GIGABYTE GA-A75-UD4H FM1 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Excellent Build Quality Unlocked Multi w/ this board at least Great Sound Great Value for a UD4 board!

Cons: Not enough USB Ports for my liking, however I knew this buying it. The "Hybrid EFI Bios" is the old Bios with 3TB+ Support... Included HW monitor, as well as CPUID HWMonitor both say the CPU is running at 3*C... I assume this will be fixed over time?

Overall Review: Easy OC to 3.0Ghz with a quick change of the multi from 29x to 30x, though It could go a lot higher. All in All if you are considering an FM1 Board, I say look no farther, Excellent build quality, along with overclock ability makes me give this board an Overall 5/5. With that being said, I am disappointed in the Bios...

Pros: Rock solid stability. Recognized G-Skill 1600 speed without any changes. Great expansion capability with the RAM slots spaced out enough form the CPU to allow the larger G-Skill heatsinks to fit no problem. This is the way a board should be.

Cons: I needed to do a bios update using the @Bios app in Win7. Before the updated, I couldn't access the BIOS by pressing DEL during POST. The update fixed this. Windows temp programs still read incorrect processor temps.

Overall Review: Still the best board regardless. Read reviews. The "other guys" have a lot of problems compared to this board. This has no audio issues, it's stable, comes with 4 SATA cables, and gave me no problems what so ever. The included software disc has a default "Install all chipset features" option that gives you all the drivers you need to run the system effectively. The only thing I updated after that was the BIOS and AMD video driver.

Pros: Heavy, feels very solid. Main board has connectors to add many more usb2 & 1 more usb3 sets. Lot of fan plugs 4 wire case included along with 3 wire ones. System runs cool almost at room temperature unless under heavy load. I have no cards installed using 2 4g sticks of ddr3 1600 and a black wd 1T sata 6 HD. Win experience numbers - AMD A8-3850 APU with Radeon(tm) HD 7.3, 8.00 GB Ram 7.3, Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6550D 4.8, Gaming graphics 4094 MB Total available graphics memory 6.2, Primary hard disk 5.9. Not sure the win experience is accurate because my other box was sata 2 with a 640M black HD and the win score is the same. I do not game but do some video stuff at times and the system seems very capable.

Cons: With the first bios when installing win7 x64, think it was F2 and just updated to F4, I had to use the usb 3 port for keyboard & mouse, tried both logitech & MS sets. Both are wireless. Not sure what the problems is/was but i tried a couple usb 2 ports untill giving up and trying the usb 3. System does not seems to want to sleep, might be a setting though but something i have not had to do on other boxes. Also the easy tune system monitor appears to have the cpu & MB temps backwards, something that can be fixed easily.

Overall Review: Over all I am happy with system and had no problems execpt the usb mentioned above which is good seeing this stuff has not been out very long.

Pros: I have built PC with 7 different FM1 motherboard, include Gigabyte, ASUS and Biostar with A75 chipset. This one is the best of all. it is the only motherboard support dual digital display via HDMI/DVI port. It has no issue to over-clock A8-3870K to 3.5G as well as integrated video card to 900M instead of default 600M. It need 1.5V DDR3 1600 RAM for auto-detect. It works perfectly with Patriot Signature 8GB model PSD38G1600KH and G.SKILL Sniper 8GB Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBSR. With hybrid crossfire with a HD6670, you can see gaming performance significant improved. Close to a HD6770 in most of games.

Cons: just need to update BIOS to latest version. You can easily do it online. Shouldn't be really issue.

Pros: Excellent build quality and layout, board posted right away with an AMD A8-3850 Llano, easy install of Windows 7 Professional.

Cons: Had some issues getting the video driver from the Gigabyte site installed correctly; ended up using the A8 APU driver right from the ATI site and then everything was fine. I consider this a minor issue and it could have been operator error (me).

Overall Review: I was looking for a cheap build of a decent PC that I would use in my ham radio shack for radio control and audio recording. No need for fancy graphics so the AMD A8 APU and Gigabyte board were an attractive combo at a good price. Very pleased so far with the performance of this board and would recommend it without hesitation.

Pros: My first one of these boards was DOA. However this one is flawless. I feel the USB 3.0 controller on this board is much better than the Asrock boards I usually prefer. All extra features working beautifully. Have it running with the A8-3870K, 128gb Crucial M4 SSD, 1.5tb 7200rpm Hatachi, 8gb 1600 G.Skill Ripjaws. Getting the following WEI Score: Processor: 7.3 Memory(RAM): 7.4 Graphics: 6.8 Gaming Graphics: 6.8 Primary hard disk: 7.9 Overall WEI 6.8

Cons: First board was DOA, but that happens eventually to every brand and make of board.

Pros: Very Stable, fast in Raid 0, easy bios update

Cons: Ram slots are very close to CPU socket must use low profile after market heatspreader on 4th stick to fit under Freezer 13. Will not run dual video cards in crossfire. Must admit the whole hybrid crossfire thing was confusing. But runs very well with a A8-3850 and 6670 in hybrid crossfire.

Overall Review: Use ram designed for this platform, it doesn't cost much, update the bios as soon as you can and run it in raid. This is a new platform do your research and you'll find that this is one off the best MOBO for Liano. If you expect to assemble this and be up and running in a hour this is not for you. I played with this for at least two weeks before I was happy with it This smokes my Core 2 Duo and Quad Core machines on everything but graphics but I have high end Video cards in these machines. This platform can't be beat in performance to price comparison makes a great HTPC, business machine, or for gaming with medium settings.

Pros: Quick build. Solid 5.9 on the semi-worthless windows scale (due to graphics, desktop performance). Zippy fast though.

Cons: The DVI and VGA connection do not work. HDMI does, DP would likely but I have to use a DVI adapter and after a short time the monitor will error out.

Overall Review: Tech support is worthless. They presume I am stupid AND tell me to do what I wrote them that I did or tried. Not to mention the advice that contradicts the manual - connect HDMI and VGA at the same time. It cannot happen it's in the book they share a connection path (as do the DVI and DP), you can only use one or the other at a time. In any event the VGA doesn't work.