ASUS M4A79XTD EVO ATX AMD Motherboard

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Contains firewire and esata, and the right mix of PCI and PCIe slots. Decent cost for all the bells and whistles. Booted up fine, no complications. On-board sound problem!This board, coupled with an Athlon II X4 635, GTX460 and 4GB DDR3 1333 was getting difficulty operating Oblivion at 1280x1024, but only when on a horse. When not on the horse, the game ran great on highest settings. Turns out the on-board sound card just didn't know what to do with the game audio. I installed a low-cost Soundblaster five.1 card I had laying about and the game runs perfect now. I've under no circumstances had an issue like this ahead of. Then again, most motherboards I've utilized in the past don't use a By means of audio chip. Other than the on-board sound concern, I can't complain. The sound worked fine for watching video and other typical day-to-day tasks.One particular point to look at is the location of the hookups for the power, reset, LED, and so forth... It's not on the far ideal, but rather towards the middle of the board. Just make confident your situation has long enough cables.

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Solid Specs. Doesn't support 6 Core processors devoid of a Bios Upgrade.

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So far so excellent with it even though I haven't actually stressed anything yet. The only gripe I have is that it desires to consist of a ATI crossfire interconnect cable, this is the initially time I have used ATI cards and all the nvidia MB i have bought in the past all came with a SLI cable so I knocked an egg off for that.

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Properly...it's rapid...it homes my amazing Phenom II x6...most power effective MB I could come across...Oh and it comes with some really helpful software program bits for monitoring speeds and temps. Good MB. None. Installed on MB is the Phenom II talked about above + ATI Radeon HD 5770 + 2x 4gig Patriot G series RAM. This setup runs Crysis two on highest graphics with no performance troubles.

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Basic, clean layout. Nice color scheme, there's nothing worse than yellow/orange/green expansion slots IMHO. This is negated by the truth that I use a windowless case as they're a waste of time and I'd rather have function more than form. Regardless, it wouldn't look like someone puked on your mobo if you do have a windowed case. Plenty of space around the socket to install larger-than-typical coolers, despite the fact that the mem slots could be a tight fit if you can't rotate your cooler to get past that.Very good BIOS with tons of choices and the potential to use OC profiles...core unlocking and all that jazz if you're in require of it. It's pretty significantly a no-nonsense board, which is how I like them. Could use a couple much more fan headers and SLI support would've been good, as has been noted in other evaluations. I'm finding a bit tired of people claiming high tech expertise when it's fairly obvious they're lucky they can in fact get their Pc to boot. Any Pc tech worth their salt would be loathe to claim high tech knowledge thinking of anything there is to know in this field. The persons who design these boards have high tech expertise, the rest of us are somewhere below that.

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-good layout-good capabilities-simple set up-OC is straightforward with this MOBO -One of the memory slots malfunctioned -screwing the mounts appear like I am bending the board quite harsh setting the motherboard up was extremely simple,rapid,took only 20min, pressed energy, system hanged.Re-plug every thing 1 at a the time, turns out the a single of the memory channel slot on the black side, was not function properly.I was hoping soon place one more 2x2gb ram onto my Mobo for 8gb ram but with that one particular slot out, i'll be stuck with just receiving oen more stick.

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Quite fantastic board. Fits best in my HAF full tower case. Lots of room for pretty substantially any heatsink fan setupMy 8 gigs of G skill ripjaws ddr3 1600 went in flawlessly with only minor bios tweaks.Overall good layout of the board. None of the sata ports are blocked. I have two 5770's in crossfire no issues there. four pin cpu fan and three other 3 pins. allowed me to energy all my HAF's fans with the boards three pins so now none of my wires are showing. This issue is loaded with bios capabilities. Id advocate this board to anyone. Absolutly none.

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Superb for those that want to overclock. ACC tends to make core unlocking simple. The board just looks amazing anyway. This is the ideal board I have ever observed. None

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Wonderful board. So far incredibly stable. O.C. is fantastic. Does every issue I want and additional. Core Unlocker and a lot of extras a plus+. No cons however price บ much less now then when I purchased it. I needed audio driver for my neighbors Asus motherboard. One look a the Asus web site and im a fan. Just search for your item and every single motherboard driver you need to require is appropriate there.

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Functions fantastic, no complications figuring out the bios, so far no issues. Doesn't help my set of g.ability ripjaws ddr3-1600 does help the slower speeds. I can manually enter my settings but it will not run in dual channel mode and have not discovered a way to force it. Have not performed any overclocking.

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It.... Yeah, I got nothing. -Does not support more than 2 sticks of 1600 ram, ADVERTISED TO DO SO-Barely supports 965 BE, can\'t modify WHATSOVER with out BSoDs all over the location. (I want to anxiety this, it implies NO overclocking, no virtual machines, no multipliers, only the out of the box settings perform)-No POST speaker, had to dig a single out of an old machine-Does not POST soon after reboot. Will only cold begin. DO NOT Obtain. ABSOLUTE JUNK!

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Easiest overclocking from a board I've ever observed so far. I put a Phenom II x4 965 BE and effortlessly oc'd it to 3.eight on air. I'm certain it'll go to 3.9 or even 4. since I put a fat Thermaltake fan on it. Lovely board layout. Have had zero troubles. In the past I had two DOA Asus boards so I was very reluctant to give them a different go. I'm glad I did. So, no cons so far. Technology evolves so quickly its pretty much scary. Seems like parts get redesigned ever 6 months or so to the point that acquiring an upgrade means replacing more than just 1 portion. But generally you'll want to upgrade them all anyway. :)

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Almost everything besides the BIOS that came with it I built a Pc for my friend employing this board and anything went smoothly. This was a handful of weeks ago and as far as i know he nonetheless hasnt had any problems. I decided to upgrade my technique to support DDR3 so i bought this board. I put almost everything together and installed windows 7 64bit and did all the updates and every thing was fine. Then i installed Gentoo linux and when i got the kernel installed and booted back up the NIC seemed to not be connected. Then i booted into windows to see if the very same thing happened and sure enough the NIC said i required to plug in a cable. I thought the NIC was negative already which would have created me actually mad due to the fact i got it that day, soon after hours of testing specific items i lastly tried to flash the BIOS to the newest version on ASUS' site and voila everything is operating appropriately now. It came with BIOS 2001 so if you have this challenge attempt updating the BIOS before you RMA it.

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Fantastic excellent and looks nice. Unlocked all 4 cores quickly. Appears to work excellent when I really got it working...which was a bit of a hassle. It had no dilemma recognizing my G.Ability DDR3 Ripjaw memory. Some difficulties as noted by other reviewers. Wouldn't boot up Windows XP Pro...I had to erase and do a clean install prior to it would operate and lost tons of stuff such as thousands of songs. Hopefully I'll be in a position to retrieve them from from my back-up hard drive. Also, as noted, the power/HDD/reset leds are situated at the bottom left of the board...it was a discomfort receiving mine to even reach in my Antec 900 case. It's a fantastic board when working effectively but can be a true discomfort to troubleshoot if it doesn't. Troubles with XP Pro forced me to ultimately upgrade to Windows 7 64 bit...sort of a good thing in the end I suppose...ended up ordering an added four gigs of memory. AMD 965BE three.four Quad Core Black EditionASUS M4A79XTD EVO MotherboardG.Ability 1600 DDR3 Ripjaw MemorƒGigs X's 4)Corsair 750Watt Power ProvideRadeon 5670 HDMI VGA CardAntec 900 CaseZalman 9700 CPU Fan

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Asus boards are prime of the line, and I've by no means run into a challenge with them in the past. They're well built and worth the cost. I would have liked to see USB three. and SATA 6 on it. I know that in the description it says that it is not USB 3. or SATA 6, but by now I would be liking to see the switch made to USB three and SATA 6. But honestly under 贄, this is a fantastic board and you're acquiring great quality and a strong brand backing you for the expense.

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These operate wonderful with my new develop. I Installed them in a system that I loaded with Ubuntu Linux ten.04 Lucid. newegg took also extended to course of action my order so I lost my rebates which I was going to use to purchase 4gig ram Right here is my build:>>ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD 790X ATX AMD MotherboardModel #:M4A79XTD EVO>>XFX PVT94GYAJG GeForce 9400 GT 512MB 64-bit DDR2 PCI Express 2. x16 HDCP Prepared Video Card>>AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGMBOX>>G.Ability 4GB ƒ x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ

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It's ASUS!two slots for graphic cardsGood RAID helpFlashing BIOS was effortless a tiny cramped with my Gemini II cooler Didnt help my 1090T Phenom II cpu.It still ran okay, but I flashed Bios anyways and performance improved.My technique was hanging due to Crossfire, ASUS tech support helped me determine that my RAM specs necessary to have far more voltage to run at 1600. Ưegg for great tech assistance.I will continue to get ASUS merchandise.

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Anything works, what can I say None so far This boardphenom II x4 955 black8 gig GskillF3-12800CL9D-8GBRLSeagate Barracuda 7200.12 500gigMSI N560GTX-TIAntec Truepower 650 wattLite-on dvd rw

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The attributes of this board are immense. Fantastic value for high quality board. Several hundred users on other forums are reporting that the power switch on their computers forces the laptop to carry out a challenging reboot. It has been determined that there IS a motherboard hardware defect. I have not heard any word from ASUS on this, but I am experiencing this everyday. Not when has the power switch worked properly. Good thought, just needed a lot more testing ahead of released to the public.

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This motherboard is BEYOND impressive & desrves all the awards it has and then some! I Specially Love the space, and what truly sold me was the surge protection that is BUILT IN! It's a Need to HAVE Motherboard! None! Like IT!

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fired right up , and it booted my hd, I didn't have to reformat . WOW! not however

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Excellent searching board. Quick NB and SB. Stays quite cool. Very well manufactured. I adore the optical audio. Needs more internal SATA connections

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NONE two boards in a row. Fans spin mobo gets power. Front panel on the case works. NO BEEP AT ALL. Cleared CMOS. Same problem NO BEEP NO POST. Power supply excellent. CPU very good. Graphics card great. HDD superior. MOBO is not, TWICE. Just gonna refund at this point and get a board locally. Newegg Need to Actually DISCONTINUE THIS MOBO. It's not just me if you read by means of the evaluations you will see others with this same concern and do RMAs MULTI Occasions. I also went to the ASUS site and read threads on this model mobo and there are individuals having this identical concern so it's not just Newegg buyers. This is just sad at this point and incredibly frustrating. What actually sucks is I have to pay for the shipping back to Newegg @ 12 bucks x 2 so generally I added ศ to the cost of the mobo I didn't even use. Newegg ought to refund the shipping charge as nicely then DISCONTINUE THIS MOBO. I have other ASUS builds that have no issues at all. Granted they do not have this model mobo but ASUS none the much less. I actually feel in my own encounter and from what I've read from other reviews and threads on this identical model mobo, ASUS must cease shipping and Newegg need to discontinue this mobo. Newegg censured what I would genuinely like to say relating to this mobo...

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Initially off the packaging looked good and the mobo itself when I initial saw it looked high high quality. Good mobo for my very first pc construct. The aformentioned issue about attempting to boot into windows xp and took a though to get it to install. At some point I'm here on windows so I'm happy :D Functions good with an x4 955 and 8gb of Patriot ram.

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Incredibly nice board. My 1st time developing a new technique and almost everything worked flawlessly. Excellent high good quality product with a lot of connections and a nice BIOS setup. I have not tried unlocking added cores on my CPU however but I'm confident this board will do it just fine. I wish they put a 3rd PCI slot rather of two PCI ex1 slots.