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bs0409 said:
It's lame believers who go on pricing rather than first hand info- who always fool themsleves into thinking 'badaa/mehengaa hai toh behtar hai" (bigger/pricier the better).
Asus/Rashi had been very horrible with replacements/repairs in India past many years.
So much that people vowed not to use a pc if they were the only thing available.
Some vowed they ill buy anything, even if not good, but not Asus.
Msi was always the so-so player.
And Gaigabyte somehow didnt have a mmajor presence here.
Most weren't even aware where their rma centres were.
Past some years, Gigabyte has been on a major upswing all over the globe, especially since the launch of C2D.
P35 and G31 boards have proven themselves to be of great reliability.
Local awareness in Gigabyte is mainly ushered in by the G31 boards as that is the segment that sells most. (780G to an extent as a vfm 780G option)
In the enthusiast socket 775 segment, the UD3 series is one of the faves.
These things are usually assessed by people who evolve with every new generation of chips and chipsets.
They don't look at prices but only at hands-on experiences with the real thing.
A pricier mobo may at times may not be as hot a peformer than something just a segment down.
Such gurus/enthusiasts evalutae stuff on basis of price to performance.
Coz after all, everyone wants the best bangs for the buck.
If you know your hardware, try out a G31 and let us know.
As you choose not to believe hundreds- yes, hundreds of people who are on a G31 and pretty satisfied with it's performance over the past 1 year or more.
Those who need good gfx, invest in a better gfx card as most netry level cards are also way better than most onboard offerings.
There was a time when an Abit IP35E costing 5.5- 6.5K was the bare min that was suggested.
The G31 has proved itself to be almost as good or even better.
And the price-to-performance simply makes it worth more than every paisa spent on it.
If you check the market, since the release of P45, which don't exactly offer much more than what P35 did for the extra cost, there is no really decent board "available locally" in the 3-7K price range.
The real good P45 boards start much up at 8.5K-9K odd.
And during P35, an IP35-pro was 9.5K odd and a brilliant board.
So for only 2.3K-2.4K, not 2700/-, you get a mobo that runs very stable, OCes good, runs stable even with a fairly decent OC, doesn't die on you.
Even if it dies let us assume, you have an option of paying just 2.4K and getting your rig up and running while the faulty mobo gets rmaed and can sell it off later after rma for not much of a loss.
With a pricier mobo, i doubt many here will buy a secondary mobo and will prefer to wait for the rma to happen.
For a person who needs extra usb ports, more sata ports, etc etc- they are termed hi-end user or enthusiast, they are usually not even looking at an E5200 or a matx mobo unless for htpc purposes.
They need ATX mobos mostly as they have huge gaming grade gpu and mostly have a discrete audio card.
They mostly won't even have E5200 and if they do, it will be in their surfing/downloading rig with a Gigabyte G31.
Midrange systems always have had mobos costing 5-7K, mostly without onboard gfx and the enthusiasts opted for pricier stuff for hi-end rigs.
But the Gigabyte G31 has sort of ushered ina revolution by penetratinginto the midrange market too.
Whether E5200 or E72/7300; whether 8600GT, 9600GT or even 9800GT at times, the 2.3K odd Gigabyte G31 is a common feature in many rigs these days.
For the reasons mentioned above, a lot of 3D artists too use the cheap but functional and very stable Gigabyte G31 mobos with Q6600 for their render rigs/servers, at stock or OCed to 3Ghz-3.2Ghz very easily- for 24x7 rendering. :cool2:
, come on bro, make an effort...
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