Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 Motherboard

Conclusions

We were quite impressed by the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5, with its five PCI Express x16 slots, two FireWire ports, four USB 3.0 ports, eight SATA-600 ports, two BIOS chips, professional-grade audio quality with optical SPDIF output, and a very high-end voltage regulator circuit.

Of course, it is not the cheapest motherboard around, but it comes with a fair price for its set ofall of its features.

Compared to its main competitor, the MSI 990FXA-GD80, the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 is a no-brainer, as it brings many more features at a similar price. Plus In addition, it uses a better audio codec. It is true, hhowever, that the MSI model has more overclocking options.

The only drawback we see with the 990FXA-UD5 is the fact that all of the memory sockets are black, and users may inadvertently install memory modules sequentially, making causing the memory to run at single-channel mode instead of dual-channel.

Even though the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 is mainly targeted to the forthcoming CPUs based on the AMD “Bulldozer” architecture, it is already available on the market, supporting current-generation CPUs.