MSI A78M-E35 FM2+ / FM2 AMD A78 (Bolton D3) HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Just a motherboard that's ready for future upgrades. Seems stable and it's working with no problems with my A10-6800k GPU. I only paid $240 and got a 120gb PNY SSD, 4GB DDR3 Crucial 1600 ram, and a $35 case from another site which came with a power 450 watt power supply. I really like all the USB 3.0 connections. This board has everything I need.

it works for the price range but i found that the cpus for the socket arent the best so i ended up upgrading. but the mobo itself is fine.

I built a Silverstone HTPC system and decided to go with this board. Everything is working fine and it handles all my media well. If anything crops up about this board that deems a downgraded star rating, I'll update my post. At the moment, 5 stars is what I'm giving it :-)

I recently built a cheap computer for an uncle who was needing a PC for browsing and other light tasks. I first purchased a Gigabyte board which was DOA (the first GB board I've ever had die on me) so I needed a quick replacement. This one was only a few dollars more so I went ahead and purchased this one. It has a lot of nice features for a cheap motherboard, including MSI's OC Genie, which made it easy for me to boost the APU a little bit without having to worry about stability for a non-savvy user. Overall I have no complaints about it, as it came with enough cables and has several useful connectors.

I was building my first PC and I chose this motherboard because of the price and the decent reviews. Now, I did know that it needed to be updated I just didn't know that I would need an older compatible processor to do it. When I completed the build everything worked except the I/O ports ( Usb, vga, hdmi etc). The fans turned on, the dvd drive opened up, ans all the led's worked, but there was no signal to my monitor. After doing some research I learned the reason was the board itself was compatible with my A8 6600k I just needed to install it with an older CPU to get the bios on screen, but I don't have any laying around, so I decided to just send it back which Amazon made really easy for me. I believe though, that if I could have updated it it would've been great. The board felt really sturdy and looked great, not to mention it has usb 3.0 ports and sata 3 connectors. Today I received my new motherboard a ASRock FM2A75M Pro4+ FM2+ / FM2 AMD A75 (Hudson D3), put it in my case and the bios popped right away and was super easy to navigate. And it has all the same specs as this MSI.

I chose this motherboard for my APU build because of the size, built in USB 3.0, and 6 SATA ports. Only down side is that there are only 2 DIMM slots and it's brown, but you can't beat it for the price. Bios was super easy to navigate through. I am very happy with MSI and this motherboard.

I purchased this motherboard to go with an X4 760k. I was looking forward to overclocking with this CPU as its been heard to go up to 5Ghz(I am aware of differential specs of hardware and how they are not all the same, this is simply a reference)!!!So I was all excited it being my first build, clicked the power and it booted into click BIOS :).Everything worked well , I installed windows, downloaded games and played them well.Only one problem.....I needed to overclock a few ghz to be able to max out everything.I was getting 30 FPS with a R9 270x (cpu 4.1 turbo, 3.8 base clock) on WOT with max settings;I knew this could do better.So I go down to the BIOS and notice core ratio is locked :(.I checked to make sure it was reading my CPU, updated BIOS,..... twice, called MSI for help, but the board was just "S"(maybe a bad unit?).After all this, the core ratio could still NOT be changed and was locked.And not only this, .... right after update,it worked well.But then, my GPU decides to go haywire out of the blue!I had red horizontal lines going ALL over the screen on the BIOS.It managed to make it past boot when I then started getting sparklies all over my screen :(.At this point , I just couldn't deal with MSI's "S" board and was going to have to get an RMA. But I wasn't going to risk having other damaged components so had to disassemble EVERYTHING for a return.Avoid this board if you wish to overclock.....And possibly new BIOS updates.

didn't know that this motherboard's bios has to be updated before i could actually use it with my fm2 socket AMD A10-5800K Quad-Core APU Trinity Processor, when i turned on my pc everything ran but it showed no display i tried on many different monitors with hdmi and vgi ports. its very unfortunate that these companies don't ship the boards out with up to date bios, not everyone has old cpu's (or apu's) laying around, i will return to amazon and buy a motherboard that supports my api right out of the box. This motherboard although i couldn't get the chance to use it seemed to be well built and for a great price. also if anyone has figured a fix to this or if anyone has the same apu and this board worked with it i could have just had a default motherboard. really sucks that i have to return it.