the best boards I have used.

What I'm trying to say is its swings and roundabouts. Both are premium brands and deservedly so.
 
Ive never owned any gigabyte boards, only asus, msi and evga. The worst asus boards i had were s939 a8n series, (two out of three died). My previous asus p5q deluxe was a fantastic board as is my current p6t deluxe v2.
 
thanks guys :) so really its even then.

wonder if rjkoneil or any other OcUK worker has some sort of table or stats they could share with us?
 
thanks guys :) so really its even then.

wonder if rjkoneil or any other OcUK worker has some sort of table or stats they could share with us?
 
I havent problem with OCUk when I bought Asus Crosshair IV Forumla that run so prefect - sometime motherboard can get faulty or anything like this same as memory - not all of it such as 100% working order, I would say between 70-85% working and some are faulty or didnt working that why firms offer for warranty to replace or refund, no need to worry about it.

Just keep trying and use RMA and then it usual ok with 2nd one... you can see factory workers working too quickly by install hardwares like chipset,etc.. like cars that keep moving while workers installing...
 
its about the same

both massive sellers

Gigabyte have the most favourable RMA terms but Asus have improved a lot and are nearly on par.
 
I have gone from 10+ years of Abit (true enthusiast boards) to Gigabyte because of the bios which is similar and the connectivity. I too heard of Asus problems a few years ago through friends. I have tended to avoid Asus but mainly through my long association with Abit.
I am sure that they are on par nowadays.
 
I've not had many of either but have been luck enough to not have a single failure. Used to have a P4800E Deluxe, then a Gigabyte P965, currently have a P5Q Deluxe and am currently thinking of getting an X58A-UD5 (think that's what it's called?)
 
So, I'm probably biased, but I have honestly had good experiences with ASUS and Gigabyte boards.

Currently running an engineering sample of the P6T Deluxe, which is still rock solid.
 
Had the same P7P55D for about 9 months now, no issues at all so far. Although I've had Gigabyte in the past and that was also rock solid. However I'd certainly rather go Asus if I was upgrading again simply because I've had good experiences with both, but I tend to much prefer the looks of the Asus boards.
 
Personally ive stuck with asus as i like their bios layout, seems less cluttered. Plus the pcie slot spacing on asus boards is a lot beter, handy for me as im running two gpu's and a pcie soundcard. Also the colour schemes on their boards are a bit less garish, albeit ive seen some of the new gigabytes and they do look very nice indeed.
 
The only board I've ever had fail on me was a...........




wait for it.......



Gigabyte

That said, I think its all down to luck
 
I have had many different motherboards, both for my own use and for the builds that I do. Every manufacturer will have boards that slip through the quality control process. So board that die on customers are not as common as they were say ten years ago. That being said I have had Asus boards that fail, EVGA boards that fail, DFi boards, Gigabyte boards, or OEM brands like ECS and Foxconn and every other manufacture out there past and present at some time or other I have had one of their motherboards fail. But what keeps me going back to Gigabyte time and time again is the outstanding RMA service I get from Gigabyte UK. And if you are in the PC building industry after sales service is pretty important to you. ;)

Asus and Giagbyte are the big two mainstream motherboard manufactures right now, and at the end of the day the differences between the boards are so slight as to not matter at all. BIOS are different but do the same thing in pretty much the same way. Most of my builds that I do for customers comes down to feature set versus price. Currently that means I am selling more Gigabyte based systems. And as I said because of the very good after sales service I have had in the past that is good for the support that I include with the builds.
 
Quality wise I think they are about the same.

I've used both without any major problems so I haven't had a chance to test their rma services but it sounds like Gigabyte has the better rep. I'd give the edge to Asus on aesthetics though. :)
 
Just bought a second hand UD5 from a bloke on that well known auction site, knowing that the primary PCI-Express slot was dead but the rest worked fine. It arrived this morning and I immediately saw that several pins on the CPU socket were bent way out of shape and there was the end of some cable jammed and stuck into the 1st USB header... dunno what the hell this guy managed to do with this board but it was butchered to bits... got a refund of course. Live and learn I guess!

But, erm.. yeh. Got several GB boards here. Never had an issue with them at all on their own, only in conjunction with some SSDs.
 
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