cadaveca
My name is Dave
- Joined
- Apr 10, 2006
- Messages
- 17,232 (2.61/day)
Gigabyte X79 boards have problems and were recalled. Stay away from them.
No, there was a recall for BIOS in a specific region, probably related to some character causing issues. They either offered BIOS to flash, or users could send in boards to be flashed.
Not a physical issue.
Gigabyte's press release:
http://www.gigabyte.tw/press-center/news-page.aspx?nid=1077
That was... a YEAR ago. They had faulty VRM which was fixed in like a week after their launch.
But, Giga s UEFI is shit compared to Asus or ASRocks, making their boards poor in competition.
How many recent Gigabyte and ASUS boards have you used to come up with this conclusion? ASUS isn't doing so good with Windows8 support, actually, while I do not see these problems with my Gigabyte boards.
ASUS BIOSes offer more options for memory tweaking, Gigabyte offers more for power delivery options. They both have their good and bad sides.