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Motherboard by Gigabyte

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5 Apr 20th, 2008 

22 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

Advantages:
cheap, does the job

Disadvantages:
graphics card obscures one of the pci express slots

Recommendable Yes:

Detailed rating:

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Having no idea which Motherboard we needed to buy, we looked on the internet to see what was going for what price.

Having used Gigabye Motherboards in the past and never had any trouble with them the wisest thing to do was to keep to Gigabyte.

We decided on the Gigabyte GA-945P-DS3 purely on the features it offered.

Cost

Around £46. For a motherboard this is good.

Features

Width: 30.5 cm

Depth: 19.3 cm

Compatible Processors: Pentium 4, Celeron D, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme

64-bit Processors Compatibility: Built-in

Processor Socket: LGA775 Socket

Multi-Core Support: Dual-Core

FSB Speed: 1066 MHz Max

Power Connectors: 4-pin ATX12V connector, 24-pin main power connector

SATA 11 with 4 SATA 11 connectors

3 pci slots, 1pci express x 16, 3 pci x 1

takes up to 4 gb of ddr2 memory

Has on board audio which is great as it supports up to 8 channel audio.

Fitting

Was simply a job of lining the screw holes up in the case but make sure you are earthed as it is so easy to fry a motherboard!

This motherboard has plenty of room for everything and is very well laid out although once you have your graphics card in one of the pci express x 1 slots becomes almost unuseable unless you have a very thin card due to the proximity of the graphics card.

I would definately recommend this motherboard though.

Thank you for reading. 

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headcase44 20.04.2008 20:53

Good review...I take my hat off to you for your knowledge of such a product. Thanks. J.





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