Why so few Gigabyte X79 mobo's listed @ retail?

[3DVagabond]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had heard of issues with Gigabyte X79 motherboards? You go to Gigabyte and they list 9 models. Try finding them for sale anywhere though? Newegg lists 2, and they are the cheaper models only.

So, I was wondering if anyone had heard of issues with them that Gigabyte might have pulled most of them from retail?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Probably because X79 was kind of outdated even back when it launched in 2011, and is about to be replaced by X99 here in a few months.

Plus, ASUS dominated X79 pretty hard; if you look at all the other options its not like the other companies have many more choices than Gigabyte. MSI and EVGA only have 1 unique model in stock, ASRock only has 3 models...its really only ASUS that has a healthy amount of choice for X79.