Product ReviewsAsus M4A78L-M Socket AM2+ DDR2 SDRAM Desktop Motherboard

Great Motherboard, but Linux users beware!

This is a fine motherboard, that was very well built. I previously had a Biostar motherboard, and many options in the BIOS were not programmed correctly, and didn't do anything. With this motherboard, the BIOS is 100% usable, it over clocked and unlocked my Athlon II X3 440 @ 3GHZ to a Phenom II X4 @ 3.6 GHZ stable. I am very impressed by ASUS's build quality, and will definetly buy ASUS again, but I am very disappointed with AMD. This motherboard has the AMD 710 south bridge which has hardware bugs that creates incompatibilities with Linux and some other kernels. I was able to easily run Windows 7, Windows XP, and Solaris 10 and 11, but no Linux distribution can easily run when installed on a SATA hard drive on this motherboard. Almost all distributions work when they are on CDs, USB drives, Virtual Machines, or IDE drives. I am thinking of buying a SATA raid card to bypass the motherboards SATA controller.

Once again, the SATA controller has major issues that creates incompatibilities with Linux and some other kernels.Read full review...

thank you, Worked Great...

thank you for helping out... and For the great deal...
God Bless...

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: rami.albe

Nice motherboard

Small motherboard that handles all you need it to do

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: e.greenius

Sometimes you have to kill the power to the board and push the start button till the light on the motherboard goes out. Then it will start normally.

If not for this issue it would be 5 stars.

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: mystoreb55

ASUS Quality again

I've built a lot of computers for myself, friends and family. and never had a problem with an asus motherboard, but this mother board is a cut above, it will do whatever you have in mind for it to do.