Conclusion

We often come across excellent looking mainboards that suddenly demonstrate their by far not the most attractive sides during the practical tests. This is when the review that starts greatly, ends on a sad note. I am extremely pleased that nothing like that happened this time and our initial great impression from Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R mainboard remained the same.

Gigabyte engineers did a great job with the design of this solution, provided it with a list of features that are up to all contemporary standards and may satisfy even the most pretentions users. Some of you may be upset to see no additional brackets for external Serial ATA devices or bridges for multi-card graphics configurations, but most will hardly even notice that. Just like the entire LGA1366 Gigabyte mainboard lineup, our today’s hero has BIOS with excellent functionality that doesn’t yield to any of the top solutions. Moreover, nothing prevented us from taking advantage of all these functions: the board worked perfectly fine in nominal mode and allowed us to easily overclock CPU and memory. As for the performance and power consumption, the board again proved up to the mark, having proven just as efficient as any other similar mainboards. However, Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R has a serious advantage over many competitors: since it is the junior model in the lineup, its price is relatively low.

Unfortunately, the failure to cold start at high QPI/VTT Voltage settings becomes a sharp dissonance to this idyllic picture. Although this is an obvious drawback, it is still pretty relative. Users don’t often buy elite memory modules for use in junior mainboard models, and if you don’t hunt for high memory frequencies, then you won’t even experience this issue at all. So, for you Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R is very likely to become that ideal mainboard with a bunch of advantages and no drawbacks. The board that you have been looking for all this time.