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One of the best boards for AMD Athlon 64 processors in the mATX form factor! It has one of the best possible chipset, slightly newer than the Athlon 64 processor itself and the AM2 socket. It has the AMD 785G north bridge with integrated AMD Radeon GPU, capable of DirectX 10.1 and a full-featured SB710 south bridge. This board can easily support a system running on Windows 10! DirectX 9 is the minimum standard for Windows 10. This one has DirectX 10.1 support. The GPU in this is very capable. But if you want something better, you can always use the PCI-Express slot to install one of the latest Radeon R7 series dedicated GPU cards. The integrated GPU can be disabled in BIOS! That's always a welcome feature! The BIOS system is the Award BIOS v. 6.0 PG. Very simple, easy to navigate, feature-packed and stable, old-school BIOS! The main reason I bought this is because the OEM board by Asus had failed in what was once a Fujitsu-Siemens PC. That PC has received so many component replacements that it's hardly a FS computer anymore. Maybe one component too many... It would seem as the old Asus OEM board could not handle a powerful Athlon 64 x2 6000 Windsor and the high-speed IOPS from Samsung SSD disk. It started emitting high-pitched screeching noise, and then quietly stopped powering on, at first only powering sometimes and then not at all. But with this GA-MA785GM-US2H from Gigabyte, I have had no such problems. This board is fantastic! The whole PC experience is so much faster and snappier than before. I think it's mainly because of better chipset that can better handle fast IOPS from SSD disk. But also overall much better components. I couldn't be happier!Read full review
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Pros: The board will take the maximum memory for an AM2+ CPU, which is 16GB. You can comfortably fit in a full size, double width graphics card, without loosing any of the SATA connectors which is great. Cons: The northbridge(NB) is apparently prone to overheating. It didn't come with a fan for it, but it does have a NB fan connector for one if you already have one.
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Good motherboard, supports new 6 core AMD processors. I bought the Phenom II 965 x4 BE, worked perfectly without any problems at all. Good onboard graphics using ATI(HD) and the motherboard fully support 1080p which is amazing. Grab this motherboard if your looking to upgrade your pc but still keeping with DDR2 memory because its much cheaper.