Specification
Product Details
- Brand: Gigabyte
- Model: GA-X58A-UD5
- Platform: Windows
- Format: CD-ROM
- Original language:
English - Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x
15.00" w x
23.00" l,
4.19 pounds
Product Description
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 LGA1366/ Intel X58/ 6DDR3-2200/ SATA3/ USB3.0/ 2-Way/3-Way ATI CrossFireX?/NVIDIA SLI/ 2GbE/ Raid/ eSATA/1394 ATX Motherboard
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
By Juan Frausto
Well I was looking for a good X58 motherboard for my Core i7 950 cpu and decided to go with this one. It's got a great layout, especially the Sata ports, usb 3.0, Sata 6gb, 6 RAM slots, Dual Lan. Error codes and LEDs also help a great deal. It's very easy to update the BIOS with @Bios utility. This motherboard utilizes a 24-pin and 8-pin power supply. So be sure your PSU has the right connectors. No onboard video, so you'll need a video card. Be sure to put your RAM, and sata cables in before you do anything else. Never know what might be blocked, but all in all this layout is great and I didn't really have those problems. This motherboard also has an onboard Power and Reset switch for open case testing of components. I love that feature! I actually had to use the buttons when I had issues with my heatsink being loose and my RAM in the wrong slots. lol. If your PC shuts down shortly after booting and you get an error message saying "Recovering lost DRAM something or other, try switching the ram to different slots. And if you're going to use the stock heatsink that comes with the core i7, be sure its on tight and correctly! I could have gone with a cheaper board, but I'm glad I settled for this one. It's feature rich and I am very satisfied with it. Also, the XMP profile to auto set RAM to the correct timings and speed worked fine for me!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By Wagnbat
Bought this board at the end of January 2009. Worked fantastic for 2 years and 11 months. Several upgrades occured for primary hard drive, raid drives (was running both mirror and striped arrays off the board's raid controller) and video card changes. Peachy keen until it broke.One day I went to plug my mic into the pink microphone mini-stereo port on the back of my case, and the whole system shut down and went dark. Many hours of troubleshooting... Tested the ram... Tested my PSU with a different board in the same and different case. Fault was with the motherboard.Gigabyte accepted the RMA, and sent the same board back. Except now the same board would not recognize all of the installed (same as originally installed) ram, and had random lockups that ranged from a few seconds to a few minutes. Could move the mouse on screen, but all other functions would cease... And then magically resume as if nothing happened.Gigabyte refused to RMA the board again as it had 'tested fine on their bench' and there was a typo on the RMA (my fault, 1 digit off on zip code) which resulted in the board circulating Okinawa before being returned to Gigabyte and forwarded back to me. It ended up taking 2+months for me to get the board back, and apparently that exceeded the 30-day extended warranty they put on it.5 star board, down to three because manufacturer refused to fully repair defect under warranty and customer service was adequate, not outstanding.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
By T. Pratt
Before lanuching into the review proper, if you are reading this, then you're at amazon: my advice is - buy your MBO here! Here's why...My Asus MBO decided to have an intermittent fault just after the 2 yr warranty ran out, so I needed a new one, and whilst changing, thought I might as well upgrade.First, after much research, I got an ASRock extreme 3. This I purchased from...another online merchant, think "novel" and "what a chicken produces" and you'll understand. After POSTing twice, this board quit. Email exchanges with ASRock tech support (such as it is) identified the problem as a MBO failure, please return to vendor. Returning to Novel Chicken Produce involved ME shelling out for the shipping the defective product (around $17) back to them for "evaluation". 10 days later said evaluation indicated it was my fault and they were sending back the now utterly useless MBO - my recourse? Deal with the manufacturer, who wants me to deal with the vendor who denies any responsibility...you get the idea. Not only am I out the initial $189, but also the $17 it cost to send it back.In the interim, as I can't wait for a 10 day assessment period, I decide to get another MBO, this time from Amazon, as I KNOW they look after their customers and don't ding them for selling them a defective product. So I get one from Amazon - an MSI Big Bang x58. Guess what - it was defective! So I send it back (Free!!) and order a replacement...which is defective!!! I send it back - free! I order another brand (this one - a gigabyte x58 UD5 rev 2.0) and decide to pay for 2 day shipping delivery on a Saturday - mostly coz I really need this PC working ASAP. Amazon send it to me overnight! For cheap! Yippee! Guess what - it works!!!!!!!!!!!!Now that you understand that if I was dealing with that previous vendor I would be out at least another $34, and, if they decided it was "my fault" another $290 odd, you understand why you should buy here and leave Novel Chicken Produce to the idiots that will accept that sort of "customer service". Amazon...rules.So, about this product. This is review 1 of 2 because I will report again after more in depth use. This review is about initial experience and build issues.Firstly, the unit comes in an anti-static bag - a very simple protection missing from ASRock and MSI. Second, the quality of the build is obvious at first glance - for example, the PCI-e 16x slots have spring loaded retention clips: I have busted many inferior retention clips on other MBOs by accident. Another example is the spring loaded mounting clips for the north/south-bridge and MOFSETs for ease of end user removal ife desired. Finally, build quality is also evident in the sheer weight of the board - which reflects all the extra copper, heat sinks, and heat pipes.Secondly, the ******* thing actually works, unlike the three that preceded it. First time. No hassles. After 3 in a row DOAs, this small blessing becomes more significant that it might otherwise appear. But, on to actual install issues and observations....The MBO comes with very few extras. I mean a truly spartan level of useful freebies. You get 4 SataII cables, an IDE cable and not much else. This sorta sucks given that the MBO has 10 internal SATA connections, let alone 2 external. 2 of the internal connections also happen to be SATA 3 - but you only get cables labelled SATA 2. Also, you get 3 x USB headers on the MBO - 2 of these are "normal" and for 99% of cases in the universe will end up on the front panel, so the third, which is designed for charging cell phones etc even when the PC is off, connect to the 2 x USB expansion slot bracket...except they don't give you one, unlike every other MBO manufacturer around. I used a spare from previous builds - many people will have to go find one for themselves, and at this price they shouldn't have to do that. For that matter, unlike the ASRock and MSI that were defective, Gigabyte don't provide an expansion slot bracket for SATA connections either.In installing the MBO, the following issues became evident - 1) the back panel I/O sheild is a thin piece of tin that is a complete PITA (that's an acronym - figure it out) to install: Gigabyte should take a leaf from ASUS's book and provide a decent, EMI shielded, I/O panel that fits easily without all those silly clips. 2) Despite being oriented to an enthusiast or upper-end beginner customer, "normal" (which is to say, double wide) video cards obscure many important elements of the MBO, and that gets even worse with 2 or more cards, also normal for this type of customer.To iilustrate, the back panel has 2 firewire ports. That's a good thing - not that anyone much uses firewire anymore - because you're going to need them. Why? because the MBO layout means that the second video card completely obscures the onboard 1394 header,so you won't be using THAT for front panel connections any time soon.A useful feature is the two debug LEDs that display codes like "C1" or "FF" and the like during the POST process - very helpful feature this: I was quickly able to determine that one failure to POST was related to a bad stick of RAM and resolve the problem. Trouble is, just like the Firewire header, once you put in that second video card...Now, Gigabyte didn't have to make some of these important elements so painful to get at or see - in a very strange regression to childhood, Gigabyte decided to provide the MBO with an IDE and Floppy drive header! Please, someone tell me the last time they used a floppy drive in the past 5 years. I actually happen to have a floppy drive hanging around. It is over 8 years old and has a USB connection. No MBO header required. I haven't used it for 5 years. As for the IDE header - NO ONE uses IDE on drives anymore. C'mon guys - any hard drive or CDROM you still have that uses an IDE connection is so old it should be proactively tossed before it dies on its own. So, take these not-needed-in-this-millenium headers off and Gigabyte would have been able to make these somewhat more important features just a little more accessible/visible.Other physical elements are a little more sensible - the heat sinks are excellent with nice big heat pipes connecting them. Gigabyte also sensibly made these easily removable with sping loaded plastic clips in case you ever feel like changing them out or using diferent thermal paste. The heat sinks seem to work well enough. Also, the board is generally well made - you can feel the quality in the build and the weight (this latter somewhat due to all the extra copper they use).On the other hand there's some more silliness left for your pleasure - for example, there are LEDs all over this board. All over. You have leds for power phases being used in the RAM, and some more for the CPU (and even the NB!), LED's for showing temperatures of the northbridge, the CPU, others for voltage and who knows what else. 2 comments about this - 1) if you can get them all to light up it's like Christmas has come early 2) unless you're prepared to photocopy a page of the manual and paste it to the wall, you have no hope at all of ever remembering which of those twinkling little lights belongs to which thing or what it means - even if you did make a diagram your new pinup, the placement of some of the LEDs means it's almost impossible to tell if they belong to, say, the DRAM or the Northbridge, unless you use a strong light and a magnifying glass of course.Speaking of hard to see - good luck finding the "reset" button on the board. It's there alright - next to the "power" button. The difference between these two is that while the power button is nice and big and lit up blue, the reset button is this microscopic black, unmarked, unlit little flyspeck you have little chance of spotting, and if you perhaps did, no chance of activating it without mashing your fingertip all over who knows what, unless of course your fingertip is the around the size of a four year old's (and a small 4 year old girl at that).More review after I have the system running for a bit...********Update 12 May 2011*********So the new system has been "up" for around 2 weeks now, so as promised...Good stuff* Well, it works - and given recent experience, that's important!* The "@bios" updating system works perfectly* The board runs nice and cool when overclocked/under heavy load* The feature that allows 2 of the usb ports to stay on for phone charging is really handy I've foundOdd/mildly irritating* When doing a clean install of windows 7, I discoevered that the ethernet ports (internet connections) wouldn't work (at all) until the gigabyte chipset driver CD installed the realtek drivers - what's painful about that is that instead of windows going and looking for updates during the install process, you have to wait until the OS is isntalled, THEN use the CD THEN install the drivers and THEN d/l all the updates. Easy enough, but annoying.* The realtek audio drivers on the CD turned my 5.1 speaker system into a stereo system using the front left and centre speaker only - but play a game or something and magically surround sound would turn on. This was only fixed this morning with a driver realtek realeased 2 days ago.* You must manually go into bios and setup all your disks - it is not smart enough to recognize them and do it for you* This Award Modular bios is nowhere near as easy to use as the American Megatrends bios I am used to - is it just familiarity? I don't think so - I had to do some serious hunting for some settings and found them in places that made no sense at allExtremely irritating/Not good* A "known good" hard drive would be recognized in BIOS but refuse to appear in Windows. I changed the drive and guess what? I tried the drive that would not work on this MBO on a different system...Lo and behold it works just fine. Can't work that one out.* The system has a nasty habit of disabling the realtek ethernet ports when the PC sleeps and then you have to go manually reset them or restart the system. My ASUS boards in the past never did this: it cannot be overemphasized how painful this is. I am hoping some sort of chipset driver update might fix the problem.* The documentation, such as it is (typical MBO level with little useful information (doesn't it strike you as absurd to list a bios setting and then under the "description" describe that it can be on or off, and not actually tell you what it is or what the ramifications of selecting either on or off are? All MBO manufacturers do it.)) does not well describe the "dual lan" feature. I installed this and tried to use it, only to find it really messed things up and it took ages to undo the damage - maybe it works better in a server environment.
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