Is Gigabyte poor quality?

metalmackey said:
I think its more likely (could be wrong though:)) that its not the amount of ram but how many slots its in. He may have 1gbx4 sticks instead of 2gbx2 sticks. Some mobos dont o/c as well with 4 ram slots used as it puts extra strain on the mobo.
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I'm using 2x2gb sticks now, but it did seem to work overclocked until recently. I'm going to try a few things like turning off speed step and see if this fixes it
 
Regarding OPS mate having a faulty board , yes in electronics manufacturing sometimes faulty stuff does get out the door and also anti-static precautions
not being followed can damage boards as well

Luck of the draw
 
No they're great, Recently frazzled my board when fixing my soundcard, Card needed reseating but didn't screw it in when I turned it on to test it was working again, so attempted screwing it in with the system on and the screw slipped lol. BIG spark and no more system. I had to buy a new motherboard, got a P5Q Deluxe, not from here as I was banned from the forum at the time by some anal mod who thought I was swearing in a post lol. I wasn't. You don't get free shipping when banned.

A few days later I decided to try and RMA the board, So sent the board back and 5 days later they had fixed a fried ITC chip and sent it back to me. Only cost me £5 postage.

Other than that it's a great stable board (see sig), Although the P5Q Deluxe does seem to have the edge on bios options and features(love quick boot) so i'll just keep the DS5 as a back up. I have no plans to upgrade my system for manys a year.

The DS5 could only manage a 511MHZ FSB while the P5Q can do 540+, still messing with it.
 
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I love my board.

Phil2008 said:
Any other things I could try to sort out the probs?
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Write to your local MP?

:p

Phil mate, I suppose you could try a process of elimination by disabling certain things, or taking everything out and then putting one thing back at a time if it's possible and booting up in between to see if you can isolate the noise and the cold boot issue. Maybe try each stick of ram separately. Check the noise isn't coming from the gpu, gpu fan, or cpu fan, or whatever. Maybe the cold booting, if not the ram, could be something to do with the nvidia drivers. Check everything is seated as good as possible.
 
Gigabyte boards are fantastic quality, I can't recommend them enough. They don't have as many feature-rich boards as ASUS though, but it really depends what you're after. I have a snazzy board to play with in my desktop machine, but my other machines (HTPC etc) all run gigabyte boards as they're so reliable.
 
I've owned three Gigabyte products in the past; two motherboards and one graphics card. The boards failed within a few months, and the graphics card was DOA. My experiences have taught me never to buy another Gigabyte product.
 
Well I dont think I will be buying another gigabyte board again.. I am just crossing everything and hope that I can fix these probs for this guy. Like it wouldnt be so bad if it was my pc, but this guy has spent over a grand, so Im quite ****ed off. But hey Ive got quite a few ideas to try before I get to the scratching of the head stage.
 
If I did another thread and swapped "gigabyte" for "asus" or any other of the top brands, I'de guess the thread would get very similar percentage for and against. As had been said before, every top brand can have issues/faulty boards.
 
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Hmmmm from what i have read im not sure its the mobo thats faulty.
But i agree that if you have built a pc for someone, he has spent a grand and its not working for whatever reason just simply rma the bits one at a time until the problem is sorted.
Sure it may take a little longer and it may cost u some money(if any parts are found to be non faulty) but in the long run the pc will finally work and im positive the guy will be pleased to have a working pc even if it takes a few weeks longer.
 
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Asus, Gigabyte, Abit, Biostar - all good boards. From personal experience, I wouldn't touch MSI or Foxconn.

Now there are only really two leaders, those being Gigabyte and Asus. Abit died because it couldn't deal with RMA issues and they had a series of faults which damaged their reputation.

EVA is coming out of nowhere fast, but with mobo's time will tell.

The design of the boards are such that if there are problems, they should have been so designed that a BIOS update should fix the problem, should is the word!

Look at the amount of extras you get with a Gigabyte board.. nothing compares with them. Also out of the 50 or so boards that we have RMA'd (and that is a tiny percentage of the systems we have built!), not once did our supplier argue or refuse to exchange. We had heaps of trouble with Asus, and Biostar was actually more reliable than them when it came to RMA's. Biostar makes superb mid-range boards for the workstation/office machines, of which we have well over the thousand still out there in the field. Their expertise is not in high-end boards, although they are starting to produce some; their market placement is high quality reliable mid-range boards, and I rate these very highly.

Gigabyte had recent issues with whining caps, and this appears to be pure luck of the draw. On my own UD3, I just clocked it some more and it went away :D
 
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