Gigabyte has released a new soc ket AM3+ motherboard for AMD AM3+ FX processors or AMD AM3 Athlon/Phenom II processors, looks quite good as well and even supported 2-way-sli or Crossfire.... Gigabyte Launches 990XA-UD3 R5 Socket AM3+ Motherboard
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
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?
^^ 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: 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 isn't a new revision of the board you have. It's a new board. This is GA-990XA-UD3 R5 v1.0 Most AMD boards are crap. In my experience, the weakest link in any AMD based system has been the motherboard.
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