Gigabyte 990 FXA-UD7 review - Introduction

Let's face it, the AMD 990FX release took us a little by surprise, I mean... here we have this all new motherboard series yet are lacking the Bulldozer FX processors to show off the (hopefully) real muscle power.

Meanwhile all reviews and tests that are published are based on the latest 3.7 GHz Phenom II processors, and on a 990FX motherboard... well you are just not going to see anything different, not in features and not in performance.

Sure there is SLI support announced, but the driver from NVIDIA... well at this point it just does not open up SLI at driver level, and truth to be told, comparing high end-SLI on say Sandy bridge platforms towards Phenom II... well that doesn't have my preference either.

Meanwhile the motherboard manufacturers chunk out the most beautiful hardware. I mean look at what we are reviewing today, it is the 990FXA-UD7 from Gigabyte, recently they kicked out the baby blue color schema and went all black. This motherboards seriously has to be the most breathtaking thing to look at ever, from Gigabyte that is.

So we once again, we pop in a Phenom II processor and have a look at it's performance, which will be the same as it has been for a year now. Yep, AMD completely released the 990FX chipset in the wrong time, it should have been released alongside the Bulldozer FX series processors. But ah well, what can you do...  have a peek at that crazy sexy looking UD7 and then let's head onwards into the review.