GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H ATX AMD Motherboard

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POSTed initial boot. Feature rich. Great value. Needed manual setting for my memory but been gaming sturdy since. Haven't been in a position to attempt all the new characteristics yet. My construct:AMD PhenomII X6 1090T BE Thuban processorGigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H AM3 motherboardGigabyte GV-N460SO-1GI Super Overclocked GTX 460 (FermeƞGB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1333 MemoryWD Caviar Blue 500GB HDWindows 7 64bitAntec EA650 EarthWatts 650 Watt PS

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i really like this motherboard i purchased it for my six core construct and i have had absolutely nothing but a entertaining excellent time with it simple to overclock easy to use and lots of hook ups dule bios is great just awazing i cant assume of any it is wonderful Thermaltake ArmorPlus VH6000BWSSAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6950 2GBAMD Phenom II X6 1100T three.3GHzGIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H AM3XION AXP Lan-Party Edition 1000W CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB Ɣ x 4GB) Acer S231HLbid Black 23" x2acer Ferrari 22"(Creative Sound XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Qualified Series Sound Card)

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This board has a lot of expansion space, far more usb ports than i will possibly ever use. I bought this board due to the fact it is upgradeable for different processors, practically nothing worse than needing to upgrade your processor and finding out, whoops..you can't. Every little thing loaded up from my disk just fine..till I tried to use the utilities, easy tune 6 refuses to function or come up at all when I attempt to open it. went to manufacture sight..not a lot of help there, would like to possibly oc it later but not without having help. My windows expierience score was 7.3 on cpu and memory ( using windows 7 ) but onboard graphics was low...so I upgraded to ati. 5570 1 gb ddr3 mem, suprise !! my score on cpu and mem went down to three.1 and the graphics only went to five.three, don't know whats up with that also the graphics " hiccup" each now and then, don't see why with what I have in this thing, any assist would be appreciated there. Good board all collectively Program amd athlon x4 3.1 ghz propus 8 gb g-ability mem ati 5570 1 gb ddr3 graphics card 500 gb caviar black hd dvd rom drive

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Wonderful port density for the price tag, Octo assistance, decent GPU on board. Some what poor port placement, specifically when paired with CM Scout. And the large a single, it came dead on arrival. No POST, regardless of what I attempt. Will leave this open at the moment as a 1, but the reality I now have to pay an extra 11 bucks to get the very same board is very frustrating. I wasn't going to do a different create my personal, mainly because I wanted assistance, but chose to do it anyways and now I am surely regretting my selection. Manufacturer Response:Dear Client,Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your Gigabyte product. Please make contact with us at newegg-assistance@gigabyte-usa.com with the case number 67813 in the subject line. We will present personalized service and analysis to enable resolve your situation ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your speak to quantity, and we will get in touch with you.Gigabyte VIP Assistance Group

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Fit into my Antec 900 case with out any difficulties. Installation of almost everything was simple. 6 GB/S is great. If utilizing a comparable Antec case it can be tough to make use of all of the SATA connectors as they line up straight behind the drive bays.

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Really nice spending budget board, great layout won't shed sata ports to larger video cards. none Be sure to check on-line for updated manuals.

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Good sound, does its job, one particular of the best on the market place on a spending budget. NONE USB 3. and SATA 6 Gbps. WHAT A lot more DO YOU Will need?

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Nice MB, effortless to install. Windows 7 64 house edition, following wake up from sleep (S3) the pc became unusable. Still have mouse, cursor changes when over various windows, but nothing at all responds. Have to transform to S1 sleep.

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Lots of features with great overall performance and room to grow. The AMD Phenom II X4 945 works nicely. This is my initial Gigabyte motherboard and like the style of the board as properly as the software/utilities integrated. none so far Getting Windows Experience Index of 7.three on CPU (AMD Phenom II X4 945).Memory is scored at 7.five employing 8GB of Important DDR3 1333 memory modules.On board graphics are scored 4.five and the 3D score is 5.four ... not fantastic numbers, but will do all I will need it to do. Can add far better video card in future if necessary.When booting into Win7 64 the Plextor DVD drive did not appear in device manager. Went to BIOS/CMOS setup and it did not show there either. Moved the DVD cable from SATA3 connector to SATA2 connector and now all is fine.Would get this one particular yet again

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Good mix of portsGood excellentAdore the dual-biosIntelligent positioning of pluggable components. Nothing at all is blocked or unreachable.Excellent price Loose heat sink on the north bridge, as other individuals have complained about. Done three builds with this board and they all had this situation. On the other hand, this has NOT ended up causing any complications at all, systems run good for numerous months, so I continue using this board for Phenom builds as everything else is ideal and the systems all run fine and ambient temps are excellent.I feel this difficulty is actually since people today instinctively grab that heat sink when positioning the motherboard, as it is larger than most glued-on heatsinks and gives a fantastic gripping point with out having to touch the PCB. Grabbing it causes the glue to crack even though, which really should possibly be expected if you assume about it. Heatsink is also fastened on with springs although, which is adequate to sustain decent make contact with even if the glue is no much more. If you want the heatsink to remain glued down, just don't touch it. If you do play with it, don't be surprised when it comes off. Dual-bios ought to be a common function on high-end boards, but Gigabyte is so far the only brand I know of that contains it, which keeps me coming back to them.Doesn't come with SLIC two.1, but I identified a operating SLIC 2.1 bios mod and certificate (for Win7 OEM conversion); I'm not allowed to post links here, but search for 880ga slic two.1 and you'll uncover it. Has been working perfectly for months.Some other boards (like ASrock) have excellent added "novelty" ease-of-construct features like POST troubleshooting LEDs, BIOS reset button, and so forth. However they have generated some negative reviews for placement of ports and common good quality stuff. If you value top quality, go with this board. It's built well and the dual-bios makes it "un-brickable".

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- Fantastic board, no issues so far. Put it in and out the Computer many time already to modify some components and install a new CPU cooler. Appears rugged and tough.- Many features: USB three., RAID chip, CrossFire, and so forth.- BIOS gives several adjustements and tuning capabilities- Gigabyte quality- Quick and stable - Only acquire if you require the advanced functions. I don't use CrossFire, and don't have a RAID, and there are not a lot of USB three. devices however. If you don't need to have that, you can get some thing cheaper.- A single spacer was missing in my package, not a large deal although- Only comes with two SATA cables and 1 IDE cable- Does not appear to read the RPMs of 1 PWM system fan I installed. Could be the fan's fault although.- Included manual somewhat short, need to download pdf manual to get more information.

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Lots of functions. Board was DOA. Hooked it up in my new HTPC situation, got everything connected, turned on the Computer and no video, no sound coming from the internal speaker either. Spent four hours troubleshooting (trying various ram, even went as far as a diverse processor). Took it all the way to just possessing the mobo, power supply, and a operating stick of RAM and nonetheless absolutely nothing. This is the first board I've ever had challenge with. I've installed Gigabyte boards prior to and by no means had difficulties. Manufacturer Response:Dear Consumer,Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your Gigabyte product. Please get in touch with us at newegg-assistance@gigabyte-usa.com with the situation number 64552 in the topic line. We will present personalized service and analysis to assist solve your issue ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your speak to number, and we will get in touch with you.Gigabyte VIP Support Team

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Looks greatOperates wonderfulI got it on sale When I bought it I had thought there were some SATA ports facing upward in addition to the 6 ports that had been facing out... but this was not the case. That and the place of some of the FAN/Audio connectors knocks one egg off from perfection.

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Great board, Booted appropriate up with no complications. Ideal AMD board I've ever had. Constructing a program produced effortless! Haven't tried to open extra cores on my Phenom but looks to be incredibly basic with this mother board. None NewEgg Rocks!!!!

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Ran very good for the initially couple months. looks great. Had this board because october and when i 1st got it ran fantastic then immediately after a month it started to lock up durin processes randomly. now it shuts on randomly and now it wont load windows 7 it sits at the logo. plugged in a hdd with windows xp on it and now the USB mouse and keyboard arenot getting detected. Program informatioCPU: AMD Phenom II multie core 550 Callisto at three.1Ram. Corsair 1x4gigMotherboard: Gigabyte-880GA-UD3H

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It looked fairly and got allot of good reviews, but not this review. Ive been constructing my own computer systems given that the 80's. Like most Ive had concerns with builds but this was a develop where I deviated from my typical MB and went with Gigabyte. This is my second develop with Gigabyte and I must've recognized much better. When I 1st installed the unit it seemed fine except I thought it really should be a bit more rapidly then it was. Then more than a period of a number of months it became slower and slower. It then began freezing and rebooting for no apparent purpose. At first I believed it was Win7 64 that was the trigger so I reinstalled my old WinXP and the outcome was the very same. Random freezing and rebooting. Then I reinstalled Win7 64 and believed it was the memory. I replaced every stick of RAM independenlty and the result was the very same. I then replaced my AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban with an Athlon 64x2 and it ran fine. I then replaced the MB with an M3A32-MVP DELUXE, once more no problems. Bottom line is that just like the preceding Gigabyte MB (which was a GA-7VRXP) it didn't perform Ive generally worked with Asus MB's and so I guess I've been spoiled. I just installed an Asus Crosshair IV Formula and every thing worked out of the box. I will by no means obtain a different Gigabyte board so help me. I now have two Gigabyte MB's that only have one use, anchors. Manufacturer Response:Dear Buyer,Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your Gigabyte product. Please speak to us at newegg-support@gigabyte-usa.com with the situation number 65713 in the topic line. We will supply personalized service and evaluation to enable resolve your problem ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your get in touch with number, and we will contact you.Gigabyte VIP Support Team

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Board works fine, as soon as you get the malware off. The AMD 8-Series Utility DVD, part quantity 120c1-amd8se-130cr Ver. 1.3 loads "Splashtop games by Zenga" and device VM as the 1st issue when you attempt to load the drivers for the 880GA-UD3H v2.two motherboard. This is a particularly nasty thing as it can ONLY be removed by performing a program restore to before you loaded the motherboard drivers. The only way to load the drivers on windows 7 is to go to an additional laptop or computer, download the LAN driver to a USB drive, load that on your new technique and then download all of the drivers manually from the Gigabyte internet site. It is inexcusable that Gigabyte would let a infected disk be packed with a new motherboard. Manufacturer Response:Dear Buyer,Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your Gigabyte item. Please speak to us at newegg-assistance@gigabyte-usa.com with the case number 68082 in the topic line. We will give personalized service and evaluation to enable resolve your problem ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your make contact with number, and we will make contact with you.Gigabyte VIP Assistance Team

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I under no circumstances had any complications with this board. A lot of connectors for USB, FireWire, and so forth. Manual is thorough and clear. None.

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I've built numerous machines and this board was a breeze. Been working flawlessly with Win 7 64 and 8GB G. Skill for several months now. No complaints. none A Rosewill external USB three docking station operates excellent with the built in USB 3.

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Uncomplicated install, nice looking board, effortless bios, effortless to wire, takes benefit of newest sata and usb. Didn't comprehend the newer boards switched more than to two ƒx4) 12v connector - not a problem even though, ran just 1 ƒx4) will have to switch PSU when I overclock for stability. No true cons yet. I like it so far, I haven't applied a Gigabyte board since my initially computer system construct, 5+ years ago - nevertheless running!! I have tested other boards -(Asus & Biostar) They are all really related this just caught my eye and i wanted to test out Gigabyte again considering that I had excellent earlier knowledge with their boards.

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Posted right away. I was surprised to locate two SATA cables included, the SATA terminals are parallel to the board - one thing I haven't seen on my prior MSI and Asus goods. The included SATA cables have ideal-angle connections which worked nicely in my ATX mid-tower case. Onboard video (ATI Radeon HD 4250) works OK (tested with some 1080p video in various formats) and was my major reason for deciding on this board. There was some screen tearing on Quicktime 1080p trailers. CPU fan/thermal control appears to perform quite nicely. Chipset heat sink not firmly secured, ended up cleaning thoroughly and working with Arctic Silver 5. Gets by means of BIOS so promptly it is occasionally hard to trigger setup. As opposed to my prior MSI K8N Neo Platinum in the identical case, and regardless of having connections for method fans, neither the BIOS or Gigabyte's utilities can differ the system fan speeds - forcing me to obtain 800 RPM Scythe fans. There were some graphical difficulties with the BIOS right after I produced modifications away from defaults, but they seem to have gone away. Gigabyte's utilities would be much more useful if it weren't for their poor interface design. Motherboard details do not note ATX spec, so I had to run out and buy a new energy provide as Gigabyte techs assistance confirmed I could not reuse my Antec True430 PSU. Unless Gigabyte improves program fan control, I will not acquire another mobo. Each my older MSI K8N Neo Platinum and Asus P5B-E give higher user manage; a paramount concern in this HTPC create.Though the SPD settings seem appropriate, the sheer quantity of RAM-connected control in the BIOS is unsettling.I have Rev 2.two board with F7 firmware.Thermaltake VA3000 TsunamiPhenom X2 555BEG Skill 2 x 2GB DDR3 1333 MHzAntec BP550

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fantastic layout and capabilities. onboard graphics perform perfectly with additional card to present four monitor support. straightforward install, and setup . none! friendly assistance staff helped with bios modify.

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8 SATA ports, two 4-pin fans plus 2 3-pin fans, unlocked my 555 BE. upgradeable if essential (I can put in additional memory and/or a superior CPU). GIGABYTE. I purchased this open box and had no trouble at all. Nothing was missing, cables were nevertheless in packages. I got rev 2.three. It already had the newest BIOS. Windows 7 auto installed a negative video driver. I had to boot into secure mode to get rid of it. This scared me at initial, mainly because I set the personal computer up and went to perform. When I got property it appeared dead with no video. I was able to boot into safe mode and see that Windows had installed a video driver update. I disabled automatic updates, since this is a server which I will run 24x7. I don't want it installing updates when I am attempting to access the server. (I am utilizing Gigabyte's EasySaver plan to save some power). It's been operating for two weeks without having any complications The major purpose I chose this motherboard is that it has 8 SATA ports and I utilized if for a non-RAID movie server. I decided against RAID. I'll back up on spare drives. I utilized an IDE DVD drive to stay away from working with up a SATA port. right now I have 4 2TB drives and a 50GB SSD installed. My case has room for 6 far more drives. I still have spare SATA ports and when I run out I'll add far more. The 1st 555 BE that i tried to unlock wouldn't unlock mainly because it only had two very good cores. I moved my AMD 555 BE which was known to unlock to this mobo. It unlocked no issue. I tested the audio only extremely briefly mainly because I will not use audio on this server. The onboard graphics is a lot more than sufficient for my goal. I access the server utilizing Team Viewer (Remote Desktop), so I will only want graphics if something goes wrong. I did check that I could overclock some of my CPUs. No complications with temperatures. I employed an low-cost Xigmatek Dark Night Heat Sink/Fan which I got for ษ.

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Bought this board as an upgrade for my earlier technique. This board has proven to be worth its weight in gold. Set up was a snap, with almost everything plugging in very nicely and easily and every thing operating the initial time powered up. No issues with freezing or glitches at all. This board operates like a champ. Super rapidly and particularly power efficient. Preparing to get an additional board just like it to upgrade one more computer system technique for the family members. Don't let the price tag of this board fool you... It is quite reasonable for all the attributes it offers. Memory slots are rather close to the CPU and heatsink, so be sure that you do your investigation for memory chips that have rather slim-line heatsinks. Otherwise, no concerns or cons to this board at all. My specific system make that has verified to function well with extraordinary stability:- GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H AM3 AMD 880G HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3. ATX AMD Motherboard- G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB ƒ x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Desktop Memory Model F3-8500CL7D-8GBRL- AMD Phenom II X4 945 Deneb 3.0GHz four x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 1-Pack for Method Builders - OEM- DVD/RW w/Lightscribe- 750 Watt Power Supply- Two 1 Terabyte 7200 RPM Sata Tough Drives- Visiontek ATI Radeon 5670 1GB GDDR5 PCI-Express 2.1 Graphics Card

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Just assembled my new program yesterday with this motherboard with only one concern, and it wasn't with this board. I haven't been able to test usb3 or sata6, as I have no such devices, yet. Did not even bother with on board video. I bought this board to be as future proof as doable. Working well with phenom x3 740 black, 4 gigs of 1600 gskill, older 500g HD, two ide drives࿈g and 80g) for linux and other storage. really content! none. Excellent so far got it on sale for 89 plus บ rebate. Nevertheless waiting on the rebate..My systemga-ud3h4GB gskill 1600Mhz cas 9 ripjaws(โ at newegg)Thermaltake V3 case w/ three 120mm fansAntec ECO 520 phenom 740 x3 black editionliton dvd/cd writerzotac gts250 512mb upgraded from AGP x8 system with AMD x3200, 2 gigs ram and ATI 3650 video card, so you know I'm actual pleased. Enormous upgrade for me!