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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
Pros: This MB packs a lot of features into a small package. Gigabyte usually builds quality products.
Cons: I build about 10-15 systems per year and this is the worst build I have experienced in years. I purchased this board for my son for Christmas to upgrade his aging desktop PC. The driver disk was a nightmare. First of all I can't understand why the MB companies use a DVD when a CD has plenty of capacity to hold what is needed. This necessitated connecting a DVD drive just to install the drivers. I went with the Express install, but unchecked the Norton's as we have an anti-virus program. First the disk takes forever to install each driver, then it hangs on the RealTek audio driver installation. After a forced reboot the system was running extremely slowly with some process evidently stuck in an endless loop. I had to run System Restore from Safe Mode to recover the system. Each time the driver disk was inserted the same scenario repeated. I suspect the disk had a virus on it. Downloading the drivers from the Gigabyte website solved most of the problems. I have one unknown device left.
Other Thoughts: I purchased this MB to help use up an over-supply of DDR2 memory I had laying around. The DDR3 version of this motherboard seems to be a lot better crafted. This might be better suited for use with Vista or Win7, rather than XP Pro. The XP drivers suck.
I wish Gigabyte would label their SATA ports better. Why do I have to plug my only HDD into SATA socket 2_4 to get SATA Master 1 in the BIOS setup. This makes no sense. But every Gigabyte MB I work with is mislabeled this way. I realize this is a fine point and probably does not make a difference in the end which socket you use, but its an annoyance just the same. It does confuse the heck out of older OS like XP though. With multiple HD drives you can end up with your boot drive being drive E: if you are not careful.
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Nice board, expansion slots tight on room
Reviewed By: GreenMonkey on 2/8/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Nice Micro-ATX board. Unlocked a 3.1ghz PII-550BE to 4 cores, overclocked to 3.6ghz, no problem. Nice caps. Lots of USB and very well featured. 4 DIMM slots. Running 2x1GB and 2x2GB of DDR800 just fine (had to manually adjust memory multiplier - defaulted to 667 with all 4 DIMMs full).
Cons: Slot space is very tight and oddly organized. PCIe 1x slot is between the PCIe x16 slot and the CPU - not a lot of room for a card, but it is usable.
Relatively small PCIe video card (Gigabyte HD4670) blocks off one of the PCI slots from being usable. So not a lot of expansion room.
Other Thoughts: Be careful handling - if you hold onto the large Gigabyte heatsink in the middle it could start to pop off. AHCI SATA initialization is kind of slow - slows down boot by like 5 seconds as it scans for devices. Not sure if this is a recent AMD issue or just this board.
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gigabyte rules
Reviewed By: erdshome on 2/8/2010
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Good all around board, does what it's suppose to do. I like the solid construction with Gigabyte, solid state :) Easiest build ever.
Cons: No DDR3 memory support, I knew that going in though.
Other Thoughts: Great budget build if you have old ram laying around, otherwise step up to a newer board. I do like it for what it is.
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Model
Brand
GIGABYTE
Model
GA-MA785GM-US2H
Supported CPU
CPU Socket Type
AM3/AM2+/AM2
CPU Type
Phenom II / Phenom / Athlon II / Athlon64 /Sempron
FSB
2600MHz Hyper Transport (5200 MT/s)
Chipsets
North Bridge
AMD 785G
South Bridge
AMD SB710
Memory
Number of Memory Slots
4×240pin
Memory Standard
DDR2 1200 (OC) / 1066 /800 / 667
Maximum Memory Supported
16GB
Channel Supported
Dual Channel
Expansion Slots
PCI Express 2.0 x16
1
PCI Express x1
1
PCI Slots
2
Storage Devices
PATA
1 x ATA133 2 Dev. Max
SATA 3Gb/s
5
SATA RAID
0/1/10/JBOD
Onboard Video
Onboard Video Chipset
ATI Radeon HD 4200
Onboard Audio
Audio Chipset
Realtek ALC889A
Audio Channels
8 Channels
Onboard LAN
LAN Chipset
Realtek 8111C
Max LAN Speed
10/100/1000Mbps
Rear Panel Ports
PS/2
1
Video Ports
D-Sub + DVI
HDMI
1 x HDMI
USB 1.1/2.0
6 x USB 2.0
IEEE 1394
1 x IEEE 1394a
eSATA
1 x eSATA 3Gb/s
S/PDIF Out
1 x Optical
Audio Ports
6 Ports
Onboard USB
Onboard USB
6 x USB 2.0
Onboard 1394
Onboard 1394
1x 1394a
Physical Spec
Form Factor
Micro ATX
Power Pin
24 Pin
Features
Features
Ultra Durable 3 Classic Technology with copper cooled quality for lower working temperature
Reviewed By: Mooreman on 2/8/2010
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
