GIGABYTE GA-EP43-UD3L ATX Intel Motherboard

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For the price this a great board. Get good memory and it runs great. I haven't tried the OC menu yet. I really dont OC anyway. Buy it, for a mid level board it's great for a gamer..

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VERY IMPRESSED.. I got this awesome Gigabyte board as part of a barebones kit. The kit included this board Gigabyte EP43-UD3L, Intel Q6700, 8Gb of Kingston PC6400 800Mhz ram, 750GB Seagate HDD, Lite-On 22x DVD Burner, And a decent case and a small 300 watt power supply. I added a EVGA GeForce 9500GT 1Gb PCI-E 2.0 Graphics card and an Ultra 650 watt power supply and everything went together perfectly. I had everything up and running in under 2 hours including Windows Xp Pro x64. I only ran into one small problem with the board or maybe it was the heat sink. I'm pretty sure it was the heat sink. I got a Masscool socket 775 CPU Heatsink fan and for some reason the holes on the board were just a bit too small. So i made the holes a tiny bit bigger with a drill and all is well, or should i say EXCELLENT. This system is extremely fast and the CPU never gets above 32c or 36c. Now i am one happy camper, THANKS AGAIN TIGER.

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I just bought this MB for my kids computer. He is 13 and I had him do nearly all removal and installiation steps. Couldn't be any easier if a 13 yr old with no electrical experience can install MB, OCZ Fatility Ram, CPU (I did this, didn't want to kill the comp right out of the gate)and new 9600 GT (1gig) Video Card all in under an hour. Required a reload on Win XP but that just means his computer now boots up and is ready for gaming in under 60 Sec. Great looking MB, would highly recommend to anyone.

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Amazing board. Rock solid. Lots of features for the price. RAID would have been nice, but would be a lot to ask for in this price range. Great cheaper alternative to P45 boards. Highly recommended.

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The board is good but a real pain to OC, if you are going to just run it in normal mode runs good enough. You OC it just a little, and its good, The board is a little thin, but other then a few run ins with OCing, I have no complaints other then the fact that the box was not sealed making me think I got some ones RMA who could not make it work. Once up and running this thing is a beast.