GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7

Zitat: Gerade erst haben wir das ASUS Rampage III Extreme getestet, eines der ersten Mainboards für Intels Core i7 LGA1366 Prozessoren, das mit SATA 6 Gbit/s und USB 3.0 ausgestattet ist. Jetzt ist Gigabyte am Zug und präsentiert das X58A-UD7. Doch auch dieses Mainboard kostet beinahe stolze 300 Euro und zählt damit zu den absoluten High-End Produkten.

Zitat: While the GA-X58A-UD7 ticks many of the right boxes for a high-end Core i7 motherboard, with its excellent performance, great features and lots of overclocking potential, we also have to question some of Gigabyte’s decisions. Our main problem is with the massively oversized chipset heatsink - it just doesn’t provide enough of a benefit, especially as it may impede airflow through your case. The chipset waterblock barely makes contact with the component that it’s supposed to be cooling. Four SATA controllers is also an excessive number by anybody’s standard. This is all the more problematic when you consider that the GA-X58A-UD3R (a full review of which is coming soon) has exactly the same core features, including SATA 6Gbps and USB 3 support, yet is significantly cheaper. Ironically, Gigabyte has priced the GA-X58A-UD7 out of the market with one of its own motherboards.

Zitat: It´s one for real enthusiasts only, but with both SATA/600 and USB 3, the stratospheric price may just be worth paying

Zitat: The GIGABYTE X58A-UD7 is a nice board. It looks cool in your system (if you have a window) and is clearly capable of some good performance. However, we did not see that on the bench. But, I would not give up on the X58A-UD7. According to the overclocker “Hi Cookie” there is a new BIOS on the way that greatly improves performance with the 32nm Gulftown CPU. At the time of testing (and writing) we did not have access to this BIOS, but we do hope to return to the X58A once it is out and see what we find. Overall, we found the X58A-UD7 to be a well-rounded board. The inclusion of dual GBe LAN ports, SATA 3.0 (With RAID), XHD RAID, USB 3.0, multiple choices for cooling the board, 24-power phases and a great overclocking utility (EasyTune 6) make it an excellent choice as long as you are not looking to drop a Gulftown CPU in there right away. We do hope that the F7 BIOS that is in the works will correct the performance issues we saw with our synthetic tests, but as not a ton of people are going to be dropping the $1000 Core i7 980X into this board we can feel fairly confident that it will do what you ask it to. Considering the $350 price tag at NewEgg.com, we think that the X58A-UD7 certainly should be doing that.

Zitat: GIGABYTE has really outdone itself with the X58A-UD7 motherboard. They name their boards by the number of features on the board and the X58A-UD7 has the most features of any of their boards. This board supports the latest technologies including SATA 3.0 and USB 3.0. The board supports dual-slot 3-way SLI with four PCI Express slots allowing for the ultimate gaming machine with the upcoming Gulftown CPUs. GIGABYTE’s motherboard overclocks to over 3.7GHz from the standard 2.66GHz on standard cooling, making it a great overclocker as well. With its overclocking and gaming option features as well as everything else about this new motherboard is rock solid. This is a serious Editor’s Choice Product.