• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Gigabyte GPU's - poor QC, or bad luck?

wunkley

wunkley

wunkley

Soldato
Joined
27 Jul 2004
Posts
3,878
Location
Yancashire
What's the deal with Gigabyte? A very quick potted history of mine:

Gigabyte GTX 670: Brand new, faulty on purchase with major graphical corruption when stressed under load. Returned to retailer, sent to Gigagbyte for repair. Still faulty after 'repair'! Lengthy protracted argument with retailer (not ocuk), got refund in end.

Gigabyte Titan X: Brand new, bought release day. Faulty on receipt with constant lock ups in many games. Confirmed via testing with other cards not a system fault. Suspected voltage fault on card after some investigations. Returned to retailer, got full refund.

Gigabyte 980Ti Wateforce Extreme: Brand new, recent purchase to SLI with my other AIO cooled 980ti. Terrible, constant noise from the pump head on the card like a scratching, grinding mechanical hard disk. Returned to retailer, got full refund.

(Also, not a GPU but the only faulty motherboard I've ever had, was a Gigabyte)

Are Gigabyte branded GPU's not tested and checked like other brands are?
Or, is this just incredibly bad luck?

Needless to say I will now never buy another Gigabyte graphics card.
 
The only GPUs ive had from gigabyte were 2 560ti to be SLI'd and they both had a bios bug resulting in to little volt when cards were under load which meant crashes and whatnot. Also had a gigabyte x58 motherboard that was fine for the first year and then decided to **** on me. Havent really touched gigabyte since.
 
I've not had the best of luck with GB unfortunately. 780Ti decided to lunch itself mid BF4 session, it was repaired under RMA and GB wouldn't tell me what was fixed as it was "company confidential". The repaired card died in the same way.

They then begrudgingly offered to fix it again after citing my machine being at fault, which I rejected and had to get the forum rep and head of UK sales involved to get the card replaced as I had no faith the card wouldn't croak again in the same violent manner (magic smoke).

Got a 980 as a replacement which touch wood has been AOK, which I guess means my machine is OK too. ;)
 
So far I've had good results with Gigabyte GPUs - over the last few years I've used their hardware extensively in multiple builds with very little in the way of problems for the most part - sadly of late though things seem to be on a bit of a downward trend i.e. their budget motherboards like the UD3 used to be pretty much the same high quality as their high end parts just cut down and less features - now their budget boards are very much budget boards like everyone else with lower quality power circuitry, cheaper capacitors, cheaper heatsinks, etc. :(

There is an issue with them though in that what we see in the UK is very much not a reflection of how they are perceived in some other regions (take a look at comments sections/hardware forums from various different parts of the world) - and when batches get redirected to the UK originally intended for elsewhere you not infrequently get some pretty shoddy cards :|

Hope they reverse the trend of late as they've been by far my favourite brand over the last few years.
 
Last edited:
Never had an issue, my TX is pretty low ASIC but will still do 1500/2000.

In future though I'll probably be going EVGA, ASUS isn't too bad now either with OCUK handling returns, as long as it doesn't have the ASUS tax applied like some of their products.

ASUS are actually my favourite manufacturer for motherboards.
 
It is incredibly bad luck as obviously a company with a very high return rate would quickly go out of business... however its not at all surprising after all that that you would not want to risk another

I have a similar feeling towards gainward / palit cards for exactly the same reason
 
I should add, apart from gigabyte I've been through quite a lot of graphics cards in the last 15 years, including evga, inno3d, palit, MSI, sapphire, Galaxy, and more that I can't recall. The only ones that have ever had issues have been gigabyte as described in my first post.

You can only go from what you know, so from my personal experience I wouldn't touch another gigabyte GPU with your mums barge pole.
 
Last edited:
Its a funny one - I've used a fair few palit and sparkle cards in cheaper builds and never had a failure that I'm aware of, EVGA have largely been pretty solid in my experience but Asus and MSI cards I've not had much joy with in general. Whereas for other people it can be completely the other way around.
 
My last 3 cards have all been gigabyte and had all 3 fail within 10 months always fan related but decent customer service through ocuk. This time Asus or EVGA
 
Owned quite a few gigabyte cards in recent years.

X2 windforce 460
X2 gtx 470
X2 windforce gtx 670
X2 windforce gtx 780

All but one of the 670's were bought second hand but all cards worked flawlessly.
 
andybird123 said:
If they were 2nd hand they were effectively QC'd by the previous owner :D
Click to expand...

True, but a few of them I bought when they were a fair age. And tbh, they got a fair bit of ragging when I got them, particularly the 470's as they were monster clockers. All of them sold on and working great once I got my use out of them.:)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom