Now you tell me! Actually mobos are what i researched the most in my last 2 days of OCD reading tons of benchmarks and reviews, and the gigabyte tho it did well on benchmarks especially for the price, had a lott of bad customer reviews that talked me out of it.
I pulled this review of the Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 from the Newegg site.......>>>>>
.....{{{{{ 4 out of 5 eggsRating: 4/5Had to RMA twice...
Pros: The board sports many good features. The layout works well, although I'm a tad stymied at the vid card slot spacing, although it would be fine with water cooling I think. Since this is a followup review to my previous one, skip to the meat and potatoes below.
Cons: If left off for 12 hours or more it would take a dozen or more times to get Windows to load without giving a random BSOD. I spent 2 solid months troubleshooting this board, so whoever before said it was bad RAM for me before...does not know what they're talking about. If I could get it to stay in Windows after initial loading, it would be stable, although hard drive read speeds were abysmal: with a 640 GB WD Black drive I had bursts of 115 MB, and then sequential plummeted to 1-2 MBPS and stay there aside from the occasional blip to ~100 MBPS. The hard drive was tested good with several checking tools (WD tools, Spinrite, Windows).
Other Thoughts: All other components were tested in another Gigabyte (890GPA-UD3H) motherboard, without a single issue. RAM had been tested in two other motherboards without issue previously. The board was sent to Gigabyte's RMA, who sent it back. I contacted them upon receiving the boar (still having the problem), and they are replacing it. Overall I'll have spent about 1.5 months on a netbook instead of the main rig..disappointing for my first Gigabyte foray, but I cannot fault them for trying to make things right. It loses an egg for being defective. 'Nuff said!
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>>>>>> TAKE NOTE; there is absolutely nothing wrong with any of these boards that were RMAed. The BSOD this person was experiencing was 99 out of a hundred percent possibility, related to Windows 7...! If a hard drive doesn't spin up in under 10 seconds, Win 7 issues a stop error.... This mostly happens with multiple platter high capacity HDDs .... M$ has issued a hotfix for this problem.
Not to mention that about 80% 4 and 5 star reviews, (which the board has), is stellar rating when in association with any motherboard.