H81 Motherboard

Works great for what I need it! Made a i5 4590 and gt 1030 Linux system. Despite all the bad reviews, this product worked well with me. Though the Bios is kinda barebones but that’s okay. Great value for what it is.

(Oficialmente 6 meses funcionando sin fallas, se gano su 5ta estrella) Le instale un I7 de 3.6 de 4ta. generacion + geforce 2070 + x2 ddr3 16gb = 32gb de 1600MHz y aunque dice que soporta 32 de ram ( y los soporta ) pareciera que esta utilizando solo una direccion de canal de ram y me logro levantar 1300 - 1400 mhz estables, solo trae 4 salidas sata, y una de ellas no funcionaba, le instale 3 ssd + un m2 de 2tb, y la trasnferencia de datos del m2 no subia 2GB x seg, le probe con un m2 de 256gb y la velocidad de paso de informacion subio a 6gb x seg, al parecer hay una relacion tamaño espacio respecto a la funcionalidad del m2, en cambio la velocidad de trasnferencia de los sata es muy estable, recomiendo que le dejen el disco con el S.O. en las ranuras sata. a la PCIE logre sacarle los 8gb x seg. dando por aprobado las de video de 8GB, mas de eso no soporta A pesar que parece un DONGFENG con aspecto ferrari :D , todas sus funciones de overclock los trae de forma manual, asi que tienes que saber lo que haces si no quieres quemar tus componentes. La razon por la que le doy 4 estrellas es porque a pesar de su simplicidad y fallos a primera vista, si comparas todas las funciones que trae + su precio, con todas las del mercado, es una ganga!!!, sacando efectivamente la tarea para trabajos de oficina y entretenimiendo a mediana escala, y para cualquier entusiasta aprendiz del overclock, creo que es una excelente motherboard para aprender y a la vez darles utilidad a procesadores de 4ta generacion que tanto quieren sacar del mercado. Actualmente dejare esta PC minando crypto hasta que fallezca, forzandola al maximo de su actual capacidad, les avisare cuanto tiempo me dura, y por lo que me costo con gusto me la quedo hasta quemarla, creo que seria interesante montar una granja express con estas cosas tan varatas, y si soporta mas del año conmigo, definitivamente le dare la estrella que falta y me comprare un lote. Gracias por su tiempo, espero que mi reseña les sea de utilidad.

I am frustrated that I had no paperwork to go off of. Luckily I had experience building computers before and was able to get everything plugged in. HDMI port doesn’t work, VGA port doesn't work, 2 of the 4 SATA. ports are not functional. All around bad motherboard and I would just recommend that you look elsewhere for motherboards. This was just a temporary fix for an issue I had with my old motherboard and it still works (with limited storage) but the headache of getting this set up over 3 hours is not worth it and made me want to pull my hair out. Stay away!

My son's venerable i7 MB died. In its 2015 heyday, this was a top of the line i7PC. I thought it would be a waste to dump the CPU and RAM because technology waits for no one. I saw this MB and despite what the negative reviews said, I and decided to give it a shot, if it is bad, I can always return it. Put it all back together, and it booted fine. However, I noticed in the the 16GB (8x8) RAM was only reading 4GB and it did not recognize the sata III hard drive. I swapped the 16GB DDR3 ram with another set from another manufacturer I had laying from another dead computer , tried again and this time the MB recognized the full 16GB of Ram. Ok, so there is a RAMM compatibility issue. I swapped the SSD port to port 2 and then it recognized the drive. Hmmm, bad IDE 3.0 port? No. There are four jumpers on the MB that configure the MB to use the M.2 SSD slot, but you lose one of the SATA 3 ports in doing so. The MB comes factory configured for one M.2 SSD and one regular SATA III drive. Yes, you can download the user manual from the link on the amazon item, but it sucks because the user manual does not mention anything about the SATA configuration. The configuring information is actually spelled out at the bottom of the Amazon item description Amazon, where all the manufacturer's marketing hype is usually posted. Very stupid place for it I may add. Aside from the lousy documentation, the MB appears to be solid has given this PC a new life on a budget. We'll see how it holds up in the next few months.

This board has no, nada, ZERO documentation and the manufacturer website is horrible. No help at all. Luckily the Microsoft drivers work. Board has a decent BIOS and ok connectivity and ports. Not a lot of USB ports but supports an M.2 drive. This seems like a machine controller board more than a gamer board. It does what I needed it for after searching for hours for documentation and finding ZERO. If you are tech savvy you will be fine, not for the beginner. After all is said and done it works great with a flexible BIOS to play with. Only 2 memory slots but it is a small board.

I used this board to rebuild a gamimg system. It’s been about 5 months and so far the board performs very well. I added an 1TB SSD and it performs flawless .

I had an old LGA 1150 setup that was built on an MSI Z87-G45 motherboard. Within days of building the original setup I was getting WHEA uncorrectable errors and spent years trying to diagnose. Recently in a last ditch effort to rescue the i7-4770 I had invested in I decided to burn $100 on this motherboard and give it one last shot. Bingo...it was the MSI motherboard all this time. Frustrating for sure, but happy to have found this relatively cheap fix. Don't expect bells and whistles, but for $100 to save a much more expensive setup this was a good investment. Last note, for some reason my SATA drive would only work in the last of the four ports, but I suspect this has something to do with NVME.

NO manual. NO product support. Board not list on Machinist website If you been around the block a few times. You should be able to figure out this MOBO. Some things to be cautioned about. Memory is right next to CPU. So much so. Depending on the ram. It might not fit under your CPU cooler. Ram with heat sinks, like Corsair Vengeance, will not fit. It is a M.2 SATA. NOT a M.2 PCIe. I had to put my 1T SSD on a SATA 2.0 port. The SATA 3.0 ports showed empty when I connected the drive to it. BTY BIOS shows 5 SATA ports. Ports 0-2 showed empty. Even though I had devices connected. Only SATA 2.0 ports 3&4 are operational. Port 0 being the M.2 SATA. I am going to get a M.2 SATA just to see if Port 0 works. I have yet to find any info regarding BIOS updates or driver information. I had a hard time giving this MOBO a 3 star rating. I did so only because I got Windows 10 loaded and running. Update: I installed a M.2 Sata 256GB. For some unknown reason. SATA ports 1 & 2 became available. So I moved the 1T SSD to port 1 (SATA 3.0). Went to bios and now all 5 ports are available. Current configuration, 256GB M.2 SATA on M.2 port. 1TB SSD on SATA 1 (3.0). Blueray on SATA 3 (SATA 2.0) . All usb active. Running an i5 cpu and 2-8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 ram. Windows 10 home. Everything is running normally. Audio and HDMI port are working. I installed a EVGA GTX 650 2BG ram. Video card is running normally. I'm running this pc as a PLEX client and security cam monitor. So far all is working. This should have been a quick build.