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Gigabyte Aorus Master 5090 Teardown and PCB Pics

This isn't surprising, Gigabyte cards are IMO bottom of the barrel quality wise and looks wise. Who wants RGB's on the fan blades when they cause all kinds of noise and quality issues!

MSI, Asus are the top tier, with Zotac, Palit and others closely behind. IMO at least!
 
Dave2150 said:
This isn't surprising, Gigabyte cards are IMO bottom of the barrel quality wise and looks wise. Who wants RGB's on the fan blades when they cause all kinds of noise and quality issues!

MSI, Asus are the top tier, with Zotac, Palit and others closely behind. IMO at least!
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What about XFX? No issue with mine
 
Very disappointing to see, especially with the scratches on the card. Glad I went for the Suprim this time. I had the 4090 and had no issues with it to be fair.
 
Dave2150 said:
This isn't surprising, Gigabyte cards are IMO bottom of the barrel quality wise and looks wise. Who wants RGB's on the fan blades when they cause all kinds of noise and quality issues!

MSI, Asus are the top tier, with Zotac, Palit and others closely behind. IMO at least!
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Gigabyte is a mixed one for quality in my experience - I've some well made Gigabyte products but they've also made some trash products and globally they have a worse reputation than here in the UK. I've several Aorus Master and Gaming OC products which are well designed and well built.

I've seen all kinds of quality issues with Asus definitely wouldn't class them top tier even though they like to sell themselves that way - I've seen multiple instances of Asus cards with scratches and the like from the factory, last minute bodge fixes and even incorrect components.
 
Dave2150 said:
This isn't surprising, Gigabyte cards are IMO bottom of the barrel quality wise and looks wise. Who wants RGB's on the fan blades when they cause all kinds of noise and quality issues!

MSI, Asus are the top tier, with Zotac, Palit and others closely behind. IMO at least!
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Agree I don’t buy gigabyte stuff if I can help it


PSU’s that blow up
faulty wire sockets on there 2080ti if I remember correctly
Fans problems on one of there gpu’s
My own gigabyte z87 MB I had the network ports didn’t work
 
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hornetstinger said:
They typically have a warranty void sticker, and taking apart a GPU is doing just that. How do they know you didn't snap off a component or applied to much force on a bolt? Or forget to apply compound?
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Such stickers are legally unenforcable.

Nitefly said:
As for the external scratches, it’s worth checking there isn’t some plastic on there that you can peel off. My case seemed to have scratched on the glass panel but it was protected by plastic, all good once removed.
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Nope, this is after the peel.
 
kindai said:
Such stickers are legally unenforcable.



Nope, this is after the peel.
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legally unenforcable in the US not UK, gigbyte will just flag it as user induced damage if it ever needs to go back if they even look past the removed sticker
 
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chaparral said:
Agree I don’t buy gigabyte stuff if I can help it


PSU’s that blow up
faulty wire sockets on there 2080ti if I remember correctly
Fans problems on one of there gpu’s
My own gigabyte z87 MB I had the network ports didn’t work
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Only good piece of Gigabyte kit I've ever had was an Osmium keyboard bought in 2013. It was so good and lasted so long that I kept going back to Gigabyte for a long time, even after so many other purchases breaking.

They don't deserve their spot on the pricing pyramid, for sure.
 
Excellent post. I'm not getting a Gigabyte 5090, so it makes no difference to me. However, I find posts like this fascinating.

With regards to Gigabyte UK RMA. I've RMA'd a card that I took apart, repalced all the thermal pads with better ones (different colour too) and placed thermal pads on the back of the PCB between the backplate. I didn't replace the sticker either. They never mentioned it. The overall impact of that on my Xtreme 3080 was a 25c drop in mem temps and 10c drop in core.

I definitely recommend you place some pads on the back of the vram chips, to use the backplate.
 
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I've had plenty of Gigabyte motherboards and GPU's over the years, most have been excellent and the only time I ever had to RMA anything (a good few years back, granted) it was straightforward and easy.

That said, for a 5090 that's very poor on their behalf, especially given it's one of the more "premium" models in the stack.

All companies have good and bad products, brand loyalty is a mugs game. Asus have released just as bad if not worse in the past, yet people still pay the tax.
 
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