Gigabyte Vs. Asus

[fr4gm0nk3y]

Which company have you had better experiences with in general? / Which do you think higher of.

 

[Kromis]

For some reason, I like to judge brands by their box art. Gigabyte has ugly box art but Asus on the otherhand...their motherboard boxes look cool.

 

[tallman45]

Been using both maybe 2 or 3 dozen builds from each over the past 3 or 4 years.

I am still running a Gigabyte MB with 1066 Rambus, it runs 24 x 7 and has never failed once in well over 3 years.

Likewise an Asus A8V is running 24 x 7 at the machine shop in the most adverse conditions and that has never failed

You would not go wrong with either one.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

I have used both very recently. My current rig has an A8N32-SLi Deluxe (used to have an A8N Sli Premium in it) and before that a Gigabyte Nforce3 motherboard and before that a Gigabyte Nforce2 motherboard. The Gigabyte boards have given me the LEAST trouble by far. Asus boards are a little tricky with extra options like PEG Link mode that can cause errors or boost performance very slightly. Also weird issues with NVidia IDE drivers (SLI Delux) or VCores that bounce around like no tomorrow (SLI Premium). I would take a Gigabyte board over an ASUS board nowadays. My Nforce3 board is still running beautifully in my file server with all sorts of PCI-IDE adaptors for more hard drives. You might also want to look into some other companies like DFI or possibly MSI.

 

[Talcite]

Considering they just merged... I don't think there's going to be too much difference in the future

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Talcite
Considering they just merged... I don't think there's going to be too much difference in the future

They didn't merge, they are doing a joint venture..big differance.

Anyway, I've had better luck overclocking with Asus boards, but never had any major issues with either Asus or Gigabyte. My gigabyte 8Ik1100 was one of my favorite boards, even though it didn't OC as well as my P4P800.

 

[gobucks]

my gigabyte DS3 is friggin awesome. that's the only experience i've had though. Asus boards are nice but kinda pricey.

 

[fr4gm0nk3y]

thanks for the input guys, however it would be preferable if you had experience with both companies

 

[JPB]

I have used both Asus and Gigabyte. The Gigabyte is still going strong in my dads computer and the board was purchased 4 years ago. Asus on the other hand, Used one of those for a few years, at least till I bought my current Abit board. However, I just purchased a A8R32-MVP Deluxe. So...I would say either one like everyone else has said. But if I had to choose, I would choose Asus...as I just did.

 

[Madellga]

I had experience with both companies. I've built many rigs in the last years, using Gigabyte, MSI, Asus, DFI, Abit (more than 16 in the last 7 years).

The only brand to give me issues (in different platforms) was Asus. I can name a few issues like:
1) Mobo sudden Death without any kind of overclocking (Nforce2);
2) Cold boot issue (both Via KT333 and Nforce2 chipsets);
3) Overclock only doable by reviewers with golden samples - not for the Joe average;
4) Horrible webpage for support - slow / time out / dead links;

I had also an Asus Videocard dead on arrival. And the replacement had a noisy cooler.

I would rate something like this:
DFI>Gigabyte>Abit>MSI>>>Asus

DFI: reliable, excellent quality, highly o/c but needs lots of tweaking
Gigabyte: reliable, excellent quality, lots of goodies, good o/c but nothing special
Abit: reliable, excellent quality, good o/c
MSI: stable, good value for the money, lots of goodies, regular o/c
Asus: good reviews, normally more expensive than others, not reliable, poor quality, bad support.

There is also Epox, but my experience was a mixed bag (1 good, 1 bad).

My current rig has Gigabyte inside, my previous one was DFI and the next one will be DFI again - just waiting for a Conroe DFI lanparty mobo.