Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H C2D LGA775 GF7100 nF630i PCIE DDR2 SATA2 DVI HDMI HDCP ATX Motherboard

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 26.8 x 27.2 x 6.6 inches ; 2.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000Y0ZGGO
• Item model number: GA-73PVM-S2H
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

GeForce 7100/NF630i uATX LGA775 2 DDR2-800 FSB1333

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great or Linux HTPC, May 22, 2008

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R. Franklin (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H C2D LGA775 GF7100 nF630i PCIE DDR2 SATA2 DVI HDMI HDCP ATX Motherboard (Personal Computers)

I bought this recently for a MythTV linux build, and everything seems to work fine including all peripherals (spdif audio, video, sata, etc). I am very happy with this board.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars integrated video not fast enough for blu-ray disc playback, April 8, 2009

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T. Fischer (CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H C2D LGA775 GF7100 nF630i PCIE DDR2 SATA2 DVI HDMI HDCP ATX Motherboard (Personal Computers)

I had bought this intending to use the embedded video for blu-ray disc playback, but after installing, I noticed a bit of stutter, especially in panning scenes.

I had updated my motherboard drivers to the latest version and setup the frame buffer size in the BIOS to 256MB as specified in the manual. The motherboard manual says that it supports full 1920x1080p as well as playback of blu-ray discs, so I figured it should have no problem. I noticed no stutter problems while playing the movie "300". However, when playing "Cars", there was fair amount of stutter in some of the scenes where the camera pans.

I was using a Lite-On external BD reader with the bundled PowerDVD 7 BD edition. Downloading the Blu-Ray disk adviser from cyberlink (http://www.cyberlink.com/prog/bd-support/diagnosis.do) specified that the embedded video (GeForce 7100) was too slow for Blu-Ray playback. I managed to resolve the problem by getting a PCI-E video card (I ended up getting a Diamond Radeon HD 4350 since it had embedded audio and an HDMI port), and the stutter problems went away.

PS - It is also a micro-ATX motherboard, not an ATX, as implied by the information on the product page.