Gigabyte Motehrboards

patrick82 · TweakNOOB Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 35 Location: maryland

Does anyone have first hand experience with the gigabyte motherboards. I am seriously thinkin about " gogabyte GA-M55SLI-S4" socket am2, w/ NVIDIA nForce4...

i was thinkin about going with the regualar athlon 64, but didnt get a motherboard fast enough so i am stuck with a processor... then all my friends told me i should just forget that and go AM2... so i am...

i just want to know what you all think about gigabyte boards....

full system specs will look as followed:
MB: above
Processor: amd athlon 64 X2 3800+
ram: Geil 2gig ddr2 800
video: XFX geforce 7600GT 256 (untill i get money for the 7800)
sound: on board
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(removable)HD2 - WD cavaliar 400 SATA 3.0GB
HD3 - 40 gig - JUST XP AND UPDATS. incase of crashes
Case: generic - Thermaltake Armor Jr. - cant justify $ for the full

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meobius · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject:

I used to sell gigabyte, over 90% would fail within the first 3 months. Don't know if they've gotten better, haven't touched them since
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Xal · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject:

Yeah, they were hit hard by that batch of bad caps that did their rounds quite a few years back, left a sour taste in my mouth too. Still, as near as I can tell they have picked themselves back up and really pushed the quality of their boards. I havn't touched them since the bad cap adventure but I am thinking about trying one of their boards out in my next system. Should be soon, I hope....
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patrick82 · TweakNOOB Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 35 Location: maryland

if you had to pick a decent am2 board rite now - what board would you pick

patrick82 · TweakNOOB Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 35 Location: maryland

Since the gigabyte motherboard didnt get the best out of you all... how do you all like the DFI infinity boards...

DFI INFINITY NF570 SLI-M2/G Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

sandness · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:47 pm Post subject:

That DFI should be good. For what its worth, I have been using a Gigabyte motherboard in my Core 2 Duo machine for 6 months without a lick of trouble.
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