Solid build quality, solid equipment and a favorable price for a board with an unqualified Z68 chipset speak for this product.
I would like to address at this point but to a particular situation which makes the board unusable for me:
If you want one (or more) additional controller with its own boot ROM use in the PCIe or PCI slots, one should be clear about the fact that you no longer use the onboard SATA ports in AHCI or RAID mode can, but only in outdated IDE mode!
That should all SSD users who want to run such a LAN, SATA, RAID, or any other controller, be already the exclusion criterion.
For others like me it's annoying because one may want to use also so the AHCI features NCQ, hot-plugging (for eSATA) and the Portmultiplier capability.
Having this state of affairs described the support of Gigabyte came of which only the answer "It is presently not aware whether this will change again, since the ROMs are getting bigger and use more memory space. The storage space for the ROMs but not be increased can. "
After I posted this humbug and discussed also in the gigabyte Forum, the thread of the presenters was censored there and closed - apparently many believe exactly from this programmed athlete's foot, the absolute concerns the way all current Gigabyte boards.
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All other boards of all other manufacturers do not have this problem apparently. The MSI board I have now received from my dealer in exchange makes no problems.
