- Nov 21, 2010
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So I'm slowly piecing together an AMD rig in the hopes that Piledriver will actually be good. Right now I have a Phenom II 980 and 8GB RAM, but can't decide on a mainboard. Which is better - the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 or Asus Sabertooth 990FX? The price difference is a couple of doughnuts and a cup of coffee. From reading reviews I found that they both are pretty similar, but Gigabyte has better audio and Asus has a better BIOS. I'm mostly concerned about long term reliability while overclocked and automatic fan control. In this regard Asus should be better but I never used Gigabyte boards for a long time so I have no idea how their Ultra Durable stuff holds up. I do like the BIOS of my GA-X58A-UD5 though.