GIGABYTE GA-MA785G-UD3H

CONCLUSIONS

Being a high end computer user, sometimes the all out shear raw power of my computer puts myself in a different realm. Plain and simple that realm I am normally in is kicking butt and taking names. Doing a review like this brings me back into the reality that not every one has top of the line computer components. These people just want a computer that works, and give them what they need or want. This type of review to me really shows a motherboards true capability, using an old out moded CPU on a more updated motherboard and see how they dance with each other.

The GA-MA785G-UD3H motherboard did exactly what I had set in mind to do with this motherboard. Even if i had no idea how to do that task. I set my self a goal to push that little AMD dual core too new levels. This motherboard did exactly that, it was not as complicated as I thought it was going to be. Since I am not an avid AMD user I really dont know if 3.15GHZ on a AMD 4000+ 2.1 Brisbane CPU is good or average. I like to think it is a fairly decent little overclock, that the GA-MA785G-UD3H (sometimes gotta love copy and pasting motherboard names) gave me with very little trouble. 

The areas I feel that GIGABYTE needs to work on with their motherboards. Is the placement of thr EPS CPU power plug, this has allways been in a hard to reach place. If we forget to hook this plug to our PSU's before installing the motherboard into our chassis gaining access to this power plug will be rather difficult. Another area that I feel GIGABYTE needs to improve on is the upper PCI-E port (PCI-E 1) GIGABYTE seems to be continuously blocking the use of this port with the IOH/North Bridge heatsink rendering the use of this port useless.

Having only a price point point of 90 USD puts this great little overclocking motherboard in a range where most people can afford who needs or wants a good performing motherboard.

• Performance: 9
• Value: 9
• Quality: 9
• Warranty: 8
• Features: 7
• Innovation: 7.5

Pros:

+Overclocks very well

+Easy to understand BIOS

+Can support a wide range of AMD CPU

Cons:

-EPS CPU power plug still in a difficult spot

-Top PCI-E port (PCI-E 1) is still blocked by the IOH/North Bridge heatsink

The GA-MA785G-UD3H did exactly what I wanted to do or did exactly what I had in mind for it to do, the goal was simple achieve a new level of performance on an older AMD dual core. I give the GA-MA785G-UD3H from GIGABYTE a 8 out of 10 and the:

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