Read reviews before you buy things in future. RMA that MF.
I find your logic quite unreasonable. On this particular motherboard there are only 3 reviews complaining about this. On some other Gigabyte motherboards there are people complaining about it but why would I look into those boards? I've been using Gigabyte motherboards for years now and never had any issues.
Also, I don't think the board is dead. People have said that they RMAed it several times and still had the same issues. Do you really think that Gigabyte has that many faulty boards? Maybe I'm just doing something wrong.
Remember, it runs fine when my video card isn't hooked up...