Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H ATX Board

[blaize]

Hi Everyone,
Well I have given up on my Asrock board and after looking around have decided to go to the dark side and go with a AMD setup.
I have decided on the Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H ATX board as I have a LC17 silverstone case which will handle full ATX. It is the big brother of the popular Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H Micro ATX board but check out the extra expansion slots and 6 SATA connectors
Will post how it goes once it arrives and is installed.
BTW I went for a AMD AM2 Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Dual Core , 2.7Ghz (65W) CPU and Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5 4GB (2x XMS2 2GB) PC-6400 (800MHz) DDR2 RAM.

Tony

[Schnapper]

I'm looking at the same board!!! Simply because I can put 2x tuners into the pcie 1x slots which I can't do on the m-atx board. Let me know how it goes, I'll hold my ordering until I see a post here

[blaize]

Originally Posted by Schnapper

I'm looking at the same board!!! Simply because I can put 2x tuners into the pcie 1x slots which I can't do on the m-atx board. Let me know how it goes, I'll hold my ordering until I see a post here

Hi Schnapper,

No worries will let you know how it goes, yes that was what sold it to me as well as I have had problems with my old Asrock board with the tuner in PCIe x16 slot and I have never been able to get two PCIe tuners to work because of it
Fingers crossed

Tony

[krypto]

I have used the previous model GA-MA69G-S3H for the same reason. I also have the GA-MA69GM-S2H and they are identical to configure. I'd image that the 78G series will be the same.

[blaize]

Thanks Krypto,

Still waiting impatiently for mine to arrive but will post my results once it lands

Tony

[blaize]

Bits arrived this afternoon
Have installed the board CPU and Ram and Vista Ultimate 32 Bit is at the "Completing Installation" stage

Will post how the rest goes!

Tony

[krypto]

Good luck, could be a late night!

[Schnapper]

Owww come on I need to know how you go before I turn my wishlist into an order

-Where did you buy yours? *on s side note

[mysticpete]

Hi blaize

I to am looking closely at this board as I also have an LC17 box, will be interested in your thoughts on the build and how well it runs? Was also looking at the GPM-DS2H as it has the side port memory but waiting to see how well it works, plus on the DS3H is the full ATX.....

[blaize]

Originally Posted by Schnapper

Owww come on I need to know how you go before I turn my wishlist into an order

-Where did you buy yours? *on s side note

Sorry guys have been away and managed to dislocate my knee so have not been near the media centre PC
Fits perfectly into the LC-17 case and setup went all ok. I have just got the basics working but it has been faultless other then when video was turned off by power saving it wouldn't come back on I just told it to never turn video off and have had no further problems S3 works fine and the 2200 tuner card seems alot more stable (I still have a bit of stutter but pretty sure this is a signal problem as we are in a black spot)
I am still to have e real tidy up and tweak but hope to get a chance for this over the week-end.
I got the board from my local computer shop, they had to order it in but only took a few days.

Tony