Is Gigabyte poor quality?

Wynthorpe · 22 Oct 2010 at 08:34

MikeHunt79 said:
To all those who have experienced issues with ram on gigabyte boards, how did you fix it? Since I've gone from 2gb to 4th I can no longer overclock

Reseat cpu and cooler! I had a proble with 6gb on the X58-USB3.

koolpc · 22 Oct 2010 at 18:18

Really like Gigabyte boards. Well made.

JimAroo · 22 Oct 2010 at 19:57

Always preferred Gigabyte boards, got my first Gigabyte board 5/6 years ago from OcUK. It's still going strong to this day, only cost £30 as well.

If that doesn't say they are well made, I don't know what does.

Reality|Bites · 22 Oct 2010 at 22:10

Reality|Bites said:
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.

oh well just had to put the x48 ds5 back in lol, i've been having cold boot problems with the P5Q all week and today if just refused to post after lots of effort. I'll try to send it back for a refund, piece of junk, the Asus forums are littered with the same complaint. one of the Mods of there, "Bongo" I think, just keeps trying to blame other hardware and not being very helpful. Funny how everything works fine with the DS5.

reilly · 23 Oct 2010 at 17:36

I have had gigabyte and asus boards, both as good as each other. I do not have a fan controller so I do like Asus Q fan which I don't think gigabyte have a similar system. Overall I have a gigabyte Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L in my home server and an Asus P7P55D-E in my desktop and both are good for what I want them for.

with the millions of motherboards each company produces you're bound to have a couple faulty items or incompatible hardware due to the thousands of brands and combinations of tech on offer.