Gigabyte – GA-G41M-ES2H Micro ATX motherboard

Packaging:

Honestly I was pretty disappointed by what was offered, I understand this is a low budget board but throwing a few little surprises surely wouldn’t have broken the bank.

That being said the GA-G41M-ES2H comes in a small box with only a few additions beyond the board itself. As you can see below Gigabyte is very big on letting you know that this board is a big energy saver.

Inside the box

• Users Manual
• CD containing some software
  • G.O.M – Gigabyte Online Manager -  A web based system management tool that allows client system hardware information such as CPU and memory and graphics card and much more to be monitored or controlled via a host.
  • EasyTune 6 – An easy to use windows-based system enhancement utility allowing quick access to a variety of performance features
  • DMI Viewer – Provides a management tool for viewing motherboard hardware information
  • Face-Wizard – Provides a utility for customizing BIOS boot screen with a user set image.
  • @BIOS – utility to update BIOS through the internet.
  • Q-Share – easy to use and convenient data sharing tool that makes it easy to share your data with other computers on the same network.
  • Time Repair – Based on Microsoft’s own Volume Shadow Copy Services technology, Time Repair allows you to quickly back up and restore your system data in windows Vista ( and Windows 7 ). Time Repair supports the NTFS file system and can restore your data on both PATA and SATA hard drives.
  • Update Manager – Updates gigabytes software via the internet.
  • Trial of Norton Internet Security
• 2 SATA cables.
• Motherboard
• I/O Panel
• PATA Cable

The board itself is pretty standard fair.

You get:

• 3_x PCI slots
• 1_x PCI-e  X16 Slots but the trick is it only works at 4x which is okay for most cards but don’t expect the GTX 285 to do anything amazing.
• 4_x SATA 3Gb/s
• 2_x DIMM slots allowing for up to 8 GB’s of  DDR2 800 ram (1600 with overclock )
• 1_x PATA
• 1_x VGA, DVI and  HDMI ports
• 4_x USB 2.0
• 1_x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet port
• 1_x Mic In, Line In, Line Out ports
• PS/2 keyboard and mouse

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