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Baha L.

Baha L.

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Most Favorable Review

Gigabyte is back!!

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: It overclocks like crazy!! My Q9550 E0 is running @ 4Ghz. My previous P45 mobo could't go past 450fsb. Lots of USB and SATA ports. EasyTune 6 software is awesome, excelent tool to overclock inside Windows and it works!!!! And best of all, it's cheap!!!

Cons: None, this mobo is perfect!!

Overall Review: You don't need a jumper to clear CMOS, just use any metal (screw driver, knife, key etc...) to connect pins for a few seconds and you good to go. Honestly, it's a lot easier moving a jumper around. Used to be a Asus and DFI fan, but I'll seriously consider Gigabyte for my next X58 mobo.

10/24/2008
Most Critical Review

Don't waste your time

GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Low price, half of the owners are very happy reaching 400+ fsb with their Intel C2D.

Cons: The other half have tons of problems. Raid on this board is ridiculous, bios F4 still have lots of bugs loves to crash radomly.

Overall Review: I went back to my axxs p5w dh dlx. I can run my C2D E6300 at stable 7x413=2.87. Will RMA DS3 and upgrade my cpu to E6600.

New firmware helps nothing!!

Seagate BarraCuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate BarraCuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Space

Cons: Mine had SD17 firmware and it locked on Windows. Updated firmware to SD1A and it worked fine for a week until it died this morning. Called Seagate and they recommended RMA. I have 1.1Tb in files in this drive and if I paid and extra $20 they will send a replacement first to back up. How am I'm supposed to back up if I can't get access to the drive?!?!?!

Overall Review: I read yesterday that 30~40% of all 7200.11 Seagate drives are dying (just search the web). That makes sense since 29% of reviewers gave 1 or 2 eggs and another 6% gave 3 eggs. . I was in the other 65% until yesterday. New firmware does nothing and it's just a matter of time for a 100% failure. Get another drive. Seagate/Maxtor no more.

Massive!!

Seagate BarraCuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate BarraCuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: No problems w/ Vista 64. Solid perfomer, fast and it saved a lot space inside my case replacing 4 HD's. Priced right, no regrets.

Cons: How much would the price incresase if it was retail?? But 189.99 is not bad at all.

Good surprise!!!

PowerColor Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card AX4870 512MD5-H
PowerColor Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card AX4870 512MD5-H

Pros: Very fast card. I've bought 5 HD4870 so far for the machines I've built and only this brand was able to overclock to 850/1050. Sapphire and HIS couldn't reach 790/1000 fully stable. I know it's a reference model but I didn't expect this. The only reason I've bought was price. Glad I did.

Cons: What's the warranty for this card?? I went to their website but they don't mention for how long. Weird....

Good mobo.

ASUS P5E Deluxe LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard
ASUS P5E Deluxe LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Simpler version of Rampage Formula. It doesn't have a LCD poster and has only 1 LAN. But it comes with sound card and cooling system is on par. Original Bios has fewer options but I flashed to Rampage Bios 0406. No problem and it works perfectly. Oc'ed my E8500 up to 4.43ghz and run 4 OCZ PC2-9500 @ 1128.

Cons: Loadline Calibration option doesn't work well. I still get a Vdroop of .4v.

Overall Review: If you want to run Crossfire you'll need 2 full X16 lanes.