Intel Desktop Board D945GNT - Motherboard - ATX - i945G - LGA775 Socket - SATA-150 (RAID) - Ethernet - FireWire - video - HD Audio Review

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(More customer reviews)I would normally nor review a motherboard. They do what their meant for and are never noticed, until don't. I run this motherboard with Pentium D 840. I am sure that you are aware that D 840 runs pretty hot for its performance - however I am happy with mine, or at least was. I had purchased after-market cooler - Zalman 9500 which did a great job. However after I updated the bios two months ago, my CPU started to overheat once again. Naturally I assumed that the fan had gone bad until I read somewhere that the new Intel bios update takes control over CPU fan speed by default and causes drastic heating. I went back to restore my saved defaults which were saved after the update but simply disregarded by the bios updater. My temps are down with 27 degrees. I am pretty upset at Intel and even wrote to their consumer relations.
Besides this incident I am pleased with the board, supports my 4GB of RAM at a decent speed and that's all I want.
However I am fed up with dealing with Intel's overheating issues so next time I am going with X2 and not an ncore-busdeprived Intel chip.

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Product Description:

Product Type: Desktop Board
Product Name: D945GNT Desktop Board
Marketing Information:
The Intel Desktop Board D945GNT delivers new levels of performance and flexibility to the Digital Office and Digital Home. Based on the Intel 945G Express Chipset, this board supports dual-core processing, Intel EM64T and advanced Intel GMA 950 on-board or PCI Express Graphics.Packaged Quantity: 10
Package Type: Bulk
Processor & Chipset

Processor Interface: 1 x Socket 775
Processor Support: 1 x Pentium 4 2.80GHz to 3.80GHz
Processor Support: 1 x Pentium D 2.80GHz to 3.20GHz
Processor Support: 1 x Celeron-D 2.53GHz to 3.26GHz
Processor Class: Pentium 4
Processor Class: Pentium D
Processor Class: Celeron-D
Processor Bus Speed: 1066MHz
Processor Bus Speed: 800MHz
Processor Bus Speed: 533MHz
Chipset: Intel 945G
Memory

Memory Slots: 4 x 240-pin DIMM single-sided or double-sided
Maximum Memory: 4GB
I/O Expansions

Expansion Slots: 4 x PCI
Expansion Slots: 1 x PCI Express x16
Expansion Slots: 2 x PCI Express x1
Controllers

Graphics Controller: Intel GMA950 Integrated
Sound Controller: SigmaTel 9223 7.1-channel Integrated
Network Controller: 1 x Intel 10/100Mbps Integrated LAN
Interfaces/Ports

Back-panel Interfaces: 1 x 6-pin PS/2 Female mini-DIN Keyboard
Back-panel Interfaces: 1 x 6-pin PS/2 Female mini-DIN Mouse
Back-panel Interfaces: 1 x 9-pin DB-9 Male RS-232 D-Sub Serial
Back-panel Interfaces: 1 x 25-pin DB-25 Female D-Sub Parallel
Back-panel Interfaces: 1 x 15-pin D-Sub (HD-15) Female D-Sub VGA
Back-panel Interfaces: 1 x RJ-45 Fast Ethernet Network
Back-panel Interfaces: 4 x 4-pin Type A USB 2.0
Back-panel Interfaces: 1 x Audio Line-in Mini Phone Aud

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