Is this Motherboard good?

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Hello Everyone

I was thinking of buying this motherboard today and just wanted a final 'OK' before I bought it. I was originally going to buy an Asus Mobo but I was told by several people that they can be a bit unreliable and their customer support isn't great.

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I would always pick a Gigabyte board over an Asus but Asus is still a good brand to go with. Just my personal preference though.
 
Gigabyte is great overclock and very stable. I have Gigabyte H55-USB3 and it is really good. No crash when fully load RAM or CPU.

One time my motherboard had died but it is live again by auto recovery BIOS. DualBIOS is pretty good and it would save you from RMA any motherboard. One is main BIOS and other one is Backup BIOS.
 
yeah that is a good board.

I don't see why people say Asus are unreliable, because they are good boards. Maybe they just had bad expierence's with 1 or 2 boards, so that makes them unreliable.
 
johnb35 said:
I would always pick a Gigabyte board over an Asus but Asus is still a good brand to go with. Just my personal preference though.
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I prefer Gigabyte's Z77 boards, but the ASUS boards are fine. I have an ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 - awesome board! :D And the one I had before it which was a P7P55D-E, was one of my most favourite boards I've ever owned. :)

Raz3rD said:
I don't see why people say Asus are unreliable, because they are good boards. Maybe they just had bad expierence's with 1 or 2 boards, so that makes them unreliable.
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+1 I don't get why people are always bad mouthing them. I've used several ASUS boards in my life and all have been fine.
 
Raz3rD said:
yeah that is a good board.

I don't see why people say Asus are unreliable, because they are good boards. Maybe they just had bad expierence's with 1 or 2 boards, so that makes them unreliable.
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vistakid10 said:
+1 I don't get why people are always bad mouthing them. I've used several ASUS boards in my life and all have been fine.
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When i was young. I had heard ASUS have problem motherboard but they improve motherboard. They also have problem with older laptop, desktop and DVD drive. But it getting better. I have newest ASUS DVD burner, Blu ray ROM and monitor they're pretty good.

S3AnD3 said:
Thanks everyone. I just purchased the board that I linked. :D
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Have fun with your best friend Gigabyte :D
 
I wasn't bad mouthing them, I've had to rma one board while in warranty period and was having an issue with another board I had for my son. Ended up building him a new system anyway. Asus still makes a good board but I would rather use Gigabyte everytime. In fact, I had to use an Asus board a earlier this year because I had to do a budget build and Gigabyte didn't have an IDE port on the board we needed and Asus did.
 
johnb35 said:
I wasn't bad mouthing them, I've had to rma one board while in warranty period and was having an issue with another board I had for my son. Ended up building him a new system anyway. Asus still makes a good board but I would rather use Gigabyte everytime. In fact, I had to use an Asus board a earlier this year because I had to do a budget build and Gigabyte didn't have an IDE port on the board we needed and Asus did.
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My Gigabyte H55-USB3 have IDE as well. You're lucky that you don't get gigabyte motherboard from ten years ago. They used to have problem with BIOS, port, DualBIOS and etc but they're improve a lot. That's because Gigabyte see problem, they fixed it.
 
Jamebonds1 said:
My Gigabyte H55-USB3 have IDE as well. You're lucky that you don't get gigabyte motherboard from ten years ago. They used to have problem with BIOS, port, DualBIOS and etc but they're improve a lot. That's because Gigabyte see problem, they fixed it.
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I have GA-K8VT800(PRO) in my old Athlon 64 rig. It's from 2003 and it's not a great board. BIOS takes forever to load and as there are two of them to load it takes a long time too. SATA RAID doesn't work either not even with the driver which Gigabyte supply on their website. :/

They have improved a lot since 2003 though, their boards are very good now. :)

Anyway, the guy's got his board now. :)
 
vistakid10 said:
I have GA-K8VT800(PRO) in my old Athlon 64 rig. It's from 2003 and it's not a great board. BIOS takes forever to load and as there are two of them to load it takes a long time too. SATA RAID doesn't work either not even with the driver which Gigabyte supply on their website. :/

They have improved a lot since 2003 though, their boards are very good now. :)

Anyway, the guy's got his board now. :)
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That's true. Gigabyte is geek's best friend :) Lol.
 
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