ASUS M4A785-M Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

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Value/ Function Ratio. Tiny but strong. Blue theme looks cool. Stable following 8 months with no bsod unless overclocking. Support for am3 processors, some can unlock cores. DDR2. Onboard hdmi is a fuss. Intergrated radeon hd 4200 not appropriate adequate for gaming actually. Only 2 pci slots. Some of the ports are in odd places, like the sata being at the bottom, and ide becoming next to the power provide plug. Based on your case this could be a hassle. For the cost this issue can beast on some games and applications like no other fairly significantly.AMD Athlon x3 440 three.0ghz4gb kingston hyperX 1066 ddr2Lite-On dvd-rw driveATI Radeon hd 5550Western Digital Green 500gb sata

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great board paied with 16 gigs of corsair xms.. small high priced for a board with only ddr2 assistance i didnt catch the open box deal ontime bummer. but nicely worth just about every penny! none need to have a six core cpu to replace my phenom 9650 lol

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Neat board, lots of selections, operating would be fantastic. DOA. Started and ran just long enough to corrupt my Windows set up I moved more than. Box starts and runs about 30 seconds then video goes black and becomes a fan power supply only. Let it cool various hours and again and repeat. Moved all parts from a working box, wanted a Simple swap to a newer smaller mobo and case. Moved my parts back to original ASUS mobo and everything runs except that I now have a trashed windows isntall. Not certain if I want to repair now or wait untill I'm on the final board. My Windows install is now corrupt, I'm out the cash to ship a defective back.

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It's not the newest board out there but it does the job, Simple to use and update, Just installed the Phenom II x6 into it immediately after getting to do a extremely swift bios flash, Appreciate how nicely everything works. I have used this motherboard on a couple personal computer builds for customers and I have had no luck finding the expressgate to function. I am not confident why but it just does not seem to want to operate at all. For the cost this is a really great mobo.

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Low-cost, built in HDMI The very first arrived DOA, this second 1 doesn't work with the front audio jacks on either situation I've tried. And for some reason one particular of the headers for USB only operates at pre USB 2. speeds (less than a mb/s transfer). I will be contacting Asus for some answers. I usually utilized to like Asus, now I'm a little leary of them.

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OCing is easy, operating a AMD Phenom II x4, haven't experienced any heat problems, HDMI output Onboard graphics won't run Civ 5 fairly, but seeking to get an independent video card to take care of that Got it on a sweet combo deal, wonderful mother board for the value

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Great mainboard for new HTPC develop. Integrated Radeon HD 4200 is great sufficient for 1080p playback, and HDMI and Optical SPDIF make for straightforward connection to the other residence theater components. Asus quality is reassuring. None so far. Phenom X2 3.1 Ghz4 GB Corsair DDR2275W PSU

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Under no circumstances got a post... Listed as supporting my cpu family............I must have the unmentioned, jailed, and dirty cousin to the "supported" CPUs. Following a extended conversation with asus tech assistance, my cpu wasn't listed........may well want to metion that there are some unsupported models Newegg. I ought to rely far more on what I know to be fact when researching for parts. I got applied to Newegg being ontop of every thing. Very good news as soon as my RMA is completed, There is a MB right here that is compatible.

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See earlier evaluation Video difficulty appears to be resolved by installing updated driver from ATI. ASUS tech service slow to respond ྴ mins on hold), tach was trying to enable by checking for updated driver but we got disconnected. Went to the ATI web-site and found the driver update. I downloaded to a thumb drive on a various Pc and loaded to the difficulty Pc running a 32 bit XP OS. Ran fine. Did a clean OEM install of WINDOWS 7 PRO 64 bit though FIOS connected to the online. THe network driver have to have stayed resident since upon install completion, WINDOWS updates supplied the RADEON HD 4200 update driver and all seemed to run well.

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if you have an older AM2/ AM2+ CPU and some DDR2 Ram get this board. I have built a couple of rigs with this board and they preform good for me. the HD 4200 onboard Vidio functions nicely for all my builds and will even play fallout three on med settings at a playable ㅑ-30 FPS for higher end gameing you get a high finish Vidio card. now with the price of DDR2 vs DDR3 Ram for a new build I would recommend receiving the AM3 version of this board and a AM3 processor it is a excellent board but I built a new AM3 rig for my neighbor with a sempron cpu and cheap DDR3 ram and was amazed at the prefromance difference. his 2.8 GHZ Sempron single core preformed on par with my DDR2 Version with a 3GHZ dual core. exact same chipset and manufacture his board was the ASUS M4785TD-M evo with similar 4GB ram my board has and similar XP pro. the new board with the DDR3 ram runs so substantially greater for a new build. if I didnt already have this one particular with all the ram and stuff I would get the DDR3 version. but if you already have the other parts and are on a budget get this board fantastic purchase. otherwise go for the DDR3 version for a new create

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does what its supposed to never ever had any problems .though this board is acquiring old now it is nonetheless serving its objective none

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Unbelievable top quality. Quite effectively compatible None Utilizing two of these boards as servers with dual-core CPU's, RAID 1 with two disks, one particular optical drive, 16GB of RAM and two added NIC's and 300W power supplies and these systems have been on for months with no problems thermal, electrical or otherwise. Every server is running three VM's of different OS's functioning greater than expected. As a defense information systems administrator, I reccommend this for individual use.

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Wonderful board layout.Tons of nice overclocking and hardware monitoring software package.Lots of overclocking options in the BIOS.Straightforward to install and so far very stable running.Great CPU upgrade potential for the future.Fantastic cost. None but. Purchased this to replace an aging Biostar GeForce 6100 mobo. I adore the layout of this board. uATX boards are rather modest so it is nice to see that ASUS utilized the space of this board so well. The SATA ports are at the incredibly corner of the board and out of the way of the GPU slot. ATX and CPU energy sockets are each at the edge of the board which keeps all the power cables from cluttering anything up and blocking airflow. Also quite stable with my old Athlon X2 4200 O.C.'d to three.0GHz. So far there is not a single factor I do not really like about this board! Oh yeah, it's kinda pretty to look at too!!

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works with old cpu none

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just a note for the person that didnt get sound by means of HDMI i had to alter the spdif output in the bios to go via HDMI and them adjust the settings on windows and it worked like a charm but have to choose among speakers or HDMI cant have both at the same time DDR2???

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Low cost, very good so far, I like the software program that comes with it so you can overclock the cpu just by pushing the energy button. none

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Excellent board, no install issues whatsoever. I in no way applied the CD that came with it, I downloaded all the most current drivers beforehand. Using it as a Windows Home Server. No firewire.

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Fantastic chipset and very good bios choices as supplied by ASUS. This is my initially ASUS board and I am rather content with it. None

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I use this for a HTPC and it has almost everything I want. It gets the job carried out. Asus is a good brand, but even they have flaws. RMA'd the very first one I received simply because SATA port ş was negative. This induced a lot of problems and confusion and lots of hours of wasted time trying to format great drives. Overclocking for me causes blue screens, but I don't Need to have it for HTPC use. Other people could not discover this as stable as they want it to be.

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I bought this mobo mainly because it came in a combo for like 250 bucks. Its wonderful, it has 6 sata ports and the express gate comes in handy all the time. I really like pushing the power button for an straightforward over clock. HDMI and optical. 16 gigs of ram max. Just some lack in newer technologies. It utilizes ddr2. The transfer rate amongst the sata is only 3gbps. and it really should have more plugs for chasy fans. mainly because then you have to always acquire molex fans. Color is my favorite.

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All Drivers function good. Great on board Graphics. simply overclock settings... north bridge has very low cost thermal paste. I suggest taking the north bridge off and applying some arctic silver 5 thermal compound if you want to extend the life of the board. AMD M4A785-M motherboard 2GB Kingston hyper x ramthree.0GHz AMD Propus Quad Core Processor 650watt apevia gaming power160GB difficult drive Asus DVD Burner

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ASUS features are exceptional.Core Unlocker gave me an additional core and the OC functions are effortless adequate that my kid could do it. No firewire connectionwould have liked a 4 pin case fan header so cool-n-quiet could take care of that fan as properly. Even although it's a micro ATX, it was nevertheless huge for the case.... some of the other micro ATX boards are upto an inch smaller sized.

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Excellent replacement motherboard for a single that died. Architecture is efficient. This is the 2nd motherboard I have purchased of this sort. The on-board video is excellent. Couldn't get the on-board sound drivers to operate for the motherboard. I may will need to do a clean install of Windows which I will possibly attempt later on. I did not plan on making use of the on-board sound anyway. I would almost certainly buy a greater board next time about. Quite uncomplicated board to implement.

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Nicely it was excellent for about ten months. I'm having the very same difficulty as the other people. Ide connector to close to the power provide a single. It will hang up for 30 minutes or longer occasionally attempting to start up. It also keeps saying I don't have a tough drive and sometime it says theres no optical drive either. It will function right after I play with the ide cords push them in the connections. Even although they aren't shed.

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Feature rich board, great for a very first build or muscle machine. Works fantastic, every thing fired right up from the start. none however. This Develop all from Newegg; MB - Asus M4A785-M CPU - Athlon II 240 Regor 2.8Ghz DVD-RW - Asus DRW-24B1ST HD - WD Caviar Blue 500GMEMORY - Kingston ValueRam 4GPreserve up the very good perform Newegg.