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Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4719331803094

$143.00 Est. at Amazon

from apvm, www.newegg.com
i pair it with an athlon x4 620 and clock it at 3.25ghz at default voltage..solid for 7/24 over a week now.8 sata ports, two can be external, firwire for your dv video cam, couldn't ask for more.
from deadmongoose, www.newegg.com
i really like the external sata port, that is really cool.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
as another mentioned, the holes on the right side (sata side) are not arranged the way atx should be.
from monte, www.newegg.com
8 sata ports was a plus.
from TOR, www.newegg.com
plenty of room for gigantic video cards on this one (gtx260 covered up sata ports on smaller board), 12 usb ports, good audio, and the external powered esata is a great touch.

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

2 RECOMMENDED by 28 people for SATA

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H

$102.00 Est. at Amazon

from Jim, www.newegg.com
if you are using an existing hd for your os and raid for other drives, be sure to put your os drive on sata 5 so that you can configure it directly.you may want to download the manual first if you
from IC53, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: the sata does not have a "safe mode" it needs the device drivers to work with sata drives...
from Sean, www.newegg.com
why not include a floppy or cd with the sata drivers on it?
from geldriver, www.newegg.com
this board is built like a brick house - most m-atx builds i worry about plugging in the front panel stuff and sata cause it's in the lower-right side of the board, which usually has no standoff
from Binty, www.newegg.com
i am running it with 3 hard drives: one sata hdd and two pata hdds in addition to a pci-based raid card running both of my dvd burners.

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

3 RECOMMENDED by 61 people for SATA

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P

$145.00 Est. at Amazon

from miguellt, www.newegg.com
max out at 800.gkill ddr2 1066 4gb (2x2gb) model f2-8500cl5d-4gbpk450w psu250gb hdd sata 7200rpmlightscribe dvd burnerthis was the main component for future upgrades as i'm on a budget currently.
from Benny, www.newegg.com
i also use the included gigabyte dual e-sata bracket connected to the gigabyte sata chip (actually it's a jmicron jmb36x).
from Ownithopter, www.newegg.com
sata to e-sata cables are really handy, e-sata bracket w/molex on it is great for powering devices without having to remove the side panel from your machine to use internal connections.
from Johnniee, www.newegg.com
if you have a computer already use it to install the sata drives onto two different floppy disks.
from www.amazon.com
it also came with an e-sata card.

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

4 RECOMMENDED by 34 people for SATA

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

$98.00 Est. at Amazon

from Powerslave, www.newegg.com
values or it might not load the os.5600+ x2 cpu4 gigs pc6400 corsair ramgeforce 8600gtwd 250gig sataii hd630 watt psu cons: has headers for lpt and com but the bracket is impossible to find.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
my processor is the phenom ii x3 710 and it was recognized with no problems.phenom ii x3 710 with stock coolergeforce 9800 gtx+ 1mb4gb kingston hyperx ddr2 1066wd 1tb satalg super multi blue sata
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 Thorvindr, www.newegg.com
slots closest to it, and the other two will be hard to reach.an earlier reviewer had a problem with the ide port, and i guess it is a little awkward, but just do yourself a favor and get sata drives.
from Ragnar, www.newegg.com
but if your looking at using only sata devices (which i plan on doing eventually), then you shouldn't have any issues.

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

5 RECOMMENDED by 40 people for SATA

Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H

$138.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
it has tons of sata connectors the on-board video quality is excellent, it is a great board and great looking.
from Matt, www.newegg.com
it has 6 sata connections.
from bassman98, www.newegg.com
it was completely stable and probably could have upped it even more!!- vista probably would have screamed using this hardware!- mobo runs very cool and stable; overclocking is easy- 6 sata raid ports
from saucyB, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: gigabyte ga-ma790gp-ud4hamd phenom ii x4 920ocz platinum 4gb (2 x 2gb)-ocz2p10664gkocz stealthxstream ocz700sxs 700w 2-sata optical drives2-500 gig hardrivesjust gotta find something
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i went through this for 3 hours so trust me, you need that bios.- the sata connector locations are simply ridiculous and should not be setup the way they are.

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

ASUS M3A76-CM

$70.00 Est. at Amazon

from Iamshadowkiller, www.newegg.com
i wanted to put a huge 8800gs on it but feared i'd have problems due to it being a micro-atx but i made it work by moving the ide (yeah it's the 3rd pc it's in need of sata/ram upgrade) but yeah by
from tytotheler92, www.newegg.com
does basically anything i ask out of it, has 6 satas, pcie 1x, and a bunch of other features that you see on higher end mobos.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i like the fact it has like 6 sata ports and intergrated graphic card accomplishes what i need.price is reasonable and happy what i paid for.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: wish it had a e-sata port
from N/A, www.newegg.com
good integrated graphics...easy to work with, tons of sata ports, good manual cons: none

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

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 N/A, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: this motherboard comes with 6 sata cables and 1 ide (among other things).
from Hashref, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: i7 920 @ 3.62ghz (19x191 vcore 1.3)evga 132-bl-e758-tr x58 atx mobo6mb ocz ddr3 1600 (pc12800) triple channel kit (2:8 7-7-7-24)msi 8800 gts 512 (g92)western digital 320gb sata
from Anonymous, www.newegg.com
plenty of sata connections and 3-way sli/crossfire support to boot.
from Archanglelboy, www.newegg.com
molex to sata power converters are especially helpful in my case.easy to set up despite the 8-pin board power and cpu fan header locations.

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

Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H 991443028

$147.00 Est. at Amazon

from Kyle225, www.newegg.com
good overclocking capabilities cons: it's a bit more than i wanted to pay for a motherboard, with bigger video cards, the x16 pcie 2.0 slot covers up the sata ports.
from aka:P, www.newegg.com
-sata ports a little hidden,-4pin cpu power was far from the power supply, it almost had to be extended to work.-800mhz memory max with 1333 mhz fsb?
from Sporx, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: important note:if you set the hard drive controller to ahci " sata" like it prompts you to when you first boot up the system you will get bsod when attempting to install windows.
from RTwinkie, www.newegg.com
yep the sata connectors are close, but, hey, it's an matx mobo.
from jaesond, www.newegg.com
while all of the sata connections are right next to each other, it can become a little difficult to connect cables when all of them are in use.depending on what goes in the bottom pci slot, there's a

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

Gigabyte X58 DDR3-2000X6 UD3 CPNT3PCIEX16 2PCIE

$370.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
sata connectors well located.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
(except the sata ports).
from jcena, www.newegg.com
ton's of usb ports, sata ports, pci slots, up to 24gb ram (not that i would ever put that much in) the list goes on and on.
from Static2313, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: system specs:lian-li pc-a70bpc p&c 750w silencergigabyte ga-ex58-ud53x1gb corsair dominator 1600intel i7 920 w/ zalman 9900his h465p512p hd4650 512m2x wd 640gb sata1x wd velociraptor
from southpaw, www.newegg.com
great board other thoughts: i purchased this board also for the intel ich10r sata chipset.

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

Intel - Single Unit uiTX 945G Atom330 BOXD945GCLF2

$110.00 Est. at Amazon

from MonsieurGonzo, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: we put this motherboard into an antec nsk 4480b ii (intel tac 2.0 standard) chassis + combo earthwatts ea380 power supply, with a 3.5", 640gb wd caviar black sata hdd, and a "legacy"
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 Dude, www.newegg.com
it could be cheaper ;-) other thoughts: my setup: - mi-100 mini itx case with 250w psu- this atom 330 board- wd black 1tb sata- ddr2 800mhz gskill ram (had a spare and it clocked itself down to
from PaKelley, www.newegg.com
only 2 sata ports - since i'm running windows home server it would be nice to have more storage options available.
from raydoo, www.newegg.com
having only 2 sata connectors, limited ram (1x2g max), and lack of cpu virtualization support also limit server applications.

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

Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P

$237.00 Est. at Amazon

from Ikenowski, www.newegg.com
if you have a large gpu it makes a little difficult to use the sata ports as it will hang over the top of them, but because they are oriented to face out insead of up, they are useable, but difficult
from mking, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: with this many features, it's forgivable that my radeon hd 4870 x2 covers up several sata connectors and comes rather close to the cmos reset button.
from Vinnie, www.newegg.com
plenty of sata slots and lots of usb ports.
from Dwight, www.newegg.com
the mobo was a replacement for an older gigabyte mobo (k8ns-pro) so almost all hds just plugged into the corresponding floppy, ide & sata connectors.
from Paintball, www.newegg.com
the dual sata controllrs are finicky.

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

Intel D945GCLF 533FSB DDR2 667 533 Audio Video

$97.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
bios allowed very easy installation of non-sata operating systems (w2k thinks my sata hard drive is an atapi drive, but it loaded with no extra drivers needed).
from alphaniner, www.newegg.com
if i could do it again, i'd buy the other.also would have preferred to have 4 sata instead of 2 sata + 1 pata.
from Rick, www.newegg.com
it's interesting, when i tried the old seagate sata drive it was running about 35 watts, not that great.
from Budrow, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: i have this mobo in an apex mi-008 case with a pair of the western digital 1 terabyte sata ii spindles.
from Raz1r, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: currently using this with 2gb of patriot 667 and a 256mb fx5200, 80gb ide hd and a sata dvd burner.

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Positives: Nice Performance, Easy To Install, Excellent Reliability, Socket 771

MB EVGA 123-YW-E175-A1 775 750I SLI

$176.00 Est. at Amazon

from Charnath, www.newegg.com
everything went in easily and all systems are go.i also like that error console, it was handy when i accidentally had an sata hard drive loose!
from Draketh, www.newegg.com
despite what many have said i like the positioning of the sata jacks as it does not get in the way of my video cards.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i wish there were 2 more sata instead of the 1394 connector.
from Mo, www.newegg.com
take away one egg for this.had hard time pushing sata cord from hard drive into the socket.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
best way to go sli and still have enough money to buy your second gpu cons: sata ports are a little hard to reach if you case is not huge, and i had to force mine in (probably just mines

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Positives: High Quality, Excellent Reliability, Easy To Install, Socket LGA775

Gigabyte P45 DDR2-1333X4 UD3 CPNT1PCIEX16 4PCIE

$118.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
info:intel c2quad q8200 2.48g patriot extreme performance 2.1v 1066 ddr2evga gtx 260 core 216 superclockedsigma monster sp750 modular psuwd 500g 32mb sata 3.0gbs hddvista645.9 windows aero
from Sniblit, www.newegg.com
specs:intel core 2 duo 8400saphire ati 3850 (fan speed issues) kingston hyperx 2gb (2 x 1gb) ddr2 1066 (pc2 8500)seagate barracuda st3250410as 250gb 16mb cache 2 lg sata dvd burnerswindows xp home
from Banshee, www.newegg.com
no big deal because i have another computer, but something to consider-sata connectors are a little flimsy other thoughts: good basic board, does everything i need it to.
from ChiknNutz, www.newegg.com
this seems to be a great board overall, nice that it has 6 sata ports (am using 4 of them).
from Spoon, www.newegg.com
more sata ports than i'll ever use.

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

ASUS Skt 775 Atx P45 ICH10R 1600MHZ 4719543162576

$186.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.mwave.com
sata cables had right angle connectors and fit snugly.
from www.amazon.com
this motherboard has it all including dual gigabit lan, 6 sata ii ports, 10 usb ports,express gate, 8-channel high definition audio and all the over clocking features you could want.
from Boykin, www.newegg.com
it has plenty of usb ports and sata ports.
from IrvinJ, www.newegg.com
i could not use it as jbod or raid but i did have access with one sata port so i was able to utilize it for a hdd.
from Enforcer252, www.newegg.com
it can handle up to 8 eight sata drives between the two controllers.

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

FOXCONN A74MX-K AMD 740G AM2+/AM2 Phenom

$51.00 Est. at Amazon

from lao soup, www.newegg.com
states that it comes with a 4 pin to sata power cable, which it does not!
from Moose, www.newegg.com
but i had to compromise the purchase of a sata dvd drive and get a ide drive because foxconn only supplied one sata cable with the board.
from Juno Malone, www.newegg.com
been running fine for about a week now with amd athlon x2 7850 kuma, 2gb g-skill ddr 800, 160gb wd sata, and 430w thermaltake psu.
from Chris, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: - running this board with athlon 64 x2 5200 2.7ghz, g.skill 4gb (2 x 2gb) ddr2 800 (pc2 6400) and seagate barracuda st3250410as 250gb sata 3.0gb/s
from Kamaaina, www.newegg.com
filled with 4850e cpu, 4gb dominator ram, wd sata drive, and 500w ocz psu.

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

ASUS MB P5KPL-CM C2D LGA775 INTELG31 ICH7 DDR2

$63.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
plenty of sata ports, overall ok motherboard.
from bigdaddylee82, www.newegg.com
had to get a new sata hd and clone the old ide hd onto it, but no big deal.
from Nick, www.newegg.com
it did support 45nm cpu's out of the box, though.e5200/2gb ddr2 800 (kingston)/seagate 250gb sata hdd (32mb cache)/lg dvd burner/cooler master 500w psu/xp
from PhatBastard, www.newegg.com
happy that it has 4 sata headers and also an eide header.
from theatremonkey, www.newegg.com
he can upgrade the chip in the future, add a pcie video card and replace his ide drive to sata.

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

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 Tyler Menezes, www.newegg.com
a bit of electrical tape fixed that problem for me, and it's not like i change power supplies frequently so no big deal.the fact that almost all sata ports are on the side of the board makes it hard
from www.amazon.com
the layout of the sata connectors, at least the main block of them, are hard to get to.
from [NBK]Digital, www.newegg.com
easy to overclock i7 920 to 4ghz+ cons: i love this board, but hate the sata layout.
from www.amazon.com
-cables - evga includes like 5 or 6 sata cables, about 4 molex-to-sata adapters.
from Jerry, www.newegg.com
i didn't have to load a single driver on os build- no issues on initial build and start up cons: post intialization is slow but not unusual in complex boards-no fdd & sata plug orientation for

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

ASUS P6T Deluxe V2

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from N/A, www.newegg.com
sata port placement isn't ideal, but it works.
from mrfixit15811, www.newegg.com
support zero, sata hhd requires some work to configure, and motherboard runs hot.
from jp, www.newegg.com
includes l shaped sata cables for the sata #5/6 ports so it doesnt get in the way of videocard.
from brad, www.newegg.com
you can either type in all the voltages or just keep everything on auto and change mhz...looks niceit came with a litle fanit has a lot of sata cables (6)and crossfire cons: first one got rma'd
from MaverickRonin, www.newegg.com
it could also use a few more sata ports.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Nice Performance, High Quality, Socket LGA1366

M4n72-e - ASUSTEK COMPUTER 90-MIB750-G0EAY00Z

$139.00 Est. at Amazon

from Dakean, www.newegg.com
runs at a good temp for my build 35 c no load cons: only real con was the onboard sound is kinda crackly but other than that the fact that the #5 and #6 sata ports can only be used in raid is
from Huntersan9, www.newegg.com
that's right, the ide cable connector is a side mount.had a bit of a problem with the bios, sata and linux install.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
the pwr fan connection is very close the the sata ports.
from Csjag, www.newegg.com
i have read several reviews that stated that the placement of the sata ports interfere with cableing if you have a large video card.
from rob, www.newegg.com
i had to upgrade from an msi k9vgm-v micro atx because my 9800gtx+ was covering the only two sata ports on the board.

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

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Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4719331803094

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P

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

Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H

ASUS M3A76-CM

EVGA 132-BL-E758-TR x58 SLI Mainboard

Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H 991443028

Gigabyte X58 DDR3-2000X6 UD3 CPNT3PCIEX16 2PCIE

Intel - Single Unit uiTX 945G Atom330 BOXD945GCLF2

Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P

Intel D945GCLF 533FSB DDR2 667 533 Audio Video

MB EVGA 123-YW-E175-A1 775 750I SLI

Gigabyte P45 DDR2-1333X4 UD3 CPNT1PCIEX16 4PCIE

ASUS Skt 775 Atx P45 ICH10R 1600MHZ 4719543162576

FOXCONN A74MX-K AMD 740G AM2+/AM2 Phenom

ASUS MB P5KPL-CM C2D LGA775 INTELG31 ICH7 DDR2

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

ASUS P6T Deluxe V2

M4n72-e - ASUSTEK COMPUTER 90-MIB750-G0EAY00Z

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