Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard & Intel C2D Bundle - Gigabyte G41M-ES2L MOBO, Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93GHz, 2GB DDR2, 500GB HDD, Case & PSU

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Apex SK-503 Black Mid-T Case when i got the case the front panel was damaged i didnt like the tower because the metal is very thin i wouldnt recommend getting this tower UNLESS your low on budget

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Apex SK-503 Black Mid-T CaseI had ordered six cases for work and all of them had bad power supplies. Some were DOA and others died after turning it ON once. If you use Micro ATX board, the wires from the front panel (power, LED, reset) do not reach the mother board, I had to punch out 3.5 inch plate and then it was a tight fit. With ATX board the harddisk interferes with the SATA connectors. This retailer replaced the power supplies with Diablotech 350Watt PS and they are very good.

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Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Processor BX80571E7500 You don't hear many people crowing about the duos with everyone throwing quads in their builds, but these puppies have outstanding performance and offer a significant savings over more recent offerings. For the silent majority, a smart buy.

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Apex SK-503 Black Mid-T Case As others mentioned you don't want to be rough with this unit while building as the metal is thin and will bend. But how much does a desktop get move around when done.... One GOTCHA on the particular unit I received to watch out for. The wires for the power switch were labled as the LED lights and vice versa. I almost did a return until I realized this as I could not power the unit at all. Once I switched the wires to their correct spot on the motherboard all was well.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard 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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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard 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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Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Processor BX80571E7500 this processor is very fast. plenty fast for everything I do including online games like WOW and BF42 and also some recording software. With all those things the stock fan keeps the cpu very cool, right now its at 27c and when I'm playing games its around 35c. With this price it's a HUGE deal!

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard Bought this a part of a kit. Works Great!

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard 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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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard 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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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard 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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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard 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.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard bought this to put together a system low cost but efficient computer for a friend's kid. worked well when tested and no complaint yet and oh! works well with windows 7 ;-)

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard I bought this in a bare bones kit. Functioned well easy to assemble.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard Recently assembled this mainboard as part of a kit and quite satisfied with performance. There was a slight confusion with the SATA,IDE bridging protocols but this is not out of line with other chipsets and manufacturers. The fabrication quality is impeccable in true G-B fashion. Excellent value for the dollar.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard Got this as part of a bundle. VERY satisfied. It could use one more PCI slot.

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Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Processor BX80571E7500Excellent processor. I got it in a bundle for a great price. No thermal grease included though...

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Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar Blue Hard DriveI have two of these in a RAID 0 config. The read write speeds of 187MB read, 184MB write is only slightly slower, 204MB read, on my RAID 0 32GB SSD. I am going to add two more drives to the array and get more speed and one TB of storage for the same price as the 32GB SSD. RAID 0 is a much simpler addon to speed and you don't have the performance degradation that you have with old SSDs. I am on my third SSD in 18 months.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard Good prices.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard & Intel C2D Bundle this is my very first system i put together with much help from a friend, a lil small on the inside but not enough to mark down for, still fit an 9800gt video card in there, overall a very good system for a first time buy

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard This mobo was easy to install and has worked since day one. Excellent product!

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Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Processor BX80571E7500 this thing is really fast, i upgraded from a core 2 duo 2.10 ghz and the speed is outstanding i am very satisfied with this product.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard Got this as part of a bundle deal; full terabyte PC for under $250. Works great. Onboard Video and audio are reasonable too.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard It a very compact board and some of the instructions are not as clear as they should be. Had no issues with the operations, just wish my eye site was a lot better and my hands where a lot smaller.

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Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar Blue Hard Drive I have two of these, and up until 2 days ago I was fairly satisfied. However, I just lost 420 GB of data on one due to corrupt firmware, which is apparently a common problem (among others) with this model. Data recovery would cost roughly $600...which is outside my budget. To keep things short, if you buy this drive, BE CAREFUL! Make regular backups of your data so that you won't lose it like I did.