GIGABYTE GA-EP43-UD3L ATX Intel Motherboard

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I built this for my sister's family since their old PC could'nt play most of the new PC games that the kids like.It's been the best PC they have ever owned so far and their friends want me to build them a few more.Too bad I live 800 miles away!!But if you don't want to spend a lot of money this is a very good board.

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This is a very solid board for a great price, running 4 sticks of 1 gb total 4gb PC 6400 Memory. It has a beautiful design and color. Only downside was the few cables it provided. It came with only 2 sata cables and that was about it.

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This motherboard was a replacement for a blown Motherboard / PSU, for what I paid it's not bad. OC's decently but it's not going to break any records.However this thing is stable, I pushed the board as far as it would go and it would truck on through a few hours of Prime95. Only going down to memory errors :P.

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I have always been a fan of Gigabyte. it is a high quality produte that will last a long time. The last mother board I bought was 9 years old by the time it failed. I love how this board can be upgraded to keep up with technology changes over the next few years.

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this is a good mobo if your on budget, it works well with a gts250 750watt psu 4gb stick of corsair, and i love it, buy it if you want to save money.

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Had a huge problem with ASRock board from another retailer they sent me 2 bad ones!!Since I never had a problem with this site I decided to come back, glad I did. The board is nice and sturdy feeling,has alot of nice features and is inexpensive..win win! Took only a few minutes to hook up and posted perfect! I also bought Kingston HyperX 4096MB PC8500 DDR2 1066MHz (2x2048 ,and it works GREAT.

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Good budget buy motherboard, no hiccups so far.

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This board is great for a standard build with a good video card. You could use it for a desktop pc without any extraordinary performance but it can but performant too.

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solid mobo, cant complaint to much. i with it was SLI, but for less than 100 bucks, its great. good boad for the budget builder.

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Bought this for my first build. did tons of research. Paired it with Core two duo e7500. It is blazing fast. the status lights and speaker connectors are hard to install but besides that great product. BUY NOW

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Great Motherboard RUN GOOD FAST BOOT TIME IS FAST LOVE THIS RUN VERY NICE

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Installed, up and running for a month now, no problems from get go. Bought because I was looking for value and usb headers but got so much more with this board. Has everything except a firewire header. I recommend this mb, after all it is a Gigabyte. The included Easy Tune software for overclocking couldn't be easier. Super fast delivery with case and memory I bought. TD is the best.

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No problem with this motherboard. A very good choice for a budget build. don't think you would be missing out much compared with ep45. all the usual functionality are there although raid would be nice. it is a good board for those who want a good but not expensive build.

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Very good mb for right price. I bought it for one reson: to use it with Mach3 for my CNC machine. Most mb don't have any more LPT (parallel) nor COM (serial) ports installed but this one has headers for both so if you need them just add short cable with connectors. Also performance is better than expected. The 2 oz inner layer copper make this mb very sturdy and perfect for any machine.

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Got this motherboard along with a quad core cpu and 4gb ram. installed in my tower, connected everything up, held my breath and hit the power button. Came on and asked for a cd, I put in the disc for Windows7 home premium 64 bit. It installed without issues. I did not need to install any additional drivers to get windows 7 to start, nor did I need to adjust anything in BIOS. Seems to be a good mobo, I had everything up and running within 3 hours of delivery.

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I only have had this up an running about a week. So far it has been running great. I like the ample USB ports and the legacy IDE, parallel and serial ports. I had no problems transferring my processor, cards and memory from a MB that died. I installed Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit and it runs great.

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I purchased this for a customer and matched it up with a q8400 cpu and a gts 250 and he was very happy.The board is smaller than most and easy to install.I built the whole PC for less than $800 including taxes and shipping and it's well worth the money.

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I bought this board for a friend of mine who needed a working computer after a bad bios flash; he couldn't wait for a new bios ship. So I decided to buy him this motherboard. It is superior to the one he had before; have 8 usb ports and is good enough for a gamer.

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Didn't realize you needed to contact gigabyte for a 64 bit driver prior to loading windows on this system. I had several weeks of frustration before figuring this out. Once i did, couldn't be happier with the performance of the board.

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My first build. Lots of research. Paired this mobo with cor duo e8500 -- no problems. Great and fast. My vote --- GET IT!!!

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This is my first Gigabyte branded motherboard. No problems after 4 weeks with all components transferred from my old, comparable, board and with reinstalled WIN XP.

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Bought this to replace a gigabyte p965 DS3 that was acting upits basically the same board but faster install went off without a hitch and i didnt even have to reinstall windows 7 or my audio drivers or anything which was a plusalso it lets me run my old e2180 x 333x10 where my old board could only get it to around 2.8 ghz

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i got this board for a budget build and its working great with my e5200. i have my e5200 running stable at 3.5ghz with a vendetta 2. one of the best boards for a budget gaming or htpc build, (mATX would be better for htpc's though)overall a great board and has good overclock protection and options

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didn't use the sound card on the mb, but everything else seems to work great.

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Worked for me about 3 weeks...then RA This retailer took it back and let me upgrade to a better Mobo