Gigabyte Entertainment PC H663 - no CPU

Advantages: Good value for money
Disadvantages: The heatsink and fan

...in the gaming entertainment category. Though as a good budget manufacturers graphics card it certainly does handle itself well when playing games. For people that like upgrading the motherboard can not be used to upgrade graphics cards. So in effect upgrading this computer is not going to happen. 80 gb harddrive is again factory standard, though quite low in terms of the latest computer desktops available on the market these days. Though again upgrading this aspect is not a problem as external hard drives with much bigger capacity can be used here. The office packages contained included Microsoft Works, which i am sure few people use. The Office suite must be purchased seperately or installed later if you already have a paid for disc for Office. Other programs included are norton anti virus and firewall. Quicken, win dvd, and HP Tunes media. My... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, Powerfull, easy to install
Disadvantages: Not for gamers!

...This is a good little motherboard for its low price. I am currently using it to write this review. I also have an Intel E2180 Pentium Dual core CPU set up and overclocking it was so easy. The board itself was so cheap that i wasn't sure if it would be up to scratch for my new build computer, but it surprised me! The Instruction manual was easy to follow and had screen shots of everything needed. The Setup disk was also detailed in the manual and was also easy to follow. As previously stated, This motherboard is easy to overclock using the CPU i have. All the BIOS options are available to gain maximum performance for all components. The manual also listed all the supported CPU's and also had screen shots of the BIOS which were helpful. If you are looking for a cheap motherboard for a dual core Intel CPU then this is brilliant!... Read review

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Advantages: cheap,
Disadvantages: agp x4 NO PCI-E only to ddr slots

...a faerly diecent board i had it with a celaron 2.2ghz and 1gb ddrb ram 2100 it was decent i think the celaron cpu was slowin it down because it on had 256kb l2 cache but this was upgraded would recommend for internet and light gaming only as the onboard graphics arnt that compatable with any game i tryed to play but has a agp x4 so you could use a geforce 4 or something like that oviously not the gaming pc but good for genaral use a good multimedia pc played dvds fine had it for about 3 years now cant recommend for video converting as it used to take me about 5 hours to convert 700mb of divx to dvd and the fact thatn it only has 2 slots for ddr ram all in all avarage motherboard good all rounder cant expect to much from it but its fairly cheap now so why not for that kitchen pc or as a bedroom pc... Read review

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