Gigabyte launches its ga-990fxa motherboard

Today Gigabyte has released a new overhaul of its popular AMD FX motherboard range, based on the highest-end 990FX chipset, but with a new facelift and additional features. Unlike the previous version that has 8 phases of VRM power, this amounts to 10 VRM and we also find a review of the heatsinks that cool the chipsets and mosfets, both Northbridge and Southbridge. The bios has also been renewed, finally leaving the modern UEFIs.

The Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 Rev.4.

Designed and manufactured for FX Vishera processors, this Gigabyte socket AM3 +, finally has 10 power phases, 4 sockets for DDR3 memory, whose maximum support is 64Gb and with a maximum speed of 2133Mhz in Dual Channel. It also has two PCI Express 2.0 slots at 16X each and another two 2.0 at 4X, and finally with two 1x and a common PCI.

The Southbridge, the 990FX, has up to 6 Sata 6Gb and two eSATA ports controlled by a Marverll 9172 chipset. For the USB section, it has up to 4 USB 3.0 ports via Etron Ej168 controller, 8 USB 2.0 ports, 2 eSATA and a PS2 connector. mixed. The audio section has an 8-channel Realtek ALC889 codec and a Gigabit network port for ethernet.

The recommended price will be € 140.