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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
While we still find ourselves waiting for the Bulldozer CPU from AMD, we can start to have some fun with part of the platform that will make up the Bulldozer platform a little later in the year. The 990FX chipset doesn't offer heaps over the 890FX ch...
Abstract: Forty-two PCIe lanes give the 990FX a clear connectivity lead over competing Intel chipsets. We compare five class-leading products using AMD's FX-8150 to see which offers the best combination of performance, overclocking, integrated features, and valu...
Sophisticated visuals, Gets the most out of CPUs, The more GPUs, the merrier
Playing catch-up with Intel chipsets
So, if you've got around £200 to spend on a motherboard, and you want a high bang for buck ratio, the bucks, if you can chuck in the extra few, must go to the Gigabyte board.The Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 justifies its price tag with its performance, tons...
The Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 is definitely a pearl of a board, but there are still flaws that need to be worked out. 4-way SLI / CFx, tons of overclocking options and rock stability during the testing really vouch for this board to be Gigabyte’s AMD fla...
Great aesthetics and well-finished, Support for 4-way SLI/Crossfire, Impressive performance with AM3 CPUs, High quality construction
Price, Design compromises, Very average feature set, Average bundle
Awesome design, but does the performance match?With the AMD FX processors not having launched yet, this conclusion can only feel premature. We will revisit all the boards we can once the new CPUs are released so that they can meet their true potential...
Great build quality, multi GPU configurations, fully loaded feature set, overclocking is a strong point, looks are great,
lack of UEFI, Kitguru says: One of the finest AMD boards we have tested, Rating: 9.0, Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23, Share, Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tags AMD motherboard Gigabyte 9
There is no doubt that the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 is a well designed motherboard that makes a fantastic partner for AMD's flagship Phenom II X6 1100T processor.That said, until AMD's new Bulldozer processors are unleashed into the public domain these 990FX m...
Given their experience in the motherboard industry it comes as no surprise that Gigabytes latest high end AMD board impresses. The 990FXA-UD7 features the same excellent level of build quality as products in the rest of their ranges, retaining feature...
