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Monday, March 31, 2014

GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ Pros and Cons

The 990FXA-UD3 motherboard is designed to offer a stable, high-speed platform for delivering amazingly fast data transfer via the GIGABYTE 333 onboard acceleration technologies. Featuring the USB 3.0 controller, AMD 900 series motherboards allow users to take advantage of super fast USB transfer rates of up to 5Gbps, delivering 10x faster data transfer compared to USB 2.0. 

Pro and Cons of GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+

Pros

  • Inexpensive
  • Easy overclocking
  • Helpful manual
  • Clean BIOS and easy to navigate
  • USB 3.0 ports
  • It feels solid and durable, doesn't flex at all
  • Support for dual video cards (SLI - Crossfire)
  • Support for up to 32GB of RAM
  • Several PCIe x16 2.0 slots
  • 4 RAM slots
  • 6 SATA3 ports
  • Firewire
  • 7.1 audio
  • AM3+ support
  • DDR3 1866 support

Cons

  • Older sound card - Realtek v889
  • Problems when trying to update the BIOS
  • It runs hot

Conclusion

If you plan to build a computer based on the latest AMD CPU's this motherboard is the choice. It has a wide variety of ports and slots, support for the latest CPU's, SLI/Crossfire support, 32GB of RAM and any other modern feature that you may want from a motherboard.
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