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- MasterPain, on 05/17/2008, -5/+72At least you can get on gigabytes web site. Ever try downloading anything from asus its like 28k all over again.
- dn11, on 05/17/2008, -2/+52they're both good. but oh *****! that's not possible! i'm supposed to throw in some sort of blind meaningless loyalty to a company that makes printed circuit boards! Only thing I can say is - my last Gigabyte board came with higher quality clip style SATA cables, so I guess I should probably become a Gigabyte fanboi now and declare Asus crap. This is going to be fun!
- cannarymburns, on 05/17/2008, -1/+39last thing we want is for competitors to be friends...
- mal1964, on 05/17/2008, -6/+39Gigabyte my Asus.
- timbro1, on 05/17/2008, -13/+40GO ANUS GO!
- Metasquares, on 05/17/2008, -1/+24Best to just get an independent benchmark to verify the 80% efficiency claims. If they're true, Gigabyte has to stop. If not, they can proceed. Simple, really.
- Paranoidmarvin, on 05/17/2008, -2/+21I think the Gigabyte ones have a nicer PCB colour
- andrew522, on 05/17/2008, -6/+24I like Asus more. In fact, I am on an Asus G1S laptop right now, and love it.
- andrew522, on 05/17/2008, -1/+14DO NOT GO TO HER BLOG
It is an AdSense ploy.
And doesn't even have any content on it.
What a lazy *****. - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+13I've used at minimum 5 Gigabyte and 5 ASUS motherboards to build computers and both have had their fair share of issues.
I find with motherboards there is no hard and fast rule i.e. "ASUS suck, Gigabyte are better". It depends a lot on the northbridge/southbridge and other relevant chipsets on the board.
My honest opinion - don't keep a close mind when it comes to motherboards. Buy whatever is cheap, recommended and has the feature set you need. Don't spend $50 extra for no reason apart from a brand name, it's all placebo. - MarkusX, on 05/17/2008, -3/+14Load. Aim. ...and Boot!
- pastaq, on 05/17/2008, -5/+16So, Gigabyte motherboards break then?
- superjunaid, on 05/17/2008, -5/+15Why they gotta fight man?! why can't they be friends?
- DteK, on 05/17/2008, -1/+9and that is based on some completely unsubstantiated claims by Gigabyte. they did not produce any research that shows Asus is lying, the article even says the power saving is closer to 59% as opposed to the 80% claim by Asus. So it seems like Gigabyte is trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.
- BenBenMan, on 05/17/2008, -0/+8*you step away from the mic to boot your machine*
- dogson, on 05/17/2008, -3/+10Gigabyte has plenty of problems themself, lately with the p35 intel board, constant reboot loop.
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+7A spammer afraid of being blocked? Amateur...
- antonio97b, on 05/17/2008, -8/+14This is the Mother of all Boards!
Get it?
I said... (taps mic) The mother of all boards!
/bad comedy. - maticus, on 05/17/2008, -2/+8Does this mean Gigabyte can counter-sue ASUS for having a slow-as-***** website? 6Kb/s for a driver download on my 6Mb cable connection?! Puuuh-leeease.
- hornback, on 05/17/2008, -2/+7No, you idiot. Don't post your god damn blog stories to digg. Nobody likes that. Post the original source material.
- theaceoffire, on 05/17/2008, -0/+5No, thank you.
- Princeamor, on 05/17/2008, -0/+5Wow they are fighting like little kids
- srg13, on 05/17/2008, -5/+9I have a similar experience (but an admittedly smaller sample size). I built one computer with an Asus board, and have had problems with the chipset fan breaking, voltage fluctuation (although that could have been the PSU...), chipset drivers crashing etc. The next computer I made was a Gigabyte, and it's been totally rock solid.
- masamunecyrus, on 05/17/2008, -3/+7That's unfortunate. Though I've never used a Gigabyte motherboard, I've used lots of ASUS motherboards (and am currently using an ASUS laptop). I've always been extremely satisfied since I've never had any trouble and they've always been cheaper than the competition.
- CobaltBlue, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4As history has shown us, suing website operators is a surefire way to keep negative information off the web. Just ask RIAA, MPAA and Scientology.
- h4mx0r, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4GO GIGA-ANUS GO!
- theaceoffire, on 05/17/2008, -2/+5If its your first time, don't worry. If you did it in 30 stories, you might have to make a new account.
Just post your blog articles to Digg next time instead. We might or might not like them, but thats the approved method. - ByteGuerilla, on 05/17/2008, -2/+5Absolutely. Just go with what works for you, and what you've had the best experience with. I swear by Western Digital HDDs, but I've heard people swear against them in favour of HDDs they deem more reliable. I've never had a Western Digital drive fail, and I've used age-old Western Digitals to replace downed young Maxtor/Seagate drives, but I would never expect someone who has had differing experiences to switch just on what I say, so I never claim that WD are just more reliable than other manufacturers.
Similarly I swear by ASUS motherboards. I've had two Gigabyte motherboards blow up on me, never an ASUS, but when I'm building computers for a friend who's always used Gigabyte boards with no problems we buy Gigabyte. Both are great mainboard manufacturers. - truspect0r, on 05/17/2008, -2/+5lol dumb spammer dont know about 'block user' and report function.
- Dobby156, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3you clearly know nothing
- mal1964, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3Its most definitely lame!, But fun not mean.
- skamp, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3"Tom’s Hardware will conduct its own independent comparison of the ASUS P5K series and the Gigabyte EP35-DS3L. At this time, we’re still waiting for a response from ASUS that specifically answers the claims we spoke about in the original article."
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-gigabyte-mot ... - skamp, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3In other news, Tom's Hardware still hasn't updated their charts featuring erroneous memory bandwidth benchmark results for the Phenom processors.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/617/1/ - irieKEN, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4They are friends; Asus manufactures Gigabyte's boards.
http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20060808PR203.html - jsd8cc, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3Hey, me too. The G1S kicks ass.
- Shogi, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2SEND ANUS LAPTOPS!
- dycc07, on 05/17/2008, -2/+4My ASUS P4S533 is still going strong after 6+ years, never had a problem with it.
- grimward, on 05/17/2008, -4/+6I'm curious why gigabyte decided to put this piece of FUD out there without any results, it's quite puzzling to say the least. And tomshardware writing "FAIL" and such on the graphs just seems like a cheap stunt. There's been quite a lot of discussion regarding tomshardwares neutrality as a page ever since it changed owners, this might be the proverbial nail in their coffin if it turns out to be pure FUD coming from gigabyte. Furthermore, I'm very surprised that tomshardware hasn't done some of their famous testing to see wether these rumors are true or not before publishing this article. .. I'm telling you people, this smells of ***** to me. (and I actually consider tomshardware to be a decent site.. but perhaps I need to reevaluate my opinion?)
- inactive, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2yep, my first ds3-l did that, exchanged it for this second one and have had no problems since, i haven't even had that latency problem that seems to be plaguing many other gigabyte boards (including other ds3-l's)
- WhipkickeN, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Ive never had an asus board, but i downloaded drivers for my friend a few weeks ago and it took about 10 minutes to download a 4MB network driver. I dont remember ever seeing such slow downloads since the dial up days.
- ilgaz, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Gigabyte is like jealous guy in neighbourhood. They both started around same time and now Asus makes Apple stuff (if not changed), became a very credible laptop brand and has huge prestige among PC builders (especially home).
- tehbored, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2They can make all the threats they want, but they have no case here. What Gigabyte did is legal and protected, provided that it is true of course.
- CaptainHarlock, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Maybe ASUS should send their EPU motherboards to hardware review sites and let them test their claims.
- ktxxx, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Spaces create problems...
/bad_comedy - Dustyb, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2They both need to chill the heck out -- anyone who is smart will do research before they buy a mother board, let the consumer find out if its a lie or not. As far as Gigabyte vs Asus, they both make solid boards, I go between Asus, Gigabyte and MSI I buy whichever is best at the best price, but this little tiff makes me want to avoid those two.
- BetaFeatures, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Didn't a site already tested Asus Epu and Gigabytes DES?
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1348/4/page_4_te ...
Seems like Gigabyte DES save more power - hornback, on 05/17/2008, -1/+3Reported, you dumb piece of *****.
- julianrod, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Tough crowd tonight
- Plastic3D, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Just this week I bought a Gigabyte motherboard over an Asus. And I really like my last Asus build.
The reason I switched was because of a lot of complaints on Newegg about the Asus customer support - that they have a really non-caring and somewhat rude attitude. Let it be known that these manufacturers need to spend more on customer service... it should never be an afterthought. - MacTyler, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1It's sad how true you really are. :(
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