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| Thread ID: 121913 | 2011-11-21 05:53:00 | Bios update problem | Driftwood (5551) | Press F1 |
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| 1244637 | 2011-11-22 00:08:00 | I would keep the Gigabyte anyway. Have now had too many failures with Asus boards to want to buy them again. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1244638 | 2011-11-22 00:29:00 | Just thought of something else too. The Gigabyte has a E8400 & the Asus has a E8500 |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1244639 | 2011-11-22 00:37:00 | It's possible the memory is clocking slower on one machine for some reason. I wouldn't worry about it, that rating is not particularly precise and memory speed has a fairly minor impact on system performance especially with such a small difference. I would keep the Gigabyte anyway. Have now had too many failures with Asus boards to want to buy them again. Myself I'm the other way round, I like gigabyte but have had more problems with it than ASUS. I don't think it's a very accurate method using personal experience to compare brands unless you have a decently large sample to go on (maybe you do, personally I don't). Better to try and get statistics for brand failure rates from somewhere, anyone can have a bad run with a normally good brand. It's Human nature to focus on the negative experiences for these things, for example I have owned one XFX motherboard briefly and it was a complete dog so I'd never buy another (if they even still make them) but they may actually make great gear and I'll never know because of one bad product (was an X58 MB when they were new and had issues with RAM). My current system has given me quite a lot of grief and is the first gigabyte based system I have built in a while whereas my other 2 machines are both asus and trouble free.. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1244640 | 2011-11-22 01:30:00 | Myself I'm the other way round, I like gigabyte but have had more problems with it than ASUS . I don't think it's a very accurate method using personal experience to compare brands unless you have a decently large sample to go on (maybe you do, personally I don't) . Better to try and get statistics for brand failure rates from somewhere, anyone can have a bad run with a normally good brand . I agree with that, But I back my experiences up with information from the badcaps . net forums . There are several guys there who repair motherboards for a living (or part of it) and they have come to the conclusion that Asus are not that reliable anymore . Not always capacitor failures either, just random "nothing visually wrong but board won't work" failures (the problem I have had with most of my Asus failures) They just seem to die for no apparent reason . It's Human nature to focus on the negative experiences for these things, for example I have owned one XFX motherboard briefly and it was a complete dog so I'd never buy another (if they even still make them) but they may actually make great gear and I'll never know because of one bad product (was an X58 MB when they were new and had issues with RAM) . My current system has given me quite a lot of grief and is the first gigabyte based system I have built in a while whereas my other 2 machines are both asus and trouble free . . I buy MSI boards now . Had one that seemed flaky, but the rest are just fine . Will buy MSI again, would consider Gigabyte . Asus only if I was desperate . XFX might be OK now but their Geforce 8\9 series cards often used Sacon FZ capacitors (one of the worst) - many cheap brands also used these . If you can replace them with something decent the cards will be OK but leave them in and it's a time-bomb . No comment on ECS or other el-cheapo brands (but the boards that use solid polymer capacitors might not be too bad) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1244641 | 2011-11-22 01:30:00 | Just swaped the hard drive from the Gigabyte to the Asus & it booted right up. | Driftwood (5551) | ||
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