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I was trying to build a PC at work yesterday, only to have my day ruined by a dead Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5p. This is the third time I've had a Gigabyte motherboard be dead on arrival, and I'm starting to wonder if this is a little more than coincidence. Does Gigabyte have shitty quality control, or am I just exceptionally unlucky? I still hear people berating Asrock for crappy QC, but I've never had a dead Asrock board and now I've had three dead Gigabytes. Any thoughts/experiences?

      

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3 minutes ago, nj4ck said:

I was trying to build a PC at work yesterday, only to have my day ruined by a dead Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5p. This is the third time I've had a Gigabyte motherboard be dead on arrival, and I'm starting to wonder if this is a little more than coincidence. Does Gigabyte have shitty quality control, or am I just exceptionally unlucky? I still hear people berating Asrock for crappy QC, but I've never had a dead Asrock board and now I've had three dead Gigabytes. Any thoughts/experiences?

i have only used gigabyte and all of them are fine.

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Never had a bad gigabyte board. The only thing that has gone wrong is a dead cap but the board was like 7 years old and was an easy fix.

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Ive had three gigabyte-motherboards, and so far no issue whatsoever. Love them. 

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My first ever was a gigabyte, the cpu pins got bent just by removing the cover thing, i sent for RMA it wasnt my mistake but no response they just sent it back, I ended up buying another foxconn mobo

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13 minutes ago, nj4ck said:

Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5p.

Have they all been this model or different?

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I currently have 2 Gigabyte boards in house and both are running perfectly fine, one even with OC'ed CPU.

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Weird how so many people have never had an issue. I've only ever ordered 3 Gigabyte mainboards (I usually use Asus and Asrock), and all three of them were dead on arrival.

      

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I've used one Gigabyte board, the H97-WIFI in an office build for a family member. It was solid, especially considering that I forgot standoffs. Still going after about a year and a half.

 

I do however think that Gigabyte makes some of the ugliest motherboards around.

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1 minute ago, Smile said:

Have they all been this model or different?

all different. The first one was a Z87 mATX (can't remember exact model), the second one was a Z97 ATX board and now this one. 

      

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19 minutes ago, nj4ck said:

all different. The first one was a Z87 mATX (can't remember exact model), the second one was a Z97 ATX board and now this one. 

Hmm unlucky.

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25 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

I've used one Gigabyte board, the H97-WIFI in an office build for a family member. It was solid, especially considering that I forgot standoffs. Still going after about a year and a half.

 

I do however think that Gigabyte makes some of the ugliest motherboards around.

Tell that to my Z170X Gaming 7.  ?  ?

 

I think it looks sexy. lol  Works great too so far as I can tell.

 

I will admit that the Gigabyte B85M-DS3H-A in my secondary desktop does look a bit fugly.  Haven't had any trouble with that either btw.

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28 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

I do however think that Gigabyte makes some of the ugliest motherboards around.

^This.

 

So. Much. This.

 

I don't know what's wrong with them, but the vast majority of their mobos just seem so ugly to me...

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11 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Tell that to my Z170X Gaming 7.  ?  ?

 

I think it looks sexy. lol  Works great too so far as I can tell.

 

I will admit that the Gigabyte B85M-DS3H-A in my secondary desktop does look a bit fugly.  Haven't had any trouble with that either btw.

Nah, I think that board looks ugly. The glossy plastic and the garish "G1 GAMING" branding kills it for me I'm afraid.

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I am not a professional. I am not an expert. I am just a smartass. Don't try and blame me if you break something when acting upon my advice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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58 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Nah, I think that board looks ugly. The glossy plastic and the garish "G1 GAMING" branding kills it for me I'm afraid.

Why must you knock my ice cream cone out of my hand?  ?

 

What *do* you think looks good?  ? (I realize you have a right disagree but still...)

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I have an Gigabyte X99 UD3P, overall it has been pretty good but I did have some issues with it and a PS4 controller.

Basically anytime I had my PS4 controller plugged in my system would refuse to boot into windows 9 out of 10 times.

The mobo splash screen would show up but just at the moment when the mobo would transfer control from the bios to Windows the system would hang.

I tried countless troubleshooting and hardware configurations, I even replaced the CPU (5820k) and the mobo but still it would hang just before windows took over.

Once I narrowed down the issue to the PS4 controller being plugged in at startup the system has been just fine.

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6 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Why must you knock my ice cream cone out of my hand?  ?

 

What *do* you think looks good?  ? (I realize you have a right disagree but still...)

The EVGA Z170 FTW. So stealthy, so cool :P

 

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Benchmark Results: 3DMark Firestrike: 10,528 | SteamVR VR Ready (avg. quality 7.1) | VRMark 7,004 (VR Ready)

 

Other systems I've built:

Core i3-6100 | CM Hyper 212 EVO | MSI H110M ECO | Corsair Vengeance LPX 1x8GB DDR4  | ADATA SP550 120GB | Seagate 500GB | EVGA ACX 2.0 GTX 1050 Ti | Fractal Design Core 1500 | Corsair CX450M

Core i5-4590 | Intel Stock Cooler | Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI | HyperX Savage 2x4GB DDR3 | Seagate 500GB | Intel Integrated HD Graphics | Fractal Design Arc Mini R2 | be quiet! Pure Power L8 350W

 

I am not a professional. I am not an expert. I am just a smartass. Don't try and blame me if you break something when acting upon my advice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...why are you still reading this?

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1 minute ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

The EVGA Z170 FTW. So stealthy, so cool :P

 

 

So you like emo motherboards do you?  lol

 

Partly joking.  That does look cool.   Though I think some blue accents on it would make it perfect.

 

I like my Gaming 7 because the white on it goes well with the black on it.  Also the white on my mb matches the white of my NZXT Phantom 240 case and all that goes very nicely with the blue accent lighting on the mb and my case fans as well as my blue corsair RAM.  

 

Anyway, to each their own I say.  You like what you like and I like what I like and that's all matters.  ?

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