GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H ATX AMD Motherboard

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The board has performed every little thing completely so far and is so a lot more rapidly than my prior Q6600 quad core. I snap my fingers and it is booted. Really like it so far. I can give it only four eggs because so quite a few failures reported by other individuals. Listen Gigabyte, top quality manage is an absolute need to have if you want my continued faithful enterprise. I purchased this board primarily based on Gigabytes reputation and my previous knowledge devoid of checking the evaluations. I checked reviews just after ordering and was very worried. I felt like I played russian roulette. I invest also significantly time and money to get scared like that. Subsequent time I read the critiques first. I would have looked for an additional 890 board with superior reviews had I study them very first ahead of ordering.

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I have been utilizing this motherboard for a while now, I have no troubles with it, The initially may possibly have been DOA or the CPU, I sent for a return on each and that fixed the issue, the new board and cpu function flawlessly. I It functions good with the AMD Athlon 2 X4 processor and the ATI Radeon 5770. I like the reality it has a number of sata ports as effectively as IDE connections. The second energy input point is a bit far to run unsightly wires??? that is about the only down side. NZXT apollo caseATI Radeon 5770Thermalright Silver ArrowAMD Athlon two X4Western digital 500gb HD

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Incredible specsquite economicaltoughsaves on electric bill simply because IT DOESN'T Function properly... lets see...o yea it DOESN'T Function Initially time it was DOA.right after RMA, got new a single that at least booted up, prior to several random crashed, blue screens of doom, etc...can not RMA second time so there goes 軆PLEASE DO NOT MAKE MY Mistake BY Acquiring THIS!!!! Manufacturer Response:Dear Customer,Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your Gigabyte product. Please make contact with us at newegg-support@gigabyte-usa.com with the case number 66168 in the subject line. We will supply customized service and evaluation to help solve your situation ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your get in touch with number, and we will contact you.Gigabyte VIP Assistance Team

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Lots of nice capabilities, gorgeous coloration and design and style, lots of slots, lots of SATA connections None I have nothing poor to say about this motherboard. I purchased an AMD Phenom II x6 3. Ghz processor with it, and it runs amazingly.Also, many of you - like me, could wonder if dual monitors will function with this motherboard with out obtaining to buy an added card. YES! It will! Nevertheless, it won't run three even though it has 3 video outputs.According to the manual, to run dual monitors you can use either the HDMI + VGA, or DVI + VGA, not DVI + HDMI, or all three. I haven't tried it, but I figure the manufacturer would know additional about that than myself.I appreciate this mobo, I have plenty of space to expand with it, and I'm confident it will last me numerous years.

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-Supports ALL AM3 CPUs with BIOS Update-Beautiful, overclocked my Phenom II X6 1090T to four.0Ghz-SATA three., USB three.-Incredibly excellent layout for cables -properly I want it had much more USB ports on the I/O panelperhaps like eight- rather of six -wish it had much more fan headers-maybe a clear CMOS button as an alternative of a jumper

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This board is a fine strong board. Integrated video is sufficient for a media center Computer and light gaming, but I am going to upgrade to a 6850 for heavier gaming. My one particular and only issue with this board nearly got me pulling my hair out immediately after a handful of hours. It refuses to boot from USB. I couldn't install linux from a flash drive or boot from an external HDD. Sooner or later I gave up and burned an install cd on my laptop. No difficulties there. Good, strong board. I am operating a Phenom II X6 1090T without having any troubles. I am not overclocking... yet.

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Performs excellent all round; I have both a rev two. and a rev 1..ARECA ARC-1231ML RAID card performs fine in a rev2. _except_ that it won't boot from the RAID card. Debian Squeeze (testing) does, all the same, operate fine with the RAID volumesets. Not the least expensive. Really good board; I just wish I could put additional than 16GB of RAM on it.I can be a tiny awkward to use the bottom SATA ports.

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This motha-board is impressive!!!! Its got all the bling I needed. I originally ordered the ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 than returned for this board. I have not had one single situation. want they came in red or black or bumblebee! operating Corsair 550vxAMD Phenom II X6 1055TSAPPHIRE 100289L Radeon HD 5670 (Redwood)Kingston HyperX 4GB ƒ x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3case and memory definitely do not matter or do they?Many times I put on the board on my chest and pretend I am a robot and eat bolts and nuts...

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This critique is for Customer Support A lot of thanks to Elizabeth Velasquez !!!! for taking the time to edit a RMA. only con would be not giving a raise, or at least a all expense paid getaway ! Again thank you for your speedy and curtous approach with regard to this matter. It's persons like you that make this business a Sucess in the marketplace location.

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Worked with new PCIE 120Gb Revo Drive. No heating issues. OC'd a 1090t to three.6GHz and stayed below 40C. Effortless to OC RAM also. Will also OC the video, but haven't messed with that however. Operates with my 7-8-7-24 1600 RAM. No on-board start button like on some boards. This is only a issue simply because this is a case-less build and for that reason have no "on" button from the case so I commence it up by shorting pins threeƀ with a paper clip exactly where the case switch would connect. NOT a big challenge though - ordered a case switch kit for Ű and place a Staples "Easy" button on it. After struggling with undertaking it the incorrect way from many directions, the Revo is straightforward to install. Soon after downloading the driver from OCZ onto a thumb drive and no other drives connected, put Win7 disk in and get started loading. Soon after you pick the language on the windows load, the next screen will have a LOAD DRIVERS button. Browse and install. Select the Revo drive as very first boot in the BIOS soon after loading the driver and continue with windows install.I only wish that someone would have told me how to get the Revo recognized by Windows ahead of I spent 30+ hours undertaking it the incorrect way. I have learned so substantially and now ready to do it once again.This is a wonderful board with options I have however to uncover.

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Good board full of capabilities. No bios updates for am3+ cpu.Which other board makers have already posted on there websites. I hope I didn't waste my cash.

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Looked nice. The board would not post, no power to on-board components, attempted every little thing to get it to operate, it was just defective. I may well try a Gigabyte board once more at some point, these factors do come about time to time, but not a fantastic 1st impression. Manufacturer Response:Dear Customer,Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your Gigabyte item. Please contact us at newegg-assistance@gigabyte-usa.com with the case number 68081 in the subject line. We will provide personalized service and evaluation to help solve your issue ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your contact quantity, and we will contact you.Gigabyte VIP Assistance Group

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Fantastic mobo, supports my Phenom II X4 965 OC to 3.8 with out voltage tweak. On-board audio through my Steelseries headset offers horrid static noise. I can hear every little thing my laptop or computer does, all the processes beeps and so forth come by way of my headset. Its not noticeable when playing netflix or blackops but annoying all the same. These noises only come out of my headset and not speakers I connect to the computer. I didn't have this issue with the mobo or headset with windows xp sp3. I installed W7 House as soon as all my other parts arrived for my new develop. After W7 installed I noticed immediately that I was hearing all these annoying sounds. I don't know what to do to fix it sense I have updated the audio drivers.

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six/gb, sidemounted, lots of usb . hdmi,dvi and vga! the default cpu fan mount! I cant figure how to mount my 9700 zalman. had to mount it with air flow up, lucky i have a 80mm exhaust fan in leading but nonetheless blows to my Energy provide,(coolermaster CM stacker atx situation). would have been great if i could have moved the back plate 90 degrees or the mount. By no means have encountered a difficulty like this in 10 yrs of creating comps. But it was my negative acquire on the Cpu cooler.

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This board has all the attributes I wanted. Setup was quickly and easy. Zero Does almost everything claimed!! Value is OK as well!

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Interfaces completely with every little thing, good and rapid, has 3. and a bunch of ports, fantastic value, looks flashy and whatnot. The initial 1 I received energy cycled when and then the PCI express 2. X16 slot died, and the motherboard starting crashing continually. Luckily newegg has wonderful buyer service so when I sent it back they sent me a new one particular, and the new a single functions wonderful.Only possessing a single PCI express 2. X16 slot is kind of a discomfort now that I feel about it, could have applied additional.Directions for the processor housing were super unclear, my buddy tried to pry the seat off for a although before we realized that it has no packaging to remove. It is impossible to put a processor on that is already attached to a heat sink, so if the two are thermal pasted together you'll need to take them apart in order to put it on. Overall, I would have offered it 4 stars if the initial 1 hadn't been DOA, it seems like a great piece of technologies, I'm just so bitter more than having to wait two weeks with no a laptop.

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This thing has so several possibilities, so quite a few doodads whoozits and whatsits, bells and whistles I expect it to make coffee as well. Even though it has but to do that, it has exceeded all my other expectations for a performance motherboard. Fantastic overclocker. The put the front audio pins in "that spot." I adore running a cable across all my PCI lanes... Winner!

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- The board has been stable and trustworthy since day 1. Has handled a C2 鳌w) 965 BE chip in the course of the time. The driverMOS style of this board seems to be notably superior to that of a competing, international small-star company.- Onboard sound has been fantastic, Gb ethernet is quite good.- Connectivity is excellent, with plenty of selections.-Onboard graphics can be a backup if the video card has issues or ceases functioning. Otherwise it's a bit of a poke in the eye for modern day gaming. - The motherboard heatsink is inadequate if a tower heatsink is utilised. Chipset temp easily passes 52C while encoding video. Devoid of being aware of the operating temperature range of the power transistors, this appears like a risky temperature. Basically place, the motherboard heatsink a passive design that requires more airflow than a competing As*s model 龺gx chipset). I have a single of these boards, and it runs much, a lot cooler. I can\'t comment on overclocking, as this board runs as stock.

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I received revision 3.1 and it clearly states on the box it is AM3+ compatible.According to the manual SATA ports can be utilized for eSATA.Fantastic board! Gigabytes web page seems somewhat confusing for driver updates. Very unclear on what drivers are necessary. Not excellent for somebody that doesn't do this each day. I have constantly purchased ASUS boards so I was a little nervous on trying this 1 but I am incredibly pleased that I did!

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solid board, total set of existing attributes had on board video challenge but corrected with ATI 11.3 update switched back to Gigabyte after a horrid expertise with A SUSpect board. Installed W7u-x64 from USB stick. post install of AHCI enabled RAID on 3GBports with two Raptors, zero concerns. Post set up of cheesy PCI-E port multiplier, works fine SSD boot slab (Kingston V100+) works fine. Dual monitors, operate fine. Operator error obtaining 5.1 sound to perform.reading the FM helps. Full16GB install, works fine.

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Looks fairly, hefty heatsinks, thick mobo, USB3 (if you can get any of it to work) Upon the initial installation of this mobo, I had a RAID array with the primary boot partition, and it was produced on one more Gigabyte board, so I believed that it would function flawlessly (same organization, ought to make the drivers cross-compatable, appropriate?) I commence to load into Win 7, quick blue screen, this happens 3 or so far more instances. I then thought, stupidly, that it could just be the array that's causing troubles, so I decided to generate a new array on this board, and downloaded the diverse drivers, and attempted to re-set up Win 7. Instantly, it asked me for the drivers for the dvd drive. Immediately after supplying these drivers, I attempted to set up onto the RAID array, so I tried to load the drivers, to see that Gigabyte's drivers are unsigned, and will not work with Win 7 (or Vista for that matter) stepped it down to single disk set up. I got a single set up completed, two days into owning this mobo. It then booted up once, and didn't enter Win 7 ever once more. Memory management error, blue screen I'm surprised, Gigabyte is a extremely fantastic brand, and I constantly recommend them to a buddy if they're developing a Pc, but this is the second time in a row when I've had troubles with their mobos, and I'll admit that the memory management error could also have to do with the memory, but without having the modules, I don't will need the mobo, and vice-versa, due to the fact they're the only DDR3 things I have. I am sending both in for a refund. (thank goodness AM3 processors are backwards-compatible with AM2+ sockets!) Manufacturer Response:Dear Buyer,Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your Gigabyte product. Please make contact with us at newegg-support@gigabyte-usa.com with the case number 66063 in the subject line. We will give personalized service and analysis to enable solve your concern ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your make contact with quantity, and we will get in touch with you.Gigabyte VIP Support Group

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Soon after RMA'ng the board back to Gigabyte they sent exactly the exact same board back with no explanation of what was wrong or if they even located anything incorrect. What I do know is that they have some of the worst consumer assistance I have ever skilled. That is the "PRO"s!! I did every thing I knew to do with a bad board, ran all the suitable protocols, replaced all the other hardware in my process. Absolutely nothing BUDGED THIS BOARD!!! Freezes, shuts down. In my last practical experience with this board it would not even do a fresh install of Windows, but Gigabyte sent it back to me with absolutely nothing being completed. Save YOUR Dollars, GET A Real GAMMING BOARD. THERE ARE A Quantity OF MFR's WHO WOULD Love YOUR BUISNESS. What is so very good about Newegg is these reviews. Real people today, true experiences, the truth not hype!! Manufacturer Response:Dear Consumer,Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your Gigabyte solution. Please contact us at newegg-support@gigabyte-usa.com with the case quantity 67239 in the topic line. We will give personalized service and evaluation to assist resolve your situation ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your get in touch with quantity, and we will contact you.Gigabyte VIP Help Team

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A fantastic product for the value. It does the job. The drivers on the installation disc were not up to date, I had to come across them manually online... which wasn't entertaining. If you encounter no sound, that's a driver situation. I could not set up OS windows XP pro SP1, located out gigabyte has issues with that. Windows 7 & Ubuntu installed perfectly. I was a small much more than concerned with the poor critiques but if you have some determination to get this board up & operating go for it.

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Excellent hunting board. Will not accept g ability 4x2gb sniper ram as a pair. Really picky ddr3 slots. Have 1075t on it and it runs pretty slow despite the fact that all cores are enabled. Incredibly diappointed in this board. Have had gigabytes prior to but may possibly switch to one more brand. Possibly biostar has gotten much better..Have utilised asus, msi, gigabyte, biostar, and others no longer about. Its finding tougher discovering one particular that is worth the money.

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The only pro is there are a lot of precise one particular egg critiques warning you to appear elsewhere, take evey one particular of them seriously i promise. I got this board despite the evaluations thinking the worst that can take place is i have to obtain a pci card, the pci card also randomly cuts out! and high load cut outs, and bios change cut outs... attempted with every single bios update and the disk/website driver of program, with/without router ect... When it performs the on board video is surprising running windows 7 areo effects and 1080 hd movies also stays really cool I recieved the board placed ontop of the static plastic bag its supposed to be inside, wont make this mistake once again, not for total price.