Customer Reviews

Zotac GF8100-A-E GeForce 8100 AM2 2XDDR2-1066 MAX 4GB Motherboard

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Had problems with on board LAN. Kept disconnecting and stop working. I reloaded the drivers and still the LAN would stop working. Ended up installing a NIC.
The one major problem I had was with a PNY 768MB 9600GSO I had originally bought for this motherboard. The display had shadows on the right side of everything on the monitor, making text hard to read. Even the latest updates from Nvidia did not correct this. I even returned the PNY 9600 and got another one and the result was the same, some sort of conflict with this board. The on board 8100 graphics worked fine. I tried three other video cards by EVGA, a 6100, a 8800GS, and a 9600GT. All worked fine. I ended up using a different video card. Tech help could not figure it out. BTW, the 9600GSO worked fine on a different system. Other than that this board works fine.

This motherboard has turned out to be a solid performer although the SATA ports started to fail during the first year. Be sure to register with the company to take advantage of the warranty.

Bought this to replace a biostar motherboard that had nothing but issues; the sound didn't work & stopped booting from CD regardless of bios settings. Zotac instructions were simple, drivers were available and installation was rather straight forward. If there are any issues, I haven't found them yet after a month of daily use. What hooked me was the Nvidia onboard video with DVI. I thought it would be a nice upgrade from the weird off brand integrated video used on the cheap biostar board that kept my daughter from watching some videos. She only uses it for school work and a few online game sites and she seems to be happy.I installed the board, re-activated Windows XP and I was done, did not take long at all. For the price, this board actually turned out to be a nice upgrade, decent on-board video & it supports 4 Gb of Ram if later on I decide to go 64 bit. I would pick up another for a budget AMD build.

I purchased this motherboard to use as a server for my home. For the most part it accomplishes this task, but it lacks the ability to throttle the CPU fan speed. The stock fan that came with my CPU is very loud when it's at 3000+ rpms. Just a warning to those who are buying, you'll probably have to buy a different cpu fan. Perhaps I expect too much from a cheap mobo!