Technical Specifications

At this time I would like to take the opportunity and express my sincere discontent with the content quality on the official AMD web-sites. Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P mainboard is based on AMD 790X chipset. Of course, the first natural intention is to go to the developer site to learn more about the peculiarities of this core logic set and differences from the other chipsets. I am afraid you may be unable to do so. You can easily find the page devoted to 7^th series chipsets. You may even find the link to the specifications page. However, you won’t find any detailed technical description of features there: at best there will be some general info that should rather be part of a marketing booklet and not a serious web-site. For example, they used exact same wording for the description of AMD 790FX and AMD 790X chipsets: does it mean the chipsets are exactly the same? No, they differ by the number of PCI Express lanes; however, you will not find this information in the “marketing” technical specs.

This sad situation takes place not only for AMD chipsets, but also graphics cards. Only processors seem to have adequate technical info about them available. Note that they also offer you to rate their page in terms of design, content and usability (the corresponding link is at the bottom of every page of the AMD web-site). You may also leave your comments and answer a few questions there. Please, do not skip the opportunity to do so. If you didn’t find the information you were looking for, let them know. Hopefully, AMD webmasters will take your comments into account and will improve the quality of info on their site. And at this time, let’s take a closer look at the Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P specifications that can be easily located on Gigabyte’s official web-site: