GIGABYTE GA-G41M-ES2L Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

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I bought this so I could upgrade my processor. And I did just that. Great Motherboard, the only con about it is the boards compacted and takes a while to start.

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I was pretty pleased with the ease of setup with this motherboard. I did however have some complications with the SATA components. I did not really look into the problem to much due to the fact this was for my uncle and he had an IDE H.D.D to use. But I could not get the SATA working on my Raptor 1TB H.D.D Other than that the system ran flawless.

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I have been away from computer building for a few years and I was not up to the latest offerings in motherboards , however I found this to be a much better motherboard than I had purchased before and I had purchased quite a few and had problems with them and short lives but this one is great.

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it is a very compact motherboard i can't think of any component left out which it has already (except onboard wireless communication cards) you will need to have a desk light and magnifier to get to install hd,power so on indicator lights run your backup copy of your os files so the hardware change takes effect loads up

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This product met all of my expectations. It is an outstanding value. Great prices and fast, discount shipping make Tigerdirect my fist stop for electronics.

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Purchased as part of a PC bundle, put it together and all works fine. Good value.

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Most reliable so far. Good value and works. Quality can be little improved. Be little careful to put on cooling fan feet on the board.

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Got this with a bare bones System. Easy to install and setup. Have had it about a month works great

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Lets the Intel Dual Core Processor do it's thng with speed and accuracy. I'm in love!

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I bought this to replace a fried Compaq mobo. Right out of the box I installed it and a new processor and it fired right up with no difficulties. Lots of nice features included in the software as well. very good deal for the price in a home computer.

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Some of the things I really like about Giga main boards is their speed of POST, the time it takes from pushing the on button to the time you get into Windows. This board is fast. Gigabyte boards have always been fast to post and boot. I put this together and loaded Windows XP SP3 without a single hiccup. No need for SATA F6 drivers either since it's Intel and the BIOS can emulate SATA drives as IDE during install. This is a superb board for the price and considering it's upgradeable to Quad Core CPU's you have some life on it as well. Thanks Giga

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Had this mobo for about 2 months now. I have 3 of them actually, and I use them in almost every way imaginable. I am a computer repair technicion, 8 years experience, and I have ran everything from windows 98, me, xp home and pro, vista, and 7, to snow leopard from mac. The motherboard has great features and serves many purposes. Great mobo for the buy! Thanks TigerDirect.

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I love this mb and all the things i got to go with it it took all of 5 mins to put it all together and get it running and i just ordered more things from comp usa and i got them in 3 days of order....

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Gigabyte builds a great line of MB's. Used an Intel E5200 processor. This was an easy build with excellent Gigabyte features and performance. It has been very stable, no crashes or issues, since I built it 2 months ago. Would highly recommend it, especially for the price.

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I have built and rebulit quite a few computers and this mother board was easy to work with and it was quickest computer I ever built.I have the computer running now for 3 days and there is no problems.Highly recomendeed

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this is a great replacement board...had the IDE channel and the FDD channel so it works great for the old HD and Floppy, its fast and can be updated down the line when I need......

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I have had my MB about 2 weeks is about my 10th. mb instation. This mb takes 3 min to boot from turn on to Windows start. Wrote to Gigabyte twice, no answer.

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Added Intel E7500, 4GB Ram, Radeon 4650 1GB, WD 500 GB SATA, IDE DVD, and XP pro 32. All worked on installation, Standard settings allowed loading of XP and software with out any problem!

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i ordered this as part of a bundle. first mobo i got was defective. second one wouldn't completely seat the processor. even when the cpu fan was tightly secure the processor wasn'tt. gigabyte told me there was no way to fix this so i switched to an intel mobo. seemed more like a bad product than bad luck

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Gigabit tech support was helpful. Don't forget the 4-prong power supply plug for the mother board. Once I corrected my mistake, it took off without a hitch.

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Bought this a part of a kit. Works Great!

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Great board,good performance, no problems running xp with sevice pac2,only thing I didn't like is Northbridge runs hot, so I supperclued a fan on it and that took care of it. Well pleased with this board.

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I didn't read the specs close enough and was surprised that it had only one IDE connector on the board. Otherwise, I am well satisfied.

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This board is not compatible with XP no service pack disks and some OEM disks. If you have Vista or W7 you may be fine but XP can have problems.

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I wanted a MB that would allow me to install Win XP with as little effort as possible. This allowed me to do that, so I am very satisfied.