Reliability of Asus vs Gigabyte

I've gone P6T Deluxe > Biostar X58 > X58 UD5.

To be honest I'm not very impressed with the UD5, the voltage droop is horrific compared to both the Asus/Biostar, even with Loadline Calibration enabled it's worse than the other two put together. :(

Regarding support I can't say as I've not used either.
 
V4nger said:
Umm this is probably a dumb question but I'm relatively new to the computer world. I've seen people say RMA but I don't know what it is. Probs being stupid here and it's something I've know but forgotten.
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Return merchandise authorisation afaik.

allows you to return possible faulty goods for repair/exchange/refund etc.

Mark
 
Gigabyte gets my vote, even though I am selling my UD5!!

I will still have the missus's UD5 to tinker with though so its all good. :)
 
Ive never owned a gigabyte, but ive heard their support is better, asus are overhauling this side of things, not that i want to ever experience it first hand, my last and current boards have been asus (s775 p5q deluxe and p6t deluxe v2), never had any issues with either.
 
Only had experience with asus and have not had to use their support services. My last 3 mobos have all been from asus and I have not had any problems hence me buying more boards. My current mobo is my favourite of the lot being easy to use, having good features and good overclocking.
 
only ever owned/recomended asus boards (8 years, about 15-20 builds) except twice -once when i got someone an abit p35 and once got an asrock jobby for a pc. Issues have occured with the abit, and it didnt like the corsair RAM i had, out of the box at least. Had my first ever board fail, after about 3-4 years of being OC'd 24/7 for that whole time. Dont remember having other boards fail, and none of the people I have built pc's for have mentioned that they needed to replace a board etc.

Never liked Gigabyte, because of, errr, some silly reason i had back in the day that i cant remember. Now I have brand loyalty to Asus, although.....****s with their stupid "fusion" cooling system on my current striker II extreme....it can **** right off, and as such my next board I am not going to exclusively look at asus boards.
 
V4nger said:
explanation would be useful!
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No problem.

I've had 3 Asus motherboards die over the years, both in and out of warranty. RMA'ing my Asus P5B turned out to be a nightmare...

I have 3 Gigabyte motherboards (1 is 10 years old!) still going strong to this day, plus they seem to have better build quality than Asus boards too. My only gripe is that the early BIOS' can sometimes be a little buggy...

So, in my experience, Gigabyte > DFI > Asus > MSI > El cheapo boards. :)
 
I used Asus for 4 of my latest builds (not all for me) as I thought they were really reliable and pretty good value for money.

However, 2 have failed; one completely (Crosshair II Formula) and the onboard sound on the other (M2N SLI) has gone.

Must say though, I got RMAs for both, but that was from the retailer.

I have switched to Gigabyte and I hope to have a better experience!
 
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Going by experience, at work we have about 600 pcs, about 55% Asus boards and a lot made by Pegatron, which i believe is an Asus OEM company but is going to split off on their own soon. The older Asus boards with PIV 3GHz LGA and early Core 2 E6400 are fine (we have about 200). However in the last 2 years we've had a massive amount of random failures with the Asus branded OEM boards we got with E8200 era cpus, 13 died so far with some students reporting a burning smell and then shutdown, all components survived except the motherboard. The pegatron boards are a mix of T5800 and T5750 cpus with So-Dimm memory, incredibly high rate of network issues and about 11 of 30 being replaced under warranty due to a totally dead LAN controller (intel 965 gigabit LAN).
The other boards we use are Gigabyte, Aopen and Intel, odd failure now and then but like 3 or 4 overall among all the brands.
 
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MikeHunt79 said:
DFI tend to make bleeding edge boards, very fast and overclockable, but not too reliable (in my experience).
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I'm sure a part of you wants one for this reason. I certainly do. Not a good plan for a workstation though :(

In fairness to Asus they seem to be making progress with their rma system. OcUK is making the occasional guarded comment saying they're having far fewer problems than before and -VK- is working hard at sorting out the ones that slipped through the net.
 
You'll also see a few positive comments about our RMA service have appeared over the last few days - Progress is definitely being made. :)
 
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