Press Release: GIGABYTE Marks 20 years...

[Capper]

Los Angeles, CA - Aug 11th, 2006 - GIGABYTE™ marks its 20th anniversary of manufacturing computer components in this year - The company was founded, with visions in the motherboard industry and passion of advance technology, by 5 young engineers on April, 1986.

Over the years, GIGABYTE™ has evolved from a small laboratory to a global business, a diversified technology hardware brand that delivers the most innovating technology to the computer industry.

From the introducing of the patented DualBIOS™ feature in 1999 to launch of the first motherboard with 4 slots of PCI-E x16 supporting NVIDIA® SLI™ technology last year, GIGABYTE™ has been leading ahead the industry, with devotion in building up the core competency over advancing technology and top quality customer care. And this is our spirit, the GIGABYTE™ Spirit.

The year of 2006 is a very exciting year. Intel® announced the new processor, Core™ 2 Duo, AMD® launched its new AM2 socket, and for GIGABYTE™, it is our 20th year anniversary and a brand new chapter in our corporate history! 20 years of development and dedication, we are now at the most energetic and creative age. The 20th anniversary logo, a combination of the green Q and the red C, simply expressed our corporate value and mission: Quality and Care. With a central concept in offering technology innovations to digitalize and upgrade in everyday life, GIGABYTE™ believes in “Innovation, Quality, Service, Efficiency, Branding, and Community Care” are the only path to success.

To celebrate this important milestone, we offered the chance of winning FREE FABULOUS PRIZES to all visitors to our current home at www.gigabyte-usa.com from August 20th, 2006 thru September 20th, 2006. Throughout this coming month, simply enter our raffle drawing contest by answering 3 trivia questions correctly relating to GIGABYTE™’s Company Profile and Products. And we sincerely invite you to celebrate our anniversary with us!

GIGABYTE™ will continue to offer many quality promotions, programs, and special events throughout the year for you to experience our Quality and Care.

Yes, We are ready! Ready to take on any challenge, to develop more revolutionary technology in the next twenty years of GIGABYTE™.

GIGABYTE™ 20th Anniversary Contest: http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Promos/2...test_Rules.asp

[gvblake22]

BOOO! The contest doesn't work if you click cancel to not sign up for the newsletter (I am already subscribed).

In other news though, has anyone heard about the little joint venture between Gigabyte and Asus??

[Jokerswild]

Damn I hope I remember to sign-up a week from sunday. I've never had a gigabyte board but I've heard good things about them. Bad things too come to think of it.

[Capper]

LOL, some people love them, some people refer to them as Gigapoop.
I've personally had good luck with their boards, while never the best O/Cing options, they have always been stable and feature rich

[yurimxpxman]

I have a Gigabyte board. Rich is right about it not being good for overclocking. I can't get my 3700 past 2.3 Ghz :evil:. The onboard audio died on me too. Other than that, it's been good to me. So I'm not stating an opinion; just take that for what it is. :)

[Jokerswild]

Originally Posted by yurimxpxman

I have a Gigabyte board. Rich is right about it not being good for overclocking. I can't get my 3700 past 2.3 Ghz :evil:. The onboard audio died on me too. Other than that, it's been good to me. So I'm not stating an opinion; just take that for what it is. :)

Thanks for your non opinion.

[stinger608]

I have had several Gigabyte boards, GA-7vax, GA-7vaxp, GA-7N400pro, and pro2's. Most all of them have been exellent boards, with the exception of the vax board. As Cap stated, they really are not a very good OCing board, but they are, for the most part, very realiable, and stable mobo's The GA-7N400pro series of boards use the nforce 2 chip set, and are kind of a pain when it comes to brands, and configuration of the RAM. Of course there were a lot of companies that had this same problem with the nforce 2 chipsets.

I suppose if I was to rate Gigabyte's older boards, on a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate them about 7.5 or so, mainly because of the stability of there products.

[yurimxpxman]

Originally Posted by jokerswild

Thanks for your non opinion.

You're welcome :P

[RangerXLT8]

Glad to see Gigabytes new 965\975 boards are a success in enthusiast eyes. Overclockers in particular are loving the DS3 and DQ6.

In a matter of like 2-3 days I will be finished reviewing the DS3. Wait and see what this board can do.

[yurimxpxman]

I read on the MPC forums that the North Bridge temps on Gigabyte boards are often the culprit of their crappy overclocking success. Hopefully the Zalman chipset cooler Rich sent me will fix that problem :)