In short: f**k Gigabyte. In longer, more eloquent form: f**k Gigabyte and their inability to build a single goddamned motherboard that doesn't die in a year and take other parts of your system with it. Seriously, I've had a bad Asus board, MSI board, AsRock board, all of that, but my failure rate on Gigabyte shit is so much higher than anything this side of ECS and Biostar. The latest adventure is a B450 Aorus M that killed a WD Black M.2 drive, a Samsung 850 Pro 512GB and a Seagate 1TB laptop HDD, all in the space of one day because fuck Gigabyte, that's why.
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Big oof. My last best hope is maybe to update firmware and pray that that’s all the board fucked up. Could RMA the Pro, but the Seagate’s an old laptop pull and the label was pulled off of the Black to install a heatsink.
Seriously, fuck Gigabyte. I am so tired of their shit breaking and taking my shit with it, and I don’t say that lightly. My favorite board ever, the best overclocker I’ve had the joy of using, was a GA-Z97M Gaming-5. 4.8 GHz at 1.275v on my old 4790K. And I had to dispose of it two years after buying it because a VRM went and it deep fried my 4790K while I was at the grocery store.
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I didn't know it was the board, of course. The sequence of events was such that the natural assumption would have been PSU, and I didn't realize until after testing the PSU on a different junker board I keep around for just such an occasion that it wasn't the PSU. That kind of left the board. This board was bought over a year ago, and I haven't bought anything first-hand from Gigabyte since. After this, I don't intend to do so again.
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