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Intel BOXDG31PR Intel Motherboards
Customer Reviews for Intel BOXDG31PR LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
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Douglas G
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
1/4/2010 12:39:49 PM

Rating + 5 Good Board


Pros: Hard to say, since it runs my system EXTREMELY WELL.
Supports 800MHz DDR2 memory. Good budget board for games.
Latest BIOS fully supports Windows 7

Cons: You need a 32-Bit OS to update the bios, but that's not the board's fault.

Other Thoughts: Bought this board at my local computer store. This board is absolutely great. I may become a bit more of a critic as I try different hardware.

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Arys64
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
1/1/2010 7:59:29 AM

Rating + 5 Nothing else to ask for!!!


Pros: * Christmas Present, I was with a little doubt either to buy it or not. No regrets!! My base score went from 2.0 to an amazing 5.0. Thanks Newegg/ Thanks Intel.

Cons: * No OC/ No Dual PCI-E x16

Other Thoughts: PC Specs:
Pentium Dual Core 2.0 Ghz E2180
450W PSU
ATI Radeon HD 4650
2 OCZ PC6400 4Gb Total 800Mhz
250 GB HDD
And of course Intel DG31PR MOBO

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Juicy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
12/9/2009 5:13:14 PM

Rating + 5 Solid board for a solid price


Pros: -Small board (micro ATX)
-Plenty of cpu types supported
-Quality from Intel
-Painless plugins

Cons: -BIOS only allows you semi control of case fans that have a controller.
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Other Thoughts: -Took a while to ship even with express shipping. Think it came from a third party reseller. Also, BIOS drivers on disk are out of date.

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Dan
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/9/2009 4:37:40 AM

Rating + 4 Nice little board


Pros: It's cheap

Cons: Doesn't have 1394 on the motherboard and only has 4 SATA connectors...however, it's cheap!

Other Thoughts: I would give this a five if it had the connectors mentioned above. It's still a good board, but looking at it there's plenty of room for Intel to have added that. They have a chassis intrusion switch and a serial connector on the motherboard...I don't know why they didn't put some connectors on that people actually use.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/18/2009 6:36:54 PM

Rating + 1 Stay Away!


Pros: Cheap

Cons: First one was DOA, fast RMA from Newegg, but second one was DOA also. Intel tech support responded to my help request with a checklist. I followed it with no results, replied to their email and never heard from them again. Returned the second one to Newegg for a refund.

Other Thoughts: I have read reviews that said this MoBo was selected because of brand reputation and customer support. I can't agree ... two DOAs suggests quality is far from acceptable.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/16/2009 11:57:13 PM

Rating + 5 Affordable for those on a budget


Pros: This is a perfect budget motherboard. I have this working with an Intel Q6600 and EVGA 8800GTS.

Cons: Limited to 4GB of memory. But I knew that before buying.

Other Thoughts: Good value.

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Techy123
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
11/14/2009 5:51:53 AM

Rating + 5 Decent board for a good price


Pros: Multiple processor types supported. Small board, easy to install, and painless plug ins.

Cons: Like most boards, the CPU socket is extremely close to the PSU. If you are an avid gamer like me, you will have a rather large CPU heatsink & fan. This causes the heatsink to be very close to the fan on the underside of the PSU.

Other Thoughts: With new BIOS drivers, the motherboard likes to take control of any case fan with a speed controler. Even if you do disable the mobo control.

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u0berdev
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/22/2009 3:29:14 PM

Rating + 5 Solid Product


Pros: This is the second one of these boards that I have purchased. Both went into decent gaming machines. They are reliable, easy to use, and solid.
Note: Although it only has two RAM slots, they are still in seperate, Dual-Channels. So you still get the performance benefits.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Newegg rocks. It's the only site where I take reviews from other people seriously (most of the time ;) ).

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elmbranson
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/13/2009 12:44:45 AM

Rating + 5 Great MicroATX Motherboard


Pros: Everything well labeled. Good layout for I/O cards and onboard connectors. Intel onboard graphics rates 4.5 on Experience Index. Includes monitoring software for Voltages and Temp. Great BIOS program. Includes extra hardware for mounting. Digital Audio out. Great price.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Installed new Antel 200 case. Intel E5200 CPU, Coursair 650 PSU, EVGA GTX250 video card, SPDIF adapter, Parallel LPT Adapter, 1394 port adapter.
Hitachi 350 SATA drive, Liteon 24X SATA DVD RW drive, WD 250 IDE drive. Experience Rating is now 6.0

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Sal
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
8/11/2009 8:10:54 PM

Rating + 3 Good Board But has a few bugs!


Pros: Solid Board, very easy Express Motherboard Driver installation utility. Super easy windows based BIOS update, just run the executable BIOS file and you are done!

This inexpensive board combined with the inexpensive but awesome Dual core E5200 is ALL you need unless you are a rabid gamer. The E5200 is supremely overclockable, but is fast at stock speeds.

Cons: You need to update the BIOS for cases that have variable speed cooling fans set to low speed like the Antec 300+. The hardware board monitor in the BIOS indicated CPU temp of ** degrees. A BIOS update fixed it. The CPU runs at 25-29 degrees at stock speeds. Also, i had difficulty initially booting of the XP CD, got an error message. Similar problem with slipstreamed disc with SP# blended in.

Other Thoughts: Still a great board at a good price point.

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DaDewd down in FL
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
8/4/2009 9:28:31 AM

Rating + 5 SuperBadA$$mobo!!!


Pros: I've had some good and some bad experience with Intel mobo's but with this one in particular everything has been super awzummm!!! Using it with a e6550 for almost a year now with 2 sticks of 800mhz ram and no OC at all... this thing is a SCREAMER! Like my ex-wife! :D

Cons: Could always be cheaper! :D

Other Thoughts: Simple! Easy to use and get it going! I think I am gonna get me another if it drops below $50 and free s&h... yeah, i am a cheap bastid! LOL!!!

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Bobby B.
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/22/2009 2:54:11 PM

Rating + 3 Looks like Intel is junky now...


Pros: Made by Intel... Intel usually makes good stuff, build quality is good. They don't cheap out, you'll get everything you need, (2) sata cables, IDE, Floppy, I/O cover, stickers that show the ports, nice poster to hang up on your wall and throw darts at...

Cons: I don't know what it is with my mobo purchases of late... This board didn't post at first with an older 3.2GHz Celeron... Don't know why, it should have worked as the bus speed should have down clocked. At first I got 3 beeps for memory, 3 different sets didn't do anything, so that is when I swapped out for another junker I had in my desk drawer, P4 3.0GHz HT. 800FSB and 1BM cache I believe... This CPU posted and worked fine. For some odd reason, the only other issue that I have had with this board is the Realtek RTL8111 Gigabit LAN. When ever it tries to auto detect at 1Gbps it just dies, trying to find DHCP. If I force it to use full duplex at 100 base it's okay... So I think maybe my on-board nic is wonkey... Most on-board nics suxors anyway... I tried the latest Realtek nic driver (I think it cam out last month) and still no go at 1Gbps speed. Now I'll have to wait longer to Pirate old episodes of Barney and Friends... Ohs well...

Other Thoughts: ...again, the old adage holds true, "you get what you pay for" I've spent a few more bones on better Asus, (which they seem to have gone down hill) BioStar and Gigabyte mobo's and have had better luck. Having said that I think Intel still makes a good board, but I don't think that they lower end stuff gets looked over as well as the higher end mobo's... So, be careful peeps...

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/24/2009 9:09:36 PM

Rating + 4


Pros: I've purchased several of these boards. They are good boards for the money for customers who prefer Intel HW. I have installed dozens of Intel MB's over the years and have had zero MB failures.

Cons: Happened to have a USB keyboard and a PS/2 mouse installed and system would not restart in Windows. Simple BIOS upgrade or use both PS/2 or both USB devices.

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vaprize8
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/22/2009 7:45:49 PM

Rating + 1 Great for first 2 months...


Pros: Worked great from April 23 to June 22. 2 months? That's it? Commmoonnnn Intel! I knew it was cheap but I was expecting a death right after the 1 year warranty =)

Cons: She just died. I finaly got her to post the Intel splash screen after extensive CMOS battery clearing and BIOS jumper reset, but, she just blacks out after that. No access to BIOS, not even so much as a warning message, just blank screen as if somebody pulled the plug on the monitor.

Other Thoughts: I never usually take peoples word on electronics, as their is alot of people out there who "claim" to know what their talking about, however the negative ratings held justice on this one. I work for a MAJOR corporate office's MIS department, and well, I should have listened. The people were right on this.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/16/2009 8:00:52 PM

Rating + 3 blank driver cd


Pros: it has worked so far

Cons: the cd that came with the motherboard was blank, it registered as 0 b total, had to download the drivers individually

Other Thoughts: Intel usually makes good stuff, so I don't expect to have any problems with the mobo itself. Definitely negative points on the cd.

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Bunny
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/27/2009 4:38:15 PM

Rating + 1 Beware Intel Products


Pros: Worked for a Mac clone temporarily.

Cons: Inferior made. No answer as to just what caused the problem. Mobo lost all capability would not boot, would not load, no nothing, as if there were no electricity to the machine. Replaced it with an ASUS and it worked fine.

Other Thoughts: This motherboard worked 40 days and fried. We contacted Intel and filed a request for a replacement. Mailed it back carefully packed and received a response that the item was damaged by us. I don't think so. They did not respond when asked just what the damage was and where. I don't know about anyone else, but I am really tired of being taken advantage of by companies that think no one knows what is going on while they sell inferior made foreign made products.

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Starglow
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
4/23/2009 7:48:46 PM

Rating + 1 Major BIOS Issues


Pros: None.... board was DOA (x2).

Cons: Don't waste your time or money on this board.

I purchased one of these and it had no video and would not POST or boot. It is shipped with a down level BIOS that can't be updated to support faster CPU's because the MB won't POST at all, even with an older slower CPU installed as some have suggested as a way to get it to POST to update the BIOS.

I got a second board through RMA from Intel and it has the same problem. I tried several known good power supplies, CPU's, memory sticks and still had the same problem on both boards.

I do not recommend this MB!!!

Other Thoughts: Intel used to have a reputation for producing good solid MB's, but not this one. Working through Intel support has been very time consuming and I still don't have a MB that works. Others on the net have reported the exact same problems with this particular MB.

I've never had this much trouble getting a MB to work and will probably end up buying a different brand MB for my system build.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/11/2009 7:59:37 PM

Rating + 5 Hackintosh


Pros: This motherboard supported hardware that was compatible with installing a hackintosh version of OS X. I just built my first computer and other than having to pull the motherboard battery for a reset to get things to work it was easy.

Cons: I'd suggest pulling the battery for a bit before starting your build as it might save a bit of disassembly later.

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N/A
Tech Level: low
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/28/2009 9:02:45 PM

Rating + 1 DOA


Pros: don't know

Cons: DOA

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warkey
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/26/2009 10:19:15 PM

Rating + 5 works great


Pros: work great, not hard to instale

Cons: none yet

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/24/2009 6:00:49 AM

Rating + 5 Great CPU for the $$


Pros: Cheapest Quad on NewEgg as of Feb 09. OC'd to 2.9 easily with stock intel fan. Runs about 39C with stock fan. Considering installing higher quality fan and appears I will be able to OC to over 3.0. Stands up to Q6600 which is currently more pricey.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Would have like to seen Intel go with more cache, but I understand this would increase the $$ for this CPU.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/23/2009 7:26:17 PM

Rating + 5 Works great


Pros: Unlike many, I was looking for a board that is stable, reliable, and dependable, and I've found Intel provides that in their boards. This is a dual-boot, with XP on a PATA drive, and Ubuntu Ibex on a SATA drive.

Cons: I wish it had more slots, but I knew that limitation when I made the purchase, so no eggs lost here.

Other Thoughts: I hadn't built a box since P4's ruled the land, so I had to read the manual so see what had changed. CPU went in much easier than I expected.

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Bob
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
2/23/2009 12:10:41 PM

Rating + 4 Good stable board


Pros: Great quality board. Very stable, no frills board. Using this for a Windows Home Server build along with a Celeron 430. It's a perfect low-power consumption combination that works exceptionally well with WHS.

Cons: Intel does not provide the Desktop Utility monitoring application for boards using this chipset, and every other 3rd party solution I've tried reports incorrect temps and voltages. I guess no one has gotten around to fully supporting the G31 yet.

Other Thoughts: Though I did buy this as an opened box unit, I was extremely surprised that I/O panel was not included. I didn't expect it to come fully loaded or anything but come on Newegg, that's pretty lame. I had to buy the I/O panel from Intel for $3, plus $10!!! shipping and handling. That brought the cost of this "open-box" item to basically what I would've paid for it for brand new in the retial box. Sorry, but Newegg loses a big egg on this one.

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Blue
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/18/2009 5:22:20 PM

Rating + 5 Great/Stable board


Pros: It won't win any overclocking contests but it will give you a very stable PC for friends and family. The serial port header on board is a nice addition for those of us doing home automation too :)

Cons: It can always give you more for less but I can't complain and if I did someone should tell me to shut up and sit down.

Other Thoughts: Some times it's the little things that make you feel like you got a quality product. The case stickers for the board layout and back ports are great for someone like me who may lose the manual but can't lose the side of the case that the stickers are attached to.

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David AKA alphadog17
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
2/14/2009 10:50:45 AM

Rating + 5 Great motherboard


Pros: Works great, I game, this isn't an overclocking beast-if at all, but I have an E5200, 2GB DDR2 800 Kingston RAM, x1300/x1550 video card(upgrading to 9800GT in future), and a couple other things. Occasionally during World at War I lock up, but I am sure that's the video card being lower than the specified requirements. Great board.

Cons: Worked after about 20 times of trying to boot it, literally. But I think that was partially my fault for this being my first build.

I wish it had 4 RAM slots and a PCI Express 2.0 Slot. Meh, you get what you pay for so I'm happy!

Other Thoughts: Be sure to place EVERYTHING in the CORRECT way. Be careful not to touch the motherboard in a rough way, like with a screw driver, tweezers, etc.

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r27cj
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/6/2009 5:46:02 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Inexpensive, great documentation. This was my second build, I picked this board because I wanted to use the IDE optical drive from an old computer with an unused IDE HDD I had on hand. Didn't work out, but not the boards' fault. Otherwise, plugged everything in, pushed the button, it came right up.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: I could wish for a DVI video outlet, but for $60 you can't expect much more than basic.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/29/2009 10:35:08 AM

Rating + 5 Solid Board


Pros: Cheap, reliable

Cons: only 2 ram slots..

Other Thoughts: Great board for the money.

running it with 4GB ram, E8400, 8800GT.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/4/2009 3:16:29 PM

Rating + 4 Micro ATX for the win!


Pros: Micro ATX. I usually prefer these size boards since I haven't found a use to go with a board that's full size. DDR2-800. 45nm compatible BUT only with a bios update (unless newer ones shipped are out of the box ready). On board video and a PCI-X. Dual channel ram slots. 4GB ram max.

Cons: Only 2 memory slots. Though a lot of Micro-ATX boards come with only 2 slots so its not that big of a deal. Had to do a bios update before it would see my E8400.

Other Thoughts: Good mother board for the price. I haven't had any problems with. If you want a board that you don't care to over clock with then this would suit you just fine.

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HBC
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
12/26/2008 8:29:04 AM

Rating + 4 Basic Easy Board


Pros: Easy set up as bios is very simple. If needed bios flash is very easy if flashed within Windows.

Cons: Motherboard CD drivers are way out of date. Build 3 of these systems over 2 month period and and you'll see at least one set of driver updates from Intel's web site. Works great for a simple/basic XP SP3 system however, USBBIOSx patch is not included on the motherboard CD and Intel's outsourced foreign based support is clueless on the matter though very polite. Without the bios patch an XP system will only go into a S1 sleep state with usb devices enabled to wake the system from S3. Work around advisement from Intel tech support was a non-supported 3rd party application. UNBELIEVABLE!!. Patch can be obtained from MSFT's knowledgebase....so I found. Very easy regedit. MB manual not provided though Intel support site has it available in pdf format.

Other Thoughts: Intel is a typical example of a US company with outsourced tech support. The end result of this is usually not in the best interest of the consumer.

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Donald Fletcher
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/28/2008 2:57:01 PM

Rating + 5 Solid.


Pros: Installed like a charm. I remember the last (few years back) time I build a computer for myself then tried installing XP I had to go through some length of pain to make the thing see my SATA drives but this went smooth as silk. Nice BIOS too.

Cons: I had sound issues like other people have mentioned with this board, but it took me seriously a matter of minutes to fix. That was seriously the most of my worries with this thing. I've dealt with far worse technical issues than that with other boards, trust me.

Other Thoughts: I specifically went out looking for an Intel board for my new system because I figured, if nothing else, it's going to be reliable. And this hardware definitely has been solid as a rock for all I expected from it.

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sykozis
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
11/28/2008 9:14:59 AM

Rating + 5 small, stable


Pros: Stable, well layed out.

Cons: No RAID

Other Thoughts: only thing this board is missing is RAID capability.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/24/2008 2:36:19 PM

Rating + 2 Pain in the lowest-part-of-the-back


Pros: Small and compact.

Cons: After booting the OS a couple of times the BIOS refused to detect any bootable devices. It would not recognize hard drives or CD-ROMs, either sata, pata or usb. Had to perform the BIOS recovery procedure, and then the board booted my hard drive again -- but I still can't get it to boot of a CD!! Board suffers from other minor annoyances like the buzzer being in the wrong place (can't connect a pci-x card on one of the pci slots without "shaving" the card because the buzzer gets in the way), board boots too fast so it's hard to enter the BIOS, latest BIOS is still incomplete (no speedstep available on gnu/linux), network chip is Realtek, not intel (what's that all about?!?!)... And as others mentioned, the board bends dramatically when using the Intel heatsink -- not a pretty sight! We'll see how long it lasts...

Other Thoughts: I bought a P35 last week and it works great on gnu/linux, but this board is no end of trouble. Intel's BIOS are quite horrible compared to other out there. Network card does not work well with Ubuntu hardy. And I still can't believe I can't boot of a CD!

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Brewski
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/12/2008 2:43:37 PM

Rating + 4 Nice, but with a few quirks.


Pros: The board seems reliable enough. Has your basic slots and plenty of USB. It is very OS X compatible. Supports the Q6600 processor which makes it scream! Awesome budget board for going Quad Core.

Cons: Now on my second board since the first one burnt out. Chipset got to around 85c and even took out my graphics card. This board still gets hot sitting around 55c. Seems to be the norm. No Fire-Wire onboard, no DVI for the x3100 chip. PCI-e x1 slot get covered by a dual slot sized graphics card.

Other Thoughts: Please don't use Intel's processor cooler. Buy a different one that doesn't bend the board drastically on install. (You would think, Intel cooler, Intel board, that they would fit right...)

I added a small 60mm fan to the top of the chipset cooler to try to help with the heat issues. It makes a little bit of an impact which is nice.

OS Xers, downgrade your BIOS to the 052 version for best compatibility. Quad Core procs, upgrade your BIOS to 047 or higher in order for the board to boot up.

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pcnthuziast
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/11/2008 9:34:30 AM

Rating + 5 No frills, but solid


Pros: Price. Intel stability and reliability. 2 sata cables in box.
ALC888.

Cons: No firewire. No gigabit ethernet.

Other Thoughts: If you're looking for a solid mATX board and don't require OC options then this board will suit a broad spectrum of uses/users. I dropped an E4600, 2 gb and a GTX260 and gaming @ 1080P has gone pretty well!

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/31/2008 9:26:11 PM

Rating + 5 Great Board!


Pros: Very stable and a great board for many OS's Works perfect! Great for the money! Works perfet with vista so far. Max out the ram to 4 gig's and i have a Q6600. Didnt need to upgrade the Bios, worked straight out of the box. Buy from Newegg. Fast shipping and great support.

Cons: I bought 2 of them. The main problem is the batteries lasted just a few weeks! Caused alot of small problems that was solved instantly when i replaced the batteries.
No Firewire but i only use USB.

Other Thoughts: Change the battery first thing when you get this board to save your self alot of problems. CR2032

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/27/2008 6:26:13 AM

Rating + 5 Awesome budget board


Pros: I bought 12 of these and they worked perfectly! I have not had one problem with these boards and they run super quiet with the oem intel fan. Works just as well as any other intel board under $115

Cons: I have no complaints

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/26/2008 4:39:35 PM

Rating + 3 For Simple Things


Pros: Its a nice simple board if you are just wanting to put together some simple desktops.

Cons: Does not work with the Adaptec 1220.

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Chuck in Florida
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/21/2008 11:09:51 AM

Rating + 4 Old BIOS


Pros: Excellent board as usual from Intel.

Cons: Shipped with 0028 BIOS, so the board didn't recognize the E7200 CPU I ordered with it. Had to create a bootable CD-ROM and add the current BIOS available from Intel (0052).

Fortunately, I had an old Core 2 processor available to put on the board to do the BIOS update.

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GofG
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
7/16/2008 8:30:40 AM

Rating + 5 perfect for Mac Clone


Pros: All chipseets are OSX compatable. Easy bsel mod overclock

Cons: As one other reviewer mentioned. I do get an occasional hang at post, just before the "press f2" wonder if a bios update would fix that or if its because of my oeclocking. One its running its rock solid stable.

Other Thoughts: If you overclock with bsel, the bios will still show the old values, but once you bott up windows you will see with cpuz that its really running at 1333FSB

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JmpnJimBob
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/15/2008 6:23:10 AM

Rating + 5 Nice MicroATX board


Pros: Used this board with an E2200 2.2GHz Allendale processor and 2GB of RAM for a new XP small system build. Everything came together smoothly during the install. The on-board video runs smoothly and I like having a PCI-E 16 expansion slot if an upgrade is ever necessary.

Cons: Would have preferred more than 2 RAM slots for any future expansion.

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nin
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/12/2008 2:37:34 AM

Rating + 4


Pros: great small gaming rig, get alot for the price

Cons: runs extremly hot, 3 fans focused on it and its still at 55c idle 60c when gaming

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chrisschiano
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/30/2008 2:18:14 PM

Rating + 2 First Intel Failure


Pros: Small form factor - easy to install - wide campatibility of RAM and CPU's

Cons: The system will occasionally hang on boot up - either on XP load or even lock up during POST at the Intel splash screen before displaying the "Press F2". It would eventually work, but I had to RMA for a replacement. After 10 years and 100's of systems, this is my first Intel RMA.

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Zaap
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/15/2008 1:58:21 AM

Rating + 5 Great for a not-so-mini MHack


Pros: Insanely OSX compatible. Feels more stable running Leopard than many Apple Macs I've used. Intel seems to go for conservative, rugged and reliable, vs. bleeding edge overclockable, but it pays off in system stability. Great that it has 4 SATA ports.

Cons: It would be nice to have more than 2 RAM slots and a capacity for more than 4GB, but you can't have everything, so no complaints.

Other Thoughts: This, an E4600 Allendale, 4GB of Mushkin DDR800, 500GB Samsung HD makes for a sweet <$500 Hackintosh.

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WD
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/14/2008 11:00:15 PM

Rating + 5 Good board


Pros: This board is a very good board for a office computer or even a small gaming rig. At my work the board never fails and wego through a lot of them. I dont think we ever had to RMA one either. Not saying that it doesnt happen but its a very good decent board.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: It supports 4 GB i would buy 2 gig sticks if i were to get ram for this board. Make sure to update the bios i forgot which bios didnt have audio support in Vista but I think if you get one now it will have a newer bios that fixed that problem alsoremember that 4 GB will show up as 3.3 xp unless its x64

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Dave
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/20/2008 7:00:35 AM

Rating + 4 Nice board, Old BIOS


Pros: Good board for the money

Cons: BIOS was so old I couldn't even get it to boot Ubuntu Linux until it was flashed to February 2008 release.

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dontukno
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
4/18/2008 9:21:48 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent


Pros: Tough. I abused this board.

Cons: No 1394.

Other Thoughts: This was my first biuld, and i put the motherboard in wrong the first time. I think maybe my case is just wierd. It was bent way more than i would have liked it to, but its fine now.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/31/2008 10:44:18 AM

Rating + 5 Very good for the money


Pros: Built a new computer and found this MOBO to be what i needed. I run the Adobe Master Collection and this met the performance i needed as well as the price.

Cons: None thus far...

Other Thoughts: Side note: I have Windows XP Home Edition. This MOBO doesnt like it at all! I spent 2 days testing every piece in my new computer because i kept getting the blue screen of death. I borrowed a friends "Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2" disc and it loaded right up.

It kinda sucked cause i ended up having to buy Vista...... I wasnt expecting to be purchasing a new Operating System as well.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/22/2008 5:58:01 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Very basic but powerful board, exactly what's need for a normal PC

Cons: none

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baggio
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/15/2008 7:29:05 PM

Rating + 1 No Audio with 4GB RAM


Pros: Cheap basic board

Cons: I set this up with Vista Business 64 with 4GB of RAM. HD audio would not work unless RAM was backed down to 2GB. Intel tech support was clueless. I usually like Intel for their stodgy basic reliability. I ended up using a cheap EVGA. Gamers don't put up with that kind of baloney

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rich
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
3/3/2008 8:06:01 AM

Rating + 5 Great mobo


Pros: Very stable, easy to configure, pretty much put it together and just works Love it. Tiny, love mATX. Excellent for the price.

Cons: Wish it had onboard Firewire, but no biggy, dug out an old dusty FW card, plug it in and it works great. (Using Ubuntu, didn't bother with Windows' junks.)

Other Thoughts: Onboard video is fine but I do need to have dualhead so I added a PNY Geforce 7300gt VGA+DVI, works great and looks good. Highly recommended for a low budget DIYSer pc.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/22/2008 6:46:25 AM

Rating + 5 Great price/features/stability


Pros: Easy to configure, great component set, high level of integration, great price point.

My power consumption: ~47W at full compute load.

Intel E6750,DG31PR,Crucial Ballistic2Gx2,Antec NSK3480,Seagate 500GB 7200.10 16MBCache,VistaHomePremium

Cons: None yet.

Other Thoughts: Be sure to get the retail box if building single system.

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Bri
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/18/2008 11:22:45 PM

Rating + 4 Nice little board


Pros: Rock solid board, small footprint, easy to install, support for a nice range of processors.

Cons: Skimpy documentation on BIOS functions, lack of extensive BIOS functions, difficult to upgrade BIOS without windows installed, doesn't seem to supply power to USB devices during first boot (problematic if running an OS off a thumb drive), short on extra features, sometimes odd configuration of IDE devices.

Other Thoughts: A simple, straight forward board that isn't going to win any glamour or feature contests, but will give you a steady no frills system. Great for a small server. (A small quirk that should be noted is that the system in certain configurations will see IDE devices as if they are on the same bus as the SATA devices. Never figured out why it was doing this, but it created some odd boot order situations including screwing up my dual boot using GRUB.)

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Scylocke
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/23/2008 10:59:08 AM

Rating + 4 Great Board, Great Price


Pros: I've ordered several of these boards and have always gotten an extremely stable system. I don't do overclocking, so this can't be considered a con for me. The board has an easy to use BIOS, and a great layout.

Cons: Could have more SATA connections, but then again, it's hard for most people to fill them, I've just really been digging it lately.

Other Thoughts: Newbs need to stop giving products 1 star just because they don't know squat about computers. Memtest is a 32 bit program. If you read up on your latest technogeek stuff, you'll realize that 32-bit means 4 gigabytes, but that the motherboard already has it's own cache. NEWB!

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First man
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/21/2008 4:44:34 PM

Rating + 1 Junk


Pros: Good Price. CPU and Fan/Heatsink easy to install

Cons: lousy documentation included. Never could get the sound card to work even after downloading all the latest drivers. With 4gb Ram installed and pretested with memtest the system only recognized 3.4 GB

Other Thoughts: Don't buy it.

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Inspector
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/17/2008 6:11:23 PM

Rating + 4 Solid Product


Pros: Good features such as onboard sound and video if you want to use them and onboard lan. Has been rock solid once installed.

Cons: Realtek sound driver on the CD is buggy. Don't use it. Intel's FAQ page for this Mobo has a link to an updated driver and procedures to fix this issue.

Other Thoughts: Antec Minuet case,Core 2 Duo E4500,Mushkin DDR2 800 2GB, WD Caviar 160GB SATA, XFX GeForce 8400GS 256 MB GDDR2 low profile grahics card, Acer AL2223Wd 22inch widescreen, Lite on 20x DVD. All working well after 3 weeks.

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largobob
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/19/2007 4:11:12 AM

Rating + 5 great value


Pros: very good board for the price-easy setup- fast

Cons: if you dont like this mb you should have spent more money

Other Thoughts: kinginston 800 ram 2gb 6550cpu 450w psu wd 160gb hd

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Linuxferret
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
12/6/2007 6:53:45 PM

Rating + 4 Nice Stable Board with FSB1333


Pros: This is a nice stable board with good features that works great with Linux and FSB1333.

Cons: Better boards available

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
12/4/2007 11:52:33 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: 1)no random shutdowns like other cheap mobos out there. 2)very happy with my e6850 cpu. 3)supports 2.0 pci express video cards like 8800gt. 4)couldn't ask for more :)

Cons: 1)no overclocking from bios (used ntune to overclock my 8800gt) 2)didn't figure out how to overclock cpu yet

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dmorgan777
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/20/2007 8:09:49 AM

Rating + 4 Good Board


Pros: Nice layout, little or no legacy devices. Works very well with my HTPC case. Very stable.

Cons: I did have a bit of a problem with the sound driver CD. I started the installation with the chipset driver and the rest of the drivers failed. I had to install them individually but still had problems with the Realtek sound device. After downloading the driver from Intel it installed correctly and works fine now. Not a very good CD installation.

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Respite
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/11/2007 2:12:48 PM

Rating + 5 Interesting Product


Pros: My first order of this product was defective so I sent in for RMA, got another 1 that works 2 thumbs up for Newegg's fast delivery. The product was also excellent

Cons: I can't fly yet.

Other Thoughts: There is only 1 IDE port to plug dvd or harddrive. Pick 1

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hans
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/28/2007 1:01:43 PM

Rating + 5 good board, intel quality


Pros: the board works, its low power and it has a real IDE port and ich7 which works on pretty much any OS. and its just as fast as the g33 boards. Basically you give up 2 dimm slots , and maybe 2 sata ports, but you get real IDE, and pay less money. Seems like a good deal to me.

also i only use an e4400 now, but i figure I might as well be ready when wolfdales are cheap or maybe a quad core. Oh and even though intel's chipset specs for some reason say g31 only supports 1066 bus, their board specs say it supports 1333 bus and it does. they did this with the 946gz also, saying it only supports 800bus but all their boards actaully said 1066bus. must have been a last minute change

Cons: It could have been even cheaper.

Other Thoughts: I don't really overclock anymore so I just buy the intel branded boards. the bios updates using the NT bootloader are nice (no boot cds!) and they always come with 2 sata cables not 1 like every other brand with value boards which is also nice. the board is very solid, and Wake on Lan probably actually works (cheap foxconn ones this doesnt seem to be the case)

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