GIGABYTE A75-UD4H
RRP: $115 | Website: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3927
Test Machine
• AMD A8-3850
• GIGABYTE GTX 570
• Crucial C300
• Corsair Dominator 2133 MHz
• Corsair AX1200
• Windows 7 Ultimate
T
he A75-UD4H is
GIGABYTE’s top of the
line A75 based motherboard.
It features an 8+2 phase
voltage regulator along with
some great overclocking
support; this board has
all the potential of fully
overclocking your APU.
With support for a total
of eight USB 3.0 devices,
CrossFireX, HybridCrossFireX technology
and six SATA6GB/s ports,
this board is enriched with
the latest connectivity
options any APU user would
demand. The board features
DVI-D, D-SUB, HDMI, and
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Display Port as well with
support for resolutions as
high as 2560x1600.
Analysis
When you walk down the
aisle at your local computer
store, looking to buy a
motherboard boasting the
A75 chipset, what does
one look for? Apart from
a low price, many would
most likely look for tons of
features and robust build
quality. This board is pretty
well priced at only $115,
it is impossible to find an
Intel board close to that
price loaded with the same
feature set and that is what
impresses us. Not only is
this board based upon the
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable
3, which guarantees 2oz
copper PCB and Japanese
solid capacitors, but it also
has an impressive number
of USB 3.0 and SATA6GB/s
ports. Most of that
connectivity is from the A75
chipset, which is just loaded
to the brim with SATA6G
and USB 3.0. The board
boasts a very powerful 8+2
phase design, which is the
pinnacle of high-end A75
chipset boards. We see
triple slot spacing for two
PCI-E 16x slots, which can
be operated at 16x for single
GPU configurations or two
at 8x/8x for CrossFireX. The
board boasts three PCI-E
1x slots and two PCI slots.
GIGABYTE opted to use two
third party EtronTech USB
3.0 controllers for the back
panel (4 USB 3.0 back panel)
and used the integrated
four USB 3.0 ports for the
internal headers for a front
panel. We think GIGABYTE
may have done this because
of the EtronTech being
faster than AMD’s integrated
controller. AMD will have to
deal with this. AMD’s chipset
isn’t a bare one in terms of