had to download straight from AMD's site. After updating all chipsets, USB ports (Etron), and sound from Realtek I am not having any more issues with the mo/bo. It appears to be working perfectly.

- if you buy all your parts with the AM3 socket in mind you should almost always clear taller ram - stays cool; my case idles at 24c; 26c with all the windows closed in the apt - pretty much everything I said in my initial review but I have a few things to add about this brand in particular things I

Out of the box you will have a few complaints and probably some issues with some things working correctly; Let me just say I considered trading it for a different one; Personally, as I stated in my initial review, I had problems with my sound being static-y.

Like I said above, 4 years later I am still happy with it, though I am going to be upgrading sometime soon, this board has held up well. I am a profuse gamer and spend most of my time playing various games that range from low end to modern AAA titles and this motherboard allowed for plenty of...

-Easy to setup whether in a new system or upgrading; -It says durable, and they mean it; Mine has lasted over 4 years including a lightning strike (3.5 years ago) at the house, which fried the network adapter on the board but everything else is still working strong all these years later.

-Connecting to SATA ports can be a little frustrating due to their location and angle placement

I've only been using it for ~1 week, but so far no issues at all. High quality build (especially for the price), very clearly labelled board so easy to set up and worked on first boot up. Has a good selection and quantity of sockets and slots.

Bought the middle of June, and so far it has worked well. One small note, I want to do and it is on SATA port that ended up right between the holes for wiring in my Define R3 chassis. Was a little awkward with the routing of the cables right there.

Product description should also reveal the version of the motherboard. Boards from gigabyte have version released and based on those versions there are some changes like a sound chip change or a memory controller change. That's it. Rest all great. Board came in gigabyte seal.

Easy To Install; Fast

This motherboard is an extremely great improvement over my old one and the chipset allows up to 32gb, (currently at 16gb and it's doing amazing) It looks sleek, Fits nicely, A lot of USB 2.0 And 3.0 Ports, ESATA, And SATA ports, Love it. Would definitely recommend.

Board looks and feels very durable. Installation was easy, bios setup was easy. Software programs like the bios menu and the extra software were clunky.

If you recall our review of the GA-P67A-UD7 a few issues back, you'll remember how much we loved the new design direction that GIGABYTE took, and have continued to take since. The GA-990FXA-UD7 feels like the spiritual sibling of the P67 board, with a strikingly similar beauty and a penchant for...

was going perfect no problems runs fast but I came home from work and it had died kinda sucks

I had the first version of this board when it was released back in 2011. I lost that board to a lighting strike that burned out the VRM section, the CPU survived though. This is still a good board for gaming or moderate OverClocking.

The only Con I can think of : If you are going back and redoing a board to add better audio capabilities; you could have also added more USB 3.0 ports than what it started out with!