Sunday, 15 August 2010 20:41

Gigabyte's 890FXA-UD7 gets run through the wringer Featured

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Features -
In the current market motherboard (and indeed almost all component) performance is very close. The days of a large performance advantage between boards using the same chipset are long gone. That is unless someone makes a HUGE mistake (like runs traces completely wrong). Now, the thing that differentiates different products is the features. These are things like power management, extra slots, better audio CODECs etc. It is these items that R&D teams work so hard to drop into what are really identical pieces of hardware at their most basic level.

Gigabyte is like many companies, they are going to list everything as a feature.  However, as we mentioned above not all features are real. Some are great and some are like the floor mats in your car listed as a feature, but you know you are going to get them with every car you look at.


Excellent
Auto Unlock
SATA 3.0
USB 3.0
Dual GBe LAN
Precision OV
Quad Crossfire

These items are excellent reasons to pick up the 89FXA-UD7. They are things that differentiate the product from others in its class and also from other 890FX boards from GB.

In the middle (sort of good)
ON/OFF Charge
Smart Recovery
Xpress BIOS Rescue
Dual BIOS
Silent Pipe II
USB/eSATA Combo
EasyTune 6

Here we have a feature set that adds value but are usually not going to be deal breakers.

@BIOS

This list is, well it just is. Almost all of this you would expect on a high-end motherboard. If these things were missing (whatever they are called) you would probably not be picking that product up.


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