In order to prevent head-on competition with Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology has decided to fully push into the mid-range market this year, according to a Chinese-language Apple Daily report citing sources at the company.Gigabyte's shipment proportion of mid-range motherboard was only 30% last year, but with the company planning to reduce the proportion of entry-level motherboards from 50% to 30% this year, the proportion of mid-range boards will increase to 40%, said the paper.
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I would personal never build a system for myself with a Gigabyte mobo, but some of my custom-build customers have chosen to go that route; a lot of them have been sorry they did that. Buggy BIOSes, poor driver support, confusing website navigation, badly written manuals... essentialy everything that can be done wrong has been done wrong at one point or another by these guys. Now, that's not to say that all their hardware is total crap; a lot of it is perfectly serviceable. It's just that their BIOS & driver support has been very lacking at times.
ASUS is my number-one choice, followed by EVGA and Intel.
The problem is that people here probably buy the product on day one and expect it to be perfect. I usually wait until revisions and updated bios are out. Like software, hardware needs to mature before I consider buying it.
P35-DS3L rev 2.0
purchased 3 months ago (rev 1.0 released early 2007)
DPC Latency, bad BIOSes
What board do you run and the bios revision? You statement without facts means nothing.
Board is stable and overclocks well, plenty of features.
DPC Latency only affects real time audio and video applications. Windows itself is NOT a Real Time operating system so right there you start with strike against you. Many motherboards suffer from DPC latency and poorly written drivers make the problem worse.
I guess all these people are wrong also:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.as...p;enterthread=y
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1351472...&key="
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/p35-mother...56/index19.html
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