Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 reviews, tests, benchmarks, round-up

Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 Reviews

august 30 2010 review by legitreviews

Conclusion: The performance of this board was great, the overclocking results were very high and this mobo has a good layout. The placement of the onboard power and reset switches are not blocked when you are running multiple graphics cards. The price is somewhat lower when compared to other 890FX boards, but the performance difference is near negligible.

Overclocking: An AMD Phenom II X6 1090T was OCed @4.2GHz, BCLK 300MHz.

Test Setup:

CPU cooler : ThermalTake SpinQ VT
Hard Drives : WD Black 640gb and WD Black 1Tb for SATA3 testing
PSU : Corsair TX750
RAM : 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair Dominator
Video Card : HIS Radeon HD 5870

Benchmarks: 3D Mark Vantage, Aliens Vs. Predator, Network Throughput, PC Mark Vantage, Power Consumption , Rightmark Audio Analyzer, SATA3 Testing, SiSoft Sandra, USB3 Testing.

Compared to:

ASRock 890GX Extreme3, ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, Biostar TA890GXB HD, Gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H, MSI 890FXA-GD70.

july 19 2010 review by techgage

Conclusion: The 890FXA-UD5 offers a lot of functionality, like the 4x PCI-E x16 slots and the 5 fan ports. The addition of SATA3 and USB3 make the entire deal even better. Price-wise this board is in par with other mainstream 890FX boards with app. the same feature-set. There are a few cheaper 890FX boards, but some features are sacrificed. If you don't want the dual-GPU x16 capability, you could choose an 890GX board that will cost a lot less.

Overclocking:

An AMD Phenom II X6 1090T was OCed @3.92GHz, the vCore was raised from 1.475v up to 1.600v.

Compared to:

Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P.

Test Setup:

RAM: Corsair DOMINATOR 4GB DDR3 1600MHz
SSD: Intel X-25M 160GB G2
PSU: Corsair HX1000W
Computer Case: SilverStone TJ10 Full-Tower
Monitor: Gateway XHD3000 30"
Water Cooling: Corsair H50
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Benchmarks:

PC Mark Vantage, 3ds Max 2011, Adobe Lightroom 3.0, TMPGEnc XPress, SPECviewperf 11, HD Tune Pro 3.5, Sisoft Sandra 2010, 3DMark Vantage, Power Consumption. In the gaming benches an ASUS Radeon HD 5850 1GB was used.

may 27 2010 review by proClockers

Conclusion:

A new feature is the On/Off Charge, that charges a device like an iPod, when the motherboard is in Sleep and Shut Down modes. The placement of the power and reset buttons behind the ATX power connector is a bit unusual. When OCed this mobo crossed the 4GHz barrier with ease. Multi-GPU users will have the 16x/16x bandwidth when using 2 PCIe slots, using four slots will lower the bandwidth to 8x each. Compared to cheaper mobos the UD5 has extras like an 8+2 phase power design for higher overclocking and dual LAN.

Overclocking:

An AMD Phenom II 965 Black was overclocked to 4.22GHz, BCLK 211Mhz, vCore 1.48v. Bus overclocking: the revieweres reached a maximum bus speed of 245MHz.

Compared to:

ASRock 890GX Extreme3, ASRock 890GM Pro3 and MSI 890GXM-G65.

Test Setup:

Memory: 2x2GB 1600MHz DDR3 Patriot Viper II Sector 5
Hard drive: Seagate 7200.11
PSU: Thermaltake Tough Power XT 1000
Cooler: Thermolab Baram
Operating System: Windows 7 x64

Benchmarks:

SuperPi, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, 3D Mark Vantage, Cinebench, HD Tune PRO, Lavalys Everest Ultimate, PC mark vantage x64, Sisoft Sandra. In the gaming benches a Sapphire HD 5770 Video Card was used.

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