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ASUS vs. Gigabyte AMD motherboards - pro's and con's

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I'm wondering if my ASUS fanboy history needs to be ended. Looking at MSI and Gigabyte for x870e boards, I think I would prefer one of the Aorus models if/when I need to replace my ASUS Strix-E-A x670e board, which has been very flaky for about a week now.\

I know all about the issues with ASUS RMA, but I like their driver support. What about MSI? What problems do MSI board owners run into? I need 3 PCI-E slots.

Is there a good argument for considering MSI?
 
Ya, they all have their issues, pick your poison..

I have an MSI x570 going on 5 + years now and not had any problems... I have mainly owned Gigabyte boards over the decades, and not had issues with them either.
 
Used MSI exclusively for years and no issues unless I caused it even then an RMA solved my issue at no charge. The number of systems I've built on MSI boards must be near 50 in the last 6 or 7 years. Only one gave me any trouble and it was an open box that was terribly mishandled by the previous purchaser.(Damaged cpu socket)
 
philb2 said:
So what is the "poison" with Gigabyte or MSI?
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GB am3/4 boards had really shitty bios bugs, although that wasn't a big deal if your board had a physical bios switch. I've been happy with my gigabyte b850i AM5 board, no major problems anyway. I did have to turn off/on iommu or rebar (forget which) to get it working one time.
 
I’ve owned MSI X870E boards and have good luck with them. I also have an Aorus X870E Pro which has been good as well. Asus and AsRock seem to have issues killing AM5 cpus at the moment.
 
I got tired of paying the Asus tax and have been buying more MSI and Gigabyte boards. They work just as well as Asus for what I need them for. The updates are just as timely on the higher end boards. The lower end Gigabyte boards I've found are maybe a little behind with AGESA updates.
 
After hundreds of builds, nothing jumps out at me. Each manufacturer have different classes of boards, from budget to enthusiast. I prefer MSI or Gigabyte because of better RMA service, but I still tend to get used ASUS motherboards when the price is right. The BIOS is different, especially for certain naming conventions if you're overclocking. Overall, I prefer MSI for reliability over the rest. I also got better overclocks on MSI motherboards back a decade ago when I was heavy into overclocking, but these days I just go for mild 24/7 overclocks.
 
Asus is the only brand I've experienced where bios update actually bricked the board even flashback not working. (Z590 platform)

I have an asus X670E, msi X670E and gigabyte X870 board and they all work fine so just pick whichever you like the aesthetics of and the features it has, for most people the bios differences don't matter because they just enable XMP only. If you want to play around with simple memory profiles MSI has the most ones to use and they generally work without issue, Gigabyte limited options and Asus only ever has xoc profiles which are useless.
 
I like gigabyte over asus. But with am5 I've gone msi because I like how they are arranging pcie lanes better.
 
applegrcoug said:
I like gigabyte over asus. But with am5 I've gone msi because I like how they are arranging pcie lanes better.
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Plus, they have a traditional Wifi antenna connection vs. some proprietary nonsense like Asus and Gigabyte on the AMD 8XX boards.
 
celwin said:
I prefer Gigabyte boards for their asthetics.
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I admit I have both MSI and Gigabyte/Aorus set ups here at home, and I have always liked the look of the Aorus brand slightly more. Especially their video cards.
 
I have decided I am never buying another Asus product as long as I live. I have an Asus B650E board that the onboard audio died on and I wanted it replaced, they won't even take the RMA. They claim the serial number is incorrect, I sent them a picture of both the serial tag on the board AND the matching serial number on the box, they don't care. The serial number comes up on their warranty checker page as having warranty until 2028, but if you put it in their RMA form it says its wrong. I have never once had a good experience with their warranty work.

Never again. To be honest, its probably for the better because I would be even more mad when they smashed my socket with a hammer and called it "Customer Induced Damage".
 
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I have decided I am never buying another Asus product as long as I live. I have an Asus B650E board that the onboard audio died on and I wanted it replaced, they won't even take the RMA. They claim the serial number is incorrect, I sent them a picture of both the serial tag on the board AND the matching serial number on the box, they don't care. The serial number comes up on their warranty checker page as having warranty until 2028, but if you put it in their RMA form it says its wrong. I have never once had a good experience with their warranty work.

Never again. To be honest, it’s probably for the better because I would be even more mad when they smashed my socket with a hammer and called it "Customer Induced Damage".
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I’m with you as well. Never again. You basically pay for the name anymore.
 
MSI doesn't do ECC RAM on AM5, which is important to me.

Between Asus and GB I have several working boxes each. Obviously you can only buy Asus boards on Ebay so that you can return them to the seller if you get a DoA board.
 
specially once the socket is quite mature like AM5 is now, I imagine most bios are well polished and the long boat time that was common for MSI issues, massed down for it for the difference to be really thin.

They all use the same main chip, the one with a rebate/combo that math your list of input needs can tend to simply be the choice to go with.
 
I haven't had a board die on me since the early-mid 2000s bad caps plague, so not really worried about that. Bought plenty of "B" chipset boards too, though not for my main rig. Still, no problems with those either. I mostly just look at features.

For my last main rig build I went AsRock because the Z890 Steel Legend had a thermal probe on a wire. I stuffed the probe into the cooling fins on my vid card and set up my case fans to ramp up based on vid card exhaust temps. I'm using a 360 AIO for CPU cooling, but AIOs are highly restrictive and my case fans can feed the AIO fans at silent idle even if the AIO fans are running at max speed. Thus I really only need to ramp the case fans to feed air to the vid card. I really like this setup. It's far more responsive to vid card temps than using system or CPU temp. Of course it's far less useful if you're air cooling the CPU.
 
The only time I've ever had problems with motherboards specifically was back when NVIDIA was still making them for Intel.

To me, it's basically just feature set vs cooling vs cost.
 
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