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Product Description
Supports Intel Core X-series Processor Family Quad Channel Non-ECC Unbuffered DDR4, 8 DIMMs Intel Optane Memory Ready Intel VROC ready ASMedia 3142 USB 3.1 Gen 2 with USB Type-A 3-Way Graphics Support Server-Class Digital Power Design ALC1220 120dB SNR HD Audio with Smart Headphone AMP and WIMA audio capacitor RGB FUSION support Digital LED and RGBW Light Strips Smart Fan 5 features Multiple Temperature Sensors and Hybrid Fan Headers with FAN STOP Dual Ultra-Fast M.2 with PCIe Gen3 x4 interface NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 U.2 support by optional adaptor Intel GbE LAN Gaming Network with cFosSpeed Internet Accelerator Software Anti-Sulfur Resistor Design Ultra Durable 25KV ESD and 15KV Surge LAN Protection Lightning-Fast Intel Thunderbolt 3 AIC Support GIGABYTE UEFI DualBIOS APP Center Including EasyTune and Cloud Station Utilities. ATX Form Factor; 30.5cm x 24.4cm. Register for an AORUS X299 Experience Pack; event.gigabyte.us/XperiencePack/ ; Additional Savings with Review Rewards Program; review.gigabyte.us/Product Details
- Size: Motherboard
- Brand: Gigabyte
- Model: X299 UD4
- Released on: 2017-06-26
- Aspect ratio: Unknown
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 3.14" h x 10.62" w x 13.18" l,
Features
- Supports Intel Core X-series Processor Family
- Intel Octane Memory Ready
- AS Media 3142 USB 3.1 Gen 2 with USB Type-A
- Register for an AORUS X299 Experience Pack; event.gigabyte.us/XperiencePack/
- Additional Savings with Review Rewards Program; review.gigabyte.us/
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Click Buy new Get UsedBy finallink
I have never been so disgusted with buying a new product and receiving a used motherboard that had thermal grease all over it, about 8 pins in the socket were bent and the foxconn cover for the socket was missing. Fingerprints clearly visible all over the motherboard. Click on buy new get used. Something smells fishy with this deal sent it back for a full refund.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Overall, a pretty good board with coil whineBy CaptainBrocard
I've had this board for about 2 weeks. I got it specifically because it has 2x 8-pin CPU power connectors, a heatsink design for the VRMs, plenty of m.2 slots and very high quality audio outputs for front and rear on-board audio. I don't care about LEDs or other 'gaming' features. Here are a few of my thoughts:
Awesome:
+ The on-board audio is the best I've ever heard from a motherboard. I'm not an extreme audiophile, but I like good sound. I will no longer be using my Fiio desktop amplifier with my Beyerdynamic dt880s and for the first time, my super sensitive cIEMs have no noise from a motherboard's audio. Fantastic!
+ There is plenty of power for a 7900x at 4.9ghz. I have a custom loop water cooling loop for 7900x and Titan X Pascal. The onboard pump header and other water cooling features are pretty neat, though not necessary.
+ Using der8auer's method for testing VRM cooling, I have not seen temperatures above 85c on the back of the board or 78c on the heatsink (temperature probe squeezed between heatsink and VRM and read on a multimeter.) There is minimal active cooling in my test bench. The only air moving over the VRMs is from 3 front Vardar Evo fans on a 360mm radiator. This is much better than others I have seen, but I might get another fan specifically for the VRMs after delidding the CPU.
+ No memory compatibility problems with Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB dimms (64gb total.)
+ Plenty of M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs, including a PCIe 4x to M.2 adapter card with a huge heatsink. Again, I have minimal airflow in this test bench, so a big M.2 heatsink is very helpful.
Not so great:
- The killer networking software is atrocious. Long story short, after installing the drivers and software, it ruined a bunch of stuff in Windows 10, including forced changes on my VPN network adapter, the Intel network adapter and made the networking statistics in task manager stop updating. I finally reinstalled the OS and only installed essential drivers for the killer network adapters. I really wish the wifi especially was Intel instead of Killer. Fortunately, the Intel i219 ethernet is great, and the only one I will use unless absolutely necessary.
-Gigabyte's software bloat for using the overclocking tools, RGB fusion, and others is out of control. I don't need 2+ gigabytes of nonsense running in the background just to use these tools! I decided to just overclock and use the RBG settings in the bios instead of dealing with the bloatware. The creative audio bloat is also unnecessary if you don't want software interfering with the solid audio components. The Realtek audio manager has plenty of features including an equalizer, headphone impedance sensing and other headphone amplifier settings. I tried the creative sound blaster stuff, but uninstalled it. I don't need an FPS or MOBA mode for my headphones.
- My motherboard has INSANE coil whine coming from the VRM area whenever the CPU draws over 190w. I have heard this type of noise from a GPU before, but this is easily twice as loud as the worst GPU I have heard. Fortunately, it only happens when pushing it to the limit, but then again...that's why I have this machine! Rendering 4k content, benchmarking, or other data work that stresses all your cores will cause awful noise every time. If this bugs you, check using something like Cinebench on all cores as soon as you get your build put together. It was audible but not awful when at stock settings, but the noise is really bad at 4.6ghz+ or more on 10 cores.
- Compared to some other manufacturers, this bios is certainly not pretty and tough to find some settings. Not a deal breaker, but Asus does a much better job imo.
Final thoughts:
Given the price, features and noise I don't think I would use this board again. I should have found a cheaper board with at least an 8+4 pin CPU connector, use some active cooling on the VRMs and get an aftermarket sound card. $499 is a crazy price for a motherboard, and this one is mostly awesome, but still not worth it.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
UPDATED - Solid board - dual channel/i7-7740X works in channels C and D, not properly documentedBy Jeff Jordan / Jordan Innovations
UPDATED to 4 star: Heard back within 24hrs from eSupport instructing me to populate channels C and D, rather than A and B, for KabyLake-X processors (dual-channel) applications, and I now have all 4 sticks of 8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 running at XMP (3000mhz, C15) speeds.
Solid board - especially for a 'budget' x299 board - and up to 5GHZ on the i7-7740X running Prime95 overnight. Only beefs would be lack of USB header connectors (only two USB 2.0, but yay for two USB 3.0), typically terrible Intel RST RAID5 write performance, and the shoddy documentation on the memory slots for 7740-X users.
INITIAL COMMENTS: I've had good success with the UD-series of boards in the past, and saw this as a x299 value. This review will be updated if/when I get a response from support (submitted ticket 419962 last night).
Since most of my needs are not effectively multithreaded (gaming and Solidworks), I got this board and an i7-7740X with 8GBx4 of Corsair LPX DDR4 3000 C15 memory to run in dual-channel mode. The manual specifies which of the 8 slots get populated, but the board won't POST.
I inserted the 4 sticks in quad-channel config, and the board POSTs, but only recognizes 16gb RAM. Pull the two sticks from channels C and D, and the board won't POST anymore. Doesn't matter if running at base memory clocks or XMP profile (although I will report that XMP profile of 3000mhz CAS 15 1.35v Memtest'd fine).
This was all on the BIOS rev that the board shipped with ("f2") - going to Gigabyte's site I found two newer revs ("f3" and "f4b"), updated to "f4b" using their Windows-based @BIOS tool and now the board won't POST with any configuration. Same DDR4 POSTs fine in another machine.
The fear is that Gigabyte hasn't tested dual-channel configs/i7-7740X, and that I've lost a couple days using my CAD workstation because of this. Hoping to hear back from Support today, or will return the X299-UD4 (thanks Amazon) and get another board.
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