GIGABYTE GA-P43T-ES3G ATX Intel Motherboard

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Functions good after you figure it out. Would not clean set up XP pro SP3 OR Windows 7 pro working with AHCI mode for SATA ports... lock up each and every time. IDE mode functions fine. Yes, I utilized f6 and the SATA drivers integrated. 2nd dilemma was once installed, XP did not set up my q8200 as an "ACPI Multiprocessor" but an "APM Multiprocessor". Flashing to older F6 BIOS fixed this. 3rd dilemma- chipset heatsink interferes with Zalman CNPS5X-SZ clips, had to go with a XIGMATEK LOKI SD963. I have six other Gigabyte 775 ICH10 boards, zero troubles with these. This was a major discomfort to figure out. I ran hardware tests all evening right after initial set-up, no errors found, but a clean XP AND Win7 install locks each and every time with AHCI troubles? How often does that come about? And ACPI vs APM on a fresh set up??? I knew it had to be a BIOS challenge. On a mature platform like this, that is bizarre.

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Easy to set up, every little thing works the initially try except for the ps2 mouse, have to use a USB mouse so I RMA and return the MB. the PS2 mouse port will not function with laser mouse.I didn't know so I RMA the MB, have to take away every little thing.then the replacement arrived, exact same point take place, till I try the good old ball mouse . :-) what a pain. Must have mentioned it is not compatible with laser mouse, will save me a week and the return shipping and New Egg for shipping the replacement.P.S. they dropped บ.00 following I just ordered the MB

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My 1st make was from newegg 4 years ago. Worked Ideal!!! My nForce 680i SLI mb died not lengthy ago, purchased this 1 as a replacement + 8gb of ddr3 1600 ram!! I wanted to use my old Dual Core 8400 3. Ghz 45nm!! This mb is about two" smaller sized than my old one particular, has no SLI, but it performs Great suitable out of the box!!! I don't know what other individuals are speaking about! The one i got is Great!! I would recomend it!! None My set up is:Intel 8400 wolfdale 45 nm 3.0ghzMentioned above mb1tb western challenging drivetwo DVD BurnersBFG GeForce 8800 GTX 8 GB DDR3 1600 Corsair Vengance 9-9-9-24 1.5V650w pover suply!!Windows 7 Ultimate SP 1 Additional than Adequate for typical use & Gaming!! Nevertheless handles good all new games that i throw on it

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Awesome layout. Big board for a large card. Wanted to combine my Q6600 with DDR3 and breath identical new life in to it. I want to O.C. And Gigabyte is know for stability for OCers.Gonna set it up tonight. *None so far. Just hoping its not a DOA. But I did acquire the Extended warranty. The excellent 775/DDR3 combo board are dying. =( Would have been nice to had 1 much more PCI-E 1x for far more three. USB card slots. ;)

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Was a incredibly very good board for my desires. Didnt very want to leave the 775 socket but nevertheless wanted to use DDR3 because of how inexpensive it is. Served me very nicely more than my previous board and it OCed my old E6600 quite nicely. None at the moment :). None as of suitable now. Just be cautious if you program on making use of a huge CPU cooler with tall RAM. My CPU cooler pushes my initial stick of RAM in the initial socket by just a hair. But this is mainly just because of the monstrous size of the cooler.

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Quite low-cost, DDR3 Memory on LGA775 No hardware raid kinda a bummer. Had to recover my raids with software program, as this motherboard does not have the "R" designation on the southbridge.

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Motherboard was purchased to give my smaller household server with a substantial memory enhance to 16 GB (G.Ability Ripjaws) even though keeping all of my other elements in use (Q6600).Right after swapping this motherboard in and adding my new 16 GB set of DDR3, I quickly jumped into BIOS expecting to tweak many settings as I frequently do with new builds. Significantly to my suprise, this motherboard had detected and defaulted to all optimal timings, voltages, and clock speeds. I actually changed no BIOS settings. Very cool.Server is now hosting 8 Virtual Machines on prime of a Q6600, 16 GB G.Talent Ripjaws, 6 TB of harddrives. VMs consist of several Ubuntu ten.ten Server, two Windows 2008 Server, and FreeBSD.๠ motherboard performing dutifully the function of a a lot much more pricey and purpose constructed server board and it came with the functions that had been expected and as such deserves five eggs. Thanks Gigabyte! None I was wary getting this motherboard just because of the testimonials on newegg. Then I started reading the reviews and realized that persons have no sense on how to rate a tech product. Folks with high "Tech Level" rating a solution bring about DOA, come on! A person with higher "Tech Level" should understand well sufficient the complexity of such a item and the truth that DOA's are just apart of it and in no way must influence the solution's rating. Ridiculous.

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none, maybe the box looks good Everything, RMAed initial a single and took two added weeks to get an additional DEAD motherboard. Like a lot of other people spins cpu fan for a second then nothing. Heck out of curiosity ran the cpu with no cooler for 25 seconds IT DID NOT EVEN GET WARM. The similar cpu performs Good in older board.an additional con, why cant I give it eggs?! 2nd gigabyte board i have owned, the initially a single lasted two.five years and was fantastic. I think I am going back to asus..... Manufacturer Response:Thank you for your comments. Sincere and constructive opinions are generally welcome. We apologize for your difficulty with your Gigabyte product. Please speak to us at newegg-support@gigabyte-usa.com with the case number 2011022101 in the subject line. We will provide personalized service and analysis to assist solve your issue as soon as feasible.If the matter is urgent, please send us your get in touch with quantity, and we will get in touch with you ASAP.

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Looks nice It was DOANo POST can not do anything with it.Will have to get an RMA.What a pain. May well go for a refund rather than take a likelihood on acquiring a differentnegative MB. Manufacturer Response:Thank you for your comments. Truthful and constructive opinions are often welcome. We apologize for your difficulty with your Gigabyte product. Please make contact with us at newegg-assistance@gigabyte-usa.com with the case number 2011020804 in the subject line. We will give personalized service and evaluation to support solve your problem as soon as possible.If the matter is urgent, please send us your contact number, and we will contact you ASAP.Gigabyte VIP Help Group

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Astounding choices in bios, you can alter fan speed, cpu volage, memory voltage, anything you want to adjust is offered, plus you can set in the bios, when you pc is off, you can set it so one click of the mouse turns your personal computer on!! YOU ROCK NEWEGG!!!! Cons? NONE!!!!!!!!!! Best motherboard and ram ive had so far!!!

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none board kept looping or locking up.had to take out two sticks of memory to get it to the point that i could get it operating.after altering some bios settings i was in a position to use the other memory once more . also not a good overclocking board at all but it's the only 775/ddr3 board i could uncover right here.

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Great setup. Everything is effortless to get also. Only bummer is that the SATA plugs are at the bottom of the motherboard, tends to make it hard to put a DVD/Bluray in at the really leading of the case. Drivers on the DVD have been undesirable. Kept saying a thing about corrupt files. So I just downloaded almost everything on the world wide web.Also, for those who are new builders, Buy AN AFTERMARKET FAN. =)Good beginner board as well :)

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I've put together a handful of systems myself now, and this is a solid older board. Spaced out fairly properly, handles a ton of extra USB ports if your situation has them. Bios and boot technique functions well, even if you mess up, it will nevertheless normally post and let you fix it. Stuck an E8500 and 4gigs of corsair ddr3 and it has handled all the anxiety I have put on it. Win7 64 Straightforward tune software didn't function for me. Each time I tried to run it, my laptop or computer would freeze. All the other drivers worked fine.

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five-year mfg. warrantyNewegg's discounted cost, with Free of charge shipping to bootA BIOS made for significant tweaker's: For those like myself, utterly frustrated by mobos claiming to be "great" for overclocking and tweaking, but disallowing full manage over numerous critical voltages, timings, and settings, you will not be disappointed with THIS motherboard's BIOS. Practically each voltage, timing, and setting which could potentially impact technique performance can be manually adjusted.And even even though this board does not formally help (i.e. auto configure) XMP memory profiles, it gives a wonderful "Memory-z" feature, which displays exactly what's in memory's SPD (all the JEDEC, EPP, and XMP voltages & timings). Given that, you can manually set the correct timings and voltage for XMP assistance. Even though not documented in Newegg's specs, this board DOES INDEED have an on-board parallel port header ("cool beans" for my significantly-beloved HP parallel printer). But regrettably, it's a non-common (mini-size) header, requiring a proprietary connector and ribbon assembly which is no longer accessible from MSI (#!%&!). My resolution to this was to cannibalize a couple of single-row, 13-pin, mini connectors from an old Television set and wire them to the ribbon of a common parallel port IO plate assembly. (Where there's a will, there's a way.) MSI 880GM-E41AMD dual-core 3.2 GHz Athlon 260 (a Newegg buy) @ three.84 GHz (with 1.46 volts)HTT bus @ 320 x 6 (HT link freq: 1920 MHz)CPU freq: 12 x HTT 鶀 MHz) = 3840 MHz4GB ƒx2GB) Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600MHz memory @ 1280 MHz (with 1.651 volts and 5-six-five-15 1T timings) - FSB/CPU ratio: 1Ɇ

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Purchased it due to the fact it had each serial and parallel ports. Gathered all the old parts and software and assembled a Computer for reading old media. Windows 7 loaded promptly with no difficulties. Computer is genuinely quickly with just a E2200 and 4GB ripjaw. Windows 7 wouldn't detect the 100MB parallel port iomega drive so uninstalled Win7 and installed Windows XP. Windows XP wouldn't install with a USB keyboard but installed proper away with a PSǘ keyboard. Mine works with the Rosewill PSǘ laser mouse.

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Bought for my ESXi server mainly because I waned to get to 16GB of RAM with out possessing to get a new CPU. Smacked an older Xeon 3220 quad core in with four x4GB sticks of RipJaws RAM (also bought from newegg) and then added in my NICs and storage. Present specs are 6 2TB drives, 4 1TB drives on a PCI SATA card, 16GB of RAM, quad core 3220, quad port PCIE nic in the 16x slot, single port PCIE nic in the 1x slot and booting ESXi off a thumbdrive. Board works very well for my wants. Wish it had a lot more sata ports so I could ditch the PCI card, but not a large deal at all. onboard video would be great for my demands and if I can dream, I'd like three PCIE 4x slots. Functions wonderful in ESXi and ubuntu 10.ten. Stays awesome and didn't need to have a driver update to get all 16GB of ram running.

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I got this motherboard in order to up grade to a q9650 later... Proper now I am operating a core two duo E6400 @ 3ghz and technique is stable... No problems at all good motherboard .............. Nothing just down ideal very good item....... Gigabyte rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Would have liked to noticed more SATA ports...... Not genuinely an issue...........

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High quality appear and feel. BIOS was quite intuitive. Pretty significantly plug and play for me. I produced a number of upgrades such as adding on a 2nd tough drive and adding a new video card immediately after my initial setup and there had been no troubles. I in fact booted up with Ubuntu initially, then I switched to XP and immediately after cleaning that up I did a fresh install of Windows 7 and the board handled all the alterations seamlessly. I almost didn't purchase this board because of some of the negative critiques but I'm glad I listened to myself and gave it a attempt. I'll update the moment I've had the board for more than a year but honestly I have no regrets and would strongly recommend this board to even newer builders if you are methodical in general. For the cost I paid and the efficiency I'm getting this board is challenging to beat! None yet I know you don't get boards for aesthetics but I discover the blue color schemes to be quiet pleasing and the fit and finish seems very strong. I am the sort of guy that will appear at boards at retailers and you can see that this one particular is nicely place with each other in comparison. Look at what I'm saying within the scope of what you are paying. Comparatively speaking it's tough to beat.

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None that I have seen This board has been a issue from the start. Very first I put in 4 x 2G memory sticks board would not boot. Changed memory sticks around and got board to boot with three sticks. One memory card was shot. Sent memory card back and recieved replacement. Put memory card in worked initially boot then not once again. Slot four unusable burns cards. Have 1000w energy provide and board is unstable at occasions with 4 slot open but it will boot and run for a bit. Returning for dollars back to significantly bad press. Manufacturer Response:Thank you for your comments. Sincere and constructive opinions are always welcome. We apologize for your difficulty with your Gigabyte product. Please speak to us at newegg-assistance@gigabyte-usa.com with the case quantity 2011030703 in the subject line. We will offer personalized service and analysis to help resolve your problem as soon as doable.If the matter is urgent, please send us your contact quantity, and we will speak to you ASAP.Gigabyte VIP Support Team

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This board is incredibly effortless to install and set up. Considering that I am employing an old Pentium three.2 ghz single core 鹜), I was worried there would be concerns with DDR3 RAM. I had no difficulties installing anything, and have it boot the very first time. This board replaced an old Asus P5GD1 that died ( seems mine and my clients machines don't final far more than 3 years) and I have had better luck with Gigabyte boards. Also many PCI slots. Seriously could use at least 1 additional PCI-E slot. Only has 1 now. Bought on sale, with free of charge shipping and no tax. How can you beat it?