Intel BOXDG45ID Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

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Strong intel MB with very great integrated RAID.There is an error in Neweggs description. This MB supports up 16 Gig of DDR800. It also supports dual channel making use of only 3 dimms. Ƒ of the 3 must be the size of the two smaller ones. two 1 gig with 1 two gig stick.The integrated graphics are not also terrible. It can play SS2, UT2004, UT3 (reduced settings), New games will play but they will seem sluggish. For DVDs the intergrated is very excellent.Functions fine for gaming if all you need is 1 PCIE 2.1 lane.Up to 12 USB two. ports. six in back six MB headerssix SATA three. ports.4 DDR2 slotsAudio is decent superior than SBLive PCI cardWill operate with older 20 pin PS just fineOperates with ATI 5770 Hybernate functions in fact work, which is not the case on many MBs.For folks that want a stable MB and don't want to OC this is a excellent one particular. No legacy device assistance (Floppy, PS2, Parallel, Com) Not a big deal but XP users will have issues installing RAID drivers. Will will need a USB floppy.No overclocking VISTA and Win7 have the Raid drivers on set up disk so no problems there.Get most current BIOS or several have problems Operating this MB with 2 gig DDR800 Vista Small business ATI 5770 graphics.E5300 cpuCan run Dirt2 Dx11 4xfsaa all settings higher and water on Ultra at 45-60fps. 1280x1024.

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utilized a number of of these... works fantastic, wonderful Intel driver and bios assistance, on board HDMI with integrated sound, substantial variety of supported CPUs, good bang for the buck none somebody reported that sound does not come over HDMI on this board... that is incorrect , this item does have higher excellent sound more than HDMI, you just gotta be confident to select the appropriate output device..also as simple construct 101: flash the bios then verify ram settings and voltage just before something else... 99% of supposed DOAs get fixed by these two uncomplicated actions with any motherboard

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Didn't break any other components. Board wasn't working upon arrival. Also, final a single from newegg at the time so I got a refund as an alternative of replacement. Appears great on paper.

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Runs properly. None of the challenges noticed in other testimonials. Perhaps another PCIx16 or PCIx1 as an alternative f the PCI. Also I could care much less for the onbaord video. Q95508GBs of gskill 1066ram operating at 800.XFX58703x 320GB hitachi Hds raid Runs stable and fast.

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Good for a HTPC, which is what this board was created for seriously-but if I had been to design and style a HTPC I would get a mini w/ an atom processor to throw in it, not micro..I am employing this board for personal computing, for operate as I'm a field technician and often work from residence, and of course leisure.It's sporting 8gb ram, a core2quad q6600 @ two.40ghz with an ATI Radeon HD 4850bios supported my logitech g11 and my logitech x500 through a trendnet KVM switch with no difficulties-but for whatever explanation windows didn't install drivers for the kb and mouse correct away, so I did have to plug them in without having the KVM switch (this commonly doesn't occur, but the mobo certainly isn't to blame) The only con I actually ran into was that the 4 pin on the mobo isn't in the best spot, I created the mistake of placing my heatsink on ahead of plugging in the PSU, and my heatsink covered the four pin to exactly where I had to get rid of it, not quite exciting with LGA 775 boards as you want to completely get rid of the mobo from the tower in order to take the heatsink off or install it. Does what it need to, this is one particular of the best 4 slot ddr2 LGA 775 boards you can come across these days.

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Lots of good attributes, runs SSDs in RAID-, Intel assistance and tools. One particular egg off due to the incredibly extended POST! Windows 7 boots more quickly from SSD drive than this mobo POSTs. This is a no-looking-back motherboard: it has no IDE and no VGA.

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Small kind issue, quiet, HDMI out, graphics are capable for HD video. Wants an add-in card for today's games, mine failed soon after three months and Intel warranty service is obstinate. The connections for power, led, reset and so on are poorly labeled. There is a large capacitor amongst the memory rows that really should be in a much better place. Intel stock CPU fan connector doesn't take cable management into account. Worked fine for 3 months and then a single day, POOF, it stopped working. Sent it to Intel for warranty service and they claimed the board had Client Induced Damage and refused to honor the warranty (though it was untouched and operating fine just before it failed). Was hoping to make the program and not have to be concerned about it any a lot more, but the motherboard failure has price me lots of time dismantling and waiting for intel's response.

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Seems to be an superb board at this cost point nonetheless I couldn't get it to boot to the bois screen. Immediately after personal, intel and nearby tech troubleshootng I concluded it was DOA. lots of sata connection and the dvi & hdmi ports bois appears to be a unresolved presistant challenge with the 45 boards. wish i had identified before purchasing cpu & memory.

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great onboard graphics none 4.3 subscore in win 7 with no graphics card...... i dont think you can go incorrect

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Bought this for my mother as a cheap solution with all the constructed in stuff. It operates just fine and is extremely snappy on the bootup. Lacks ps2 ports which produced accessing the bios a pain without a usb keyboard. Please include the ps2 ports, the space is there for them.

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Very good "all-in-a single" board with most anything you'd need on it for a basic or HTPC technique. Not too a lot to tinker with out of the box. I don't care for the SATA connector placements (in my smaller mATX case, they were blocked by the HD fan). Had to ship to board back initially due to problem with on-board audio. NewEgg speedily RMA'd the board and shipped a new one. I'd purchase the board once again for a basic machine that has anything "built-in".

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Although 775 it is modernized on most of the peripherals and attributes that matter to me. (Such as PCI e2.) I just hope it can deal with a Higher-end Graphic card.Gave my E6750 a new lease on life. I hope. (since I had to take away it from the RMA) If all the unnesessary handling damaged my 6750 I'll take all this optimistic junk back.. I never like to doc stars for a painfree RMA. But shipping stuff back is not painfree, and I wasted the heatsink material on my Arctic Freezer 7 Pro taking it all apart..Nor did I anticipate error codes from INTEL hardware that would call for a BIOS reset in hopes of curing. I'm still optimistic.

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I use ths board for my HTPC and have had it over a year now.Simplicity: three wires coming from laptop, energy, network, HDMI; that's all.Processes video quick, extremely smooth. I record HD video OTA, no issues.Sound is quite decent.This board did not have any of the BIOS challenges reported, I've carried out all the BIOS updates; of course not all boards are the similar.I do not OC, this is a HTPC only, no gaming.I run Vista 64, it has no difficulties with any of the Intel drivers. The higher pitch whining noise? I've noticed this noise when the computer is in sleep mode and random instances, the onboard sound driver will switch off the HDMI setting to SPDIF, I log off and log back on, noise goes away...Intel driver issue, no repair I know of.Image excellent is not the very best, adjustments can be produced in video driver settings, but still not ideal.Not a con for me, but no legacy ports. That's why I like this board, less ports. Bought board 09񳏈. I'm thinkng about installing a vid card given that they're so cheap now to increase the image.Intel E8400 ProcessorHauppauge 1800 TunerImportant 2 X 2048DDR2 800 PC2 6400Antec PS 650WLogitech Harmony 880Logitech diNovo miniSony Bravia 52" 1080p

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In my final post I talked about the pro's.Did I mention the on board sound & HDMI out,awsome After moveing up from a hyper threading p-4 three.4 This board/processor is basically awesome,WHEN IT Works. Now I know why it doesnt and that is sorry when the solution has a 3 year warrenty.make that quite restricted warrenty It worked perfectly for a week then would not post.Immediately after exaustive troubleshooting,and a trip to the EGG they determined that two pins in the lga 775 socket are bent and this is abuse.Warrenty VOID.OK they didnt make or break it so,not their fault.A get in touch with to intel tech support stated the exact same warrenty void.But for ๑+shipping they can repair at their discresion the defective socket.I inspected the defective pins below high power magnifcation and it seems that they broke right after the processor went in.It did work for a week or so then died in the middle of a movie.I assume if I placed the tabed processor in wrong it would have in no way worked,almost certainly causeing more harm than 2 cracked pins.I know from crimping thousands of pin sort of conectors that it is quite effortless to crimp the conector with to considerably stress and it performs(sometimes years) until the crack lastly breaks from heat or stress.Shame on Intel for makeing a บ LGA socket causing a 贄 MB that operates is now trash like the warrenty I went and bought another of the same model Intel MB (Now that I got the 贄 lesson on LGA775 the 1st issue I did is inspect it completely)because I believed if it was receiving replaced I would not be with no a media computer system even though it was gone,and second if this did come about (no replacement) I want a MB that would help my processor,memory Ect. I bought into Intels 1.professonal mission critical reputation 2. 3 year warrenty like their processors. I nonetheless have my 1st P2 233 and it nevertheless performs 15 years later.2 p-3s and two p-4s all built by me and all nevertheless working.Im sold on their processor/chipset ICH5 ,six and now ten.Enjoy the built in southbridge RAID feature.I anticipated a lot more than a week fron their MB.This isnt my 1st Intel MB but soon after 赨+ it could be my last.I have constructed 50+computers for individual&customers and in no way had a difficulty like this.Shame Intel,three year warrenty is no warrenty if it costs me ๠ to repair a 贄 MB

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Quite strong function wealthy board with the DVI and HDMI plus allowing up to 256MB for the Video. (Offers 128, 256 or max (not sure what the max is as it is not properly documented)). Board automatically detects principal video if an additional PCIe card is installed even if you do not set it up in the bios choice. Plenty of area and good overall layout. Also 1 of the few boards that supports four - DD2 at the same time as most support either two only or 2 of either DDR2 or DDR3. This was bought to replaced a failing competitors board so we currently had four - 1 GB DDR2 mem. Explanation for losing 1 egg: With the existing BIOS you cannot disable the onboard video. Essentially you can set up a PCIe 16x card and even inform the BIOS that the PCIe 16x add-in card is your main video and set the on board video to 128 yet for some strange purpose the on board video is nevertheless stealing 256 MB of my RAM for anything I am not even utilizing. Searched documentation on Intel's web site and the only mention was to "Disable" the on board video in the BIOS which after looking the BIOS 4 instances with two sets of eyes there is NO Choice to disable on board video in any way.Quite annoying in particular as we've installed 4 GB on a 32bit OS and but it takes it only from what Windows is able to address and not the portion it can not address. Program is now running on 256 less MB than it use to on a competitors board. (A little high priced for an older board no longer supported by Intel). Would make a good motherboard for a Multimedia Pc setup to run movies, netflix and other stuff to a Television/LCD/PLASMA screen to.

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Has a lot of gadgets. Fantastic stable board as with most Intel stuff. Performs with Microsoft HyperV if you use the appropriate CPU (do your homework to make certain you get the correct match). Basic RAID setup. Lots of USB and SATA connectors for most users. Works effectively with Windows Server 2008(except the incorporated NIC drivers). BIOS desires to be updated correct out of the box. Save oneself the headaches of "trying" to fix it in the BIOS and just download the BIOS update bootable ISO from Intel. SATA connectors are in the bottom corner of the board and is a little rough to get to if your case has things mounted close to them. Would be nice to have Windows 2008 x64 NIC drivers on the incorporated DVD, but not a major deal. All in all a excellent board, just be prepared to update the BIOS as soon as you get anything place together.

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Its intel,drivers & updates are pratcially automatic. Lots of further usb and i/o ports. Simple to setup on and get going.Onboard audio and video great, superior with HD5000 pcie video card.Worked wonderful on hi-def video and any factor else I threw at it till soon after working flawlessly for a week It began undertaking weird issues starting with the network and ending with it refuseing to post.(game more than) Glad the EGG imeaditely issued an rma now waiting for a new one particular. Glad it went now alternatively of months from now,for the price it isnt worth hasseling on the telephone with tech help for hours

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Open Box, so No Docs (not a issue) and no I/O shield (Frustrating .. but Intel shipped 1 totally free of charge). Good MB, not challenges installing, Good embedded graphics (for office functionality, not gaming!), rapid install w/o difficulties BIOS limits OC on memory to no much less the 5 for CAS/RAS, but it wasn't for gaming anyway...just an FYI for Open Box cost of ์ was a wonderful deal...Thanks NewEgg!

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- DDR2 800 compatible (able to use memory from my old machine)- HDMI port + the usual assortment of USB/Firewire/Audio- Inbuilt Matrix RAID - No IDE ports. I applied this to replace a failed three year old Intel motherboard (my children had tipped a glass of water over the case). In the old setup I was using Intel Matrix RAID with 3 disks in a mixture of RAID- and RAID-1 configurations. I installed the new motherboard and turned on the RAID mode in the BIOS and it recognized the old RAID setup with no any further prompting! Windows 7 also booted up with out a hitch (had to reactivate it again although). I was expecting some hassle on each fronts and was pleasantly surprised. I dont OC or play other tricks - it is a strong option if you are hunting for a straightforward house Pc build.

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Board wasn't DOA. If any card is present in any of the PCI slots this board will disable the on board graphics. This was apparent when I plugged in an empty riser card and only VGA worked. I wish I knew that I had to use a graphics card if I was making use of expansion cards as I was arranging on working with dual PCI Television tuner cards.