Advantages: Cooling, Upgrades, BIOS updates, Stability Disadvantages: ASUS website is cumbersome at times
I have now owned this motherboard for over a year. I have upgraded the CPU from a dual core to a quad core pentium, I have doubled the ram from 2 to 4Gb, I am currently running 4 SATA HDD's 2 in a RAID0 configuration and I am about to upgrade the graphics card to a dual crossfire X1900.
All in all this PC runs everything I have ever thrown at it and has never failed me. It has been a joy to setup, easy to configure and simple to run and update.
Don't listen to people who complain about unstable bios. The bios on my PC has been faultless.
I am seriously considering getting another of these and building a second PC with the bits from my first, then upgrading my main PC again.
All in all, the perfect motherboard for gamers and graphic designers alike.
The only negative I have about it is ASUS themselves. Their website is ...
I chose this motherboard to replace my aging MSI neo2 platinum board. I chose to go with MSI as I had a very good experience with the neo2 running a 50% overclock on my previous CPU. Although this new 975x board did not have all the features of its competitors such as 2x 16x PCI-Express and a large number of sata ports (this board only has 5) I thought it would fulfill my needs as my primary concern was the overclocking potential and stability of the board.
The board is presented well with a manual (actually readable and useful),a generous number of SATA cables (I counted 4 in my box) and various other bits and pieces such as ata cables, back plates etc.
Installation of the motherboard was quick and thanks to the excellent layout I was able to remove the stock northbridge cooler and put my own waterblock on and also have my cpu ...
Advantages: Dual bios and great stability Disadvantages: Unnanounced conflicts and required settings
GA-7VTX Socket A Gigabyte dual bios motherboard.
Introduction;
This Dual Bios motherboard designed to accept AMD/Duron/Athlon/XP processors,incorperates onboard sound,+4 USB,with DDR memorey and in innovative dual bios system.
Having myself tried and tested this motherboard for 6 months in two machines,I am totally convinced of is usefulness and it's place in the market.Providing a very stable board and up to date technology,it has the added benefit of a system that protects your bios against viruses,power fluctuations,incorrect bios upgrades and bios chip failure.
Its incorperated resources and features are good,and ample for a very respectable system.However there are a few factors to be considered when choosing a motherboard,and most of the conflicts and incompatibilty problems I have encountered are not documented ...
The GIGABYTE G1-Turbo series motherboards are skillfully designed for extreme overclockers and hardcore gamers. The GA-G1975X exudes performance and represents a fusion of the best industry and GIGABYTE innovations through features such as the highly advanced Intel 975X Express chipset and GIGABYTE Turbojet technology. With GIGABYTE proprietary Turbojet technology, GA-G1975X provides more room for performance tuning by improved thermal condition. The heat can be dissipated rapidly and efficiently from the CPU, north bridge chipset, memory and even the most critical power management units. Also featuring the well-known overclocking technologies from GIGABYTE, such as: C.I.A. 2, M.I.B. 2, EasyTune5, and the latest C.R.S. (CMOS Reload Switch) technology, GA-G1975X ushers in a brand-new overclocking world. The GA-G1975X integrated hardware audio controller from Creative Sound Blaster Live 24-bit, delivers heart pounding 7.1 channel surround effects to deliver the most natural and engrossing multimedia entertainment experience possible from games, DVD movies, music, and TV. With DTS enabled functions - DTS-ES and DTS Neo:6, GA-G1975X brings you the ultimate entertainment experience to the PC world.
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