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GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD9 (rev. 1.0) Pro Reviews

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TechRadar UK‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Plenty of motherboards have bags of PCIe slots, but most flatter to decieve – they're not the real PCIe16 deal. Not so for the Gigabyte X58A-UD9 and its quartet of bona fide 16-lane slots. The UD9 also offers the best chipset cooling we've seen and a comprehensive BIOS menu. We can think of no better board for maximising the performance of Intel's top chips. Gigabyte's UD9 is a quality customer, but it can't quite justify the £400 pricing.

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Aug 12, 2010

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hardocp‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Gigabyte X58A-UD9 represents an extreme usage motherboard. Both in terms tweaking and its $700 price. The UD9 is not meant for those enthusiasts looking for a laid back overclocking experience. The UD9 requires a lot of patience and overclocking knowledge to use effectively. The X58A-UD9 is already racking up plenty of overclocking benchmarking awards. Those of us actually building a gaming system for use at home need not apply. Unless maybe you have liquid nitrogen tanker truck backed up to your garage door. The X58A-UD9 is Gigabyte's flagship motherboard product and it is more an engineering showpiece than anything else.

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Aug 17, 2010

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HEXUS‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Gigabyte's GA-X58A-UD9 arrived with the ambition of becoming the granddaddy of all X58 motherboards, and in many respects it doesn't disappoint. The board layout is excellent, the integrated cooling performs admirably, the number of expansion slots is second to none, and the feature set - including SATA 6Gbps, USB 3.0 and a BIOS tailored for overclockability - ticks many of the right boxes.

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Jun 28, 2010

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AnandTech‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Q-Flash is Gigabyte’s rendition of a built in BIOS flashing routine, and we’re happy to report this works well. If we recall correctly, Gigabyte were the first vendor to market with dual-BIOS, providing a failsafe in the event of BIOS corruption. This feature is also utilized on the UD9, and as on previous motherboards does not allow users to load two separate BIOSes for compare. As we see so often in this industry, nothing is sacred for long; if it means improving sales, someone will copy a good idea and occasionally improve it, and that’s what’s happened here with ASUS.

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Jul 15, 2010

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tweaktown‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The X58A-UD9 is a $649.99 board at NewEgg.com. That is quite a bit of money to lump out if all you are looking for is a simple gaming motherboard or workstation. Now, when you look at what you are really getting and consider the potential for performance under the hood here, it's somewhat more warranted.

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Sep 23, 2010

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xbitlabs‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 mainboard I used for this test session would be a perfect match for a multi-GPU configuration of that kind. In fact, it has only one significant defect: when you install the Hybrid Silent-Pipe 2 cooler on the chipset, it blocks the access to one additional power connector of the PCIe bus. However, you won’t need that cooler at all if you use a liquid cooling system for the mainboard’s chipset (by the way, the mainboard really calls for liquid cooling as its default cooling system gets very hot at work).

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Jul 21, 2010

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HardwareZone‘s review Edit Like Unlike

There's always a new champion, king of the hill and the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 not only surpasses the company's own former flagship UD7 model, it is without doubt, the most expensive consumer motherboard available now. For its princely S$839 price, one gets a motherboard that's significantly larger than the ATX form factor, and which requires a chassis with sufficient allowance.

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Jul 16, 2010

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