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Asus P5GPL-X SE - ideal board for a Pentium 4 user on a budget

Advantages: cost effective board from a respected manufacturer
Disadvantages: only supports 2GB RAM and very limited overclocking abilities thanks to the 915 chipset.

...can be tweaked with the Asus utilities in Windows. The Intel ICH6 South Bridge chip supports 1x PATA UltraDMA 100/66/33 connection, allowing up to two devices to be fitted. Remember master and slave for good old IDE? That's up to two hard disks or CD drives on the one cable, or one of each configured as master and slave of course. 4 x Serial ATA ports are also available, for newer more modern SATA devices. The system supports SATA 1 transfers up ...
...the failsafe settings. A nice Asus feature as it means I don't have to reset the CMOS. Speed wise, this board gets 4.5 on the Vista Experience Index. Processor gets 4.5, Memory gets 5.6, Graphics, Gaming graphics and Primary hard disk all get 5.9. Interestingly enough, when I tried a totally stock 3.6GHz Cedar Mill P4 this also got 4.5, so I think Vista may have a maximum score of 4.5 for any single core Pentium 4, regardless of how high you overclock ...

tomsmith500 06.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of ASUS P5GPL-X SE - motherboard - ATX - i915PL

Intel Extreme series (dp45sg)

Advantages: extreme performer
Disadvantages: doesn't support sli technology

The Intel DP45SG Extreme Series motherboard is an awesome motherboard with some nice features .The Intel DP45SG motherboard runs really great when installed with a intel core 2 extreme processor which is good performer and with this 2 you can play games to a higher level if you combine this 2 with a good high range end graphics card . I bought this motherboard 2 months back for around 162$ along with an intel core 2 quad q9650 3.0ghz and a nvidia ...
...them smoothly without any problem.The intel dp45sg motherboard supports the lga775 socket processors ie( intel core 2 extreme,intel core 2 quad, intel core 2 duo, intel pentium dual core, intel celeron dual core and intel celeron 400 sequence processors),it supports the atx form factor.The motherboard has 12- hi speed usb 2.0 ports(6back and 6 via headers),it has 5 sata ports(3.0gb/s) supporting raid 0,1,5,10 and 1 e sata port (3.0 gb/s). The motherboard ...

VICKY0687 12.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Intel Desktop Board DP45SG Extreme Series - motherboard - ATX - iP45

ASUS M4A78 PRO motherboard

Advantages: cheapest i could find with UK online retailer
Disadvantages: open box item

REVIEW FOR ASUS M4A78 PRO purchased from LUCMOS.CO.UK PROS: Built in video (VGA, HDMI, DVI), fiber optic out, RAID 0,1,5,10, JBOD; capable of locating and flashing bios under windows; 6 SATA slots, potential of 12 USB; 3 PCI slots handy to recycle various cards from old computer (ie old TV card) CONS: Bios only partially recognizes my Microsoft wireless photo keyboard set (mouse, not keyboard); Utilizing the optical out blocks one USB out (TOO CLOSE ...
...and floppy inputs?!) Other Thoughts: This was an open box item for 65 quid all in which Lucmpos indicates will not ship with the full complement of stuff, but I was expecting the I/O backing to at least cover up the back of my tower for this system of outputs...Alas, no. This baby shipped with just the board and non else... The wireless keyboard error is just weird. It allows you use the keyboard to hit delete to get into the CMOS, but after reboot ...

ojlloyd 09.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of ASUS M4A78 PRO - motherboard - ATX - AMD 780G

GIGABYTE 946GMX-S2

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Very poor quality

...of weeks time. My Technician Chris Simmons at AB & T Systems in Canberra Australia didn't do the installation of the motherboard properly and it failed after 25 months of hard use. I will finish GIGABYTE products for good. I am very disappointed with the product in the first place. ...

ASUSP5NSLI 26.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Gigabyte GA-946GMX-S2 - motherboard - micro ATX - i946GZ