Motherboards > Micro ATX Motherboards > Intel 945G Express

Advantages: Full of Features.
Disadvantages: Could support Core2 Duo but no BIOS Yet.

...you would expect and more. Gigabyte supply all the things you need like the manual, which is very informative, the backplate, drivers disc. it comes with some good tools for overclocking, system monitoring, and updating the BIOS Via windows. It has a firewire port which i find useful as many motherboard of it league do not. It PCI-E so supports all the latests graphics cards and it does have a built in one as well. 7.1 Surround sound. It a simple ... Read review

Advantages: offers overclocking and dvi onboard and pcie
Disadvantages: overclocking could be better and high mhz ram as you can only use 667mhz

I bought one of these for an gameing system pc and to be honest, it a realy great board! I dropped a Core 2 Duo E6600 in to this and it flies. it has great and save overclock bios , for the newbies , but once overclock a ceritain amount the pcie need to clocked to get the cpu to go any further i also have a nivida 7950gt winfast graphic card , the whole system works nice together, when overclock the cpu it very stable All components ROCK making ...
...700 or just over. is it board dose it exacly what a want there also one big advantage with the board that it offers you to have a pci card and a dvi , which i like just incase my graphics card blow up i now i alsoways have a backup ... Read review

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 ...
...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

Advantages: A nice board with fine VGA and sound on-board
Disadvantages: No paper manual

Intel Rocks again......... I bought this motherboard 3 months ago. Its awsome motherboard. First of all it has 6 channel sound speaker output system. Then Intel X3100 graphic media accelaretor. Which gives great gamin quality. Lots of usb ports. Supports core 2 quad, core 2 duo. I can use 8GB ram but i am using 4 GB now. It works too fast. This motherboard is better than MSI, Gigabyte, Asus. I work with server this motherboard gives me gigabyte ...
...- North Bridge - Intel G33 South Bridge - Intel ICH9DH Onboard Video Chipset - Intel GMA 3100 Audio Chipset - Realtek ALC888 Onboard USB 6 x USB 2.0 Expansion Slots - PCI Express x16 - 1 PCI Express x1 - 3 PCI Slots - 3 Max LAN Speed - 10/100/1000Mbps Form Factor - ATX Certified for Windows Vista ... Read review

Advantages: features and accessories rich; great overclocking potential; fastest mobo out there
Disadvantages: some bugs, but nothing that can't be dealt with if you're prepared

...However, after looking at the Asus forums, I was confidant that I could overcome any problems that I encountered. When I set up my new system, I was immediatly faced with the notorious 'CPU INIT' error when I attempted to power up the PC. However, as I had read the forums and knew about the problem, I could easily deal with it - as opposed to sending for a replacement straight away, which I've heard many people have done. I soon discovered the problem ...
...as I have said, the Asus forums, I had already prepared a USB stick with the latest stable bios version on it, so that the first thing I did after powering up the Striker was to go into the bios and update it, using Asus's brillliant EZFlash utility. After that was done I simply installed the OS and it was brilliant from then on. As I said, there is a reason I tolerated these teething troubles in such an expensive and high-end part. This is because ... Read review