ddavid

January 17, 2010 at 5:12am

I just returned one to Fry's - inoperable.

The 2nd one won't format a Floppy drive - and gives I/O errors on known excellent UDMA133 Hard drives drives. Sata 3_6 (2 ea,) may be fine but there aren't any drives yet to run that speed. And 2 ports won't be enough when that Hardware hits the market. [ So your buying technology that's not even here yet.] As far as the other 6 Sata connectors you'll be lucky if you get more than UDMA/100 from them. Also for gamers or or for those with little knowledge how to repair a PC this may be all they need. But anyone into technical programs, many of which have to run from a DOS mode, this board sucks. 

Having no mouse support is a real trip. And the Com-port is utter waste. No program on earth can find it, cause it only has 2 choices. So anyone with an older Com-port Camera is dead. So are people who need to run Emulations from a com-port. Also not even an old Com-mouse can find it. It's got way to many USB ports. 14 External USB ports is overkill.  They could have left 2 off to make room for other devices and added one internally.

 I've been a old Gigabyte fan for 15 years. Sold & build a hundred of them. This board I bought site unseen that's how much I trusted Gigabyte. Wow, was I in for a schock. Utterly disasterous.Talking about tweaking ? It runs a Corsair 4 GB at a speed lower than Corsair specs. I could go on and on. As said: Fine board for those that don't use a computer for more than spreadsheets, games, and check your email.