Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard Reviews

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Pros: Great price with all the needed features. PCI 2.0 express x16, 4 ram slots, multiple processor compatibility, nice overclocking and voltage controls. Gigabyte is a great brand with very good quality. Worked right out of the box. from Newegg.com Other than that, it makes a great budget board that will run any intel c2. If you are looking at buying this board, DONT! Buy the GA-EP45-UD3R instead. For a small price difference you get a MUCH better board that has RAID and will actually over clock. from Newegg.com Other Thoughts: Good board for the money. Nice quality, heavy weight, seems great so far. Generally I've always been an ASUS or MSI fan but I've used 3-4 of the Gigabyte boards lately and have yet to have a problem with any of them. Haven't had the other people's problem of D. from Newegg.com That is not much of a con... My older 965 motherboard ran the CPU fan a bit quieter. Had a bright gaudy Gigabyte logo flash across the screen at start up. Other Thoughts: Great performingbudget board. from Newegg.com The system automatically set it to 1.8v, which caused my system to power cycle on a warm boot. Once I manually changed it in BIOS there were no issues. Other Thoughts: Buy this instead of the EP45-UD3l. The only difference between the two is that the P45 chipset supports two x16 gfx cards, but both boards have only one x16 slot! from Newegg.com Running Windows 7 x64 bit, and only had to install the Audio, and NIC card drivers. Its been very stable, no issues at all. The remaining Gigabyte drivers for overclocking and monitoring of the hardware work as well. Also, theres plenty of USB outputs on the back Cons: No Firewire 1394 interface. from Newegg.com Pros: This was the board that got me back into Gigabyte. The first two they sent me were doa(not this model). from Newegg.com P43 Intel chipset is solid. I would only go with Intel at this time. The $30 Gigabyte video card works great. Pentium E5300 was recycled from my prev pc, also the G. from Newegg.com For the price, this board performs. And it has plenty of ports for output. I was confident in this P43 since I worked with a Gigabyte G31 before and it didn't disappoint. Cons: Northbridge runs just a little warm with no overclocking, but I'm sure it's still in the safe zone and doesn't affect reliability. from Newegg.com Pros: Lots of expansion ports, supports DDR2-1033, PCIe X16 2. Cons: None Other Thoughts: I upgraded from a Gigabyte P965 mobo to this one. I downloaded the latest drivers from Gigabytes site as the one on the CD tend to be outdated. from Newegg.com

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Released	9 months ago
Socket Type	Socket LGA775
Compatible Processors	Intel Celeron, Intel Core2 Duo, Intel Core2 Extreme, Intel Core2 Quad
Memory Type	DDR2 SDRAM
Number of Memory Slots	4 x DIMMs
Audio Input	Microphone Jack 1 x Line In SPDIF In
Audio Output	Sound Card SPDIF Out 5.1 Channels 7.1 Channels Line Out
Bios Features	Plug And Play BIOS DMI2.0 SMBIOS 2.4 ACPI 1.0B
Bios Type	8 Mbit Flash EEPROM with AwardBIOS
Chassis Type	Desktop
Chipset	Intel P43 Express
Compatibility	PC
Depth	8.27 in.
Expansion Slots	PCI Express x16 x 1 PCI x 3 PCI Express x1 x 4
Fans	Fan Speed Control 4 x Fans
Form Factor	ATX
Front Side Bus Speed	1600 MHz
Integrated Audio	Intel High Definition Audio Subsystem Realtek ALC888
Integrated Input/Output Ports	Serial Port x 1 RJ45 Lan Port x 1 PS/2 Mouse x 1 PS/2 Keyboard x 1 Parallel Port (ECP/EPP/SPP) x 1 Floppy Port x 1 USB 2.0 x 12
MPN	GA-EP43-UD3L
Max Supported RAM	16 GB
Max supported CPUs qty	1
Networking Type	Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet
Other Features	Dual Channel Memory Architecture
Package Qty	1
Power Configurations	ACPI/APM Power Management
South Bridge Chip	Intel ICH10
Storage Controller Type(s)	DMA/ATA-133 (Ultra) x 1, Serial ATA II x 6
Supported RAM speeds	800 Mhz 667 MHz 1066 MHz
UPC	818313007193
Video Interface	PCI Express x16
Width	12.01 in.

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