Right, you asked,
970A-UD3 (£65) - Fried on the 24V connection and ruined my Akasa AK1200W PSU in the mean time
MA770T-UD3 (£55) - Just died, completly
P67A-D3-B3 (£90) - WOnt accept more than 3 VGA cards, even though it as 5 PCI-E (2 x16's, 3 X1) and when you add PCI-PCI-E converter it just doesnt boot full stop.
Now, MSI,
870-C45 (£45) - Doesnt skip a beat, must be 2 months solid now no down time
p67a-gd65 B3 (£90) - Pretty new but looks and works a million times better than any gigabyte i've had. Rock solid now.
Gigabyte have cost me big time, That PSU was £145 on offer from £195 so all in all they cost me £300+
Nothing any of you can say to change my mind, MSI (as back in the day) kick ass
970A-UD3 (£65) - Fried on the 24V connection and ruined my Akasa AK1200W PSU in the mean time
MA770T-UD3 (£55) - Just died, completly
P67A-D3-B3 (£90) - WOnt accept more than 3 VGA cards, even though it as 5 PCI-E (2 x16's, 3 X1) and when you add PCI-PCI-E converter it just doesnt boot full stop.
Now, MSI,
870-C45 (£45) - Doesnt skip a beat, must be 2 months solid now no down time
p67a-gd65 B3 (£90) - Pretty new but looks and works a million times better than any gigabyte i've had. Rock solid now.
Gigabyte have cost me big time, That PSU was £145 on offer from £195 so all in all they cost me £300+
Nothing any of you can say to change my mind, MSI (as back in the day) kick ass
Well, two months isn't that long :p
Also, for anecdotes, I had an MSI board many years ago, which had an onboard video card blow out, and then a replacement... which had the onboard CPU socket die, eat a CPU, and then proceed to eat another cpu I put in it trying to find out what went wrong. That is when I got mad and bought a gigabyte :p
Fact is, over a large enough cross section, you will generally find someone with terrible experience with one brand or another. i think the warranty handling is more important... But then, I am lazy and tend to buy local so I can bring it back and make it their problem, so I don't really have to deal with the manufacturer much. On a side note, I stopped buying from new egg when my one gigabyte board did die and they wanted to bill me return shipping and a restocking fee to refund it.. sometime within 2-6 weeks due to shipping it from Canada (point of purchase) back to california. I will pay $4 extra on my $500 order next time to deal local, thanks :p