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Socket Am2 Amd770 4 X Ddr2 16gb- Ga-ma770-ud3

$98.00 Est. at Amazon

from Bob, www.newegg.com
it has a ton of usb slots which is nice.
from Snakes, www.newegg.com
lots of usb ports, in theory the dual bios feature could be very helpful but i've not needed it yet.
from grim4593, www.newegg.com
runs 1066+ memory, has dual-bios, can unlock extra phenom ii cores, has lots of sata and usb ports, runs stable.does everything i want it to do and then some for a low price.
from atech, www.newegg.com
wish it had 2 pci slots but one is enough and has plenty of usb ports cons: none
from cyberjawn, www.newegg.com
plenty of usbs, am3 support.

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Positives: Good Performance, Easy To Install, Nice Reliability, Socket AM2

2 RECOMMENDED by 22 people for USB

Gigabyte P45 DDR2-1333X4 UD3 CPNT1PCIEX16 4PCIE

$118.00 Est. at Amazon

from Tony, www.newegg.com
i used to use a usb hub for my extra stuff, but this board had enough usb ports on it that i was able to get rid of the hub altogether.
from Heath, www.newegg.com
nice amount of usb ports i had to buy a hub for my old one to have more now i can fit all i need.would buy again might buy one more if i build another pc soon.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: so many usb ports.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
plenty of usb ports.if you don't want to spend a fortune on a new 775 board - this p45 board is the way to go!
from Sean, www.newegg.com
has a ton of sata's and usbs..

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Performance, Nice Reliability, Compatible Processors: Intel Celeron, Intel Core2 Duo, Intel Core2 Extreme, Intel Core2 Quad

3 RECOMMENDED by 40 people for USB

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P

$169.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
motherboard looks great.booted up with no bios adjustments.as a note,if you use a usb keyboard,usb keyboard needs to be turned on in the bios.driver disk has all the goodies you would expect.i
from JAM, www.newegg.com
it is a very flexible board with lots of sata ports and usb.
from Wise.Adam, www.newegg.com
no serial or parallel ports on the back, usb's galore...up to 16gb's ram...8 sata ports....uh, it makes me happy.
from AntEater, www.newegg.com
it has many pci slots, pcie slots, usb ports, etc.
from Tim, www.newegg.com
plenty of usb slots for all my needs.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Excellent Reliability, Nice Performance, Socket LGA775

4 RECOMMENDED by 27 people for USB

EVGA X58 LGA1366 Intel ATX SLI 132-BL-E758-A1

EVGA X58 LGA1366 Intel ATX SLI Motherboard (132-BL-E758-A1)

$396.00 Est. at Amazon

from Dukie, www.newegg.com
theslots for usb, 1394 and other wire slots are directly under the 3rd pci-e card area so it makes it a very close situation if you use 3 sli cards.the backplate for the audio/usb etc was heavily
from Gary Hood, www.newegg.com
wish it had more than 2 onboard usb conectors.
from Busbina, www.newegg.com
i never even installed the firewire of the extra 5 rear usb ports
from Joe, www.newegg.com
also, the ram isn't cramped like some other mobos, so there is plenty of airflow.- a ton of usb ports, so i don't need my hub anymore...
from N/A, www.newegg.com
love the dual lan ports and all the usb connections, runs my 1600 memory no problems and easy oc on everything of course.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Reliability, Great Performance, Memory Type: DDR3 SDRAM

5 RECOMMENDED by 37 people for USB

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P

$145.00 Est. at Amazon

from miguellt, www.newegg.com
so don't go giving bad reviews because it wouldn't recognize "automatically" your 1066 or higher clock memory.also: amount of connection options in back; 8 usb(?) wow, optical audio to hookup to my
from ltgrunt, www.newegg.com
the performance of this board and the large number of usb and sata connections that it offers made it worth looking at, and the special newegg offered on it at the time made it too good to refuse.
from Mr. Nintendo, www.newegg.com
runs much cooler than its predecessor, lots of usb ports, firewire, ease of use!
from Johnniee, www.newegg.com
lots of usb ports.
from Strza, www.newegg.com
beyond feeling very stable, this board had enough fan controllers, usb, sata, and ide to keep me busy for a long time coming.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Nice Performance, High Quality, Socket AM2

Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4719331803094

$143.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
extremely easy to bios flash, but use a floppy/usb stick to do it and not the windows utility.
from apaux, www.newegg.com
8 usbs on back and ability to connect 2 more on the motherboard for computer case usb and/or usb for rear panel.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
12 usb ports, dolby digital 7.1 audio, firewire, esata you name it this board supports it!
from jim kiler, www.newegg.com
defautl is usb keyboard support disabled, did not affect me but why disable it gigabyte?
from RiffRaff, www.newegg.com
plenty of sata and rear usb ports.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Nice Performance, Great Reliability, Socket A

EVGA 132-BL-E758-TR x58 SLI Mainboard

$283.00 Est. at Amazon

from Krisnatharok, www.newegg.com
usb2.0, audio, sata, it probaby has what you need- easy to understand...
from wolfeman, www.newegg.com
the usb headers get blocked if you use pci-e slot 2 - so i moved my second card down to slot 3 (i know, that's only an 8x slot) and in that position it doesn't interfere with the connectors at the
from OfManyOne, www.newegg.com
usb and sata ports out the wazoo!
from RichardHELL, www.newegg.com
more usb's than you need.
from Ken, www.newegg.com
the usb headers are located between the 2nd and 3rd x16 slots, which causes a double wide video card to press against the cables.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Reliability, Excellent Performance, Compatible Processors: Intel Core i7

ASRock A780GXH/128M AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI ATX

$93.00 Est. at Amazon

from Jaymer, www.newegg.com
running raid 1 and a sata dvd drive i had no problems installing vista 64, i copied the sata drivers off the drivers disc onto a usb stick and told vista where to find them during the install(it ask
from N/A, www.newegg.com
it comes with plenty of usb ports and even a hdmi port.
from Dark-Star, www.newegg.com
lol cons: none so far, although (not a fault or defect or anything) it would be nice if it came with an extra usb riser to accompany the several available onboard usb controllers.
from JCD, www.newegg.com
interestingly there are four usb connectors in the back, and 3 usb headers inside, each supporting 2 usb connections for a total of 6 usb 2.0 ports.
from muffy, www.newegg.com
lots of usb and 1 hdmi port.with the right graphics card this would be a great all round board for the average user.

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Positives: Good Performance, Easy To Install, Great Reliability, Socket AM2

Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H 991443028

$147.00 Est. at Amazon

from Dude, www.newegg.com
so far i am still in search of a good hard drive so i am testing it from a linux usb drive and it's been doing great so far as much as i can tell.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i think a big part was that i was trying to use a usb cdrom to boot from, and it wasn't very friendly.
from jaesond, www.newegg.com
difficult to connect cables when all of them are in use.depending on what goes in the bottom pci slot, there's a possibility of blocking all of the bottom headers (usb, floppy, and possibly 1394).
from Funtime Ben, www.newegg.com
love the hdmi output and more usb ports than a usb factory.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
with the 4 usb ports you get on most microatx boards, you're shooting yourself in the foot.hdmi output.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Performance, Great Reliability, Socket LGA775

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H

$102.00 Est. at Amazon

from Sam, www.newegg.com
the rest of the board is loaded with plenty of features, including 1394 ports and all the usb controllers you'll need.
from Doug V, www.newegg.com
good onboard video and plenty of usb font-panel connectors.
from Fastbird, www.newegg.com
tons of usb and sata ports.
from gloryroad, www.newegg.com
otherwise i would be wishing the board had on-board wireless to save a pci socket, though a usb wireless adapter solves that problem anyway.
from bobm, www.newegg.com
buy a usb adapter if you really need a parallel port, etc.surprisingly good on board video, and definitely adequate sound.

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Positives: Great Performance, Easy To Install, High Quality, Socket AM2

Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L

$91.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
plenty of usb ports (i have only the one left free already)i like that it supports up to 16 g of ram should i choose to add more.
from Fredzo, www.newegg.com
the 8 usb's are wonderful as are the 6 sata that i may use at a later date.
from CTJoyce, www.newegg.com
with all the usb ports on the backplate, to the 6 sata ports, or even the 16gb max supported ram this board is hard to completely max out.
from slappy1eye, www.newegg.com
8 usb portslower cost compared to other comparable boards with same features.
from PB_Smith, www.newegg.com
copy the entire contents of that folder to a floppy or possibly a usb drive and when setup asks for 3rd party drivers insert and run the menu.exe file.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Nice Reliability, Great Performance, Socket LGA775

ASUS 8GB DDR2 1066 MHz M3A78

$109.00 Est. at Amazon

from bvrev.compusa.com
i was unlucky and got a faulty board with only 2 of the 12 usb ports that actually worked everything else other than 10 usb ports worked flawlessly...
from al, www.newegg.com
copy to floppy or usb stick and press f6 when first installing windows.
from Killian, www.newegg.com
*plenty* of headers for more usb.
from CST, www.newegg.com
the board has all the features i was looking for, 6 sata ports on the board, 6 usb ports on the back panel, optical out, no onboard video.
from tensign, www.newegg.com
and the new phenom ii cpus when amd puts them out on the market cons: dose not come with ieee 1394 interface port but most of my drvices are usb anyways really never use the ieee 1394.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Excellent Performance, Excellent Reliability, Socket AM2

Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H

$138.00 Est. at Amazon

from Brian, www.newegg.com
regarding the motherboard, it is a great board and should be the model for all future gigabyte boards, except the placement of the usb ports.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
too many usbs to count.the included hd3300 graphics are just fine for any os, but it will actually run well on older game like half life (it is from 2004)16gig memory limit for future-proofing
from Decibels, www.newegg.com
like the extra usb connectors above the bottom pcie connector, much better than at the bottom of the board where couldn't hardly see them like on the asus board.because used my own video and sound
from drclean, www.newegg.com
all the sata and usb ports you could ask for.
from ObnoxJester, www.newegg.com
plenty of connections, though i personally would have liked a few more usb ports.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Great Reliability, Excellent Performance, Socket AM2

Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P

$237.00 Est. at Amazon

from Paintball, www.newegg.com
tons of connections, just wish it had one more on board usb for my lcd :) all in all great board.
from physical, www.newegg.com
fulfilled my expectations quite nicely cons: the stock bios didn't have the usb keyboard option enabled, preventing those with usb keyboards to adjust the bios until it was turned on by a ps2
from JAB Creations, www.newegg.com
it was also reading my cpu as if it were am2, obviously it's not.3.) flaky usb keyboard support, be prepared to have a ps2 keyboard (or adapter) if you want to change anything in the bios.4.) the
from brickjuggler, www.newegg.com
also love the 8 usb ports on back, 2 gigabit lans, color scheme on board.
from subternal, www.newegg.com
has a ton of usable usb ports in the back.

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Positives: Excellent Performance, Easy To Install, Good Reliability, Socket AM2

Intel - Single Unit uiTX 945G Atom330 BOXD945GCLF2

$110.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
but it has 8 usb ports, so you can plug a lot of stuff.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i wish the cpu was a bit faster.it only has 2 sata ports, plus a esata port would have been nice to add a sata drive, but usb will suffice.i would have liked to have 4 internal sata's, but i made my
from N/A, www.newegg.com
lots of usb ports.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
dont forget you can also add external usb or e-sata devices for more storage.
from www.amazon.com
case, an old but high quality power supply, two seagate 1.5 terabyte sata drives, no cd/dvd drive, and fedora core 10 full dvd install as the os which i installed using a bootable usb thumb drive.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Performance, Great Reliability, Compatible Processors: Intel Core Duo, Intel Atom

Gigabyte AM2+ 780G MAX-16GB DDR2 ATX

$114.00 Est. at Amazon

from /*noComment*/, www.newegg.com
i turned it off, and everything becomes normal!!!i also turned off things like "usb wakeup from s3", i believe both of those settings are used to startup the computer with a click of a mouse.
from Tom, www.newegg.com
it has plenty of sata 3.0 ports and more usb ports and headers than i'll ever use.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
and i don't floppy at all, so i flipped floppy off in bios.bios is detailed and you can boot from usb if floppy is off and it finds a:...
from Ry, www.newegg.com
it's probably not an issue, but it felt like it was loosely fitted.usb ports and floppy disk port are in weird spots that aren't great for cable management.
from hulchwh, www.newegg.com
otherwise would give me random usb errors.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Performance, Nice Reliability, Socket AM2

BIOSTAR TpowerX58 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX

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from 68vistacruiser, www.newegg.com
the motherboard has only 2 internal usb ports, and with my card reader, left me with 2 dead ports out of 4 on the front of my case.
from The Engineer, www.newegg.com
lots of usb ports on the back.
from Buckwheat, www.newegg.com
onboard front panel connections for audio, firewire, and usb.
from kevinjcell, www.newegg.com
could use a couple more fan and usb headers.
from splintereddoor, www.newegg.com
ton's of usb, stay's relatively cool, overclocking is a snap with their aoe (automatic overclocking engine) which gives you various presets to overlcock your processor.you can also overclock manually

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Positives: Great Performance, Easy To Install, Great Reliability, Memory Type: DDR3 SDRAM

GIGABYTE AM2+ AMD-RS780 4XDDRII-1066 5200HT

$73.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
i had to buy a ps/2 to usb "active" adapter to run it through my kvm switch.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
rosewill makes a nice usb-ps/2 adapter though and it's only $7.
from Boomhauer, www.newegg.com
you will need usb for the mouse, which isn't a big deal for 99% of the users, but it negated the use of my 6 year old kvm switch so i had to go with a dedicated mouse.
from Chris, www.newegg.com
also, i installed whs off a usb stick.
from Vinnybags, www.newegg.com
one ps/2 port, lots of usb ports.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Reliability, Great Performance, Socket AM2

M4n72-e - ASUSTEK COMPUTER 90-MIB750-G0EAY00Z

$139.00 Est. at Amazon

from billy66bare, www.newegg.com
but i did have it running at 2.6 ghz, sometimes more.all the fittings are super tight for the power and usb, 1394, etc.
from Sirus the Virus, www.newegg.com
my video cards were too long to plug anything into the sata ports gggrrrr owell i love this board lost of usb, sata, fsb and so on thanks again asus :) cons: the chipset disk that came with the
from s1ave_one, www.newegg.com
i'm not entirely sure about the memory problem that others were experiencing because i updated the bios immediately (you can do this through the bios setup with a usb flash drive - very easy).
from Gamer, www.newegg.com
running windows 7 and is very very fast with my amd dc 2.8 4gb ram.i've not oc'd yet but feel confident i wont have any ocing problems.no kidding...i installed windows 7 from an 8gb usb drive...
from JDiffy, www.newegg.com
- audio will sometimes make weird choppy sounds if i plug a usb device into the mobo while i'm using any media program.

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Positives: Great Performance, Easy To Install, Nice Reliability, Socket AM2

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R Core 2 Quad/ P45/

$158.00 Est. at Amazon

from purplenoise, www.newegg.com
some usb ports are said to be 1.1, but i cannot tell which ones, so i guess that means it doesn't matter enough to me.
from NICE BOARD, GET IT, www.newegg.com
it would have been nice if gigabyte had an option to disable some of them usb ports, also need an option for disabling the ide ports without disabling the 2x gigabyte sata ports and who really needs
from N/A, www.newegg.com
it has nice big heatsinks on the mosfets, good amount of sata x8, usb x12, and firewire ports x3.
from Logan1033, www.newegg.com
one reason i bought this boar was for the 8 usb ports i feel it is important to note that not all are 2.0.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
lots of usb and sata ports.

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Positives: Good Reliability, Great Performance, Easy To Install, Socket LGA775

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Socket Am2 Amd770 4 X Ddr2 16gb- Ga-ma770-ud3

Gigabyte P45 DDR2-1333X4 UD3 CPNT1PCIEX16 4PCIE

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P

EVGA X58 LGA1366 Intel ATX SLI 132-BL-E758-A1

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P

Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4719331803094

EVGA 132-BL-E758-TR x58 SLI Mainboard

ASRock A780GXH/128M AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI ATX

Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H 991443028

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H

Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L

ASUS 8GB DDR2 1066 MHz M3A78

Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H

Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P

Intel - Single Unit uiTX 945G Atom330 BOXD945GCLF2

Gigabyte AM2+ 780G MAX-16GB DDR2 ATX

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