syntaxfunction posted:

Anecdotally, I've been using Gigabyte boards for pretty much all my builds. I have two machines sitting on my desk; my main tower with a GA-H87-D3H-CF which is humming along great, and a parts computer running a GA-G41M. Interestingly enough, the G41 came from a computer where it was going to be trashed but testing found the mobo, CPU and RAM to be good. Grabbed a spare GPU and some extra RAM and it's humming along great. I built a couple other computers for the house too, one with a Gigabyte board which had zero problems, and one with an ASUS board, which was DOA twice. Hell, I built my mother a 'new' machine from my old tower running a 775 Gigabyte board and it's had no problems.

So anecdotally I like Gigabyte and they've never done me wrong. I'm beginning to wonder if I just get lucky with them? The ASUS boards aren't the only boards I have had problems with either, and that's not even going back to the MSI 478 machine I had once (Built in SiS graphics I think!).