Why Gigabyte is best

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Really? My AMD 270x Wind Force died on me during the night, woke up and my video card smelled so horrible I just through it away. It was only 3 months old. Now Im out $230 dollars. Has to be the card as my motherboard, memory, cpu, and power supply are all working perfectly. Just a bad card and I'm out the money now. Wish I could get it replaced.

And I love Gigabyte
 
price/value, the necessary with quality, usually with professional look, without resorting to the "gaymer" themed infanto childish crap.
 
SixFootDuo said:
Really? My AMD 270x Wind Force died on me during the night, woke up and my video card smelled so horrible I just through it away. It was only 3 months old. Now Im out $230 dollars. Has to be the card as my motherboard, memory, cpu, and power supply are all working perfectly. Just a bad card and I'm out the money now. Wish I could get it replaced.

And I love Gigabyte
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RMA?
 
I really like Gigabyte as well, but over the last few years MSI has really won me over.
 
SixFootDuo said:
Really? My AMD 270x Wind Force died on me during the night, woke up and my video card smelled so horrible I just through it away. It was only 3 months old. Now Im out $230 dollars. Has to be the card as my motherboard, memory, cpu, and power supply are all working perfectly. Just a bad card and I'm out the money now. Wish I could get it replaced.

And I love Gigabyte
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If its only 3 months old you have a warranty and can RMA it. If you paid $230 for a used card with no warranty you are a fool.

Lol you've been a member a while and RMA isn't a familiar term on a hardware based forum? Interesting.
 
my question to you guys would be then
you know how EVGA is like the BEST in terms of RMA for NVIDIA? what is the equivalent of that for ATI? XFX? Sapphire? Gigabyte?
 
I guess they're very... PICKY about their ad campaigns.

Still, wouldn't a Terabyte be better than a Gigabyte?

That name is going to make them sound like a diminutive company eventually...
 
Soulwrath said:
my question to you guys would be then
you know how EVGA is like the BEST in terms of RMA for NVIDIA? what is the equivalent of that for ATI? XFX? Sapphire? Gigabyte?
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I don't think there is one, and this is a MAJOR reason why I can't get myself to buy AMD. Evga has been awesome in my experience.
 
Soulwrath said:
my question to you guys would be then
you know how EVGA is like the BEST in terms of RMA for NVIDIA? what is the equivalent of that for ATI? XFX? Sapphire? Gigabyte?
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MSI.:D

As far as GPUs on the AMD side, I only buy MSI.
I had to return one card, a while back and the CS was excellent.
 
I've always liked Gigabyte products. Never had an issue with anything I've had from them. Don't know if I'd call them best, but they are pretty solid IMO.
 
jmilcher said:
If its only 3 months old you have a warranty and can RMA it. If you paid $230 for a used card with no warranty you are a fool.

Lol you've been a member a while and RMA isn't a familiar term on a hardware based forum? Interesting.
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Even if the card is bought used Gigabyte still covers the warranty
 
ssnyder28 said:
RMA?
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Shogon said:
No kidding. 10 years on this site and it's like he's never heard of it. :confused:
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jmilcher said:
If its only 3 months old you have a warranty and can RMA it. If you paid $230 for a used card with no warranty you are a fool.

Lol you've been a member a while and RMA isn't a familiar term on a hardware based forum? Interesting.
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ssnyder28 said:
Even if the card is bought used Gigabyte still covers the warranty
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I don't think you folks understand. SixFootDuo SHITS money (look at that sig :eek: ), so $230 is equivalent to the morning after Taco Bell for the rest of us. :p
 
DejaWiz said:
I don't think you folks understand. SixFootDuo SHITS money (look at that sig :eek: ), so $230 is equivalent to the morning after Taco Bell for the rest of us. :p
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I guess I've been on OCN too much, his rig is normal I would say. It's less then mine would cost that is for sure, but I RMA my stuff when it dies because that's what warranty is for.
 
Gigabyte RMA has been good to me, I've only had to use it a couple times, but it was very painless. First time they took a week to send me a replacement card, 2nd time was more like 2 weeks, but that's nothing compared to the horror stories i've heard of other companies.
 
Among the Taiwanese giants, I find that MSI offers the best tech support. Their Lightning GPUs too are among the best GPUs in the market.

I've never used Gigabyte RMA extensively, so I am not sure of how they are.
 
I just bricked my first motherboard ever with Gigabyte's crummy @BIOS software. Why bundle software with your product that doesn't work?
 
DeathFromBelow said:
I just bricked my first motherboard ever with Gigabyte's crummy @BIOS software. Why bundle software with your product that doesn't work?
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Any software that involves the bios runs the risk of bricking.

I have used the @BIOS method many times with no issue however.
 
I've had no trouble using Q-Flash on my Gigabyte motherboard and that seems like it at least should be more reliable than @BIOS, that I used on a board that didn't support Q-Flash a while back and I was being lazy. Flashing a BIOS from Windows just always feels wrong.
 
Gigabytes BIOS are some of the worst I've ever used. I had a Z87 motherboard and when you click in some sections of the BIOS even though it's apparently UEFI the old style BIOS would pop up. It's like they could not finish the BIOS properly so they did a mediocre overlay over standard BIOS. This surprised me since Gigabyte was late to the party in terms of UEFI, you would have thought by Z87 they would have their shit together.
 
3 different GB boards running in my house right now (old p45, z87, and z97) with a GB 760 vid card and so far no complaints. I was a huge fan of Abit and needed to find another manufacturer to trust. Asus is a little too big for my tastes and too many complaints about their RMA process here on this forum. So far, about the only issue I have is the level of fan control on the lower model boards. Past that, they've all been pretty good to me so far.
 
teiresias said:
I've had no trouble using Q-Flash on my Gigabyte motherboard and that seems like it at least should be more reliable than @BIOS, that I used on a board that didn't support Q-Flash a while back and I was being lazy. Flashing a BIOS from Windows just always feels wrong.
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Normally I'd use Q-flash or the like, but I didn't have a flash drive handy. I figured if it failed it would just load from the backup BIOS... but even when I try to force the second BIOS to load it still wont post.
 
Jeremy C said:
3 different GB boards running in my house right now (old p45, z87, and z97) with a GB 760 vid card and so far no complaints. I was a huge fan of Abit and needed to find another manufacturer to trust. Asus is a little too big for my tastes and too many complaints about their RMA process here on this forum. So far, about the only issue I have is the level of fan control on the lower model boards. Past that, they've all been pretty good to me so far.
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Almost exactly my case. I was a huge Abit fan and built 3 with their boards without issue until they went under.
Since then built 3 computers with Gigabyte boards and still no issues.

Correct me if I am wrong but to activate the backup bios do you not have to move a switch and then clear CMOS?
I would like to think it's not automatic but must be manually forced to flash the main bios.
 
ep0x73 said:
Almost exactly my case. I was a huge Abit fan and built 3 with their boards without issue until they went under.
Since then built 3 computers with Gigabyte boards and still no issues.

Correct me if I am wrong but to activate the backup bios do you not have to move a switch and then clear CMOS?
I would like to think it's not automatic but must be manually forced to flash the main bios.
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Nope. There's no button or jumper (at least on this H81 board) and Gigabyte's literature says it's supposed to happen automatically if the first BIOS fails to post. From googling around it seems that actually getting it to work often involves some black magic, either powering on and pulling the plug in rapid succession or jumping two pins on the actual main BIOS chip. I've tried jumping the CMOS reset pins and a hard reset by pulling the battery/AC for half an hour. No go.
 
Seems to be the case, the manual says:

If the main bios is corrupted or damaged, the backup bios will take over on the next system reboot and copy the bios file to the main bios.

Only course of action will probably be an RMA. I don't believe you can remove/replace the AMI bios like you could back in the Award days.
Both chips are soldered to the board.
 
mls1995 said:
I don't think there is one, and this is a MAJOR reason why I can't get myself to buy AMD. Evga has been awesome in my experience.
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Since defects are luckily a minority (single digit percents), you are reducing your choice in GPU's about 50% because you wouldn't have the best possible service in the rare event something might happen ?

Please return your [H]-card, sir.

I've never been very keen on motherboard brands, I just choose based on features, quality of components and layout. I've been in SFF-territory for a while and Gigabyte just doesn't stand out in that section.
 
D4rkn3ss said:
price/value, the necessary with quality, usually with professional look, without resorting to the "gaymer" themed infanto childish crap.
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Good one!

xTrident said:
I really like Gigabyte as well, but over the last few years MSI has really won me over.
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magoo said:
MSI.:D

As far as GPUs on the AMD side, I only buy MSI.
I had to return one card, a while back and the CS was excellent.
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Yes, been using using 990fxa-gd65 with various reference R9290's from several manufacturers. MSI RMA is very good and the products are solid.
 
ep0x73 said:
Seems to be the case, the manual says:

If the main bios is corrupted or damaged, the backup bios will take over on the next system reboot and copy the bios file to the main bios.

Only course of action will probably be an RMA. I don't believe you can remove/replace the AMI bios like you could back in the Award days.
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That's the plan, I'm just annoyed by the double failure of the @BIOS tool and the backup BIOS.

I have to say that I don't really have a problem with Gigabyte. I have a 990FX-UD3 V1 board that's been running heavily overclocked FX chips since the Bulldozer launch and it's held up fine. I also prefer their standard black color schemes over the gold power ranger crap that ASUS has been doing.
 
XFX is very good for RMA..
but not overclocking;They gimp the voltage control on their cards

They are the "Dell" of GPUs
 
DeathFromBelow said:
That's the plan, I'm just annoyed by the double failure of the @BIOS tool and the backup BIOS.

I have to say that I don't really have a problem with Gigabyte. I have a 990FX-UD3 V1 board that's been running heavily overclocked FX chips since the Bulldozer launch and it's held up fine. I also prefer their standard black color schemes over the gold power ranger crap that ASUS has been doing.
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I was always leery of the programs to flash bios while in windows as all resident programs need to be closed and missing one could lead to a bad flash.

Even Abit way back had a windows flash program that you could download the file from their server, flash and it would reset bios and restart.

I did it old school with a floppy disk in DOS instead.

I suppose lesson learned? Get a thumb drive, even a 50MB if need be [bios files are small of course], format if FAT32 and go that route through Q-flash.
 
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