Summary: The biggest issue I ran in to with this board is that the BIOS version I had had a problem with network speeds. I was limited to speeds of 1/MBps at MAX.
Pros: X79, boatload of USB pots, nearly every feature you could want. USB3.0, eSATA, SATAIII. This board is a solid board. After updating the bios, I've had 0 issues with th...
Cons: Only 4 DIMM slots, any X79 board should come with more slots. Even though 32GB of RAM is more than enough for 99.9% of users, it still feels limiting for such a great ...
Summary: I first looked at the UD5 and UD7. I decided to go with this board because, when doing the product comparison, those more expensive models really don't add that much more...
Summary: Board offers two fully independent 16X PCI-E lanes for maximum 2-card SLI performance. There was/is a possible manufacturer BIOS issue/recall associated with this board...
Pros: Had my company purchase one of these through Newegg about a month ago along with an i7-3960X for a test rig. One of the best benefits of the X79/LGA2011 series is that...
Cons: BIOS recall and CPU support concerns. From what I can tell online, this board, and a couple other Gigabyte X79 boards, has/had a BIOS recall issue. When you look at th...
Cons: There is an issue with VRMs catching fire. Upgrade to BIOS greater or equal to F7 is recommended by Gigabyte. They will not acknowledge hardware fault, only BIOS fault...