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August 2011
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82 Phase Power Design
Ultra Durable 3
Four USB 3.0 Ports via EtronTech EJ168
Firewire ports (one in rear I/O and one onboard) via VIA 6T308P
Gigabyte LAN via Realtek 8111E
Onboard power
Reset and Clear CMOS buttons
Extra pair of SATA6G ports via Ma
Loaded with PCI Express x16 slots
Supports CrossFireX and SLI
Supports up to 10 SATA 6Gbps drives
Superb Power Management
Solid Overclocking
Easy to use
Easy Troubleshooting
Very Good I/O Performance Overall
Beautiful Color Scheme
Good Builtin Audio Performance
USB charging while PC is off
Backward compatible with AM3 processors
Heat pipe cooling
Plenty of ports
USB 3.0
ESATA
SATA-III
Six PCIE x16 slots for 4 mult-GPU support
Onboard Debug error code
Power on/off
Reset buttons
Excellent board layout
The editors didn't like
Lack of builtin WiFi
No more that I can think of since there is now LLC support in v1.1
BIOS is still text-based
Primary PCIe Slot can cause difficulty when removing cards
You may wonder why it took us so long to review the FX-8150? We received the processor last month and had to cover the Haswell Core i7-4770K first along with Computex 2013 which had put alot of load on me. But here we finally have the Bulldozer review and...
82 Phase Power Design, Ultra Durable 3, Four USB 3.0 Ports via EtronTech EJ168, Firewire ports (one in rear I/O and one onboard) via VIA 6T308P, Gigabyte LAN via Realtek 8111E, Onboard power, reset and Clear CMOS buttons, Extra pair of SATA6G ports via Ma
Lack of builtin WiFi, No more that I can think of since there is now LLC support in v1.1
Gigabyte's 990FXA-UD7 is a top of the line motherboard that continues to impress from the moment you see it inside the box until you have it up and running. It is clearly one of Gigabyte's best designed motherboards to date, not just as a matter of aest...
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Published: 2012-04-19, Author: James , review by: futurelooks.com
Superb Power Management, Solid Overclocking, Easy to use, Easy Troubleshooting, Very Good I/O Performance Overall, Beautiful Color Scheme, Good Builtin Audio Performance
Primary PCIe Slot can cause difficulty when removing cards, Premium price may deter value oriented buyers
There are very negatives about the GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD7. But they do exist. For example, I do not like the placement of the primary PCIe X16 slot as it makes it difficult to remove graphics cards when a large CPU cooler is in place. I also wish they wou...
Loaded with PCI Express x16 slots, Supports CrossFireX and SLI, Supports up to 10 SATA 6Gbps drives
BIOS is still text-based
Gigabyte crams six PCIe x16 slots onto this board without skimping elsewhere. It's an attractive choice for building an AM3+ PC loaded with cutting-edge graphics cards. ...
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Published: 2011-11-10, Author: Dan , review by: legitreviews.com
The overall performance of the GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 wasn't far off the competitor today. What really sold us on the GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 was the overclocking! We have previously been unable to POST past 4.6GHz on our AMD FX-8150, on the GIGABYTE 990FXA...
First off, the easy part – benchmarks across the board were indicative that both of these boards are 990FX / SB950 chipset boards. There's just no reason to think one will out-do the other when benchmarking. The UD7 shows that it is as capable a 990FX b...
Abstract: AMD has finally launched the long and impatiently anticipated new processors, which we have already reviewed in detail in our article called Bulldozer Has Arrived: AMD FX-8150 Processor Review. Therefore, it is the right time to start checking out new ...
Gigabyte has been known as a premier full line mothertboard company for a very long time. They have retooled the 990FXA-UD7 from its past generation in fine fashion. Older prehistoric features such as PATA have been eliminated and they updated this sle...
All three of the AMD 990FX-based motherboards we tested here performed well. Although based on the same silicon as the older 890FX, all of the 990FX-based boards we tested were ever so slightly faster throughout our suite of benchmarks, perhaps due to...
The UD7 is a monster in some ways and a weakling in others. It has a packed PCB, which sports useful features such as power and reset switches, and it's also able to cater for the craziest of SLI or CrossFireX setups. While it uses a BIOS rather than an E...
