having not updated my old motherboard for near 10 years ...
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having not updated my old motherboard for near 10 years, i got this one for the many sata ports,the ability to upgrade the memory & CPU. I don't play games on the computer, but I do a lot of video editing.... This seems to be much faster than my old phoenix P4M89-M7B. I've noticed I can now multitask without slowing the system down.
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Sucks that I'd have to buy a whole new motherboard (that costs about as much as the cpu) just for a 5% improvement over 4770k. This is why I only upgrade once every 2 die shrinks (~5 years, prob not until 2017 for next one) when there's probably next gen sata/ram/ssd/vid card/etc as well. No longer necessary to upgrade every release like back in the 1990's when every release was almost 30-50% more speed. Dunno why Intel bothers releasing with only 5%, I guess there's still plenty of suckers and a few more with 10yo pc's. No die shrink or major architecture change = basically done to kiss the butts of shareholders.
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My primary components on this board:
AMD FX 8350 8-core 4.0 GHz
60GB Corsair Force Series 3 SSD
16GB  G.SKILL Sniper Series DDR3 1866 (4x 2GB)

Pros:
-After flashing the BIOS to the latest release (F9 at the time, F10a is still a beta), I was able to get my 1866 memory to run at 1600. (The BIOS it came with clocked it at 1333). Flashing the BIOS with the downloadable @BIOS utility was a breeze.
-All the ports that I've used work.
-I like the look of it. Gunmetal blacks and grays really do make it seem like an "Ultra Durable" motherboard.
-It's stable, and has all the options you'd want to to overclock (which I don't.)

Cons:
-The BIOS is less intuitive than my old ASUS motherboard.
-USB support during POST is touchy (making entering the BIOS set up frustrating). I have an older keyboard with a split end so it can be either USB or PS/2, but that means I have to drag out another device while trouble shooting.
-There's a completely unexplained lag between the POST screen and the Windows 8 loading screen. It shows a blank screen with a blinking cursor, then a screen that says "Loading operating system" both for about 5 seconds each. I'm running a SSD build, and I'm this annoying sequence is slowing down my reboots. I've tried IDE and AHCI modes, and disabled and removed everything but the SSD, and still those 2 screens plague me. I've upgraded the firmware for my drives, all the drivers, and have the latest chipset. There's no "Quick Boot" option for this motherboard, and I doubt that would fix it anyway, since nothing else I attempted made 1 second of difference to those screens.

 My wife inherited my old ASUS M4A785-M Motherboard running a Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition Callisto 3.2 GHz, unlocked to 4 cores. (Both purchased from Amazon.) I also upgraded her to a SSD drive and Windows 8. Now, that 2+ year old rig boots in about half the time my current one does, and the sole culprit is THIS motherboard. (Hers barely shows the POST screen, and you see the Window's loading for half a second before it's up and running.)
 After doing some research online, I've found out that this is a big issue with various Gigabyte motherboards, and the fix that works for most people (setting the SSD/HDD as the 1st boot device) does nothing for me.

I've had this board for over 4 months now, and I wish I would have stuck with ASUS (the maker of my previous two MOBOs which had lightning quick boots.) I would send it back, at this point, if I could. What's the point of having AMD's best processor and a SSD drive if I can't even have boot-time bragging rights? Also, I'd prefer something that's a full UEFI rather than BIOS, anyway.
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Couldn't connect my new motherboard to my not so new power supply.  This was the magic that made it all happen.  I wish "they" would stop changing things all the time.  Nothing negative to say.
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I was unable to use it on my new board [my bad], and the older pc died before I could try it, so it's gathering dust...
4877494
Board is nothing less than amazing. I have never owned a board with so much versatility. It does seem to throw off a lot of heat, but it's meant to be an overclocking board. I do not overclock, but I wanted the 1866 mem. However, it only works with AM3+ and I can't seem to even find one of those. I'm guessing they are not quite out yet. No idea. I bought a 1090T thinking it was an AM3+, guess not.

Asus has always been pretty solid for me, the board I replaced was ASUS, which still works and that's... 4 years old.
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I'm not usually one for buying used computer parts but have an older system with mobo failure that I still use for media conversion and did not want to spend a lot to get it back up and running.

Was shipped and received very fast.  Safe packing, little bit of dust but thats be to be expected in a used system board and nothing a little compressed air can't handle.  Just would think the seller would do that prior to selling it.  Anyhow, solid board installed and booted right up.  Fact that it's an intel board is a huge plus, won't run into weird compatibility issues.  6 SATA ports on board was pretty rare back then, great find!
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Now mind you this coming from a Gigabyte loyalist, for better lack of words, it's just that (in general) every other board MFR has given out, been DOA or been more trouble than they were worth. I am utterly surprised that 2 of 4 boards ordered had bad memory banks, the first with one, another with 2 or 3.  I would never buy from another board MFG, but in addition to the memory issues these boards are more temperamental than I have used to, since the days of those other board MFG. The other H97's are very sensitive with memory compatibility, even 2 nearly identical sets of RAM.
Also, all 3) Z97's burned-in without any issues, never had any with my z87, or z77
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I chose this board for the following reason.  I wanted to upgrade my system, yet still keep my KVM setup intact.  Prior to this, my previous system had a motherboard/cpu that didn't have onboard PS/2 ports so I figured it would still be OK if I just used a USB-to-PS2 adapter...  This was a mistake I learned and got tired of putting up with random garbage and stuck keypresses.  So after 3-years tolerating of that, I am replacing it with an i5 4th gen cpu based system with native dual PS/2 ports.  Now it works fine with my KVM setup AND I still get to upgrade to a modern PC that works great.  There aren't too many boards with this combo and I'm glad ASUS makes something that fits my needs and still has a few expansion slots, even one for my vanilla PCI TV card.
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Running an FX 6300, not overclocked, and an MSI GTX 950 2gb card. Motherboard is holding up ridiculously well for its small form factor. Will never go back to Gigabyte after this purchase. :)
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The specifications and other reviews look good. I will not have assembled the purchase of all the parts needed until later in 2013. I would like to have gone for the top of the line but price wise I know this motherboard will perform quite well. I still have memory, power supply, case, hard drives and/or solid state drives, fans [high CFM output ones] , BD recorder, Windows 7 Ultimate and Office 2010 or 2013, etc. to order before I can put it all together whenever I can.
730382
Had to use this to update my motherboard. make sure to read the specs. before purchasing anything. Also came with a fan I could use later on
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Of course, this memory, as well as the computer in which it was installed, are long gone. But, it did what it was supposed to do and gave me no problems. However, if you have a computer old enough that you're considering purchasing this memory, you might want to see if your MoBo will support the faster, 800Mhz, PC26400 RAM.
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Very happy about the motherboard, but really mad at the fact I never got the MIR they had going on. 50 bucks just wasted. Also, no actual way of contactin them for these issues.
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I just put together this system using old drives from  a 7 year old AMD build and it took without having to reinstall windows on ssd. So far everything is very quick. Right away i updated the BIOS like i do all my system to avoid any issues. Maybe people having issues should try that if they havn't already. This motherboard is for a basic person that just uses it for internet and office. Gigabyte is always by go to for motherboards.
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The manual includes a BIOS upgrade even before the motherboard is installed.  Unfortunately, all my attempts at finding / downloading the BIOS upgrade file failed.  Haven't had many days yet to really test-drive the differences I'm experiencing by upgrading everything but the power supply and case.  So far, all is well regarding basic uses of my renewed machine.
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My 10 year+ old computer was running slower and slower, so I wiped it clean and decided it would be a good time to up-grade the RAM as well. When this RAM arrived I put it in and the computer powered up with 2GB of RAM the first time - no problem. My old computer now runs fast enough to not cause me frustrations. I am happy that someone like Komputerbay still provides upgrade parts for computers that are 10 years old.