Gigabyte Launches 990XA-UD3 R5 Socket AM3+ Motherboard

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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  3. sykozis

    sykozis Ancient Guru

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    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?
     
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    ^^ 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!
     

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    CalculuS Ancient Guru

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    Seems like everything Gigabyte 970 and 990 chipset is crap.
     
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    sykozis Ancient Guru

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    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.
     
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    Athlonite Maha Guru

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    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
     

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