Gigabyte X99-UD4 Review
Published by Hiwa Pouri on 03.09.14Page:
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The Gigabyte X99-UD4 comes with an ATX form factor, which makes the board fit in the vast majority of cases. Having a look at the design reveals, there is a black matte PCB and there are four grey DIMM slots. As soon as the board is up and running you will notice the orange backlight with the PCH cooler, which actually looks pretty decent. On another note you can have a look at the sheer number of features and additional chips on this motherboard and you will notice, that there aren't too many. On one hand, this is helping keep the board clean and on the other hand this is one of the cheapest X99 boards you can buy.
Gigabyte equipped the X99-UD with a digital 6+4 phase power design. There is a total of six phases to stably supply the CPU with power and there are Chips from International Rectifier controling the signals. In the case of the DIMM slots there are four more phases which are also controlled by chips from International Rectifier.
Totally you'll find eight DIMM-slots on the Gigabyte X99-UD4. Officially supported are memory clock speeds of up to DDR4-3000MHz and more. If all the slots are equipped with 8 Gigabyte modules, you can have a maximum of 64 Gigabyte memory on this motherboard. There is also enough space around the CPU socket, to install large CPU coolers.
Southbridge as well as current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via two passive cooling blocks. Booth blocks are rather well-sized and they've been connected to eachother using a heatpipe. Apart from that the cooling blocks have been very well manufactured. On top of that, the PCH cooler received a backlight, which in our opinion looks really nice.
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