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I see Gigabyte being singled out more than the rest so I wonder if this is another "fake phases" debacle as it happened to them in the past. They advertise the

I see Gigabyte being singled out more than the rest so I wonder if this is another "fake phases" debacle as it happened to them in the past. They advertise the board now as having "real phases". It's not out of the question that they took a shortcut elsewhere in order to meet some efficiency expectations or anything else like this. Just because it's high end doesn't mean they won't cut corners or fail to test properly. My ROG motherboard was (at the time) the most expensive motherboard for the socket. Yet it behaved overall worse than many mid/low-end motherboards I owned, an experience shared with other owners of the same board. Even if this is a problem with the CPU that is mitigated by changing parameters of the motherboard it should have been caught during the motherboard design and testing. I can't imagine Gigabyte's engineers noticing this stuff and saying "just ship it like that, nobody will notice". So the best interpretation I can have is that they missed it during testing (the worst is that the marketing department said "we have to put it out there fast, all else be damned", and all else was damned).

clarry 7y ago
> Just because it's high end doesn't mean they won't cut corners or fail to test properly. My ROG motherboard was (at the time) the most expensive motherboard for the socket. High end in consumer stuff, and especially anything gaming related, is basically scam.. look mah, 16000 dpi! And blingy leds! (But no engineering) Sure they might drop an over-specced part somewhere in it but it's just marketing when the rest of the product is crap and still has no proper engineering behind it. It's incredibly frustrating. I think there was a time when you could generally assume that expensive = high end = actually good, but now it's just a cheap thing with crazy markup and a premium part (but nowhere near premium enough to justify the markup) or two somewhere (where it probably doesn't matter much anyway) along with other gimmicks. Now it's just expensive = expensive, good or maybe not.

clarry 7y ago

> Just because it's high end doesn't mean they won't cut corners or fail to test properly. My ROG motherboard was (at the time) the most expensive motherboard for the socket. High end in consumer stuff, and especially anything gaming related, is basically scam.. look mah, 16000 dpi! And blingy leds! (But no engineering) Sure they might drop an over-specced part somewhere in it but it's just marketing when the rest of the product is crap and still has no proper engineering behind it. It's incredibly frustrating. I think there was a time when you could generally assume that expensive = high end = actually good, but now it's just a cheap thing with crazy markup and a premium part (but nowhere near premium enough to justify the markup) or two somewhere (where it probably doesn't matter much anyway) along with other gimmicks. Now it's just expensive = expensive, good or maybe not.