Customer Reviews

Intel DG31GL Essential Series G31 Desktop Board, uATX, DDR2 800, Intel Graphics, 1066MHz FSB, LGA775, Retail Motherboard

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
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I bought this motherboard to build a basic Pentium Dual Core system. Memory, HDD and CPU are fine but the MB died after 2 years. It worked great until one day both the power supply and MB burnt. I think it was a power surge even though I have a surge protector. I think it is a great MB for the price too bad it burnt.

I buy all Intel boards to build from nothing on up and this so far is my last ... No complaints at all. I installed Win-7 and has no hang ups. Install a older Win T.V. PCI card and installed fast. 4 GB ram and a 3.33 CPU... Also ran RAID 5 but running RAID 1 right now ... Going to build another board to run ubuntu , XP. and 7 on a 250 GB HDD.

I'm using this board in a do-everything Ubuntu box. It runs web and e-mail servers as well as media apps like youtube/flash.

My only complaint is the built-in analog audio has a high-pitched whine. If I disconnect the audio cable, the whine goes away.

I have always used Intel motherboards.. they usually have no installation issues. Caution: this board has known sound driver issues with Windows operating system. I had to disable and uninstall the microsoft hi-def driver under system properties before the mobo sound driver could work.

Otherwise the product is reasonably priced and performs well.