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In this review, we take the mighty Gigabyte X399 DESIGNARE EX for a spin. Let's manage some mega-threading with a Ryzen Threadripper processor.
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Review: ASUS PRIME Z370-A motherboard - 11/10/2017 09:56 AM
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Review: ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti STRIX - 11/08/2017 12:43 PM
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Review: MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Titanium - 11/06/2017 03:38 PM
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#5491818 Posted on: 11/13/2017 12:54 PM
Looks good. Good perf numbers, too.
Looks good. Good perf numbers, too.
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#5491820 Posted on: 11/13/2017 01:10 PM
Yeah looks pretty dope!
Yeah looks pretty dope!
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#5491839 Posted on: 11/13/2017 02:43 PM
Great review and a nice read. Awesome to see how good out of the box the bios is , platform seems mature enough with little to no issues. Nice full feature rich motherboard , me like !
Great review and a nice read. Awesome to see how good out of the box the bios is , platform seems mature enough with little to no issues. Nice full feature rich motherboard , me like !
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#5491891 Posted on: 11/13/2017 06:56 PM
Stay away from Gigabyte mainboards is all I can tell you. Support is horrible. They hardly ever update their BIOSes, Gigabyte software for managing the mainboard is a mess (when it works, when you read their forums you clearly see, it mostly doesn't work). I've had my BIOS selfdestroyed twice already since I bought my AORUS GA-AX370-Gaming K7 in September, it just kills itself when computer is in standby for a long enough time, thanks god it got dual BIOS so you can recover the system and overwrite the broken BIOS that way. No, can't recommend it, was my first and last mainboard from that company.
Stay away from Gigabyte mainboards is all I can tell you. Support is horrible. They hardly ever update their BIOSes, Gigabyte software for managing the mainboard is a mess (when it works, when you read their forums you clearly see, it mostly doesn't work). I've had my BIOS selfdestroyed twice already since I bought my AORUS GA-AX370-Gaming K7 in September, it just kills itself when computer is in standby for a long enough time, thanks god it got dual BIOS so you can recover the system and overwrite the broken BIOS that way. No, can't recommend it, was my first and last mainboard from that company.
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#5491892 Posted on: 11/13/2017 06:59 PM
this is by far the best looking board gigabyte has ever released with specs to match.
and although gigabyte's top of the line products are built well and keep to spec, the rest of their boards have spotty at best qc and often go for a cheaper spec than they've advertised. still.
so i'm loving my asrock (entry tier Taichi), but i'd buy msi, asus, and asrock over gigabyte mobo's any day.
this is by far the best looking board gigabyte has ever released with specs to match.
and although gigabyte's top of the line products are built well and keep to spec, the rest of their boards have spotty at best qc and often go for a cheaper spec than they've advertised. still.
so i'm loving my asrock (entry tier Taichi), but i'd buy msi, asus, and asrock over gigabyte mobo's any day.
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#5491914 Posted on: 11/13/2017 08:14 PM
Just because you had a bad experience doesn't mean others have. I've been using Gigabyte for many years and only had one experience with a faulty board. RMA'ed went smooth and great for me. I still have that old system too. I've called Gigabyte for raid support and was a good experience.
Stay away from Gigabyte mainboards is all I can tell you. Support is horrible. They hardly ever update their BIOSes, Gigabyte software for managing the mainboard is a mess (when it works, when you read their forums you clearly see, it mostly doesn't work). I've had my BIOS selfdestroyed twice already since I bought my AORUS GA-AX370-Gaming K7 in September, it just kills itself when computer is in standby for a long enough time, thanks god it got dual BIOS so you can recover the system and overwrite the broken BIOS that way. No, can't recommend it, was my first and last mainboard from that company.
Just because you had a bad experience doesn't mean others have. I've been using Gigabyte for many years and only had one experience with a faulty board. RMA'ed went smooth and great for me. I still have that old system too. I've called Gigabyte for raid support and was a good experience.
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#5491964 Posted on: 11/14/2017 12:05 AM
Truth. Hell my Gigabyte X58 board was the only one of 5 different ones I had that would do above 210 BLCK with my X5650. A 2.66 6 core @ 4.5ghz with just a h100.
Ive never had one issue with Gigabyte. Doesnt mean others wont, but AsRock honestly is my favorite. They do more fore less IMHO. Somewhat modern version of DFI. I have had more ASUS boards eff up on me, more then MSI even.
Just because you had a bad experience doesn't mean others have. I've been using Gigabyte for many years and only had one experience with a faulty board. RMA'ed went smooth and great for me. I still have that old system too. I've called Gigabyte for raid support and was a good experience.
Truth. Hell my Gigabyte X58 board was the only one of 5 different ones I had that would do above 210 BLCK with my X5650. A 2.66 6 core @ 4.5ghz with just a h100.
Ive never had one issue with Gigabyte. Doesnt mean others wont, but AsRock honestly is my favorite. They do more fore less IMHO. Somewhat modern version of DFI. I have had more ASUS boards eff up on me, more then MSI even.
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#5491972 Posted on: 11/14/2017 12:31 AM
Gigabyte Board is full, very full, of people having severe problems with mainboards, specially Ryzen boards, so that's me and many more. From dead or bricked mainboards to hardware not doing what's it supposed to do. Gigabyte was indeed very good years ago, but it's not anymore. Just have a look at drivers dates from their high end Ryzen mainboard. They do one initial release and are done with it.
Just because you had a bad experience doesn't mean others have. I've been using Gigabyte for many years and only had one experience with a faulty board. RMA'ed went smooth and great for me. I still have that old system too. I've called Gigabyte for raid support and was a good experience.
Gigabyte Board is full, very full, of people having severe problems with mainboards, specially Ryzen boards, so that's me and many more. From dead or bricked mainboards to hardware not doing what's it supposed to do. Gigabyte was indeed very good years ago, but it's not anymore. Just have a look at drivers dates from their high end Ryzen mainboard. They do one initial release and are done with it.
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#5491988 Posted on: 11/14/2017 02:04 AM
Title of this review is outstanding!
Title of this review is outstanding!
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#5492019 Posted on: 11/14/2017 07:41 AM
Have used giga boards in nearly every build i have done and have just recently rma a ryzen gaming 3 board. An updated bios killed it. My history with giga on the whole has been good and therefore i will carry on using giga despite their horrible bios, one of the worst layouts, almost kiddish compared to asus. Once a bios is set I do not spend hrs and hrs playing with it.
Now asus on the other hand have let me down terribly, and in the last 2 builds 3 have gone back ' skylake and ryzen. ' The use of asus was that on both builds there were no micro boards at the time from gigabyte. Not defending giga, just telling what has happened to myself
Stay away from Gigabyte mainboards is all I can tell you. Support is horrible. They hardly ever update their BIOSes, Gigabyte software for managing the mainboard is a mess (when it works, when you read their forums you clearly see, it mostly doesn't work). I've had my BIOS selfdestroyed twice already since I bought my AORUS GA-AX370-Gaming K7 in September, it just kills itself when computer is in standby for a long enough time, thanks god it got dual BIOS so you can recover the system and overwrite the broken BIOS that way. No, can't recommend it, was my first and last mainboard from that company.
Have used giga boards in nearly every build i have done and have just recently rma a ryzen gaming 3 board. An updated bios killed it. My history with giga on the whole has been good and therefore i will carry on using giga despite their horrible bios, one of the worst layouts, almost kiddish compared to asus. Once a bios is set I do not spend hrs and hrs playing with it.
Now asus on the other hand have let me down terribly, and in the last 2 builds 3 have gone back ' skylake and ryzen. ' The use of asus was that on both builds there were no micro boards at the time from gigabyte. Not defending giga, just telling what has happened to myself
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#5493387 Posted on: 11/18/2017 12:09 AM
Hi well for irony I see here the new Asus Mobo that looks better thant Gigabyte now I prefer Asus when I have some money lol
Make that two, one wrapped and one to go.. 
Hi well for irony I see here the new Asus Mobo that looks better thant Gigabyte now I prefer Asus when I have some money lol
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wow this mobo is awesome I want one for me yesterday :p