Quote Originally Posted by dinos22 View Post
best to compare apples with apples Oli otherwise you have to fill in the gaps. I dont see a Gigabyte 990X board there and do see a bunch of Z68 boards.

setting same HDD modes and setting turbo functions on for USB3 on all boards and then test every single setting. It should be all very similar imo. It's impossible to know if the reviewer used native IDE mode or switched to AHCI with that Z68 board. I recently picked up on some HDD performance slowness with one of local magazine's software apps testing the systems because they used IDE mode instead of AHCI on GBT boards as it defaults to it while Asus had AHCI default, not sure if this would be related.

Hopefully Tech Report will test Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 as well and then we'll be able to compare the results. I would really like to see nice results from this mobo, because it have a pretty good layout and looks nice overall. I had two Gigabyte mobos in the past. The first was a GA-MA790X-DS4 which died after one day, and one year later a GA-MA790GP-DS4H which wasn't so satisfying for me. My primary problem was the pretty poor BIOS support.

I'm eagerly waiting for the 990FXA-UD7 reviews now and I really hope that the mobo we'll get positive feedbacks.