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Genuine Dell Motherboard
For Optiplex GX520 Desktop Systems. This is for motherboard ONLY, and does not include processor, memory, heatsinks, or heatsink retainers.
Motherboard Information:
Chipset: Intel 945G Express;
Processor: Socket 775,
Hyper-Threading Technology Support,
Intel Pentium 4,
Memory: 2x 400/533 MHz DDR2 SDRAM,
4 GB Max Total;
Audio:
Integrated;
Video:
Integrated;
Expansion Capabilities:
1x PCI,
1x PCI Express;
Peripheral Interfaces:
4x SATA Connector,
1x VGA Monitor Connector,
1x Serial Connector,
1x Parallel Connector,
1x RJ45 Ethernet/LAN Port,
6x front/back-panel USB 2.0-compliant connectors,
3x back panel audio connectors,
Buyer will receive one of the following compatible part numbers: PJ479, XG312, X7841, MD573, RJ290, UG982.
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GF615M-P33 Desktop Board is design based on nVidia Geforce 6150Se & nForce 430 chipset for optimal system efficiency. Designed to fit the advanced AMD Phenom AM3 processor, the GF615M-P33 Desktop Board deliver a high performance and professional desktop platform solution.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Fair, but don't buy for RAID; poor documentation
By Dale L. Curtis
I bought this MB as part of repurposing an older desktop PC as a file server. I needed RAID 5 and a PCI-E (not 16) slot for a TV tuner card. I also wanted to re-use an IDE DVD drive, and a PCI slot to re-use an older USB external port card. In general the MB fit the bill.HOWEVER:(1) The MB documentation is abysmal! The explanation of BIOS options is nothing more than a repetition of the option names. For most things, not an issue, but for some -- e.g., what does "Boot from other device" mean in the boot order list?? -- it can be important. ASUS does a much better job.(2) More important, the MB comes with NO documentation of the RAID setup, which is provided by NVIDIA. AND, the RAID BIOS is clearly very old, does not correspond to NVIDIA's online documentation (even for the same chip set!!) and apparently cannot be updated -- at least I have not been able to find a way to do so.HEADS UP:(1) Win7 will NOT install an Ethernet driver for this MB, so be sure to install the network =and= storage drivers from the MSI CD and then do Windows update.(2) Download and install Live Update 5 (LU5) rather than the LU4 that comes with it, and then update the BIOS and MB drivers. Unfortunately, this does NOT cover network and storage drivers.I also learned the hard way that one cannot build a bootable RAID of more than 2TB on this MB, which was my intention. Not the fault of the MB, but absence of any documentation on how to actually use or set up RAID led me astray. Were I to do this again, I'd look for a mb that had more RAID ports or a UEFI interface in order to allow a RAID 5 for data plus a bootable RAID.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
No problems
By Ben B
Easy setup -- had it up and running very quickly with no problems.Has a built in PC speaker, which is great for diagnosing problems (although I haven't had any).I use it for an HTPC and have had no issues with it -- I'm happy with my purchase.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great buy for the price..
By Jeff
When I first bought this, I didn't think much of it, other then it's a lot cheaper then some it's predecessors. I figured I would buy this to replace my old one, and within a couple of months, replace it again, But so far, I love this MotherBoard. Not only is it powerful, but it has it's own overclock switch, which will let you overclock at the drop of a hat. I have a 2.8Ghz Athlon II X2. It runs like a dream, and is super quiet, when used with a quality power supply. Supports up to 8GB of RAM (2x4GB). The onboard video card isn't that much to brag about, but it gets the job done. Thanks to NVIDIA for always having quality video cards. I recommend this for anybody that's just looking for a lot more power, without paying a lot more, out of pocket. Great for beginners, looking to push their dual/quad to the next level.
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AS Rock Z77 EXTREME4 LGA1155/ DDR3/ SATA3&USB3.0/ Quad CrossFireX & Quad SLI/ A&GbE/ ATX Motherboard
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57 of 60 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome board
By bob
I put this board in my computer about 6 months ago. My computer is a 2u that sits as a thick client in a server rack. There are several reasons I chose this board, other than price.1) Solid capacitors (caps are the leading cause of boards bricking over time. "cross-tops" or non-solid capacitors can split or even leak 'goo' when they heat up. It isn't that they aren't rated for their designated uF, they just aren't built for longevity. Solid caps are.)2) 8+4 phased VRM with pulse modulation (the cleaner the current is to the CPU, the more efficient it is. Pulse modulation uses switching to deliver current much like high end PSUs. With the additional {8+4} transistors/chokes/phases the load is spread out more, letting it run cooler and making it safe (virtually unheard of) from overloading the CPU. These are features that make this board inherently reliable.)3) The second SATAIII controller {ASMedia ASM1061}supports hot swap at full 6.0 speed.The Intel controller only supports 2 of the four SATAIII connectors {SATA3_0 and SATA3_1 for RAID}. It's the same with all cougar and panther point chipsets (p67, h67, z68, z77, x79 etc. anything with a numeric designator of 65 and up)Speaking of SATAIII:TRIM is NOT supported in RAID 0 in anything but a 75, 77 or 79 series chipset at present (Also you have to have the Intel Rapid Storage Tech version 11.6 or newer which is upgradable on Intel's download site. Without it, you can run 'fsutil behavior query', and it will still say zero, but enabled, and 'on' are two different things in this case). If you want to RAID 0 a pair of SSDs, and have that performance last, you have to get the TRIM working. This board meets the requirements to do that.4) a back up ghost BIOS5) Layout (in a 2u chassis you only have so much vertical room, and cooling is critical as you can't use tall CPU coolers, multiple 120mm fans etc. Also the PCIe has to be done via a riser card. With this board's layout I was able to fit everything into the case, to include the cooling for an i-series running at 4.2, a second NIC for the console interface, and pretty beefy graphics card supplementing the on-chip Intel HD4000 for the eyefinity.)What I was able to get out of this board: 4.5Gigs on the CPU, tuned it down to 4.2, sometimes it hits 4.3 (but that's the board doing its own thing), 2000 MHz out of the RAM (from 16 gigs of 2133 RAM), and a Gig read and write off of the primary SSD RAID 0 array. To say that this board is as fast as the best components is an understatement. While I can't comment about gaming (I didn't build it for that) I can say that it is lightning fast, crunches big data without breaking a sweat, and sits on the edge as well or better than any computer I have plugged into the network (I used this for my computer...the one I use everyday, and have found myself dipping into the servers less and less. It is actually changing the way I work).I've built a couple AsRock units for myself, and used one as the board in a system I designed that we offer to the public. I don't want to say anything negative about Asus, or Gigabyte but It seems like I am always having to tweak something down the road with these boards (an option you don't really have if you are building the unit to ship to customers). Biostar and Foxxconn are just awful for a list of reasons as long as my arm, MSI should stick to video cards ("military grade"?), never used an EVGA so I can't comment there. Zotac got their big niche with the ITX boards, but don't put out anything in the ATX sizes that really do anything noteworthy. Intel makes a very sound, reliable board, but they always seem to be lacking a feature or two that I can get cheaper in a different board.In short, if I had to recommend a board for gaming, I'd probably say Asus...I've built a ton of those, and have had great results. But in a gaming rig you want to tweak stuff every once in a while.....it's part of the allure. I'm sure this ASRock board would game very well. The thing is that all of that tech they develop for gamers ends up in workstations eventually (kinda like stuff NASA came up with 10 years ago is available at the mall today)....and this is one of those crossover boards (although I doubt that's what they intended). You have all of the speed you could want but with the reliability, and simplicity (you don't have to tweak it every once in a while) you need in a daily driver.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Value, Overclockable, All The Modern Ports
By SCOTT A VIETH
I've been using this board for about two months now and have no complaints. Obviously first and foremost, it does its job quite well, and is running my Core i7-2700K Sandy Bridge CPU without any issues (although it's made for Ivy Bridge, 3rd-Generation CPUs).POSITIVES* The number of USB3 ports is excellent, and the fact that the on-board USB3 ports are driven by separate chipsets (two on-board, two with an ASMedia chipset) means less congestion when you're pushing all of the ports at once. Plus, the additional headers making for a total of six USB3 ports is a nice overall number.* The SATA2 and SATA3 ports are nicely organized, but they're definitely made for a case with bottom-mounting hard drives. The case I bought actually had a special mount at the bottom of the case for a 2.5" SSD or hard drive, and with how this board is built, it's perfect.* The tools that come with the board work well, and aren't overly intrusive. XFast Turbo USB does help with USB speeds (although not as much as they claim), the XFast LAN tool provides great insight on the LAN activity of the computer, and the tuner allows for basic overclocking on the fly. I don't know if this is a CPU, or if it's the board, but the heat factor goes way up even on a small overclock, so like some other reviewers have said, I don't think I'd use this board for hardcore overclocking, but if you need a small boost, maybe 10%, this would do ok even with air-cooling.NEGATIVES* The SATA port that's shared with the external SATA3 port isn't clearly marked on the board, so you have to really watch which one you're using if you want to still use the eSATA port.* Using the kind of cooler you'd want to use, in my case, the Cooler Master Hyper212 Evo, really puts the crunch on the RAM ports. If you're going to use all four RAM slots with a big-time cooler, you may want to go with low profile RAM to avoid any issues on that front. I used Corsair Vengeance RAM, and due to the large heat sink, it essentially cuts it down from 4 slots to 2 "usable" ones.Overall, the negatives don't take it down beyond a full 5-star rating for me. They're annoyances, and in any motherboard this price, if you're hunting for perfection, you'll find one or two places where they compromised, but for the price point, this can run a good gaming rig, or be a very good daily driver, no doubt.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
My favorite motherboard ever
By Robert Contreras
I could go on for pages about how awesome this motherboard is but I'll do my best to keep it brief.Pros:1.)Price is amazing2.)UEFI BIOS is probably the coolest thing to ever happen to motherboards (a graphical BIOS that works out of the box and supports mouse AND keyboard)3.)Digital Error Display - I don't know what this is officially called, the motherboard has a small 2 digit LCD display that gives codes that can be referenced in the motherboard manual. This way if you have an error with the RAM for example, the motherboard can tell you specifically the RAM is causing the issue and save a boat load of time.4.)Power and Reset buttons that are built on to the motherboard - makes testing components in your build very quick and easy, no case needed to turn on the computer5.)Good looking color Scheme6.)Includes SATA 6 cables for your hard drives7.)Crossfire/SLI support with 2 PCI EXPRESS 3.0 slots.Cons:I haven't found any. I tried my build with an MSI motherboard that costs about $60 more and had memory issues, I used this board and it booted on the first try, solid like a rock. This is THE Z77 chipset board that most people should get.I'm not saying there aren't other nice boards on this chipset, but for the price there is not a better one.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
First Impressions are good...
By Alberto Pena
I was looking for a low-power usage system to use as a home server and ocassionally HD movie playing. I could compromise on power usage during load as long as idle power was low.I read the missingremote website review of this MB and decided to take a chance.Due to budget constraints I decided to use the Celeron G530 ($39 - $49 range), which has most of the features of its bigger i3 cousin. I don't need 3D graphics and basic HD decoding is enough. I had 4GB of SO-DIMM Laptop RAM I pulled during my Macbook Pro upgrade that I could recycle.I added a 2.5" laptop HDD to be used as main drive for low power usage (as opposed to 3.5").I installed all this and used a Dell Laptop Power supply. I added an optical drive via eSATA connector for OS install and ocassional movie playback. Here are my preliminary results:Windows 7:I had to install the NIC drivers from the CD as W7 didn't recognize the LAN port. As I did this I installed all drivers haven't tested HDMI audio yet, but it shows). The system idles at 15-16 Watts (measured with Kill-A-Watt at the wall). I can play Blu-Ray fine, with PowerDVD 11. System spikes up to low 20s watts during BD playback which is perfectly fine. I added a 3.5" 2TB Caviar Green and it adds 4 to 5 watts when spinning but not in use.Ubuntu:Tested 10.04LTS , didn't see the NIC. Loaded 11.10 , saw the NIC. For some reason it idles at no less than 21Watt, 5 more than W7. Then I saw that Ubuntu 11.10 doesn't give you an option to use the old desktop environment (you need to manually install it) and I don't like Unity environment at all, so I decided to switch back to OpenSUSE, which is also better for my Desktop/Server mixed use as I can customize the install more easily.OpenSUSE:Loaded fine, NIC was fine, idles at 16-17 Watt. Without tweaking and out of the box this is 4 to 5 Watt less than Ubuntu. I didn't compare the kernel versions, but I will stick with OpenSUSE anyway. I still need to test integrated graphics etc, but I plan to Dual boot W7 for movie playback for a while.In summary, this board has an OK price for a Home (Media) Sever build, and idle power usage is excellent when combined with Laptop drive and using integrated graphics. The CPU fan is also pretty quiet.I just wish it had an extra SATA port to add a fixed Optical drive id addition to the 2.5" main HDD and 2TB media drive. At some point I might move the OS to the mSATA slot but these drives are too expensive at this point.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Mostly good, but just a couple negatives.
By zKi Comp
I really wanted to like this board, and for the most part it's solid.Intel has a few boards out there now that use a built in DC jack on the motherboard for use in cases without a standard ATX PSU. This is one of them. I had also read that it offered an internal connection as well, so I ordered this board for an In Win case that had a 200W built in PSU. At the time, it was only $99 with free shipping and still seemed like a fair value.Upon receiving the DH61AG, I came to realize that the internal connection was not a standard 24pin ATX. It has some crazy 2 pin molex (looks like half of a 4pin CPU connector) that apparently nobody in the online community has any idea what to plug into it. Therefor, if you have a case with a power supply, this MOBO will be a waste of money for you, as you'll have to purchase a separate power brick to go with it. Apparently it DOES fit a Dell laptop PSU, but I would recommend the mini-box 160W 19V adapter, as the Dell PSU only goes up to 90W if I remember correctly.So, I ended up switching this board out into a M350 Universal Mini-ITX PC enclosure PicoPSU compatible;, which seems to be one of the only cases I can find that doesn't have a spot for an internal PSU, so it's almost made for a MOBO like this. This case in itself has plenty of flaws, but I won't get into that. I do recommend it for this motherboard, however.Once I got everything situated with the power supply and case, the board worked just fine. It boots up in an adequate amount of time into Linux Mint 13 on an SSD. Probably could be faster, but no complaints. Actual PC performance is stellar with an Intel Core i3-2100 Dual-Core Processor 3.1 GHz 3 MB Cache LGA 1155 - BX80623I32100, 8GB SODIMM (be sure to buy notebook RAM!), and I'm using the built in graphics. I get an 8000 on a 32bit Geekbench test, which is pretty impressive, since 32 bit only utilizes half of the memory.Built in Intel graphics are OK. It will play HD content, but I occasionally get odd artifacts and blending during high action scenes. I wouldn't imagine this would be adequate for any graphics intense games. Perhaps a higher end processor would better utilize this feature.A few pros:+ Two mini-pci-e slots, one full and one half length. It's difficult to find an ITX board with even one mini-pci-e slot, let alone two. This offers a great amount of flexibility with onboard wifi. Literally any laptop wifi card should work.+ Plenty of ports. This offers both DVI and HDMI, USB 3.0 and 2.0, etc. etc.+ Included HDD power cable. This cable runs from the motherboard, to the hard drive power connectors. This allows you to run everything off the built in 19v DC port without any additional PSU.+ LGA 1155 socket. This type of socket is currently the most versatile on the market, as you can use almost any current i3, i5, or i7. It's pretty much all I'll consider anymore.+ Well placed antenna mounts on IO shield. I've had IO shields that place the antenna mounts too close to each other, making it impossible to get high powered antennas side by side. These ones are spread out evenly.A few cons:- The only expansion slot on this board is a standard x4 pci-e, not a x16, so full size video cards won't fit. This is unfortunate, considering the rather limited onboard graphics.- SODIMM. Using notebook memory modules instead of full size creates extra space for the mini-pci-e, but limits options with RAM. I prefer full size memory. Also, this is only rated at 1333mhz, where others in this price range can use 1600mhz RAM.- Unusual internal PSU connection. I've already touched on this above.- Limited audio capabilities. This only has one out and one mic in. If you have a surround sound setup that requires multiple outputs, this won't work for you. However, this was plenty for my requirements.- Price change. Just a few days ago, this was $99, and is now $120+shipping, which is just not worth it anymore for the PSU requirements involved. I much prefer the Intel Desktop Motherboard LGA1155 DDR3 1600 mini-ITX - BOXDH77DF for only $10 or so more. That board comes with standard PSU connectors, offers more ports, full size DIMM slots, pci-e x16 and has one (full or half length) mini-pci-e slot, and surround sound capabilities.Discontinued? It appears the DH61AG is being discontinued already, which is a shame, because it certainly fills a niche, despite it's flaws. At $99 and $60 for a PSU, this was the best deal for a small, fanless machine. With the price change, you might as well get a better board and a Pico PSU.If you can pick this one up for a decent price, go ahead and do it...I don't think you'll be disappointed :)
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Best mini-itx board for HTPC / low power use.
By Matthew C Sippel
Great board with many good features:- CIR header for internal R6 compatible remote (MCE).- HTPC header for CEC (will be supported in the future, hopefully).- Board has its own 19v power supply. While other PICO PSUs use 16v, its nice to have a 19v and just use an ordinary laptop power brick to power your entire PC. Pin compatible with HP and Dell bricks (be sure to measure the barrel size first).- Using SoDIMMS and an MSata Hard drive, you can make a build that is extremely low profile with practically no cable clutter.Using the above my PC on 65w i5 intel it idles at 15w.
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Genuine Dell OptiPlex 740 motherboard
CHIPSET: nVidia GeForce 6150LE/Nforce 430.
SUPPORTED PROCESSORS: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core, AMD Athlon 64.
SUPPORTED MEMORY: Dual-Channel DDR2 SDRAM (4 DIMMs Slots, 533, 667Mhz or 800Mhz), Up to 8 GB RAM.
AUDIO: Sigma Tel 9200 CODEC (2.1 Channel Audio), 24-bit analog-to-digital; 24-bit digital-to-analog.
VIDEO: nVidia integrated video (DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3.0 Graphics Processing Unit) or PCI Express x16 graphics card or DVI graphics card.
PERIPHERAL INTERFACES: 1 - VGA Port, 1 - Serial Port, 1 - Parallel Port, 7 - 2.0 USB Ports (front and back), 1- Integrated 10 / 100/1000 Network Port, 2 Connectors for line-in and line-out; 2 front-panel connectors for headphones and microphone, 3 - SATA Connectors (7-pin), 1 - Floppy Drive Connector (38-pin), 1 - Fan Connector (5-pin).
EXPANSION CAPABILITY: 1 - PCI-E X16 Graphics slot, 1 - PCI-E X1, 1 - PCI 32Bit / 33MHz slots.
MOTHERBOARD COMPATIBLE PART NUMBERS: HX340, YP696, RY469.
This is for motherboard only! This item does NOT include any of the following: Case, Processors, Heatsinks, Hard Drives, Optical Drives, Memory, Manuals, Etc.!!
Note: Buyer will receive one of the part numbers listed above,
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