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I see a lot of Gigabyte Bashing on here... I've not had any big issue with 2x X370 K7's with 1800X chips using b-die, this is infact an 'overclocking forum' and as such I would expect a good portion of people to know what they are doing with equipment. I'm tunning F31 Now and am having a very good response to memory with less voltage needed for the CPU as well.
Much Asus Shilling :rolleyes:
 
This was a good board too.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_990FX/

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Reason why the crosshair is so well revered is because of the 350 bus speed it could accomplish whereas others struggled to clock it at 250.

A shame AM3 had no exclusive CPU's and was ditched for AM3+ for bulldozer to die on.
 
Davedree said:
It was one of yes, but unacceptable for a board that expensive to encounter such a fault.
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A lot of the cost of Asus boards is in the name/branding - even on their expensive boards/products I've encountered premature part degradation far too often and they will happily replace a brand new expensive "premium" product with shoddy refurbs that probably do the rounds until some unlucky customer gives up and just accepts it.
 
Rroff said:
A lot of the cost of Asus boards is in the name/branding - even on their expensive boards/products I've encountered premature part degradation far too often and they will happily replace a brand new expensive "premium" product with shoddy refurbs that probably do the rounds until some unlucky customer gives up and just accepts it.
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I agree they rely on the branding too much,
A latest example is the V56/V64 strix terrible heatsink and throttling, no effort to tune the bios -p-states whilst £80+ more than other manufacturers.
I've had a few asus boards, the A8n32 sli a couple of other cheaper matx socket 939 boards. The m5a97 evo was good too, my last Asus board I bought was the Am1 itx for my x4 5370, that was the best Am1 board you could get unfortunately the 1st one popped on first startup, but the replacement was a beaut.
 
/offtopic In the days of ABIT and Supermicro, I would not touch ASUS. I had a ping pong match with them and OCUK over a router that died within its 3 year warranty but so far my various M5A99 / 97 and Crosshairs have been fault free.
 
nkata said:
/offtopic In the days of ABIT and Supermicro, I would not touch ASUS.
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I've had bad experiences with MSI and Asus. Not had a Asrock board fail yet. Last Gigabyte board I had was for AthlonXP...

Supermicro do have a range of boards for consumer Intel chips, and for me they've always been excellent, they even have a gaming line of boards with reasonable overclocking options. No AM4 or TR4 boards yet though unfortunately! Would love an AM4 workstation focused board to become available - only AsrockRack X470D4U has been released in this category so far... Hopefully Zen2 will encourage more profesional type boards to appear
 
Ad_Augendae said:
I see a lot of Gigabyte Bashing on here... I've not had any big issue with 2x X370 K7's with 1800X chips using b-die, this is infact an 'overclocking forum' and as such I would expect a good portion of people to know what they are doing with equipment. I'm tunning F31 Now and am having a very good response to memory with less voltage needed for the CPU as well.
Much Asus Shilling :rolleyes:
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Out of all the motherboards I've owned over the years flaky Gigabyte bios is a pain in the **** and getting next to no support from Gigabyte as the only fix was to swap out the motherboard which they refused I had to shift through endless comments of **** on the internet saying exactly what you've said. It's amazing how all the problems I was having went away when the gigabyte board was swapped out for an asus one.

What really ***** me off is that someone started a thread on here with a Gigabyte problem and was able to get a RMA with no reciept/proof of purchase which is great that I purchase a companys products and basically get told to go do one while people who could've got the item from anywhere get the support.
 
Wingz said:
the new gigabyte bios added the option to enable PCIe 4.0 on the x470 board.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-amd-ryzen-3000-pcie-4.0-x470,39377.html
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Some guy on gigabyte forum says he is using F40 on a B350 board with Pcie4 option.
What that means I is hard to tell atm.
http://forum.gigabyte.us/thread/1542/original-am4-beta-BIOS-thread?page=169

G J said:
Out of all the motherboards I've owned over the years flaky Gigabyte bios is a pain in the **** and getting next to no support from Gigabyte as the only fi.x was to swap out the motherboard which they refused I had to shift through endless comments of **** on the internet saying exactly what you've said. It's amazing how all the problems I was having went away when the gigabyte board was swapped out for an asus one.

What really ***** me off is that someone started a thread on here with a Gigabyte problem and was able to get a RMA with no reciept/proof of purchase which is great that I purchase a companys products and basically get told to go do one while people who could've got the item from anywhere get the support.
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I see a lot of people saying that they have had problems with the boards, I can only tell you that my 2 boards have been very good after 2 weeks of testing and tunning, from cold boot problems to sleep issues all had to be ironed out by trying various settings. Was it easy to get them working as I wanted them NO-no It wasn't. Sorry to hear you've had a bad experience by the way.

LePhuronn said:
You need to brush up on your comprehension skills then, sunshine.
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Oh OK dude :rolleyes:
 
Come to think of it, I think I had endless bootloop issues with a board manufacturer. I eventually got a refurb item from them but was to reluctant to sell on as I didn't want the new buyer to have the same issues. I ended up going with a different manufacturer when it got sent in.
 
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