Gigabyte vs ASUS

[ddhrubo]

i am going to buy a motherboard very soon for using an i5 6600 and gtx 960. in budget, i cant decide between Gigabyte G1 Sniper B7 and ASUS b150 pro gaming Aura.

which of these two would be better? the asus one seems to have a few extra features but the gigabyte one would save me some bucks. but at the same time i want to make sure whatever i buy, is well built and will be durable. ive recently lost a gigabyte 75 board after only 3 years of use so im getting an itch when considering the same brand again.

any kind of suggestion will be appreciated

 

[Eximo]

I have a Z87 Gigabyte board running 24/7, going on 3ish years now. ASUS Z87 board since Haswell came out, though I don't leave my gaming box running 24/7. Over the years I have had the most failures from MSI, but that is going back a long time, the days of electrolytic capacitors in non-OEM boards. ASUS warranty once repaired a board for me free of charge, only had to pay shipping one way.

B class (for Business or Budget, you decide) aren't really intended for heavy use. I understand the need for budgeting, but an i5-6600 is a very nice chip, I think it deserves at least an H class board so that you have some decent VRMs to handle long duration loads.

 

[ddhrubo]

thanks for your suggestion but unfortunately at this moment i am stuck with this range. 🙁 which one of these two would you suggest?

 

[10tacle]

I've been building with ASUS motherboard almost exclusively for 20 years and have had only one board go bad before becoming obsolete, a Sandy Bridge P8P67 Pro for my i5 2500K. Apparently there were cheap capacitors that caused many to have blown motherboards over time. But by the time it blew (three years into ownership) I was due for an upgrade anyway (Haswell).

Also, I just much prefer ASUS's BIOS interface, but that's just personal preference. Even if it was not my money and I was advising or building for someone else (like this answer, lol), and even though I'm biased, I'd still buy the ASUS.

 

[Eximo]

I would tend to agree. ASUS and Gigabyte are the two largest manufacturers of PCB in the world, but most of my boards have been ASUS and I have had no real failures. I have one board that no longer will run a full memory load out, one embedded system that took a ride for service (overheating), but came back functional. All others are still working, oldest being Athlon XP era. Before that I shopped locally (before the interwebs really) and had a lot of no-name brand parts.