Review: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 motherboard

by Tarinder Sandhu on 17 October 2011, 10:34 3.5

Tags: Gigabyte (TPE:2376)

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USB 3.0 performance, bandwidth and PiFast

Peripheral performance

The ASUS board's two sets of results are within the standard deviation of the test. Gigabyte's USB 3.0 controller from Etron is a touch slower when writing, evaluated by using AS SSD's throughput benchmark.

Single-threaded performance isn't one of the FX's strong points. Even a 4.7GHz chip is easily outmuscled by default-clocked Phenom II X6 1100T.