Gigabyte X58A-UD9 and GTX480 Quad Sli Review
Dirt 2, Just Cause 2, Crysis Warhead
Published: 27th July 2010 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £465.99 |
Gaming Benchmarks
Out of the synthetic and into the real-world, the results pretty much echo our previous page, but generally the fourth card has a negative impact if anything. So we'll whip through them to save you reading the same thing lots of times, and also because this a UD9 review and not strictly a Quad-SLI review.
Dirt 2
That fourth card gives us a 4 frame drop in Dirt 2. The overheads it causes aren't able to be overcome by the power it provides.
Just Cause 2
When it first was released it appeared to be a hardware eater. A couple of driver upgrades and some heavy-hitting hardware later and it's getting spanked. Tri-SLI giving us 164fps. The UD9 has all the graphics bandwidth you could ever need.
Crysis Warhead
As hardware improved we edged towards the 60fps barrier in Crysis Warhead. With the release of the 5870, and latterly the GTX480, we've blown past that and discovered what we knew all along. The Crysis engine is terrible. 16 fps increase for another £1200 worth of graphics card is useless.
Most Recent Comments
Best review ever! Really appreciate the effort you and the guys must have gone to for this! Clearly proves that 3-way is good if a little expensive, but 4-way is just stupid for anything except PC Mark really. What a well made board though! Even if that stupid chipset heatsink is a massive gimmick , it's nothing short of awesome! Well done OC3D!
P.S. Love the new watermark btw.
P.S. Love the new watermark btw.
Fantastic, amazing, fabulous, unbelievable, jaw dropping, there is not enough words in the dictionary that would describe this review and videos I enjoyed every minute of it and to be honest I read it twice actually it was better than watching AVATAR in 3d in the cinema, I’m a very critical person by nature but OC3D you deserve a 5 star for this one as for the videos I watched them in 1080p on my 40’’ Samsung to enjoy every single detail there is and it is truly amazing stuff guys and the watermark oh... just lovely truly professional , If it was up to me I'll put this review on the BBC it would definitely be better than watching click, to be honest there is nothing ells I can say to show my appreciation to you guys for giving me a two hour journey of pure enjoyment. I truly love you guys.
Regards to everyone in OC3D even the cleaners if you have any.
Regards to everyone in OC3D even the cleaners if you have any.
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Fantastic, amazing, fabulous, unbelievable, jaw dropping, I enjoyed every minute of it, you deserve a 5 star for this one, just lovely truly professional, pure enjoyment, I truly love you guys,
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Nice review though.
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Good review sir, the shortcomings of quad sli were eye opening.
Fantastic looking board. I don't think there will be too many wanting to shill out £450 for this though with the new round of CPUs on the horizon.
4xsli is a joke. How gutted would you be if you bought the board for that reason only to get the results you have shown.
4xsli is a joke. How gutted would you be if you bought the board for that reason only to get the results you have shown.
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Fantastic looking board. I don't think there will be too many wanting to shill out £450 for this though with the new round of CPUs on the horizon.
4xsli is a joke. How gutted would you be if you bought the board for that reason only to get the results you have shown. |
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Fantastic looking board. I don't think there will be too many wanting to shill out £450 for this though with the new round of CPUs on the horizon. 4xsli is a joke. How gutted would you be if you bought the board for that reason only to get the results you have shown. |
I am not rich, by any means. Let me point one thing out though. I do multimedia production work, and use some proprietary PCIe cards in that work. The cards MUST follow consecutive slot orders. So that made the ud9 one of only 3 options for my needs. The EVGA lacked the sata3 and a few features. The ASUS SC has been plagued with problems. So that only left the ud9. Well to be fair there was a small assortment of high end server boards also, but none exactly fit the bill.
ALSO, Gigabyte does make the promise that they will "custom engineer" BIOS features for ud9 users. This is critical for my needs. As my software/hardware matures, I am constantly running into dma/irq issues with mobo's/os's. If Gigabyte makes good on their promise and expedites BIOS implementations even ONE day ahead of the competition. The board has payed for itself.
Not to brag or tout my other hardware, but the proprietary PCI cards I use run about $15k for 3, so the premium for the ud9 was really not that big of a deal (in the bigger picture).
Now for the icing on the cake. I was previously running these cards in a MAC
Apple was forcing me to buy a new $7k computer every 2 years or so, just to keep up. So now that I moved over to a Win platform, the performance is through the roof....and I have under $4k into a system that utterly DEMOLISHES the MacPro in BOTH cost and performance.
I think the ud9 is actually a bargain, considering what it does. If there was ONE single competing product on the market...I would call it as you have.....but there is not.
I don't regret my purchase one bit. I am not just talking artificial benches....I am talking REAL WORLD performance. 24/7
ud9 is truly the current king
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