Socket AM2 Motherboards

Pros: Excellent upgrade path. Uses all AM2 CPu's. Says it's OK for Phenoms. Rated as a 'Black' series board. Went together well, mounting points were precision, aligned perfectly first try. Fired...

Pros: Other than the highly publicized HDMI, works as any other motherboard. Cons: HDMI audio is BROKEN. Simply does not work. Attempts to get support:Drivers: ALL of the drivers for this board on...

Pros: It was pretty good when it worked. Cons: 1st board was dead on arrival2nd Board "worked" but:-Board would scramble which hard drive to boot off of in POST.-When I upgraded the graphics card,...

Pros: This board has been running with all the same parts since the initial build almost 6 years ago! Stable, flexible, adaptable. It was a great value for the price back then, and continues to be so.

Pros: mr. dwainehead who claims high tech level says this board has defective RAID5 settings where 3 drives only give you the space of two drives. And he claims to have "striped" a 3 drive raid array...

Pros: Very flexible with 2 PATA ports (4 devices) and 4 SATA ports. Ran OK on first power up. The 8 USB ports are a real plus. Reasonable priced. Cool & Quiet works very well with AMD BE-2400 low...

Pros: Board is full of great features. Easy to set up. SATA RAID works well with the latest BIOS version. Cons: None. Everything works well! Other Thoughts: Immediately flash the BIOS! Flashing the...

Pros: All the most needed basic features. I've built up a few systems using this board and I have not been disappointed. The chipset has not given me any "flaky" or unstable occurrences. Cons:...

Pros: I've installed 4 of these boards at the same time for work and I haven't had any problem with any of them. Works as advertised. Even supports Wake-On-LAN from full off, nice! Cons: Getting...

Pros: Good price. Cons: It's dead after 4 months I bought.Poor technique support.I emailed my problem to the official website. I got a FAQ link despite it's motherboard issue. Other Thoughts: Don't...

Pros: good price, some overclockability, easy to understand bios Cons: only 1 IDE slot, hidden ram overclock option in bios requires you to press Ctrl+F1 which isn't in the manual, i'm not sure if...

Pros: runs awesome no problems installing vista and still running. my first time building so i happy Cons: none other than on board video not very good Other Thoughts: needs better video

Pros: Looks nice. Cons: Died after 6 months. Other Thoughts: This happens with Gigabyte every time I buy something from them. Not happening again.

Pros: Onboard graphics as backup to GPU. Cons: Very basic board. Few features and expansion. Other Thoughts: Integrated ethernet died after a year. Not worth RMA-ing for so I installed a PCI backup.

Pros: Does take ECC RAM Cons: Does not take Buffered RAM Other Thoughts: I had to update the BIOS to the newest version from the TYAN website in order to be able to use an AMD Phenom processor.

Pros: Very reliable server type motherboard. Came with lots of accessories/cables and what not. Can handle almost any AMD AM2 processor. Good layout and lots of 4 pin fan headers. Cons: The nForce...

Pros: Very easy to install and setup. Manual is easy to understand and follow. Had no trouble installing at all, and this was my 1st complete new build. The board is over a year old now, and no other...

Pros: Works, does good job of running everything Cons: Green is pale Other Thoughts: Bought this board before knowing too much about computers, it sounded like a solid board, put it into my computer...

Pros: plenty of space for upgrades, very easy setup Cons: sound card gave out on me, and soon afterwards so did the entire board. wouldnt even post in the end. Other Thoughts: i would have liked to...

Pros: Worked well for a couple months. Cons: Started getting major usb port problems. Thought it was my printer went out and bought another one but it was the board. Also would get occasional...