Pros: Very good voltage regulation. voltage droop is VERY tolerable, unlike some reviews have been saying. I have achieved a very stable OC on my 1090T with this board. 3.8Ghz @ ~ 1.40V Vcore(peak load after slight V-drooping). The board this replaced required 1.45V Vcore for the same clock. NB and HT OC'd to ~2.2GHz @ 1.2V CPU/NB voltage and 1.15V NB voltage (i forget the HT voltage). All motherboard temps stay below 50 C in a case with good airflow and with generally warm ambient temperatures. backup BIOS chip will be very handy. I have had corrupted bios chips in the past. 3-Way SLI (x16, x16, x8) at this price is very very lucrative. Gigabyte has placed this motherboard very well.

Cons: No on-board LEDs at all. nothing to help troubleshoot post issues by visual means on the board (I might have missed something, but there definitely are no LEDs on board. The AWARD bios interface is the same i have used for the last 10 years. While I love it for its simplicity, there is something lacking in terms of modern features: - Fast boot (skip HDD checks) - User defined Fan control (EasyTune actually doesnt work my 3-pin voltage fans). The BIOS enabled intelligent fan control outputs generally higher RPMs (around 70% average) - voltage tweaking is clumsy and needs a revamp. CPU core voltage is increased in 0.250 V increments in some ranges which makes some sense, but I would still like to able to define my own voltage. Only 4 mobo fan ports (1 4-pin CPU_FAN, 1 PWM_FAN, 1 3-pin SYS_FAN, 1 4-pin SYS_FAN). While this is enough for me, other's might want to consider the ASUS Sabertooth 990fx mobo if they want more temperature and fan options.

Overall Review: While there are many cons in this review, the pros far outweigh the cons in terms of bottom-line computing experience. Once you have achieved a sweet and stable OC, there is no need to worry about the clunky BIOS. This board gets 4 eggs for stability and voltage regulation. I was able to get a stable OC in about 5 minutes, which is neat considering the clunky voltage tweaking options. The 1 extra egg is due to the 3 way SLI option, a real deal-maker at this price point. Even if you are not into running gazzillion parallel computing masterpieces in your system, the extra PCI-e ports really don't hurt at this price point. i run a 2-way sli configuration; the extra x8 pci-e port will run a physx card in the future (hope they make Batman Arkham City a physx game....)

Pros: I've been running an FX-8320 rig using this for a year now. It's held up as well as my previous Gigabyte boards seemed to (I'll know for sure in another eight years...). There are plenty of on board SATA ports (I have a pair of RAID1s for storage, an expendable SSD, and dvd burner... just enough headroom for a few more years). Tons of USB provded to be great too -- there's no hunting for ports, and you can wire up another pair of USB3 ports on a panel too. It runs great with unbuffered ECC memory (a hard requirement for me). Having a ton of PCIe lanes seems nice. I only have an x16 graphics card since CrossFire and whatnot don't work with GNU/Linux and the Free Software graphics drivers. Other than that, it's the usual mundane stuff. It works, most of the connectors are conveniently located (ATX12V power and the cpu fan header are kind of a pain to get to with a large heatsink attached). The system chipset doesn't run very hot (and works great as a sensor input for controlling the case fan speed). The on board LAN works well. The audio isn't noisy and works great attached to a 5.1 setup. The on board serial chip being wired to a header was nice -- I use X10 light controller for a couple of things, and occasionally attach to weird old devices that only speak serial.

Cons: Only the cpu fan header has a pwm; the other 4-pin fan headers do not have the fourth pin connected and can only be voltage controlled. You can at least still control each independently, at least with GNU/Linux lm-sensors. I just chained all of my case fans from the cpu header and put the cpu in fixed speed mode on the three pin connector. Given that this is the only real con, I can live with it. But it's enough of one to dock a point.

Pros: It's a great looking board and it is ready for the new bulldozer processors. It overclocks well enough, I currently have my 1090t sitting at 3.7 GHz which is about as high as I want to push it, I'm just not comfortable pushing it too far beyond factory specs. It's fast enough for me anyway. Also the sata 6.0 gbps and usb 3.0 is nice. It's also sli capable.

Cons: There is no crossfire bridge, and for me that was a problem because I purchased two xfx dual fan hd 6870's, and neither of those included a crossfire bridge either. I new about this ahead of time but decided not to buy an additional crossfire bridge because I new xfx would ship me one at my request. However this is not a fault of the board, just something I thought people would like to know.

Overall Review: Corsair 600t special edition white case Gigabyte GA-990FXA UD5 motherboard AMD 1090T processor Dual XFX Dual Fan HD 6870's 8 Gigs of G. Skill 1866 sniper memory. Corsair ax850w psu corsair h100 cpu cooler samsung blu-ray drive Western digital 1TB 6 gbps HDD

Pros: I chose this mb for video edit system because of vestigal firewire, 8 SATA ports, high quality onboard audio, and good build quality and reputation of Gigabyte. I have used several of their motherboards in the past with good results

Cons: Lack of vestigal IDE port and lack of signed mb RAID, ethernet, or DVD SATA drivers made initial installation challenging.

Overall Review: Now that it's working paired with 16g GSkill Ripjaw RAM, X6 Black AMD processor, ASUS 570 video card, it's very powerful but I still want to check if RAID drivers are correct.

Pros: Well, once again Gigabyte has come through with an amazing product. Although I haven't had the board but a couple of days; I've had absolutely no problems getting it to boot and run according to the specifications stated in the manual. Tons of features; future proofed for years to come. AM3+ as well, can't wait for Bulldozer. Dual bios is a life saver in the event that you need to utilize it's feature set. Recognized my G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL with no problems at all. All I had to do was set my timings 9-9-9-24 manually and away it went @ 1600 Mhz. The board is sturdy and solid. I suggest to anyone doing a AM3 build to use this board, you simply can't beat it for the price and performance. Believe me when I say this board performs, especially with a AMD Phenom xll 1100t @ 3.315Ghz. Put your seat belt on, you're gonna need it.

Cons: The 2 PCIex16 slots are a little close, but proper ventilation and a couple of good fans should prove to solve the problem when you go to SLI a couple of video cards.

Overall Review: I generally like to overclock my builds, but you really don't need to with this kind of set up. AMD Phenom xll 1100t is already able to ramp up to 3.7Ghz on 3 cores when ever it needs to, and the G-skill ram, as stated above, does and amazing job with this board............Bulldozer, where are you?

Pros: I use Gigabyte boards all the time in my builds with great success. This one no different! The board seems to be solid. Look forward to getting another one and trying out the bulldozer chip.

Cons: during initial Wins 7 install, the mobo sensed I had 2 1TB 6gb transfer rate drives and suggested I allow it to manage them. I allowed it at prompt. This caused the Win 7 install to request special drivers before it would install. After I figured out that it wasn't my dvd drive. I decided to disable this special feature (in bios) and Win 7 installed perfectly.

Overall Review: I really like the black color scheme

Pros: Paired this MOBO with the AMD 9590, 16GB (8x2) of 1866 Crucial Ballistix Elite RAM, and the XFX R9 280A-TDBD video card.

Cons: None yet.

Overall Review: I'm currently running Windows 7 so I preloaded all required drivers for this new set up on a USB drive. I simply plugged in the USB drive and hit the power switch. About two minutes later all required drivers had been located and loaded for W7. Do ensure you update this MOBO to the latest BOIS/Firmware which is FCF.

Pros: Larger and better than typical motherboard heat sinks for the north and south bridges. Also heat sink and heat pipe over the CPU power ICs. 10 SATA ports via AMD SB950 and Marvell 88SE9172, 2 built in eSATA on the back panel Configurable cooling fan monitoring makes it simple to have the largest CPU heat sink you could want and route the fan power cable to desired header. Noctua NH-C12P-SE14 fits with Crucial Ballistix reduced height heat sink DDR3 memory BIOS allows configuration of pretty much all you could ever want. Have not found one thing yet where I am thinking, "Why can't I adjust that?" SATA chipset speed detection and drive communication performs very well. Using Crucial 256GB M4 SSD SATA III and 1 TB Caviar Black SATA II internally. The SSD has so far tested at 250 MB/s, whereas the Caviar Black is right at its limit of 107 MB/s. For fun and backup purposes, using an Anker external drive system for an odd 500GB Seagate Momentus 7200.4, which touts connecting with SATA II, but has only ever achieved SATA I on two different computer systems. Even so, the Seagate achieves its limit of about 82 MB/s. 2x USB 3.0 ports on the back panel, and 2 more USB 3 headers on the motherboard. Could never use all of the USB 2.0 ports (14 total available)

Cons: 1x 1394a port on back (Firewire 400) 1x 1394a header on board (Firewire 400) For faster Firewire, plan on purchasing your favorite PCI Express x1 card. I have a SYBA SD-30009 on order from Newegg as of yesterday (4/8/13) afternoon. Be thorough when planning for that large CPU heat sink. Depending on the heat pipe design, the system memory slots may be blocked by the CPU heat sink pipes. If there are tall heat sinks on the memory, there will be a clearance problem. Auto detection of memory settings not perfect. Be sure you know what the memory timing settings are before getting too far into start up. You will thank yourself later.

Overall Review: I used the Gigabyte rebate offer through Newegg. To save some money, I suggest looking for the current one and take advantage of it.