Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H Motherboard, Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Processor, & Corsair Dominator Dual Channel 4GB PC8500 DDR2 Memory Bundle

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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core CPUReplaced my amd 9950 cpu with the 965 cpu on my asus m3a79-t board,works like a charm. thanks

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Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H Motherboard good board for a good price. my computer runs better since I installed this board.

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Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H Motherboard overall, a good board for the money.

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Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H Motherboard This is a great MB. My goal was to build a quiet fast system on a budget. In Hardy 8.04 I was had problems with audio recording even after compiling the latest alsa from source, and the onboard ATI was not identified automatically. The linux driver from ATI installed and worked fine. For some reason the compiz enhanced zoom plugin would not work with this card, but I didn't troubleshoot this due to the audio problems. I installed Kubuntu 9.10 and everything works flawlessly so far. Audio playback recording is excellent. The ATI was recognized and installed via the hardware manager. So far I am very happy with this purchase. Urban Terror runs great. The system is very stable and extremely fast! If you are on a budget this is a great buy, and the passive cooled ati card helps keep things quite.

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Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H Motherboard Works perfectly in my new Win7 machine. I got it bundled with an Athlon II 250 CPU. All went together without a hitch. Only running 4GB ram right now but plan to increase to 8GB in the future. This board has all the features I needed. I wish it had come with the cables for the serial and parallel ports but probably don't need them anyway. I am really impressed with this Gigabyte board and will definitely buy another one.

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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core CPU Great deal for this thing. It was an easy install and I'm glad I went with this choice over Intel. It is FAST and handles any process or game that I push on it.

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Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H Motherboard My first time building a computer. I wanteded something that would not break the bank but yet could do what I wanted it to, and be able to expand over time. I got this MB with a AMD Athlon II in a bundle. Set up was easy. Bios was fine. I upgraded the graphis already to a 512md ati card. The 256mb is fine for most but is a little struggle when you want to play a indepth game. I am running with cosair 4gb of gamming memory, and its pretty great. You can upgrade to 16gb. Its a good bang for the buck and it works. Go figure.

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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core CPU Awesome power. Unlocked cores. Very overclockable. No problems. Can switch between multiple processor intense apps with no problem at all. Highly recommend. Running Boinc 100% on all cores 2 months str8. Awesome enthusiast and normal user alike.

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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core CPU Im not a gamer but this Is the fastest and most stable cpu I have ever used. I use for graphics and Videos and this is a smooth and quiet with the fan they enclose. Seems to run cool. No problems, easy Install.

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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core CPU came with bundle. unfortunately this 140W processor wasn't supported by MOBO, the 125W is. Had to send this one back for a refund.

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Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H Motherboard Easy to set up, easy to install, worked perfect for the need I had

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Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H Motherboard I ordered this as a part of a combo deal to do an upgrade for a family member. It was easy, simple, and straightforward...even if I had not already done something like this many times in the past. The driver disk had all the needed startup drivers until they could be updated on the site. It worked fine with XP without chipset update. A few things to note. First, this bored seems to be just a hair more narrow than the normal mATX board. It's not enough to matter, but it does make the IO plate look like its further from the ports than it should be. This creates no functional issues, but it puzzled me for a while before getting it booted up and tested. Second, do not change your SATA disk mode when it asks it at first. The OS will not recognize an HD in that mode, you must leave it in IDE compatibility mode unless you are doing RAID or something.

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Corsair Dominator 4096MB PC8500 DDR2 Memory One of the sticks was DOA, great quality, Corsair. TigerDirect made me go through warranty support instead of just freaking exchanging it. One more customer lost, TigerDirect. Or CompUSA, or Circuit City, or whomever you are today.

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Corsair Dominator 4096MB PC8500 DDR2 Memory Solid fast RAM. Does it's job and does it good. Only beef is when I got my first set of this RAM it was half this price, but that's the marketplace for you. Even saying that I still went with this instead of another, and it combined with the first set of 4GB makes my machine run quite smoothly.

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Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H Motherboard Worked as advertised. I am using it as a server for SBS 2008 and it works like a charm.

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Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H Motherboard Has a ton of USB ports and inputs that most boards lack. Installed and it fired right up no problem. Let the gaming begin!

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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core CPU Runs smooth and efficient. The only problem is that the manual is vague and installing the heat sink took a little more time than usual. Other than that it is a great purchase and it is super quiet.

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Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H Motherboard this motherboard is great and support my 2x2gb sli envidia memory rams and easy to install withj the instrucction great item really

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Corsair Dominator 4096MB PC8500 DDR2 Memory I purchased this ram based on reviews and reports. However, I purchased this ram along with a ASUS M4N78 Motherboard. The ram did not work with this, even though I flashed the bios. The motherboard would only take one stick of ram. I went to the 800 Mhz ram instead and that works perfect. This may be wonderful ram, but check to see if it will work with your motherboard. The ASUS web site claims that this ram works with my motherboard, but it doesn't for me.

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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core CPU I was this or an I5 in this price area. I don't regret my choice with AMD. The only good reason one would go with a I5 is to be able to get 6 slots of RAM on the mobo as I could not find any AMD3 socket mobo with more than 4 slots for the price range I was looking at (100 to $130).

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Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H Motherboard So far I have about 5 Gigabyte boards running and they have all been a breeze to setup and run very well. Price for features these are hard to beat. I upgraded from a MSI board so my entire home network is now GB switched and I can tell a huge difference when streaming from my freeNAS box.

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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core CPU Very nice CPU, love AMDs. Does come with a basic fan, but no thermal gel. Suggest buying another fan and extra thermal gel. Other then that, great buy.

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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core CPU awesome processor

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Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H Motherboard Actually got the earlier version, so this may not apply anymore to this version. I bought overclock memory from Kingston that wouldn't work default on the mobo. Ended up using single cheap slower memory stick, access BIOS, reset to accept higher speed memory, then the fast memory worked OK in it. If you can't get to boot at first, try a cheap memory stick before RMA, and check those memory card settings. Other problem was getting the sound system working under XP. This mobo will only work on XP operating systems or newer, so those who want historical systems like w2k or 98se, no can do. Very fast, very stable, an onboard video works fine with any internet video even using fast broadband service and running the HD mode. Boot drive was PATA, so don't know of any boot with SATA, but no problem using with SATA hard drive for archive purpose. Solid capacitors on CPU ciruit and strong MOSFETS make this a real value!

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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core CPU Like I said buy this Processor, its a beast. Runns super cool and works great. If you can afford to, go for it.