GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-UD4 AM2+/AM2 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: High quality Japanese capacitors No Integrated video Passive cooling SB 750 Southbridge is the best overclocker for Phenom AM3 Ready IEEE 1394 Support Dual Bios

Cons: No DDR3 No eSATA No Crossfire Accessories

Overall Review: Awesome motherboard. It has a solid discount under the 790FX because of no integrated video. It has the same performance though. Gigabyte is one of the better quality boards now. My System Vista Ultimate 32-bit (Scores a 5.7) Phenom 9500 @2.51Ghz (TLB FIX DISABLED) 2GB Corsair XMS 800Mhz @ 912Mhz Asus Radeon 4670 (Stock) Maxtor 500GB (Seagate 7200.10 rebrand) Antec Sonata II Antec Earthwatts 500W (Delta)

Pros: Works with Phenom II 940 and all AM2+ CPU's right out of the box. Nice looking design and well packaged. A great board for less than $125!!! Very heavy board with over 2,000 pounds of copper. (Exageration but they brag about it!!!) Runs very cool!

Cons: Cannot adjust multiplier higher than 15, can only adjust front side bus.

Overall Review: Ordered another one to build spare machine. I highly recommend this board. Compares to others that run $200+

Pros: 790x/750sb, phenom II support, pretty colors, Ultra durable 3. Overall great motherboard. The extra copper in the pcb helps with cooling and constant power to components. I have yet to see any voltage drops or surges under heavy testing. Very impressed.

Cons: Cmos reset jumper, why do you put it in a hard to reach place. Case fan connection placement; alot of fan cords are too short to reach. They should try to put them close to the back and top of the board. Maybe just put more of them. IDK For what its worth to the naysayers, Gigabyte does need to step up the QC. I have RMA'd a board with them in the last year. But I keep buying them because they are that good!

Overall Review: After a week of break-in run time, I was able to get stable fsb of 290 at 1.4V on my 5400 x2.(I know it isn't really a fsb, but what do you call it so everyone knows?) Temps are 26/43 idle/load, and 30/38 for the chipset. Not bad. System is 5400BE, 4gb Gskill DDR21000, couple of sata 250/ pioneer dvd-R. and antec 650tptrio, and an old 7900gs I had lying around(just to get running). I am planning on upgrading to a phenom II once they come down; and a couple of 4870's. Overall conclusion is the board is a stable overclocker. I know gigabyte has kinda earned a bad rep for rma's and bad QC, but when you get a good board it is really good. Some of the best overclocks were done on Gigabyte boards. Its worth a shot even if you have to rma. Every company has to RMA their stuff. I have had to rma a gigabyte board before. They make excellent products just getting a good one seems to be the trick.

Pros: Nice copper heatsink.(Love the color of it too.) Excellent location of the USB/IEEE 1394 connections. Looks awesome, overclocks super easy. AM3 ready, didn't even have to flash the BIOS for my 920 Popped in a G. Skill 4gb kit PC-6400 Awesome price. Some nice overclocking options.

Cons: None that I've found.

Overall Review: Came from an ASUS M2N-E. I was a little Skeptical about getting a Gigabyte because I've heard bad things. However, I'm extremely happy with my purchase.

Pros: Great board. Has lots of options. Have had no problems with it. Great for a DAW if thats what your into. Can't really comment on it as far as an overclock board for thats no my forte, but seems to have good options for that type of thing.

Cons: None so far. I have to say so far cause it took me a couple of years to see the horrendous faults of the via chipset rev 5 issues.

Overall Review: I got GIGABYTE iSOLO GZ-AA1CB-SNG case, a gigabyte ga-ma790x-ud4, a phenom 2 940 3Ghz processor, a cheap asus video card, a pc and cooling 640 watt power supply, some mushkin ram 4 gigs, and a western digital 500 gig sata drive for $725 and thats not a bad deal graet DAW setup i must say. I love newegg and dont let the few "DOA" issues scare you, sometime that stuff happens but all my stuff worked great no problems. So many things could have went wrong but I have had no issues as of yet.

Pros: Quality build and layout. Put my Phenom 9950 and 4 gigs 1066 memory, set multiplier to x15, and running @ 3.0Hz without increasing the voltage. I will wait to see how high I can overclock it to. Very stable and cool.

Cons: none

Overall Review: Just a great board for the money. I have built dozens of computers over the years and this was the easiest yet.

Pros: Appears to be high build quality. No loose heatsinks or anything. Flashed to the latest bios and my AMD Phenom II 940 BE is recognized and runs cool. NB and SB run cool under full load (not at all hot to the touch). In my winter indoor temps I can't get the CPU case above about 35C and the cores are below 40C (no OC). Everest benchmarks all show about right for this CPU and memory.

Cons: Only one nit: ASUS and MSI now include a header block for the front panel connectors that you plug then into first, and then into the MB. It would be a nice addition to this 2009 MB for the $0.20 it might cost. Also, earlier similar Gigabyte boards like this have had some serious overheating problems (fires). They seem to have gotten this one designed right.

Overall Review: GA-MA790X-UD4 (this MB) Four sticks of Corsair Dominator 1066 running dual ch. unganged at 800 (haven't tried 1066 yet). AMD PII 940BE (haven't tried OC yet). Zalman CNPS 9700 (just fits with the tall Corsair). Arctic Silver 5. 1 ea. MSI 8800GTS. Burned in / tested with Prime95 and Everest for 48 hours full load. Running XP32 and Fedora 10 no problem. Advice: do not use @bios. Even avoid USB stick. Dig out an old floppy drive and use QFlash -- that worked well.

Pros: I ordered all my parts from Newegg... I had everything put together within 2 hours, and it works great.... This board has everything you'd want.

Cons: None so far