[kchan]

Originally Posted by Jmac

I usually build 1-2 computers/month (for about the last 6 years) and use Gigabyte boards in 2/3 of them and have had very few issues. I've had 1 die after about 5 years (purchased in 2003, died last year), 1 came w/ a loose heatsink, 1 came w/ a capacitor that had fallen off (Sent it back to Newegg, new one was fine), and 1 DOA. 4 boards having issues out of approximately 70 over a 6-year time frame isn't bad (about 5%).

Asus usually goes in about 30% of my builds and the other 3% is miscellaneous (MSI, Foxconn, etc. that I don't recommend, but people insist on) and I've had at least 3 Asus boards that have had issues (2 died, though 1 was a bad BIOS flash by my friend, 1 was DOA). About 6% failure if you don't count my friend's screw-up.

If Gigabyte's boards are getting poor reviews for my application, I'll go w/ Asus (assuming they're getting better reviews). If they're both getting poor reviews, I'll look at different chipset.

i use to go with asus for my builds too, but i made the switch to gigabyte.. and i think they are a lot better than asus