Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H mATX FM2+ A88X DDR3 2PCI-E16 PCI-E1 PCI CrossFire SATA3 HDMI USB3 Motherboard

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Bought at Ncix landsdowne store with $10 mir, which is now on the way to me. Quality built through-out. 4 memory slots; 6 usb at rear; hdmi and dvi-d. On-board usb 3.0 plug-in for front panel. Super fast responsive and runs very smooth at very low temperature of 27 degree. Bios is rev.3 and well updated. My cpu processor is A8-6600K. No need to fresh bios. After installation of all hardware and kick start button, it lights on in one shot. I used this newly installed computer for almost 2 months, no any issue happened. This motherboard is truly reliable.Love it.

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Couldn't get it to boot with 2400mhz ram with A8 7600 processor. I'm not sure if this is a limitation of the MB or the processor. MB says it supports 2400(OC). I have loosened the timings and couldn't get the computer to boot. But I am content at running at 2133.FYI, there have been some reviews where they couldn't get 2400 to work and some where they could.

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Bought this motherboard with AMD x4 860K. Had to update  Bios to F7 and download USB3 & SM BUS drivers from 3rd party drivers as Gigabyte drivers on CD and site did not work. https://driverscollection.com/?H=GA-F2A88XM-D3H%20%28rev.%203.0%29&By=Gigabyte

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Price performance ratio is fantastic. After adding my own VRM heatsinks, have a daily stable OC of 4.5ghz on my 860k.Deducted a star for not having the BIOS needed to run the CPU it advertises to support.No problems, no complaints! HTPC/Gaming PC.860k, 2x4gb Gskill 1600mhz/CL9 DDR3, CLUB3D R9 270

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for the price this is the best deal i have no cons at all

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There are better boards out there, but not for this boards price point. 8x SATA3, overclocks well, lots of USB ports at price point and crossfire capable. I was a little unsure if the X4 860K I bought with this board at the same time would work, success, it does, whew.... It does have USB BIOS Flashback, but happily never needed it. Honestly sort of looks and feels like a mid-range board, very impressed for value for money. Makes for a really nice little HTPC, DLNA NASbox. specs are:X4 860K2x4GB DDR3 2133HD 7970SanDisk 240GB Extreme SSD2x3TB HDD'sEVGA 650W G1Fractal Design Core 1500

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Installed this in a basic web browsing PC for a client. Runs stable with an A10-5800K and 4GB DDR3. BIOS gets out of the way pleasantly fast so Windows can boot within 15 seconds.Felt like a steal at the sale price, never mind the mail-in rebate which I never take into account.Found the Southbridge heatsink was mounted loosely with only two spring-loaded plastic rivets and no thermal paste. Doesn't look like an individual fault but more Gigabyte's choice of mounting hardware - the springs are too weak. In any other application I'd tighten it and use some thermal paste.

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I couldnt be more pleased, this is over my expectation for the price. I use this in an htpc and its working flawlessly.

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Would buy again.

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Nice mATX board for socket FM2+ chips. Paired mine with an Athlon 860K and made a pretty deadly (and cheap) system.

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Gigabyte always deliver on quality motherboards, even on this intermediate budget offering, you get a lot of value and quality at a decent price. I got this around fifty after a mail in rebate, not including taxes, and it's excellent. The BIOS has a nice GUI, connects everything I have and more for the future including 7 SATA ports.

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I have built 3 systems with this board using the A10 5800K Quad core processors and 8 GB Ram : G.SKILL Ripjaws X F3-14900CL9D-8GBXL 8GB 2X4GB DDR3-1866 CL9-10-9-28 Memory. Apparently it is important to use good quality fast ram with this platform, even so these are still an inexpensive build.2 of the systems are using dual monitors with no added video card. The systems perform very nicely with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 and my clients are very happy with them.

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Very Good-Would Purchase Again great and easy to use BIOS.it is very simple to IT personal to install and ready to gothanks

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Needs to be better posted about bios updating if you are doing a new build and have no older APU already.

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Perfect for a lower budget machine paired with Kaveri. One thing I like about AMD is that they don't constantly change sockets and they're backwards compatible.

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Gigabyte makes quality mobo's, cant really go wrong with them.