More AM3+ Motherboards

Zuban said:
yeah i'm struggling to decide between the UD5 and UD7, i dont beleive i'll need the UD7 as i will at most probably use two cards in crossfire but want to know if there is any other benefits to the UD7 over the UD5.
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the UD5 is normal board side which is fit ATX and the UD7 is EATX which is wee large size of board so you need is check your PC case top fit which too close to hard drive,etc..
 
GaryH-21 said:
Can any motherboard expert sum up the difference between the UD3 and UD5 for me please? (And maybe UD7, but that's pushing it :D)
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From what I see the 990XA-UD3 has a few less 3rd party sata/esata controllers and supports only 2-way multi gpu at 8x8 due to the cheaper 990X chipset, it's good for those who just want the basics and don't care too much about multi gpu.

The UD5 with 990FX supports up to 3-way multi gpu at 16x8x8 and the UD7 supports up to 4-way multi gpu at 8x8x8x8.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. :p
 
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mmj_uk said:
From what I see the 990XA-UD3 has a few less 3rd party sata/esata controllers and supports only 2-way multi gpu at 8x8 due to the cheaper 990X chipset, it's good for those who just want the basics and don't care too much about multi gpu.

The UD5 with 990FX supports up to 3-way multi gpu at 16x8x8 and the UD7 supports up to 4-way multi gpu at 8x8x8x8.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. :p
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Sounds about right. :)

To be fair though, the difference between x16/x16 and x8/x8 is negligible at worst and non-existent at best. :D
 
If my £59 M4A88TD-M can unlock a 555 and get it to 4.0GHz with ease, I'm really not sure how much better it can get unless you're talking about more extreme overclocking cases in which case voltage regulation and capacitor quality will be of much higher importance.
 
Asus new 990FX does included UEFI BIOS which make new look but i dont know about Gigabyte own 990 as it didnt mentioned about UEFI BIOS as it showed as 3TB + Dual BIOS so if it old type of BIOS or new look BIOS screen.. I went for ASUS instead of Gigabyte cos I like the ROG board cos it so cool.... Microsoft will put Windows 8 support UEFI plus hope it add Kinect UI as well -- find out when it come out in the later 2012...

** I add this after I look at Gigabyte online manual and it still old type BIOS like blue screen with yellow fonts - nothing new from GBT as ASUS Crosshair using new look UEFI BIOS - have look at online manual... Im glad Ive pre-ordered for Asus Crosshair Formula V.... **
 
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I agree mate, UEFI should be as standard these days.

I was referring to bravehearts comment:" Microsoft will put Windows 8 support UEFI"

MS will support older and newer BIOS's - think that's irrelevant to Windows 8 no?

Just trying to understand if UEFI will give some sort of advantage over a normal BIOs board (Like my CHIV) - other than the graphical UI.

Back last year when it hit the headlines the main selling point for UEFI was boot speed - this seems to be unchanged so I'm really failing to grasp the requirement (other than 3tb+ support) for UEFI.....
 
Don't get me wrong guys - I'm all for new technology.

But for me personally other than SLi support changing to a CHV would be pointless. No benefits from UEFI nor SLI tbh!.
The way I see it - a Graphical UI is pretty much useless in a BIOS (other than looking nice!) - Once its setup, thats it - no need to touch it again....

IF however it meant that my board would boot literally instantly (rather than taking the 15-20 seconds or so it takes) I'd be all over UEFI like a bad rash! and more inclined to upgrade.

Saying all that - IF I was to be buying a new mainboard now - I would definately be insisting on a UEFI one (just for the sake of it lol)
 
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yes MS new windows 8 will support uefi bios and I think it still using both old bios and new uefi bios as the uefi won't support 32 bits OS as it only support 64 so using old bios would run windows 8 32bits....
 
nvm. I hope this clears things up for you mate, look past the video - think theres been a bit of a mix up:

http://windows8news.com/2011/06/04/microsoft-unveils-windows-8-video/

This confirms that UEFI IS supported on Windows 7: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q...TKNQyC&sig=AHIEtbR0LSAMo4m2pdWKGnPAHYPGT2xmYw

The ONLY allusion/statement MS have made is that tablets running UEFI bioses and SSD's will be able to boot in 8 seconds. This might apply to tablets whereby the physical hardware is limited and fixed but NOT to desktop PC's. Also further to this do you really think Microsoft are going to FORCE users to upgrade to completely new systems by forcing them to use UEFI? - They will lose 80% of end users if thats the case lol

For example - The current Crosshair V (UEFI) is only 1 second faster to boot than the Crosshair IV.

Maybe with later iterations of UEFI we will see a faster boot up but even then I doubt it as you still have to take into account spin-up time of a physical hard drive (which is required in order for the BIOS to recognise there is a Hard drive there)
 
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Right.... stulid's got me a bit worried! Apparently there has been performance issues with bulldozer along with the delays and he's decided to go SB :p

Has anyone else heard any reports?... I dunno what to do now :(

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You appear to be online now :D What kind of performance issues are we talking? What would you advise me to do? SB > BD?? :(
 
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I've ordered a gigabyte ud5 as a new home for my 1090t until bulldozer is out, i've also ordered a second samsung f3 1tb and want to set it up with my existing drive in raid 1, currently backup all my 3d work to external disk but would like the redundacy of raid 1 given i often forget to do my backups regularly!. the UD5 has the sata controller in the southbridge and also two marvell 88SE9172 chips, which would be best for setting up the raid 1?

hmm a little research is making me think that the southbridge sata is the better option... looking forward to getting the board now, should be better than than the 880gm udh2 i'm using at the moment which will shuffle off to become a micro atx htpc system :)
 
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I received a 990XA-UD3 earlier was pleasantly surprised to see that the northbridge heatsink doesn't block the top PCI-E 1x slot, thought it did looking at the OCUK screenshot.

It appears to almost identical to the 890FXA-UD5 I had a while back spec-wise, just missing the Gigabyte controller, the 2nd LAN and obviously only supports XFire/SLI in 8x/8x but seeing as I don't use multi GPU that's not an issue for me.

It appears to be an absolute steal at £93 if you don't need the extra fluff.
 
GaryH-21 said:
Right.... stulid's got me a bit worried! Apparently there has been performance issues with bulldozer along with the delays and he's decided to go SB :p

Has anyone else heard any reports?... I dunno what to do now :(

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You appear to be online now :D What kind of performance issues are we talking? What would you advise me to do? SB > BD?? :(
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Ok the "performance" issues people are talking about are on engineering samples. Engineering samples aren't designed for speed but for yield. They need to get working chips out to board manufacturers etc.

It's not uncommon for chips to go through a number of spins before final product. Look at the Intel C2Q stepping on that was C1 the day it came out.

The chips out there at the moment are not the finished article.

Before I get flamed I am not an AMD fanboy, been running running Intel since the original C2D :)

Take a look in the CPU forum, an AMD guy put up a detailed explanation of steppings and yield vs performance for ES chips...
 
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