Gigabyte Launches 990XA-UD3 R5 Socket AM3+ Motherboard
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Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 R5 (rev. 1.0)
AMD 990FX + SB950 Chipset
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5292#ov
Support FX-9xxx
sykozis
Aesthetically, it's a nice looking board. I'm just not seeing the need for yet another AM3+ board at this point. Are they really selling that well?
Enticles
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/gigabyte-pushing-it-a-motherboard-revision-too-far.html
i have the R3 version of this model, and honestly i hate it. i can't get my DDR3 1866 ram to run any higher than 1600mhz, and thats with a fairly hefty voltage increase, otherwise it would only do 1333mhz.
my advice to anyone considering this board: avoid, avoid, avoid!
^^ This.
also, lets not forget the article guru3d posted about newer revision boards from Gigabyte using lesser quality parts, and therefore performing WORSE than the boards they're replacing. link here: CalculuS
Seems like everything Gigabyte 970 and 990 chipset is crap.
sykozis
Athlonite
The 125 USD board comes with two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots (x8/x8), and a third PCIe 2.0 x16 slot (x4, toed to southbridge)
Ummm No thanks we don't want ya cripple **** mobo what we want is PCIe 3.0 (x16/x16) + USB 3.1 and lots of it thanks not the usual 2/4 ports start getting rid of the USB 2.0 ports (I don't have a need for 12/14 USB 2.0 ports) and replace them with USB 3.0/3.1