POSITIVE
- Design I find most appealing, the black and white at MSI tells me something more, but Gigabyte has indeed been working more and more with colors ...
- Great equipment, but also what I expect on a board in the price category
- Very good onboard sound chip (ALC1150) with amplifier, with a 32 Ohm Beyerdynamic headphones I had to reduce under Windows the volume to 8 percent because it was so loud ... The sound is really great for an onboard map and for many certainly the replacement for your old PCI sound card
- 4 beautiful black SATA cable included
- Quite clear UEFI
- Great Gigabytesupport, really quickly and competently!
- Quad Channel, that you have a total of 8 slots for RAM Riegel
NEGATIVE
- Shielding of the onboard sound card: it's not all alone gigabytes fault, but when I get my MSI GTX970 4G stuck in the lowest x16 slot, which sits next to the sound chip, I have a big problem in 3D applications. You can hear the noise from the typical quasi-GTX900er Spulenfiepen on the headphones! Depending on the frame rate in games you can hear a loud buzzing noise medium, which is really annoying! Probably find a crosstalk of high frequency noise on the PCI lanes instead of the sound chip. "Solving" the problem can be only if you connect headphones to the front panel (null buzzing!) Or you put the graphics card in the top x16 slot, which is not with me because of the large CPU cooler (Noctua NH-D15) is possible. Then reduce the noise to a barely perceptible squeak, but it's still there.
Personally, I have solved the problem by I bought an external USB sound card. I had already long ago, so I can live with the problem. I had contacted the Gigabytesupport which have tried recreate the problem, but have it with a GTX970 and 980 failed. The graphics card I have also changed. Possibly the problem occurs only when the MSI 970, who knows ...
Otherwise, I am really very satisfied with the Board and there would always buy again, I miss not a single feature and on the UD5 shenanigans I can do without.
One star deduction, I regret for the poorly shielded onboard card enter, possibly you could work around the problem when you have the sound chip is not placed directly on the PCI slots ...
