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Based on the Intel X58 and ICH10R chipset, which is the high-end platform for Intel's LGA 1366 Core i7 processors with QPI 6.4 GT/s makes the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R as an Intel motherboard for gaming ready. The Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R includes Gigabyte's 333 Onboard Acceleration features. The 333 Onboard Acceleration is Gigabyte's way of saying that the motherboard has USB 3.0, SATA 3.0, and 3x the USB power. Three manuals are included with this Intel motherboard, one user manual, one installation guidebook, and one Smart 6 user manual. The Smart 6 manual helps users use the management suite to best make use of the motherboard. This manual is of better quality than the installation guidebook. Four bright yellow SATA cables are included with latching mechanisms, two have a 90 degree end as well. The Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard comes with SLI and Tri-SLI bridges but no CrossFire connectors (they come with the ATI graphics cards). A small Gigabyte sticker is included and the I/O panel bracket also has a sticker that color codes everything. An IDE cable stamped with the Gigabyte name is also included. A driver disk is included to help load drivers for the motherboard. However, the driver disk is hard to use due to glitches on the autorun executable, so you can download the drivers from Gigabyte's website instead. Motherboard cooling is an important thing to enthusiasts since this usually translates into higher overclocks. Using a 120mm fan normally run over the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard to simulate a normal amount of case cooling, none of the heatsinks are ever hot to the touch. The CPU socket area is fairly clean and open except for one side where two rows of capacitors come nearby, they sit low so heatsink installation should still be fine. Near the RAM slots are LED groups that display information such as phase level and activity. The Southbridge heatsink is alone, mounting a fan to it would be a bit harder though due to how it is shaped and because video cards would be blocked in the upper three PCI Express slots. Overclocking on this Gigabyte's Intel motherboard is smooth and easy, however there is no way to save your profile information in case of a failed overclock.
Labels: Gigabyte, Intel
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