Gigabyte LGA 1155 Intel B75 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX DDR3 1600 Motherboards GA-B75M-D3H

My home server's motherboard recently bit the dust (Z68 chipset), and I was in search of something to replace it. Anyone who is familiar with tech knows that prices drop exponentially as it is replaced by new tech. What you forget is that it's an inverted bell curve. Towards the three or four year mark, as parts become more scarce, and prices go up exponentially. These parts are no longer being manufactured, but are still in use in many homes. So both new and old parts are scarce. I searched for a long time to find a board with similar capabilities to the Z68 that didn't cost more than a brand new current generation Z170 board. It's a little ridiculous to see four year old boards going for $200+. Supply and demand in action, folks. I was super happy to have found this board on Amazon, and reasonably priced too! This board doesn't have a ton of features, as the B75 chipset was designed more for office use. As this was for use in a home server, the number of SATA ports was important to me. And this board comes with a whopping 6 ports, which is fantastic! Only one of the ports is SATA3, which you probably want to reserve for the OS. The other ports are all SATA2, but for a server access speed is probably bottlenecked by your network anyway. One oddity is that I was unable to change my memory speed. I run this with a i2500 (non-K, locked) CPU, so I'm not sure if it is because the motherboard is incapable of changing memory speeds with a locked CPU. I've been building PCs for two decades, so either the BIOS interface is poorly designed in such a way that makes this hard to do, or this is simply not possible with the B75 chipset. My previous Z68 chipset allowed my to scale RAM speeds independently of the CPU.

This is a nice, economical motherboard for old Socket 1155 cpus. I'm using this with an old Core i7 2600K cpu. I was hoping there would be at least some minor overclocking options, but there is nothing that a "K" series cpu can really use. Other than that, this motherboard has a lot of nice features, such as USB 3.0, dual video card support and 4 memory slots. Having only 1 Sata3 port is strange, but not really a con for me, since I have a TB SSD running on this, combined with a 2TB spinning disk. Works great with Windows 10 - I never needed the driver CD at all. So overall I'm happy, but would have liked to have a least some minor overclocking options, such as running my 2600K at 4.0 Ghz.

This is a nice, inexpensive board if it works. I was building two identical computers, and ordered two of these mobos. The first computer worked fine, but the second showed a corrupt bios message twice, and self repaired the bios from the dual bios setup. After spending hours downloading all the usual freeware, I started getting a black screen, and when rebooting, the screen would again go black right after the welcome sign. Amazon is great about returns, and they sent me another board. The new one is completely dead, and will not respond to the power switch. Just to make sure it wasn't another component, I took the time to put the original defective board back. Same black screen after boot, so the boards are both defective. Two out of three bad.......I can't recommend these. I'll return them and order something from another manufacturer.

Its been working quite well up to this point. I bought it because of the brand and for the fat it had a good selection of PCI-E and older PCI slots on it. Something that getting harder to find these days. There are some people that still use PCI audio cards and or PCI SATA Raid cards. Another thing was it is on the list of Motherboards that work well with certain competing operating systems to the Windows and Linux platforms, the one from the fruity company. The only thing I wish is that it supported SLI. I don't use MAD/ATI graphics cards so the Crossfire solution is not for me. The SLI variant was jsut out of my price range and was simply not available anywhere. In the end its a great darn Motherboard and very stable.

If you're building a PC with a "locked" Intel CPU, you really couldn't do much better. It doesn't support the unlock features of the Intel K series, but it's a very solid, stable motherboard with plenty of expansion. Onboard audio, ethernet, and video (with loads of different output options), along with USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports, mean you don't need much in the way of add-in cards. In fact, I only have a single video card add-in card because I like playing games. Intel's CPUs are great, and Gigabyte makes some really excellent motherboards for them. This is no exception. It also doubles as being the very cheapest Gigabyte motherboard you can get for an Ivy Bridge-based Hackintosh computer, if you want to run Mountain Lion on your PC. It's the same features and onboard peripherals as the more expensive GA-B75M-U3H, though the board itself is not as large. It works great and everything is supported in OS X with Unibeast and Multibeast, just get a CPU with HD4000 graphics or a supported graphics card.

I purchased this as "very good" from Warehouse Deals (Amazon's open box/used store) and it arrived in a static free bag, wrapped in bubble wrap and packed in a plain brown box. It included all the original papers, documents and software disk. It did not, however, include the IO plate for the back of the computer case. Amazon offered to send me a whole new product but I didn't feel like sending everything back for the little IO plate. Instead I contacted Gigabyte and they sent me one free of charge in just a few days. Fantastic customer support. As for the MOBO itself, I decided on this one when purchasing parts for a gaming PC build for my son. It is probably a little more than I needed but the Warehouse Deals price as around $50 so it was well worth that. I try and purchase used/open box items from Warehouse Deals as often as possible (if you check my other reviews you will see that is true!). The board has plenty of expansion slots, accommodates lots of different Intel processors and has USB 3 so I figured why not prepare for the future? I know when I start to upgrade parts of the Gaming PC I won't have to worry about space on the board or anything. As a side note: If you are building a gaming PC fro the fist time like I was don't short yourself on three main parts: Motherboard, graphics card and case. In the instance of the Motherboard, if you decide to use the PC builders version of Windows, the Windows SN links itself to the motherboard so if you ever upgrade the MOBO, you will not be able to reinstall that version of Windows on it (at least without some help from Microsoft). So just get the better MOBO to begin with and save the hassle!

I bought this board along with an Intel i7 Quad-Core and 16GB of memory to upgrade my failing Compaq SR5123WM desktop. This board fit well inside the Comppaq case. I did replace the system fan and power supply, because neither would work with the new motherboard. Probably the biggest 'gotcha' with this board is the CPU power connector. Version 1.0 of this board has a 4-pin connector. Version 1.1 has an 8-pin connector. For me, there is no way to know which version of the board I would get. I ordered a 4-pin to 8-pin adapter when I ordered the board just in case. Turns out they sent me a version 1.1 board, so I needed the power adapter. I installled the board, and had it up and running on the first try. Installed Win7, and everything is good. Runs like a champ! Here are the items I used along with this motherboard: Core i7 Processor: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007SZ0EHE/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i02 Hyper X Memory: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0037TO5C0/ref=oh_details_o01_s01_i00 4 to 8 Pin Adapter: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BFNZAO/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

This was my first complete DIY build, and I made the right choice of motherboard. I already had a i3-3770 processor, so I was limited to a LGA 1155 board, but they are hard to find in decent configurations. This one fit the bill. Has four RAM slots (a must for me) and though there is only 1 SATA III header, that is enough for the C drive--other drives can utilize SATA II. Also has USB 3.0, and a USB 3.0 internal header for front ports. Easy to set up, booted fine with initial boot, and driver CD got me online quickly, so that I could load the most current drivers via the web. So far, no issues. One minor negative, I could not use two of the chassis mounts on the rear of the mobo (holes did not line up), but that may be my case, and not the board.