Why does Gigabyte cripple their high-end mobos?

[bigsnyder]

DS4 is probably the best you will find (unless of course you shell out for the DQ6).

 

[ZootyGray]

And this is why we all must avoid assumptions and CAREFULLY and TEDIOUSLY read mobo specs to confirm facts rather than assumptions.

The recommend to switch to abitch reminds me of my own boycott of their ripoffs. My cries for support were met with no speakada inglitch. I told them that I would tell you. Hello! I bought a product dump recommended by tomsHG.

Obviously you are seeing thru the marketing scams, and you will carefully investigate the next alt mobo as well.

Personally I hold most of them in contempt right now pending a published fix for the pathetic "pop goes the mosfet" 780G mobos. I want that board but I expect them all to blow caps within a year. Meanwhile PRODUCT DUMP TIME!!! Be wary, there's big money in silence. Won't stand the light of day - supported cpu's 0 yeh. Just oclok or upgrade and boom.

I am grateful to this site for pointing out that problem. I was designing my next pc. 🙁 Now I am shopping again.
In fact that's why I have joined Anand's forums 🙂
Brutal testing!!! 🙂 More like this.

 

[ZootyGray]

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[CreasianDevaili]

I am not going to say that your not wrong to find that this is unacceptable. I can see the contradictions made when I can clearly see the empty spot where 2 more sata ports could be on my x38-DS4.

However I wont boycott their motherboards for this reason. The x38-ds4 loves the FSB. It has all the bios features that I want. It has solid caps. I do fine with the number of SATA ports and like the E-SATA bracket. Overall a ton of things that I love on the x38-ds4.

I got it for the two pci-e 2.0 16x lanes.


Yet I can understand your observation. Since they have the expensive chip already on the board, why not add a cheap sata +2 port to make it +8 overall, making the board use the expensive assets that your paying for. It kind of looks like marketing fud, and it is. They leave one a small little cheap peice when the expensive part is already there, and up the premium alittle on the next tier with the feature grossly above the actual additional cost.

However I am not one of the big sata users. I paid the 200usd for my x38-ds4 for the pci-e 2.0, solid caps, overall quality parts, and that Gigabyte has always ran awsome for me.

In a year I might have use for 5 of the 6 sata ports. I use 2 right now. However I wouldnt have a use at all for the 8. Yet this can be costing Gigabyte sales and market shares and it should be looked at and considered.


I hope I dont come off as a "sheep" consumer. I applaud you for standing up for something that you feel is a wrong. But like how asus has made a sata bracket unusable due to running dual cards on some of their boards, I cant let this one aspect ruin my appreciation for Gigabyte putting out some awsome motherboards.

Especially because I looked and knew about the missing sata bracket on the motherboard before I bought it. What kept me from the DQ6 was the special northbridge cooling they had on it that would have caused me to do alot of work to use my own cpu cooler with a back bracket. THAT was a feature that I felt was utterly stupid in hindsight.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I guess I'm just mad because, if the board had the Jmicron SATA ports included (that I have a specific use for), then this would have been my "perfect" motherboard. I would practically worship it. But it has the nasty scar of those two missing SATA ports on it. I would form a relationship with her more beautiful sister, the DS5, but she's very "exclusive", and unavailable.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: CreasianDevaili
Especially because I looked and knew about the missing sata bracket on the motherboard before I bought it. What kept me from the DQ6 was the special northbridge cooling they had on it that would have caused me to do alot of work to use my own cpu cooler with a back bracket. THAT was a feature that I felt was utterly stupid in hindsight.

That's also why I don't want the DQ6.

 

[CreasianDevaili]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I guess I'm just mad because, if the board had the Jmicron SATA ports included (that I have a specific use for), then this would have been my "perfect" motherboard. I would practically worship it. But it has the nasty scar of those two missing SATA ports on it. I would form a relationship with her more beautiful sister, the DS5, but she's very "exclusive", and unavailable.

Unsure if they will ship it, but Austrailia mwave has the ds5 I believe. At least they had the x38-DS5 when I bought my x38-DS5 in febuary. Was helping someone is AU and saw it. Dont think they ship internationally however.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I've finally decided on a mobo for my quad-cores. DFI X48 LP LT TR2. It has two PCI-E 2.0 16x slots, all 8 SATA ports (6 ICH9R, 2 Jmicron), and a nifty cooling tower for the northbridge heatsink. Cost: $250.