GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6 LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Ultra Durable 2, Ultra Cooling Intel Motherboard - Retail

Great Motherboard!

Reviewed By: Glave on 2/17/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: 1) First of all this system build is so fast!
2) Board looks nice and durable
3) Heatsinks/Heatpipes are amazing for heat dissipation
4) So many overclocking Abilitys...this thing will overclock my cpu to 6,500 Ghz if i want it to (FSB = upto 700 mhz * 9 cpu steps) Of course you would need a much better cooling factor then the stock cooling that it comes with.

This system build did not boot correctly the first few times and i thought that i had a dead board, but i was mistaken. The power supply wasn't properly installed and after it was the system booted and it showed the pretty boot up screen :).

I was an AMD Guy until this system build...now i will look at Intel first to choose which is right for me.

Cons: There is only one small problem with this board: The 1xIDE Connector is on the side of the board and once the board is in the chassis it can be very difficult to plug the eide cable in.

I accidentally bent the pins on the eide connector on the side towards the cpu breaking the side plastic of connector off also. I was just trying to remove the cable while the board was mounted. With the broken pins i couldn't reconnected the cable because i couldn't see the bent pins. to put the cable back i had to take the side case to see the pins

Other Thoughts: CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 775
Graphics: XFX GeForce 8400 GS - 256MB DDR
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6 LGA 775
Ram: Patriot Viper 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)

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Pass on this one...

Reviewed By: Frank on 2/16/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Works great, when it works...

Cons: Was a pain in the back side to get the SATA's to work, documentation wasn't the greatest. Would get the "Endless reboot"(turn computer on...5 seconds later it auto off, few seconds later it turns itself back on...repeat). I turned off computer...left town for two weeks, come back. Now it will reboot after about 5 minutes. Endless reboot is back. Google it, endless reboot is a known problem, yet no fixes.

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Reviewed By: on 2/15/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

Pros: Well made, good features, easy to OC, good cooling, DTS audio, PCI-EX V2 support, future CPU support, plenty of HDD ports. Energy efficient, works great, no problems at all.

Cons: Expensive

Other Thoughts: Q6600 @ 400x9 OC, 4 x 1GB Patriot 800Mhz 4-4-4-12 RAM (4GB total), 8800GT, Antec P180, Antec Trio 550W.

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