- AMD 970
- FX / Phenom II / Athlon II / Sempron 100 Series
- DDR3 2000(OC) /1866
Was fine for a year.. now is trash
01/07/2014
This review is from: GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3 AM3+ AMD 970 + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
Pros:
It worked fine for what i used it for for 1 year..
Cons:
It comes default in the Bios as IDE and not AHCI.. WHY? I'll tell you, because AHCI creates errors randomly, when its turned on properly in bios it creates problems with installations corrupting data, even when compressing and compressing files it causes problems.
And i know its not the HDD im using: Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD5000HHTZ 500GB 10000 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
And we are talking about fresh installs of both win7 and win8 64bit, there was no room for error in these tests.
I then changed it back to IDE and the program i installed many times and failed with AHCI now worked with IDE.
I ran it as IDE for a year not needing the AHCI features but i formatted after changing to AHCI because now i do need AHCI.
I also have corsair 1600 ram that runs at 1333 even when i manually set it in the BIOS to run at 1600MHz it errors and forces it back to 1333 after restart.
This board is trash and doesn't do what it is advertised to be capable of. False advertisement.
Im normally a fan of GIGABYTE but this really let me down..
Overall Review:
I also have a GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 and that board i do trust, the GA-970A-D3 micro-controller must be off with AHCI because it corrupts data at random.. it runs the OS fine but things will corrupt or wont work at random.
Manufacturer Response:
Dear Customer,
Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your GIGABYTE product. Please contact us at newegg-support@gigabyteusa.com with the case number 104642 in the e-mail subject line. We will provide personalized service and analysis to help solve your issue ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your contact number, and we will contact you.
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