Intel BOXDG41RQ Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

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Part of a barebone system for my mom for Mother's day. She had a 2002 HP with a hamster in a wheel, so she's quite impressed.

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This was a great board for a price-point build that needed integrated video, GB NIC, and sound, and needed to run newer Core 2 Duos. Good price, driver package on one disc, everything worked on first boot. XP burn in: three days, no crash.

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I got this board both for the price and some features. I needed to upgrade an old computer and decided on this board but half way through I ended up using new items to go along with it. This was used for my first pc build. I was a little familiar with 775 boards plus I liked PCIe x16 slot along with older PCI slots, it worked well for various video cards which was good for my budget. Having 4 SATA connectors helped indeed for the new HD. The two DDR 2 slots was just enough to where Vista 32bit can be run without any hitches.

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Had a slight problem whne loading XP the video drive through the BIOS had to be reset or uodated. Other than that the motherboard work very nicely.

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I haven't built a computer since before sata. The instructions were just a bit thin. I'm sure it saved fifty cents, but the manual being on the cd is patently silly. Lucky for me I did have a laptop available to read it. Board is laid out well, nicely finished. Just know that it is THIN and you must treat it with respect assembling. Near the end of the install I had to make a couple of leaps of faith but it fired off at once and runs very nicely.

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I bought this to convert a HP Pavilion with Vista over to XP Pro and it works like a champ. It could use an extra USB header for the USB ports in the front but I can live with it. I coupled it with the Intel processor package and it all went together smoothly. Compared to spending an extra couple hundred to fully replace a Vista desktop, this one is a great purchase.

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Have built two systems now with this motherboard and have been very pleased with the results.

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Have had this board for two months now. Have had no problems with it. Had to find parallel header cable and get a sata cable, but documentation is good and works great with win xp.

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This board seems to work well, the one problem I have is it does not have a front fan connector. aside from that I would say it is very good.

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Good mobo no problems with it.

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Had this thing for about a month now. I have very few complaints at this point and the ones I do have are minor. Sata plugs are in a bad spot and some more space between card slots would be nice. Like I said - minor. Bonuses include fantastic onboard video. I'm waiting for an expansion video card now, but the onboard is far better than I expected. Sure there are better boards, but I'm pleased.

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Hello good board Window-sxp-32bit will only recognize 3gig. but Windows-xp-64bit will show 4gig. beware!Great option cables needed. For all options but great mobo Intel! Great job Tiger!

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I used this with a quad core processor. The system went together just as I expected and booted without difficulty. I didn't have to make any changes to the BIOS although the options look plentiful. With the quad core CPU and 4GB of RAM the system screams. A video render that took 5 hrs on my old system finished in 52 minutes on this one. The one complaint is the fact that while the motherboard has headers for a parallel port, a serial port, and SPDIF, there are no cables. Fine for the price, but PLEASE, include the option of where to purchase and cost. I'd add SPDIF and Parallel port at the drop of a hat, but searching for the right cables makes it a pain.