Asus vs Gigabyte: your opinion (and experiences!)

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autumn_suns3t

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Really don't know whether to pick an Asus or a Gigabyte (speaking of models with equal or ≈ price).

I think each brand has their strong and weak points.. but would like to know what those are.

I also wonder.. if 5.000 hours rated capacitors means the mobo will die after 5.000 hours the PC is turned on.. is just this what's counted as hours?
Gigabyte's are rated for 10.000 hours.. does this mean their mobos will last doubly? Is it capacitors exhaustion the primary cause a mobo gets done?

 
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If I recall correctly, the rating on the capacitors means that they are rated to last an X amount of hours under a certain amount of conditions. I know temperature plays a major role in the formula. So, a bigger number is better. Both are good quality, so the difference isn't going to make or break the motherboard.

I don't have personal experience with Gigabyte boards. I have had a friend who went through three Gigabyte boards within one year - although one instance was because he did something stupid. All of these boards were fairly low tier. I have another friend who has had his computer for almost 6 years now, with a gigabyte board, and through terrible neglect he's just now starting to get random blue screens; his board was...
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Tradesman1

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I use both for builds, along w/ the Rock, but get about 7 calls for Asus mobos to about 1 for GB and 2 for Rock mobos, especially since the Z87 chipset release on Intel, with the 1155 mobos it was more like even between the Rock and Asus with GB following behind maybe like 4-4-2 out of 10 builds
 
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Tradesman1

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Those were client calls for builds, they make the final decision....the Z77 rig I just sold (need to update my sig, think all the GPUs are out of date, and just bult a AMD rig, in part to help people here on the forums (went with the Crosshair paired with a 8370 there), the Rock seemed to have the best handle on the Z77 chipset as far as integrating the mobo and components to the CPUs. Asus did on Z87 and seems to have followed with Z97. So right now, my main 3 rigs are all Asus based, and am planning another Z97 for my shop, really wanted to build on a Ranger, but don't think we'll be getting them here in the States, so prob go with a WS or a Formula
 
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Calculatron

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If I recall correctly, the rating on the capacitors means that they are rated to last an X amount of hours under a certain amount of conditions. I know temperature plays a major role in the formula. So, a bigger number is better. Both are good quality, so the difference isn't going to make or break the motherboard.

I don't have personal experience with Gigabyte boards. I have had a friend who went through three Gigabyte boards within one year - although one instance was because he did something stupid. All of these boards were fairly low tier. I have another friend who has had his computer for almost 6 years now, with a gigabyte board, and through terrible neglect he's just now starting to get random blue screens; his board was rather mainstream.

I'm on my second ASUS motherboard now. I have had two issues: The first being that I had a motherboard be DOA. Second, the use of my USB 3.0 on my case would random Blue Screens/reboots. This issue was probably brought on because the AM3+ chipset doesn't natively support USB 3.0, and this could have been an issue with any motherboard make. (Never had an issue directly plugging into the back I/O, however...) Beyond that, though, I have never had a problem with my boards.
 
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autumn_suns3t

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Thanks a lot to Calculatron and Tradesman.. I picked the former's solution just because I thought many pick yours, mr. Tradesman. It's impressive to hear you can set a rig just to help people here in a better way.

I see.. the 5.000/10.000 hours are intended as stressful time, not just with the PC turned on.
 
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