Is Gigabyte poor quality?

metalmackey

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Hi Guys,

Can you settle an argument I'm having with someone. My Gigabyte board is fine and I think the quality is quite good. Someone on here just built a PC using the same mobo as I have in my sig and they are having a couple of issues and they are saying its because the mobo is "total crap" and "bad quality". I;m not saying Gigabyte are any better or worse than any other make. I would like your honest opinions on Gigabyte one way or the other:)

Ta:)
 
Personally i think Gigabyte are second to none, but there's no mainstream motherboards you can buy really where you'd have serious quality issues.
 
Generally gigabyte boards (certainly the recent ones) have been very good - one of the most well respected brands in motherboards at the moment.

May I ask, what model of motherboard was your friend complaining about and what were his issues?
 
Same as mine, the X58A-UD3R. His issues are he says it makes a noise and that on a cold boot it has a bsod with sommit to do with memory, but is fine after a reset (I think). I told him too up the ram volts a tad to see if it makes it more stable at boot but he wont for some reason:(.
 
Gigabyte is one of the top motherboard brands at the moment but no electronics company is 100% immune to defects unfortunately.

It also sounds like your friend's problems could lie elsewhere so I wouldn't be so fast to point the finger at the motherboard yet.
 
GB are the best of the boards ive used , i used to have a p35t DQ6 ( ddr3 775) and went to a x58a ud5 , it booted straight out of the box at 200 *10 to install windows and has taken everything i have thrown at it so far , very impressed , your mates full of sh**te
 
GB Build quality is usually top notch, theres a few minor issues software wise (odd boot issues with some USB devices, etc.) but in the main very solid boards.
 
Hi Im the guy who "metalmacky" is talking about......

Basically this is the 2nd gigabyte board in a row Ive had probs with....

My last gigabyte board I had must have been back in 2005 with a fx55 cpu, and god I put up with that board for a good 3yrs and it tested my patients no end. It use to loose my floppy usb drive after loosing mains power and I would have to unplug it and plug the usb back in,, the bios settings would return to default if the mains power failed, it wouldn't run my media exernal hdd player properly and other probs like that. Then to top all that, when I upgraded to a Opteron 185, it would reset at random while downloading. ...... I got my revenge back tho,, I shorted the board out in the end. RIP YOU **** :D

The next build I did for my self used a abit ip35 pro board,, and god it was bliss coming from that gigabyte board, not 1 single prob Ive had with it from the first switch on over 2 years ago. What really impressed me was when I upgraded from 4gb to 8gb, it never threw its toys out of the pram and it was overclocked to 3.6 and I never touched the bios settings either. A few weeks ago, I decided to overclock it a bit further to 3.8 and it never grumbled or anything, cos boards dont like overclocking very far if all mem slots are use. But its been no probs at all and its been the best board Ive ever had.

I built a system for a guy a few days ago and I used the gigabyte X58A-UD3R, and the first prob I had was it wasnt detecting all 6gb of memory, but I fixed that by turning the mem off turbo. Then the following morning I booted up and while if was booting windows, it BSOD with a memory management error, so I took the memory off the XMP 1600mhz in the bios, anyway it happened again the next morning and Ive figured that it only happens if its been turned off for a good 3hrs or so and if you turn off and on the pc again it would boot fine. Ive altered a few more settings and got my fingers and toes crossed that it fixes the prob. Oh yeah the board has noise when doing certain things too.

So as you can understand guys Im getting a tad fed up with gigabyte, 2 Out of 2 gigabyte boards Ive had issues with, so is it just bad luck or am I a rubbish builder?
 
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Gigabyte and Asus are my top two choices for motherboards. I don't put one ahead of the other. Both are excellent brands. :cool:

So no I don't think Gigabyte motherboards are poor quality.
 
Gigabyte always been great for me. I did have some cold boot issues early on with my UD5, but turns out it was my noob overclocking, and once I found decent settings it has never done it again. Few points:

1. Sounds possibly like a RAM issue - what RAM you using?
2. What sort of noise are you talking about? Can't see any moving parts on that mobo that could even make a noise??
3. Are you going straight in oveclocking? What are your BIOS settings?
 
Phil if you are having weird noise issues then RMA the board mate. It might just be that you have had two boards over three or four years that are both not perfect. Gigabyte have a pretty good (possibly the best currently) RMA process so you will not be too inconvenienced.

I build heaps of systems and the fail rate is so small between the major players as to be statistically irrelevant. BUT when it happens to the same bloke twice in a row I hear what you are saying.

So no Gigabyte boards are very good quality motherboards, and so are the other top motherboard manufactures. After sales service is what separates them all now I think.
 
I have built quite a few pcs now using many different mobos and i must say that the
gigabite x58a-ud3r was well designed and the coloured bits on the board made things that little bit easyier.
When i installed the gigabyte mobo in the build i had other problems which led to me removing then reinstalling the mobo countless times and not once did the gigabyte give me any problems even though i was dealing with overclocking(i cannot say the same about other brands of mobo)


As for the problems phil has ,I too would head towards the ram as that has been tinkered with varying results which to me seems to point to the ram as the culprit.
 
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Gigabyte used to be the board of choice for stability/features over performance (and looks lol). They have upped their game now and easily compete with the likes of EVGA and Asus in the extreme performance end of the market. They have done this without losing thier reputation for making quality, solid boards imo.

Every manufacturer has it's problems and there will be the odd unfortunate who encounters more than one difficulty with a certain brand. I'm pretty sure though if you ask any stockist they would say Gigabyte is among their top selling manufacturers....for good reason.
 
I have nearly always had gigabyte boards and have to say that I have had no issues with them at all.

Currently have a ud4p in one machine and an abit ip35 in another both solid no nonesense boards that do the job well.
 
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 :(
 
Are gigabyte under the same company as foxcon?

Reason I ask is a friend of mine unboxed his new gigabyte board to find a plastic CPU socket cover stamped with 'Foxcon'.
 
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