Gigabyte to Bundle Overclocked, Cherry-picked Intel Core i9-9900K With $900 Z390 Aorus Xtreme Waterforce

[M2B]

This is a company of followers, not innovators. Its a different world from say MSI or Asus.

It's not a different world from MSI, maybe Asus but not MSI.
All brands have some shitty and some good products at the same time. The Z390 extreme form gigabyte does have the best VRM on any Z390/X470 board.
It's not bad just because it's from gigabyte.

 

[Kapone33]

6 SATA ports on a $999 board? What is that cover for the 24 pin?

 

[Hardware Geek]

It looks like they let a bunch of junior high school kids design it.

More like the special ed kids

 

[Fx]

Gigabyte isn't a trendy brand at all. Aorus was far too late to the market as a brand and despite flashy colors and lights, the quality is abysmal. This is a company of followers, not innovators. Its a different world from say MSI or Asus. Yes they do their tacky RGB too, but they also push the envelope with fine tuned designs. The quality is also a lot more consistent.

Ironically, Gigabyte was usually a good address for bang/buck. With Aorus they destroyed that USP and gave us nothing in return, trying to ride the RGB wave. So you have this odd combination of premium pricing over bottom barrel parts. Fans are a good example, but re-used or badly chosen heatsinks and direct contact heatpipes on GPUs are other such examples. It just screams lazy and cheap.

Gigabyte has never been trendy, but it certainly has proven (as far back as I can remember) that it can produce high quality motherboards and graphic cards. It should also be noted, that every company has its products that fall short in quality, quality control and design.

 

[Patriot]

That i9 box reminds me of a tabletop RPG dice.

roll a d20, nat 1 your socket is incompatible.

 

[Vario]

Had two garbage Gigabutt products in that past. No way I'd sink this much on a CPU + Mobo combo from this manufacturer.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Gigabyte has never been trendy, but it certainly has proven (as far back as I can remember) that it can produce high quality motherboards and graphic cards. It should also be noted, that every company has its products that fall short in quality, quality control and design.

Gigabyte is usually the brand of choice for hackintoshing.

 

[Fx]

Had two garbage Gigabutt products in that past. No way I'd sink this much on a CPU + Mobo combo from this manufacturer.

Considering how many products I have bought of them with zero failures, I would say that we have different criteria in how we select our components. I use a 70/10 rule.

Going by a 5 star rating system, I never settle for 5 stars being less than 70% approval. I never buy products that have 1 star being greater than 10%. It is best if 4 and 5 stars equal >90% approval rating to all but guarantee a great product.

This system has served me very well, but it also applies to any brand of course.

 

[Vayra86]

Gigabyte has never been trendy, but it certainly has proven (as far back as I can remember) that it can produce high quality motherboards and graphic cards. It should also be noted, that every company has its products that fall short in quality, quality control and design.

This is true. In the end its down to the actual teams doing the work and the mandate they get, and then to the production process and its checks and balances.

Still though, I can clearly see the trends with every brand. Somehow its never just one isolated incident but a whole string of them before a company 'seems to recover'. MSI is a great example of that, they used to be bottom barrel, now they're super consistent with their gaming product portfolio - also in quality.

I think its a policy thing. We also have many reports of horrible Gigabyte RMA experiences lately. That mixes quite well with 'maximize profit' and a price hike without a quality improvement on Aorus.

 

[Fx]

This is true. In the end its down to the actual teams doing the work and the mandate they get, and then to the production process and its checks and balances.

Still though, I can clearly see the trends with every brand. Somehow its never just one isolated incident but a whole string of them before a company 'seems to recover'. MSI is a great example of that, they used to be bottom barrel, now they're super consistent with their gaming product portfolio - also in quality.

I think its a policy thing. We also have many reports of horrible Gigabyte RMA experiences lately. That mixes quite well with 'maximize profit' and a price hike without a quality improvement on Aorus.

That may be the case. I am back with ASUS (mobo) this round on my Ryzen build, but I was heavily considering an MSI which would have been an exception to my preference. They have really stepped up their design, marketing and quality with motherboards.

 

[Ruru]

That may be the case. I am back with ASUS (mobo) this round on my Ryzen build, but I was heavily considering an MSI which would have been an exception to my preference. They have really stepped up their design, marketing and quality with motherboards.

Yeah, felt weird grabbing a MSI board for my Ryzen build since I've had very bad experience with MSI motherboards several years ago. But it seems that this X470 board is in fact decent quality.