GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD5 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Excellent packaging on the manufacturer's part, but newegg had garbage shipping materials that led to severely dented and compromised packaging. The board is well laid out and pretty idiot proof. Chipset heatsinks are very sexy and don't interfere with other components.

Cons: Realtek NIC wasn't recognized by default W7 and new Asus DVD drive wasn't recognized. I had to install the drivers through USB. It was nothing major; actually I should have anticipated this and preloaded the drivers on my HD.

Overall Review: It was a great upgrade along with the I7 2600k. I would recommend this to anyone. I wouldn't pay the extra for the UD7 with all of the unnecessary extras. This is perfect for the enthusiast who doesn't want to pay for status, but wants performance.

Pros: GA-P67A-UD5 + 2600K = stable at 4.8GHz so far! I'm hoping for 5.0GHz after a bit more tweaking. LED trouble lights on the board are an awesome feature. Power, Reset, and Clear CMOS buttons on the board are easy to get to and very handy for testing in or out of a case.

Cons: First copy of this board I got had a bad 1st PCIe slot. Sent in for RMA, replacement works perfectly....well, after upgrading the BIOS to the beta F6a version and using ALT+F12 to copy it to the backup BIOS....now it works perfectly. Why is the ALT+F12 feature hidden? Why does it require a PS/2 keyboard? Always room for improvement I guess...

Overall Review: I've seen the new graphical UEFI BIOS offered by MSI and Asus, but personally I think the classic BIOS is faster and easier to use and understand. It's one of the reasons I chose Gigabyte. Newegg RMA process was excellent as usual. It sucks when I get a defective item, but they took good care of me as usual.

Pros: Paired this with the new i-7 2600K... sickness. Tons of room to expand. Takes to new components easily. Runnin with 2 OCZ SSD drives... awesome!! Plenty of speed and power to be unleashed.

Cons: Only one x16 PCI location and it's a tight fit for the larger vid cards.

Pros: The overall quality of the board is excellent and it is what I've come to expect from Gigabyte. The software package could be more polished but it works well. The UD5 and UD7 have a different sound chip than UD4 and UD3 so take a good look. Stable, even for a new chipset and board. Simple and quick setup. Good cooling solution.

Cons: BIOS is a bit slow, hopefully better with BIOS updates but not unworkable. First 1x slot is not usable due to heatpipe placement. SATA connections are directly below a long video card. These are minor things that could have been fixed. 4 eggs for you. Price seems 20% high. This isn't anything you won't forget about once its built, though.

Overall Review: 2600K @ 4.5 | Noctua NH-U9B SE2 92mm | GA-P67A-UD5 | G.SKILL Ripjaws X 8GB DDR3 1600 | EVGA GTX 570 | 4U Rackmount | 750W Silencer | WD Raptor

Pros: Picked this board for the features and overclockability.

Cons: 1st PCIe (x16) slot is defective. No display unless video card is moved to 2nd or 3rd PCIe slot. Gigabyte tech support confirmed after hours of troubleshooting. I am returning for RMA.

Overall Review: Friend bought the same board at the same time and his has the PCIe defect as well as also having the 1st three DIMM slots non-functional.

Pros: none

Cons: Installed an ATI XFX 5870 into the PCI-E 1 slot and the pc would not turn, tried moving the card to the PCI-E 2 slot and it powered up fine. Updated the bios to the F5 version, that didnt make any difference.

Overall Review: Very disappointed with Gigabyte and this board so far

Pros: So many pro's I am not sure where to start. I think I will start with the build quality. Look at other boards and you will see capacitors leaning, crooked etc etc but not with this board. Next you will notice how heavy the board is. For a mobo this sucker is heavy. The board also looks very sleek with the all new black pcb and slots and heat pipe chipset coolers. Now we move on to the how well the board works. The first thing you want to do is update the bios to the F6a beta bios. Once you do that this board will overclock your new cpu to its upper limits. The board is very stable and will only get better with updated bios. The intel 6Gb sata is screaming fast with none of the drawbacks you find with the marvell controller. I am running two 64GB C300 in raid0 and touching 700MB read speed and maxing out the write speed. Just simply amazing board!

Cons: Price maybe? But you get what you pay for. A rock solid heavy well built motherboard. Oh and YaY I am the first review on the EGG! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/prostreetcamaro/2600K5Ghz.jpg

Overall Review: Everything above says it all. You can not go wrong with this motherboard especially if you are an overclocker looking to take your system to the max.