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Pretty Good
- Pros: Good value.
- Cons: Had to return to Gigabyte since sound stopped working. But they replaced it within 2 weeks. been working fine for last 4 months.
- Other Thoughts: I made a mistake and bought a dual memory kit (GSkill 2x2G) and now that I upgraded to Windows 7 64 bit, I want to add memory. If I add 2 more modules (can't just buy one), will it work in 3 channel mode, or does it revert to dual, or even single channel as I was told by Gskill?
Tom
junk, more or less
- Pros: Second board works most of the time after flash to most recent beta bios. Relatively low price. Decent layout, lost of USB etc.
- Cons: Gigabyte support is an oxymoron.
First board would not save altered bios settings after a shutdown. The replacement board did not have this problem, confirming that the issue was with the board. Despite this being clearly advertised as an overclocking board, they only guarantee it to work at stock. They would not respond to a question of how I was to optimize OC settings if the board won't save the settings.
The second board constantly restarted and had to be unplugged. On starting again, I got a message that there was a bios checksum error and it was recovering from the backup bois. HOW CAN A BOARD SHIP WITH A BIOS WITH A BAD CHECKSUM? After flashing to the most recent beta bios, it works better. It holds the bios settings, but sometimes boots to 1GB RAM, 2GB, 4GB, or 6GB. It is hard to tell what it is going to do. Sometimes I have to reboot 3 or 4 times to end up with my 6GB of RAM.
Side mounted sata ports are hard to access.
- Other Thoughts: The following describes my problem,
1. Make a change, like BCLK 145, vcore 1.3, vtt 1.29 with everything on auto.
2. Save and restart. The computer works with no sign of instability, pass p95, linX, memtest86+ etc.
3. Power off.
4. Power on tomorrow. There is a multiple short beeps error. Post screen says that overclocking setting have caused an error and the hardware status may not match the current bios settings.
5. Enter bios, make no changes, key f10 to save. The computer restarts and posts, even thought it has the same settings that failed post 10 seconds earlier.
Even though there are other reviews of this problem, this was the response of GA support, "We overclocking results will vary. Unless when you are operating default setting and it is giving you issue at default settings"
Then they suggested I ask newegg to RMA it. After years of building with GA, no more GA boards for me. I hope you are happy loosing a customer over the $20 you made on this board.
Disappointed
- Pros: Has 4 DIMM slots, that's a pro because I don't have to pay the extra money for extra slots I won't use.
Doesn't have a worthless 4xPCIe 3rd video card slot, so that gives you more space for other PCI cards.
- Cons: This board crashes whenever the Bclk is 199 or higher. It will go into an infinite loop of startup, wait a few seconds, shutdown, startup, and so on until the CMOS is cleared. Oh that reminds me, the clear CMOS jumper is located underneath the main videocard so you have to remove your videocard every time this happens! I know my problem isn't due to the CPU, Uncore, or memory because I have set these all to low multipliers with a higher Bclk to give them stock settings and the motherboard will still fail even with high QPI voltage.
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme Rev. C does not fit on this board! Or I should say the Rev. C mount doesn't fit, because the capacitors around the CPU are too high! I had to order a Rev. B mount for my Rev. C heatsink in order to mount it.
I may see if I can RMA this one, if I decide it's worth going without a computer for a while and there's always the risk that a new one might work wors
- Other Thoughts: Another Con I couldn't fit: This is an SLI board but doesn't come with an SLI bridge. I contacted Gigabyte to see if they could send me one and they said it just an optional part. It's difficult to optionally use something you don't have! I had to order one from a 3rd party.
With the extra money I used to get an SLI bridge and heatsink mount, I would have been the same cost to get better, more expensive motherboard. Plus just the time I've wasted on this is worth the extra cost.
The rest of my system works absolutely flawlessly. I can run my CPU at 4.116GHz (196x21) completely cool and stable but I can't push it any farther due to the motherboard (I haven't tried 197 or 198 yet but I know 199 doesn't work with any CPU multiplier). I never would have thought my motherboard would be the component limiting my OC!
I wouldn't suggest this board to anyone doing SLI or OCing.
I give it an extra egg just because it didn't come DOA.
| Model |
| Brand |
GIGABYTE |
| Model |
GA-EX58-UD3R |
| Supported CPU |
| CPU Socket Type |
LGA 1366 |
| CPU Type |
Core i7 (LGA1366) |
| FSB |
QPI 6.4GT/S |
| Chipsets |
| North Bridge |
Intel X58 |
| South Bridge |
Intel ICH10R |
| Memory |
| Number of Memory Slots |
4×240pin |
| Memory Standard |
DDR3 2000+/1333 |
| Maximum Memory Supported |
16GB |
| Channel Supported |
Triple Channel |
| Expansion Slots |
| PCI Express 2.0 x16 |
2 |
| PCI Express x4 |
1 |
| PCI Express x1 |
2 |
| PCI Slots |
2 |
| Storage Devices |
| PATA |
1 x ATA100 2 Dev. Max |
| SATA 3Gb/s |
8 |
| SATA RAID |
0/1/5/10 |
| Onboard Video |
| Onboard Video Chipset |
None |
| Onboard Audio |
| Audio Chipset |
Realtek ALC888 |
| Audio Channels |
8 Channels |
| Onboard LAN |
| LAN Chipset |
Realtek 8111D |
| Max LAN Speed |
10/100/1000Mbps |
| Rear Panel Ports |
| PS/2 |
2 |
| USB 1.1/2.0 |
8 x USB 2.0 |
| IEEE 1394 |
2 x IEEE 1394a |
| S/PDIF Out |
1 x Optical, 1 x Coaxial |
| Audio Ports |
6 Ports |
| Onboard USB |
| Onboard USB |
2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers |
| Onboard 1394 |
| Onboard 1394 |
1x 1394a |
| Physical Spec |
| Form Factor |
ATX |
| Dimensions |
12.0" x 9.6" |
| Power Pin |
24 Pin |
| Packaging |
| Package Contents |
GA-EX58-UD3R
Driver Disk
User Manual
Rear I/O Panel Shield
IDE/PATA Cable
FDD Cable
SATA Cable |
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Reviewed By: on 11/25/2009
Tech Level: average - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
