Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS
I absolutely agree.
I bought a Gigabyte X79-UP4 Rev1.0 on February 2013 .. I have been a Gigabyte customer for over 12 years and I assembled many PCs for friends of mine with my advice to buy a Gigabyte motherboard.
After the atrocious BIOS support for X79-UP4 I won't be buying Gigabyte boards anymore. Other Z77 motherboards I used to assemble some new PCs in an office are plagued with serious BIOS bugs too and I had to waste a lot of time finding partial workarounds there.. those people weren't happy at all just like me indeed.
Gigabyte dropped support on all X79 Rev.1.0 boards now.. they are releasing updated BIOSes only for the newer X79 Rev1.1 boards. That is beyond silly. Expensive flagship motherboards should get at least 5 years proper BIOS support meaning no major bugs and issues. At least for Intel boards until Intel keeps giving the OEMs new updates that the OEMs should release to their customers.
Instead... these new Gigabyte managers just don't care.
In the past years Gigabyte was top-notch with rock-solid products, BIOSes rarely had any bugs .. surely nothing major affecting stability.
Nowadays instead it's a huge mess. Something you could expect from a small OEM manufacturer selling ultra-cheap motherboards maybe... surely not from once was a top-notch one selling expensive boards.
A friend of mine a few days ago asked me to upgrade his old Socket775 PC with a Gigabyte board I assembled for him some years ago to a LGA1150 35Watt TDP CPU system... this time I told him to buy an ASUS Z87 motherboard that is still actively supported with new BIOS releases ... surely it won't have as many critical bugs as the ones reported on Gigabyte motherboards everywhere and not just on this forum.
Yeah buying an Intel one maybe could have been an even better option.. which I might go for when I will start changing my systems again. Gigabyte no more. I am stuck with the Gigabyte boards I got anyway .. but I doubt I will get any official BIOS support anymore.... and with all the known bugs fixed.
Originally posted by gbbios
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I absolutely agree.
I bought a Gigabyte X79-UP4 Rev1.0 on February 2013 .. I have been a Gigabyte customer for over 12 years and I assembled many PCs for friends of mine with my advice to buy a Gigabyte motherboard.
After the atrocious BIOS support for X79-UP4 I won't be buying Gigabyte boards anymore. Other Z77 motherboards I used to assemble some new PCs in an office are plagued with serious BIOS bugs too and I had to waste a lot of time finding partial workarounds there.. those people weren't happy at all just like me indeed.
Gigabyte dropped support on all X79 Rev.1.0 boards now.. they are releasing updated BIOSes only for the newer X79 Rev1.1 boards. That is beyond silly. Expensive flagship motherboards should get at least 5 years proper BIOS support meaning no major bugs and issues. At least for Intel boards until Intel keeps giving the OEMs new updates that the OEMs should release to their customers.
Instead... these new Gigabyte managers just don't care.
In the past years Gigabyte was top-notch with rock-solid products, BIOSes rarely had any bugs .. surely nothing major affecting stability.
Nowadays instead it's a huge mess. Something you could expect from a small OEM manufacturer selling ultra-cheap motherboards maybe... surely not from once was a top-notch one selling expensive boards.
A friend of mine a few days ago asked me to upgrade his old Socket775 PC with a Gigabyte board I assembled for him some years ago to a LGA1150 35Watt TDP CPU system... this time I told him to buy an ASUS Z87 motherboard that is still actively supported with new BIOS releases ... surely it won't have as many critical bugs as the ones reported on Gigabyte motherboards everywhere and not just on this forum.
Yeah buying an Intel one maybe could have been an even better option.. which I might go for when I will start changing my systems again. Gigabyte no more. I am stuck with the Gigabyte boards I got anyway .. but I doubt I will get any official BIOS support anymore.... and with all the known bugs fixed.
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