BIOSTAR G31-M7G DVI LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Cheap Ultra compact!!! DVI and D-sub ports on back, HDA ports on back and headers on mobo runs pretty cool lots of options in Bios runs newest C2D procs and recognizes memory without hitch(almost...) Sata cable with locking latch on it comes with it Installed windows 7 on it without having to do anything else but install drivers for 8800 ultra video card Running with: Intel Core2Duo E7400 @3.1 GHZ EVGA 8800 Ultra 768 Seagate 750 GB Sata Drive Hauppauge WinTV HDTV Card 4 GB Corsair DDR2 PC2 8500 Samsung 22x DVD Burner Raidmax 2RX-630SS 630 Watt (Semi)modular PS

Cons: DDR2 1066 Memory does not get recognized as anything else but 800 MHZ 2 sata ports are entirely/partially blocked by video card southbridge Heatsink is obstructed of all air flow by video card and sata cables Doesn't have Firewire onboard Bios options have no helpful info regarding their respectful uses or settings cannot completely disable onboard video, which reserves physical memory regardless of your wishes does not come with any cables beside a sata/pata cable driver disc is ancient and doesn't work correctly in windows vista/7

Overall Review: Ok first off... I bought this for a HTPC. That being said, I wanted something that was going to have good sound, have a gigabit lan port on it, plenty of usb ports, and be able to accommodate my 8800 ultra(for games of course), and not draw a ton of power(yes I know 8800 ultra?!?) I opened the box and was pleasantly surprised at how well it appeared this was laid out. After dropping my C2D E7400 and 4 gigs of corsair memory in, I plugged my p/s in along with my flash hard drive and my samsung lcd to it, it booted right up without any setup in bios. I did notice upon bootup that it recognized the processor correctly but was reading my 1066 memory as 800 and also showing only 3.8 gigs of available memory.... Interesting. I went into bios and the only options for memory are your timings and voltage... teh suck! though I can change the FSB of the processor, this would alter the processor and I am not interested in making it draw more power. All in all, a great mobo oth

Pros: Boots right up. Bios interprets everything and makes all the settings correctly. An excellent value.

Cons: Packed with only one SATA Cable.

Overall Review: Replaced my Gigabyte board that died. Does everything the more expensive board does except overclock. I will buy a BioStar board again. Runs a 3.2 GHz Pentium D and 2 GB Crucil ram.

Pros: Good price - easy to install - hit the ground running, Kingston 2GB 240pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800, WD Caviar Blue WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 SATA, E5300 2.6 GHz 65W Dual- Core, StarTech 6' 20 pin ATX power supply to 24 pin MB adaptor ATX2024MF, 8 year old Compaq case with 300 W pwr supply

Cons: put this micro ATX into an OLD Compaq ATX box - The I/O shield on the back that came with the MB did not align perfectly and needed to be trimmed.

Overall Review: If you are rebuilding something OLD with this remember that the motherboard uses a 24 pin power connector and older powersupplies are 20 pin - the adaptor is cheap enoung but if you buy things all at once the shipping is a little cheaper - New egg is great! Things get here so fast. This was a first build for my wife - an IT manager. Her face was all smiles when she saw how fast this new build formatted the drive, loaded windows and came up with no issues. Felt good not to put that box in the land fill.

Pros: Very good bang for the buck! I bought it as a possible base configuration for instructor computers at a tech school. The HDMI and VGA outputs allow the elimination of a video splitter and another cable or two. Performance is quite satisfactory.

Cons: None.

Pros: The motherboard has clever placements, and it works great, does what a motherboard is supposed to do, and has a DVI connection as well =]. These pros outweight the cons.

Cons: The driver's GUI doesn't seem to work very nicely with windows xp media center edition, when clicking for it to install drivers it says "hardware not found". That is awfully funny because I am pretty sure I installed the motherboard that came with the cd! Anyhow, the drivers installed properly by manually using windows explorer to install each driver seperately without the discs GUI. Even the website itself has only the USB driver for the model. An easy website fix was referring to another motherboard in the g31 family that had the same parts as this motherboard and getting those drivers, yet I don't see why the manufacturer's site didn't include the necessary drivers under this model name.

Overall Review: This websites shipping is always a plus and their service is amazing, after growing so much over the years they still manage to keep the same homegrown customer service that have made them professional. As far as the cons, they are nevertheless minor and only deducted one egg, it is a great motherboard and works well, simple, and functional.

Pros: This is a great MICRO ATX motherboard. If you're looking for a full ATX size don't buy this one. With that said, I intended to buy an ATX motherboard as the newegg advertised it, but it turned out that I was very happy with this micro-ATX board and kept it. My Pentium D 3.2 Ghz actually runs cooler on this motherboard than my old biostar p4m800, don't know why.

Cons: Right now (10-20-2008 10:32 PM EST) this motherboard is falsely advertised as ATX. I have contacted newegg by email so hopefully they correct this error so by the time you are reading this it is advertised as Micro-ATX. Besides that, the only real con is that it only has 2 PCI slots, and if you have a 2-slot wide video card, that brings you down to just one PCI slot.

Overall Review: This is my second BioStar motherboard and I have to say that they make very good quality reliable motherboards (my computer remains turned on for months on end sometimes and I am constantly gaming and watching movies) and they are usually dirt cheap compared to the bigger brands like ASUS.

Pros: Wide range of processors supported including Pentium D, Core 2 duo and Core 2 quad, decent inbuilt video, gigabit network, sound. Good price.

Cons: none

Pros: Everything else seems to work well

Cons: Video output blurry with ghosting of text on the screen