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.

The only thing I disliked about it was there was no instruction manual or anything which would have been helpful since I'm new to building computers.

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!

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.

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.

(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 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 .

Worked for two days, fully new setup, tried ram, cpu, GPU, and still no post or boot, cheap Chinese motherboard garbage