Which motherboard is better (Asus or Gigabyte)?

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Gigabyte motherboard

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Asus motherboard

I'm torn between which motherboard to get. I'll be buying these from my local microcenter after I noticed there pricing was a little cheaper then New Egg. I was told not to get a Biostar motherboard that I had originally intended, and that I should go with an Asus or Gigabyte board so I looked on microcenters website and decided to go with one of these two after looking through microcenter's website.

So basically I'm leaning towards the Asus but the Gigabyte and a few features that I'm not sure I'll ever use. The Asus does have better reviews, so in other words I need more opinions.

Also I'll be placing an i5-2500k in this board.

While you probably won't be dissapointed with either, I've probably just had bad luck with Gigabyte motherboards. I've built 3 computers using them and in two of them the boards died within a week. Asus on the other hand, I've used for a lot of different people with zero problems. Heck, I've still got my machine from 2003 and it's still running strong with an Asus board and a Asus 9800XT gpu.

While you probably won't be dissapointed with either, I've probably just had bad luck with Gigabyte motherboards. I've built 3 computers using them and in two of them the boards died within a week. Asus on the other hand, I've used for a lot of different people with zero problems. Heck, I've still got my machine from 2003 and it's still running strong with an Asus board and a Asus 9800XT gpu.

caseystryker

I love Asus, to me they're like Nintendo their products can go through hell and back and still work.

Well i dont know how gigabyte's reputation is in the states but where i live it is the best motherboard you can get and nearly everyone i know has a gigabyte mb in thier rig. or maybe its just the only mb that comes with 3 year warrenty where i live.

Hrmmm.... Looks like I'll probably be getting the Asus board.

Asus motherboards are normally better than Gigabyte motherboards (for mobos with similar specs), and here's why:

• Asus motherboards are higher quality
• Asus motherboards are more stable
• Asus motherboards are better for overclocking

Like what the others have said.. go with the ASUS board

gigabyte, been strictly using them since 2006, no issues here and great priced quality boards.

Didnt know there were so many ASUS fanboys on this forum, dang... it was Asus or nothing back in the 90's but times have changed. After that I went to MSI, and Aopen. My experiences with Asus bios support hasnt been the best, like when you want to downgrade them to an older version. (I had a board that blocked me from doing that on a Athlon 64 board) and since then I went to DFI(I miss them so BAD), then Gigabyte.

with gigabyte I had sucess with these boards in my system:

965P-DS3

P35-DS3L

P35-DS3R

GA-890FXA-UD5

GA-Z68X-UD4-B3

I think Asus is better ;)

MSI has better price/performance than ASUS.