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Gigabyte Motherboards

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jabjab90301

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What is the deal with Gigabyte motherboards? I have been considering buying a mAtx board for a HTPC AMD build and the reviews for all are horrible on Newegg and Amazon. A lot of died in three months to a year. Is there QC that bad?
 
As someone who owned 5 motherboards from gigabyte I can say go for msi, asrock or asus they are much better in everything. The easy tune program is a bogus piece of junk and the budget boards are stripped of features much more than on other brands. However I am referring to sandy bridge and older boards so they maybe are better now.
 
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I can recommend this Gigabyte mATX Intel Z170 board:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128844
As long as you stay with a board which includes Realtek ALC1150 audio, the otherwise quality should also be good enough for long-term problem-free operation. I prefer Intel CPU's, but I'm fairly confident that an AMD board with ALC1150 audio would also be reliable.
 
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All manufacturers have a board that has more bad reviews than good. It's called a dud, and Asus, Asrock, Gigabyte, MSI, EVGA, ECS, and Biostar all have them.

Bad design, unstable BIOS, and reliability issues are not a Gigabyte exclusive.
 
Never had a problem with gigabyte boards. My old DS3 board from 2006 is still running solid 10 years later.

got a z170-hd3p for my 6700k, and runs solid with no problems.
 
brands can sometimes just have a very wonky year but this my older gigabyte experience(no overclocking/desktop/medium gaming PC).

GA-H77-DS3H (Intel® H77 Express)-i5 3450 - very stable since mid 2012
GA-P55A-UD3 (Intel® P55)-i5-750-mid 2010 - never 100% (±90% stable) , very very iffy with memory, once every few months a bluescreen (tbh it might not even be the motherboard),
GA-P35C-DS3R (intel P35)- Core duo E8400- very stable since 2008


So 2/3 very good results, sometimes i wonder getting asus next , but they always end up more expensive.


 
Had no problems with Gigabyte motherboards, but tons with MSI recently..
I guess sometimes is bad luck..
 
jabjab90301 said:
What is the deal with Gigabyte motherboards? I have been considering buying a mAtx board for a HTPC AMD build and the reviews for all are horrible on Newegg and Amazon. A lot of died in three months to a year. Is there QC that bad?
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Why AMD HTPC? The GTX 950 is one of the few GPUs that has proper HEVC and VP9 decoding support.
 
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Why AMD HTPC? The GTX 950 is one of the few GPUs that has proper HEVC and VP9 decoding support.
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I have a GTX970 in my HTPC and it's caused me some (albeitedly niche) problems.

About 2/3 of the time it wont acknowledge that my projector has 23, 24, or 25hz refresh at 1080p resolution. Only 60 and 59hz are available. I have to reboot it several times until they show up in the list.

Also, it doesn't support 88.2khz audio output so I have to resample that to 96khz.

HEVC/VP9 hardware decode are unimportant to me since I do software decode via LAV filters.

I wish I'd gotten another AMD card since I haven't had those issues with their cards.
 
cyclohexane said:
Never had a problem with gigabyte boards. My old DS3 board from 2006 is still running solid 10 years later.
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My anecdotal evidence is 50/50 with Gigabyte.

I have a GA-EX38-DS4 still running strong with a Xeon E3110 sporting a 20% overclock. It has been a model example of reliability since March 2008.

On the other hand, the GA-990FXA-UD3 worked fine until I tried to overclock an FX-8350 a couple hundred megaherz. That revealed how Gigabyte skimped on the power stage on this board and it blew up in a matter of hours.

It really varies from board to board. Any manufacturer can do things properly or skimp from board to board in their lineup.
 
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They had some of the best x58 boards.
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I agree but their Revision 2 boards from the X58A series and their introduction of UD9 in their X58A lineup really was confusing especially since they cut-corners by downgrading their phases and also making the UD7 no longer the flagship and making the Rev.2 UD5/UD7 practically identical.

They make good motherboards overall but they seem to lack in features and innovation compared to ASUS (such as USB Flashback, Q-Connectors, etc...). Reliability and stability is just as good for them.
 
Whenever I had a problem with a Gigabyte board, or with any board, it was because I broke it. All my boards have been flawless, excluding one, which is obviously the broken one.
 
Well, over the last 10 years or so I've owned Asus, Gigabyte, AsRock and MSI, and only ever had a problem with 1 Asus z87 unit that died on me all of a sudden. I bought it used and used it for ~2yrs, so I was way out of warranty and just replaced it.

More recently I have built multiple rigs for my family and clients, with a variety of the above boards and haven't had any problems at all.

The last 2 rigs I built (Aug '15) were a z97 MSI for my son's beginner gaming rig, and my higher-end Skylake machine (Jan '16) with a Gigabyte Gaming 7 ....both of which were purchased new and continue to run rock solid just like on day 1.
 
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