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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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard put the barbones kit togeather in about one houreverything started right up havent had a single proublem , its been running for 3 months straight without a hitch

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard The second motherboard did not work, so we called and asked for the exchange. Every thing went smoothly. Thanks.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard I'm using an Itel E5300 along with this motherboard for a home server. I chose it over a Atom motherboard to have a little more expandability and I'm glad I did. I can stream movies to three different (Xbox, WD TV Lives) devices while backing up my computers and it dosen't miss a beat.

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Apex SK-503 Black Mid-T Case Received broken front. returned for credit. didn't get the plastic bag off unit.

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Ultra 2048MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz Memory Received with barebone kit. Installed set up everything is working fine.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard This is a small form factor board. Board was active about 2 hrs then stopped working. Currenly waiting on return status.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard Upgraded from a ECS board with similar specs, the old board started failing at post every other boot 4 months after installation. Not only does this board work as Advertised but it blew my expectations away. Nothing but good things to say about Gigabyte, never had a problem with any of there hardware. on a side note if you have never installed a MB in your life there are very good instructions included, dont forget your antistatic strap if you dont have one!

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard great value, instructions on web very good easy to install (my first one) works first time

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Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Processor BX80571E7500 CPU and heatsink work well. The processor is a great deal for the money. Only complain: the strips are useless and rather obstruct heat transfer from the processor. After scraping them off and applying arctic silver the unit worked perfectly.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard Bought one MB, returned it and then another. Neither worked. Returned for a MSI MB.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard Bought this with an Intel dual core prosser and everything worked fine from the start except my Linksys wireless adapter. Windows 7 did not like the software, but finally got it working. Best board I ever had.

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Ultra 2048MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz Memory Fully compatible, works as advertised. Windows open faster, less lag overall. Unfortunately, Windows 7 only recognizes 4 GB total, including the 1gb of video ram, so Windows only sees 3 of the 4 installed. Maybe I should upgrade to 64 bit, which would fix this.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard Popped a Q9550 in it. No Overclocking used. Solid board for our practice rig (ableton software). Good stuff.

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Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Processor BX80571E7500 I took my 5 year old computer and for $300 got a new motherboard chip and memory. It is flying!!! Watched the new doctor who in HD on my big screen and the new parts worked perfectly.

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Ultra 2048MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz Memory It seems to run the games my grandkids play fine. They are simple games and not graphic intense.

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Ultra 2048MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz Memory It seems to run well when I play older games, however I get a bad framerate on newer games. Although that most likely has something to do with my gpu.

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Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Processor BX80571E7500 This processor is so fast. Even though it is older it is the high end of the old so it is still faster than the newer ones. The only difficult part was installing the fan which didn't seem to want to stay in. The fan keeps it very cool. Overall a great buy

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Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar Blue Hard Drive Bought this drive about 10 months ago. Liked the price but its a bitter taste now that its completely useless. Windows started getting slow and kept pausing. Surface scan revealed unrecoverable sectors, the surface scan took 9 hours to run and only got 15% of the way through. Stopped it, pulled the drive out and did what I should of done... bought a quality name brand, not this cheap low end garbage that WD is pushing as good product. ALl my other drives have been running for years and I wont mention who they are from. Goodbye WD, luckily I was able to get my lightroom catalogs off this drive before I DOD'd it and smacked it with a hammer for the trash bin.

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Ultra 2048MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz Memory Bought 2 to upgrade my Compaq desktop. Both did not work! Unfortunately I can't return them because it's been over a month since I bought them.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard I bought this motherboard as a combo deal with a Core 2 Duo E8200 processor to upgrade my current setup. The board contained ample slots and hookups to suit all my needs, and even has extra bonuses (up to 8 GB RAM, 4 SATA connectors, and the option to upgrade to Core 2 Quad without switching boards) makes this seem to be a solid product that will be used for a time to come.

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Ultra 2048MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz Memory I had a problem similar to another reviewer: one of the two modules was defective. It took a lot of effort and frustration for me to figure this out, because of the unhelpful and varied error messages while attempting to install Windows.

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Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard My only issues with the MB relate to things that one could easily get from reading the specs prior to purchase: 1) The MB does not advertise PCIe 2.0 support. I'm guessing that this means that a PCIe 2.0 video card will run at the PCIe 1.0 transfer rate. 2) two slots for memory modules (not 4) due to very compact MB Nice feature: onboard video made initial setup easier and is probably good enough for most non-gamers.

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Apex SK-503 Black Mid-T Case One corner of the case was bent. Someone else posted about a similar problem, so I'm guessing it is a manufacturing flaw (rather than from shipping process). Some other things to be aware of: o There are two pictures of the case in the ad. The one that I got is solid black (no gray trim) o The power supply lacks PCI express power cables. This limits options for adding a good video card

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Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar Blue Hard DriveNice. Works great with no problems at all. Buy it!

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Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Processor BX80571E7500 high performance, fast shipping, and good price