Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Everyone can read product specs on their own so I'm not going ramble on and on with tech details. And if you're concerned at all with a few negative comments you may see scattered on Amazon, also check the reviews on Tiger and Newegg which tend to have more tech savvy reviews. You'll find plenty of good reviews there. Okay, my comments on this board. This mobo has a very solid feel to it. A quick visual inspection shows the quality you'd expect from Gigabyte. I bought it to pair with the AMD3+ FX-6100 processor and 8Gb of Corsair memory. Also, I installed Ubuntu 12.10 which I'm surprised to say I love. Enough tech. It was absolutely the easiest board I've ever installed. It's well marked and everything in my opinion is in an easily accessed place. The cpu/heatsink mount works smoothly and makes a really snug fit without feeling like you're going to snap something off. It was great having an old faithful IDE header so I could use my two favorite optical drives I've been using for years. It was also good to know there's connections for so many device types, should I need them. And yes, it's true, the SATA is 2, not 3. And I do not care. Seriously, if SATA2 is a deal breaker for you, it's pretty unlikely you'll be shopping this mobo in the first place. AND if you do a little reading and research you'll know that almost nothing on the market right now fully utilizes the ability of a SATA2 hard drive, much less a SATA3 so you folks that act so indignant about this board only having SATA2 should take a deep breath, have a cup of tea, and stop terrifying the people who are reading reviews. One reviewer referred to this mobo as "old". It's not. It's for folks like myself who need to move up from what they're using but still need support for some legacy devices. It's still in production and a good seller. One reviewer referred to it as "pricey". Pricey??? It's about $55 after the rebate. You can hardly buy two sticks of memory for that. If you're a gamer then you probably don't need this board. I don't know for sure because I am not a gamer. If you want a fast, solid, quality board that supports a variety of old and new devices at a bargain price, this is it. One last thing. Moving to the computer I built with this board from my old dual core is astonishing. Opening, saving, closing, editing any file of any size seems instantaneous. It's nothing but stars for me.