Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 Motherboard Reviews

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Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 Motherboard
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Average Ratings for Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 Motherboard

  • Ease of Set Up2.5 stars
  • Value for Money1.9 stars
  • Reviewer Ratings1.3 stars
  • Overall Rating1.8 stars

6 Reviews For Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 Motherboard

  • hooobs 24th Dec 2008

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    Good Points: This board can load Windows XP SP2 on a single SATA drive without the need for extra drivers.


    Bad Points: Installation of Windows XP stalled, failed to load idecoi.dll from SATA driver disk on attempting RAID 0 installation. After loading Windows XP from CD-ROM, both the BIOS and the OS lost track of the CD drive, that is, absent from Device Manager(controller shows, but no device).


    General comments: This seems to be a rogue board with a dodgy BIOS. The BIOS failed to reliably autodetect IDE (PATA) and SATA drives. Spent a whole day trying to get this board to work properly. It seems that quality control has been sacrificed at the expense of price. Next time I will purchase a board with a better track record.

  • Guest 7th Nov 2008

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    Small form factor, some good on-boards: sound-card, ethernet connectivity, Good basic board for a beginner computer, or for a workstation, but poor upgrade ability leaves a lot to be desired. Therefore I do not recommend the Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 Motherboard.

  • Guest 16th Apr 2008

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 Motherboard is a poor design, you get what you pay for and sometimes less, this is a good example of less. It will only support 1.8v memory and this is extremely difficult to install properly.

  • eloquence Rank: Staff Sergeant 31st Mar 2008

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    Was OK about this motherboard - not much scope for expansion later, or chance of overclocking, but otherwise had seemed OK. Then after just 2 months it failed. I wouldn't choose to get another one, not just because of the failure, but because the BIOS options are too limited and the available slots are not great, so it's very much at the bargain basement end of boards.

  • Guest 6th Jan 2008

    Reviewer rating: 0.5 stars


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    Good. Till faulty ones appear... and cause your business to have a bad rep.

  • Georgy291 Rank: Lance Corporal 2nd Oct 2007

    Reviewer rating: 1.5 stars


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    IT ONLY SUPPORTS PCIe X8 although it has a X16 slot most good video cards will have a massive decrease in performance.

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Main characteristics: Form Factor: Micro ATX Processor: Socket Type: Socket AM2 Audio / Video: On Board Graphic Processor: NVIDIA GeForce more details...