Will I be able to put a motherboard directly on it for when I test my rig? Buying regardless - just wondering how the surface is.
1822211
Yes you can set your motherboard down directly on it's surface. Works like a charm. Now I don't do any repairs without it.
1822212
I believe you are trying to get at if it is a conductive mat. The mat is non-conductive and shouldn't be an issue. I've done a few repairs on it already where the parts I pull from the PC sit on it with no issue. As for booting up, I'm never a big fan of booting hardware up outside of a case, but it shouldn't cause an issue since it's anti-static as well.
1822213
I've used this very same mat to break down countless netbooks, which happen to be one of the most electrically sensitive computing devices there are. I've sat sound cards, video cards, CPUs, you name it, and never once have had ESD problems. I must note that I also use an anti-static wrist strap whenever disassembling/handling any of the said devices above. If you're going to be handling a motherboard you'd best have both, and connect the other end of the wrist strap to a non-painted, metal part of a computer case or other grounding source.
380030
No board is a good board if it doesn't do what you want it to do, regardless of how little or how much you pay for it. This will handle being a home theater PC, browsing the internet, as a word processor, some LIGHT gaming, etc just fine. Overall I have been happy with it as a HTPC.
680876
My experience is I play a lot of old windows games and this motherboard handles it beautifully on all high settings.And the cpu and gpu intergrated runs super cool .Of course I have an fm2+ cpu at 65watts Quadcore 3.1 which is very nice./ If you multi task accept no less than a Quadcore and you won,t go wrong!!!! So if you don,t game heavy this is a dream motherboard. Make sure you have also plenty of memory/ram and a decent cpu cooler other than stock and it should be around for a long time to come.!!!! My personal experience is it,s Very Very Very Nice!!!!
64832
I'm waiting for some reviews as well before I take the plunge. Newegg already has a few reviews, but not very in depth. I'll be watching that site, as well as Amazon, for some reviews for this product.
781144
If youre talking about a motherboard port..you can put it on the card without any changes. your mobo/software should see it fine. You may need to modify your boot sequence.
361609
The motherboard dont support richland... only the trinity, but its a good item, work's fine, i dont have any problem, i have installed Windows 8, and run perfect... and the default BIOS i dont know what do you want say, but the BIOS of this motherboard it's nice...! can support mouse, so the configuration is so easy...! and have one click overclocking, if you want overclocking you'r processor...! i only can say: It's a good motherboard...!!
996721
Just grab something with the z97 chipset and you'll do just fine. Other factors will narrow it down like SATA ports, 3.0 headers, sli/crossfire support, and such.
69851
It is a value motherboard rather than a performance mobo. If you have a tight budget and want a fully AMD solution than, sure, it is "good for gamin". The AM3+ designation gives you processor choices, it has USB 3.0, plenty of SATA III ports, has SATA II ports if needed, even has an IDE port, has gigabyte lan, is easy to work with and somewhat elegant in its simplicity. So it is "white bread" but will meet the average gamer's needs.
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YES, If was able to post pics I would. It has heatsinks that go to the CPU and to the GPU and both are interconnected and each heatsink comes out to a fan for a total of two fans. After removing bottom cover it would be very easy to clean any dust out of the fans unlike my last ASUS (careful do not let fingers slide on bottom cover edge as pop it off after screws are out, I sliced the crap out of my finger, lol) I have removed the bottom cover with a T5 Torx bit to check a few things (will be taking the HD out for an SSD, adding another 8GB stick of RAM and mailing my keyboard out at some point for blue back-lighting to be added to the keyboard). YES, If was able to post pics I would. It has heatsinks that go to the CPU and to the GPU and both are interconnected and each heatsink comes out to a fan for a total of two fans. After removing bottom cover it would be very easy to clean any dust out of the fans unlike my last ASUS (careful do not let fingers slide on bottom cover edge as pop it off after screws are out, I sliced the crap out of my finger, lol) I have removed the bottom cover with a T5 Torx bit to check a few things (will be taking the HD out for an SSD, adding another 8GB stick of RAM and mailing my keyboard out at some... » Read More YES, If was able to post pics I would. It has heatsinks that go to the CPU and to the GPU and both are interconnected and each heatsink comes out to a fan for a total of two fans. After removing bottom cover it would be very easy to clean any dust out of the fans unlike my last ASUS (careful do not let fingers slide on bottom cover edge as pop it off after screws are out, I sliced the crap out of my finger, lol) I have removed the bottom cover with a T5 Torx bit to check a few things (will be taking the HD out for an SSD, adding another 8GB stick of RAM and mailing my keyboard out at some point for blue back-lighting to be added to the keyboard). « Show Less
518231
It will be fine but you can't do SLI for Nvidia if you want to go that route just single card. Great board btw.
1823373
I built servers with the 2 boards i bought. They are rock stable with 8350's in them running vm's, with 32gb's ram in each. I am using on board video
168281
it cannot... This is not a good motherboard....... mine was dead on arrival... I never got it replaced.... save you money... buy something else somewhere else. Hope this helps.
1118884
It will load and work right out of the box. i installed the FX8350 8 core pile driver and it worked. could not get a windows score thou so updated the bios to the new 2.0 and it worked. the new 2.0 bios is great it adds things to the board that are really nice. it's easy, just went to ASRock site and loaded the windows version for the new bios for this board. This is one of the best M.B. i have ever used. this thing is rock solid i hope this information helps you Ricardo. good luck with the new board.
719145
It is very easy to upgrade ram. I just did it and did not even look at a guide.Note that there is only one SO_DIMM slot, so you cannot buy a 1 gb stick and add on. I swapped out the 1 gb stick mine came with, with onee of two 2 gb sticks on my thinkpad. better value all round.also, i just read online that asus changed their policy of treating ram upgrade as voiding warranty. not sure though.
850980
Using internal graphics as this board is in an ESXi server for some home VM testing. Honestly there are better boards out there I only got this as it is a reference board and should have universal compatibility with VMware
639476
No. You'll need to add to the pci express slot. Still a great motherboard. Ive nerve had such a great experience with a motherboard til now. Im going to be using Gigabyte more often now.
11264
During setup and OS installation (Win 7 Home Edition 64bit) didn't encounter any issues with the Rig using the H61 chipset. The drivers loaded right up with BIOS settings on default. The Rig is only set as a workstation desktop. The only intense graphics the Rig may ever see during usage are Youtube and flash apps. There are limitations to the H61 chipset though nothing to be alarmed about. The H61 chipset supports only 16GB of total memory and SATA interface maxed at 3GB/s. Cost wise the motherboard was a bargain for the use this Rig was going to do.