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    Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    It managed more shipments in a disappointing quarter for all vendors.
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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    Well for many years I've only bought Gigabyte as IMO they are reliable boards and some get so old (when upgrading over time)..........I throw them away. So maybe others agree with me and more people buy them over other makes.
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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    Same here. I have got very familiar with their BIOS (Please forget their 3D interface which wouldn't work with a wireless mouse) and all have been very reliable.

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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    Mine puts out a lot of coil whine and loses power during stress testing at 3.2GHz (from 2.66GHz stock) but other than that it's been running happily for over five years. Had great experiences with MSI too.

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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    Sounds about right. I almost always use Gigabyte mobos for my builds. MSI for laptops though

    Whatever happened with the 'issue' of releasing higher-spec'd versions of their products for reviewers or down-spec'ing later revisions?

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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    Quote Originally Posted by LeetyMcLeet View Post
    Whatever happened with the 'issue' of releasing higher-spec'd versions of their products for reviewers or down-spec'ing later revisions?
    Last I heard was Guru3D's report that was 4 months ago now - http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/gig...n-too-far.html

    It's a difficult thing to investigate unless a publication, or individual, is willing to buy new retail boards themselves and compare to old press/retail samples, if they can even find them. I'd definitely be interested in seeing more though -a roundup of all motherboard vendors and what kind of changes different revisions entail would be a great read.

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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    No point for people with Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge based systems to even think of going to Haswell or the refesh ranges. The performance gains do not justify the outlay so many people are awaiting the next releases from Intel to upgrade.

    Watch the sales figures surge once there is a justifiable reason to upgrade and not performance which can easily be given simply by overclocking graphics cards

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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    I never look at any other brand when building systems unless there is price strain. Gigabyte seems to back their reliability with price, so theres always cheaper options even from Asustek.

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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    I've moved back to ASUS for builds, primarily due to their awesome fan profiles.

    Let's face it, what else separates the top tier brands? They all overclock to roughly similar levels with the same CPU, the general options are fairly similar and reliability is generally a nonissue now.

    ASUS made strong strides with the cooling and fan systems from the H/B/Z80-series boards, both in the UEFI and even their Windows tools (which are usually very poor for all vendors). OK, perhaps it's something which should have been addressed years ago, but it was all done half-heartedly. ASUS remedied that one big-time.

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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    Quote Originally Posted by this_is_gav View Post
    I've moved back to ASUS for builds, primarily due to their awesome fan profiles.

    Let's face it, what else separates the top tier brands? They all overclock to roughly similar levels with the same CPU, the general options are fairly similar and reliability is generally a nonissue now.
    Companies like Scan should have answers as they should know how many boards from different makes come back DOA or develop faults.
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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    Oh I know, I returned a my last personal Gigabyte board and Scan replaced both it and the RAM I thought was faulty too. But that was in late 2008 or early 2009, at the dawn of the i7 range.

    But even then that must have been a rarity. How many motherboards from the top manufacturers are returned faulty? Even my M1530 laptop is still going strong, and the integrated dodgy nVIDIA GPU was meant to have failed about 5 years ago apparently.

    I work in a school and I can't say I've had to replace a motherboard since I started there in 2000, despite having hundreds of computers under me each day. There was been a 7-8 year old laptop who's board I have replaced a few weeks back, but that was down to a dodgy power socket (hard soldiered onto the board, and not something my standard iron would loosen). There have probably been other instances over those 15 years which could be the board, but I honestly can't recall any. There certainly haven't been many where the other components haven't failed first.

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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    Indeed motherboards are reliable (well for me) as I've been overclocking since the AMD Duron and celeron 300a and felt sad when I threw the boards and CPUs away.....well I left them on top of the rubbish in the bin and maybe the dustman might have found a use for them.
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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    Quote Originally Posted by this_is_gav View Post
    How many motherboards from the top manufacturers are returned faulty?
    About 2.5%. This is quite interesting:

    http://www.hardware.fr/articles/927-2/cartes-meres.html

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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    Quote Originally Posted by spl View Post
    About 2.5%. This is quite interesting:

    http://www.hardware.fr/articles/927-2/cartes-meres.html
    Indeed and also about other computer parts.
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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    Quote Originally Posted by excalibur2 View Post
    Indeed and also about other computer parts.
    The PSUs especially. Compare Seasonic to Thermaltake and Coolermaster. I wonder if it's a case of a few people (possibly even Seasonic employees) talking up the reliability and quality of the manufacture and then a thousand people who don't know better repeating what they've been told.

    Kind of like coolers and the CM Hyper 212 Evo. Almost nobody bothers to actually research cooler benchmarks - they just copy everyone else's 212 Evo recommendation because they don't know any better (at least that's my observation in the Tom's Hardware forums where I used to be pretty active).

    <0.3% on the Samsung 840 Evo. Would love to see the up-to-date numbers now the performance degradation issue is widely known. I think they release these figures every six months so should be a new one soon.

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    Re: Gigabyte overtakes Asustek as largest motherboard vendor

    Quote Originally Posted by spl View Post
    The PSUs especially. Compare Seasonic to Thermaltake and Coolermaster. I wonder if it's a case of a few people (possibly even Seasonic employees) talking up the reliability and quality of the manufacture and then a thousand people who don't know better repeating what they've been told.

    Kind of like coolers and the CM Hyper 212 Evo. Almost nobody bothers to actually research cooler benchmarks - they just copy everyone else's 212 Evo recommendation because they don't know any better (at least that's my observation in the Tom's Hardware forums where I used to be pretty active).

    <0.3% on the Samsung 840 Evo. Would love to see the up-to-date numbers now the performance degradation issue is widely known. I think they release these figures every six months so should be a new one soon.
    Well the site says:-

    "The first question that we must answer, of course, is the source of these statistics. They come from a large French e-retailer, with whom we have direct access to databases. So we were able to directly extract the statistics we needed. "

    Scan are active here and they could join the thread with their stats, even if it's back on topic just with motherboards, and I would give them a plug in that they have always sent me the latest revision board and not old stock.
    Last edited by excalibur2; 02-04-2015 at 07:24 AM.
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