Layout

The Gigabyte M790FXT-UD5P presents itself on a dark blue PCB. The components on the whole board are clearly arranged as you'll be able to see on also the following pictures. Regarding graphic card slots you'll find two PCIe x16-slots which support CrossFireX (x16/x16).

To deliver an as stable as possible current supply Gigabyte delivers an eight plus two phase power design. The CPU therfore gets eight phases and the motherboards core components two. Looking at the capacitors Gigabyte uses All-Solid-Cap's which have a MTBF of 50'000 hours.

Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots in the FXT790-UD5P. Officially supported are DDR3-1066/1333/1666 with up to 16 GByte capacity. Using overclocking Gigabyte claims that even DDR3-1800 should be possible.

North- and Southbridge as well as current voltage converters are being held at adequate temperatures via a passive heatpipe cooling solution. There is also plenty of space around the CPU socket to install even todays biggest aircooler without encountering any problems.