ASUS M4A78 Plus AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard Reviews

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Other Thoughts: When will I learn to read the reviews first??? I'm not looking forward to getting another one of these boards back. I've been using ASUS mobo's for a long time, and never had an issue, so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt... Manufacturer Response:We are sorry for this inconvenience. from Newegg.com Pros: ASUS ARE GREAT MOTHGREAT ERBOARDS Cons: GREAT MOBO Other Thoughts: NEVER THOUGHT THIS BOARD WAS GOING TO BEGREAT WOW ITS AWESOME from Newegg.com Had no problems using an IDE DVD drive and so far the lan has not had any issue. I think that the latest lan driver has solved the problem some were having. Using a AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz CPU and CORSAIR XMS2 4GB DDR2 SDRAM 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory with it and have had no problems with them either. Cons: Other than no firewire which I knew about before I bought it everything is great. from Newegg.com Other Thoughts: dont clock the chip at 3.2, and the ram at 533. I dont understand why but it will crash and give you a headache. My systemAthlon II X2 240 @ 2.8ghz2G Duel Channel G-Skill 1066 DDR2ASUS M4A78 PLUSNvidia G-force 8500GT video from Newegg.com Pros: For my personal needs, it does the job and allows for some overclocking ability. I would recommend because of a flexible socket am2 and am3. Makes for a great AMD board. Very good board for the money IMO. from Newegg.com Cons: I had read some reviews on this site about potential problems with the built in LAN, but I figured if that was the worst of the problems I would be OK, since I have an extra LAN PCI card - well, about 2 1/2 months in, my internet stopped working - it took me a while to remember that it could be the built in LAN, when I did I just added my PCI card, and all is good now. Other Thoughts: Thanks to Newegg for posting reviews that let me know about this problem before I purchased, so I wasn't surprised (after I remembered that is!). It is a pretty lame problem, and I wish that ASUS would fix it in the future, but for me, it isn't an issue. from Newegg.com Pros: -lots of features.. more than I'll ever need.-AM3 support is a big plus-4 ram slots-lots of USB ports (you can never have enough)-eSATA Cons: -none that I can think of Other Thoughts: Running this with an Athlon X2 4000+ with 4 sticks of A-DATA ddr2-800 ram for a total of 6GB. No issues so far. from Newegg.com Pros: awesome board upgraded my rig to AMD Phemon X 4 965 and 2 ATI Radeon 5870 in crossfire with this baby holding my rig together and say a cool powerful performance . Cool referring to the temp that the overall PC kept CPU stayed at 60 and graphics cards stayed form 54-65 Cons: compatibility of ram is the biggest downfall but easily fixed bios where readily availably on the asus.com website to fix the minor glitch you will crash if you are not running the specified ram ended up just changing them out no problems after that from Newegg.com Pros: Low Price, Lots of USB ports, supports AM3 and 1066 ram speeds. Cons: Couldnt get mine to work. First board would give me a board error in post so I rma'd back to ASUS which was my first mistake. They updated the bios and sent the exact same board right back. from Newegg.com First rebuild got the "reboot" message. Tried everything, different drives, windows disks, bios configurations, hardware configurations, nothing worked. Called ASUS and they said it was a bad IDE controller. RAM'd through Newegg, awesome as usual, but a pain in the behind (had to remove and clan cpu/fan). from Newegg.com

Released	7 months ago
Form Factor	ATX
MPN	M4A78 Plus
Video Interface	PCI Express

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