Gigabyte Core 2 Quad/P45/DDR2-1366+/A&GbE/ATX/DES Motherboard GA-EP45-UD3L

by Gigabyte

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.6 x 1.3 inches ; 1.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001KEMJ9U
• Item model number: GA-EP45-UD3L
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

The GA-EP45-UD3L introduces revolutionary GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 technology featuring a 2 oz copper PCB to help reduce system temperature and dramatically enhance performance. Based on the Intel P45 chipset the GA-EP45-UD3L delivers a record-setting 1600MHz FSB for the latest Intel Core 2 multi-core processors, and supports dual channel DDR2 memory at speeds of up to 1366MHz and even higher. Additionally, the GA-EP45-UD3L incorporates GIGABYTE DES Advanced technology for industry leading energy saving and enhanced system efficiency.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great motherboard, August 21, 2010

By 

Kearney J. Taaffe (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gigabyte Core 2 Quad/P45/DDR2-1366+/A&GbE/ATX/DES Motherboard GA-EP45-UD3L (Personal Computers)

So, I bought this motherboard to use for a hackintosh. It works flawlessly with snow leopard.

PROS
The board is big and easy to work with. Getting the CPU on is easy. The RAM slots are colour coordinated (so its easy to know which slots are dual-channeled, but I mean most mobos are this way now, its still nice though).

The 20+4 went in really easy. And it will be easy to remove should I need to do something with the power supply.

The SATA ports are labeled and are flush with the board, meaning, the sata connectors fit into the board vertically, not horizontally. This means its easier to plug in a new HDD without removing the video card

It was super easy to plug in the EFIx dongle. The board CLEARLY lables USB header 1. I've not seen other boards do this. Mostly DFI. They label it USB but not the number.

CONS
The board was a little pricey for being an older board. But, GigiByte puts a lot of quality work into their product, so the price was worth it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for OSX86, May 25, 2009

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F. Chen "Life is for you to enjoy" (Fremont, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gigabyte Core 2 Quad/P45/DDR2-1366+/A&GbE/ATX/DES Motherboard GA-EP45-UD3L (Personal Computers)

I bought it to install OSX86 10.5.6 and it works perfectly. Great motherboard for hackingtosh.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Very Nice, September 23, 2010

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D. Ho "Ginsumaster" (Hon., HI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gigabyte Core 2 Quad/P45/DDR2-1366+/A&GbE/ATX/DES Motherboard GA-EP45-UD3L (Personal Computers)

This mobo is a solid value. I heartily recommend it.

I own this mobo (Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L) and Asus P5Q-E. The Asus costs $20 more, has more features. However, the Gigabyte is just such a solid value. It just works -- no fuss.

Pros:
PS/2 keyboard and mouse
6 SATA
8 USB on back.
easy setup -- std audio, nic, chipset drivers easy to find
IDE connector

Cons:
no firewire
no 2nd SATA chip (for esata or SATA ports 7 and 8)
DIMM slots positioned poorly -- blocks installation of long cards in slots for 2 PCIe x1 slots.
DIMM slots positioned too close to CPU -- causes interference with some coolers, i.e. Scythe Mugen 2 rev B ( must have long way of cooler parallel to DIMMs )