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Laurence L.

Laurence L.

Joined on 09/23/02

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Most Favorable Review

Great desktop board

ASUS M4A78LT-M LE AM3 AMD 780L Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS M4A78LT-M LE AM3 AMD 780L Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: I've been using these for new workstation builds for the office for months, and also its previous incarnations for over a year now. Great board, small footprint, stable and does what I need it to do. I build them with AMD Athlon II X3 450 Rana 3.2GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Desktop Processors, very quick and flawless performance.

Cons: As some have mentioned, the parallel port is a separately purchased dongle. This isn't a concern for me, but it may be for some.

Overall Review: I may look at upgrading BIOS as another reviewer has suggested. Thus far however I've had no issues with the factory installed BIOS, but I'm not trying to do anything fancy with it either.

Most Critical Review

My Proliant server does not like it

SIIG SC-SAE212-S2 PCI Express x1 SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card
SIIG SC-SAE212-S2 PCI Express x1 SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card

Pros: Installed and detected just fine initially on HP Proliant ML350 G5 server with Windows Server 2003 32bit.

Cons: Works for a few days, then the drive goes offline with errors in the Event log "The device, \Device\Scsi\SI31321, did not respond within the timeout period." Ran a full diagnostic on the drive, and have tried another drive with the same results. Going to have to try another brand controller, I've asked HP sales for assistance.

Overall Review: I also have an LSI 1068E running an external SAS tape drive, it's possible this is causing some sort of problem, but in theory these controllers should all be able to behave together.

Works perfectly as expected...

SIIG SC-SAE212-S2 PCI Express x1 SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card
SIIG SC-SAE212-S2 PCI Express x1 SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card

Pros: Installed it in an HP Proliant G5 ML350 server since the system does not come with an internal and external SATA connection (?!). I installed a 2TB internal Samsung drive, and just recently an external Vantec enclosure and 2TB Samsung drive on this controller, both work flawlessly and with expected performance.

Cons: None.