Gigabyte A75M-UD2H FM1 Llano Motherboard Review

Final ThoughtsWe were dubious about this board when we received information on it coming to us. The main reason is that we already had the Asus F1A75-M Pro and with products like this, you automatically assume that once you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. After all what have they done different to Asus? For starters, they have managed to squeeze a little bit more power out whilst keeping costs at a user-friendly level. This is clearly shown in a lot of the benchmarks, where at stock the Gigabyte still surpassed expectations and flew past the results given by the F1A75M-Pro from Asus.

I’ve never been a fan of the light blue styling that Gigabyte have included on their boards and much rejoicing was had when they started to produce the black PCB based boards instead. Sadly it seems that black is reserved for higher end stock and the UD2H has been given the baby blue look instead, which some may like, some may care but we think it makes the board look slightly cheap. though we all have different opinions.

Price wise, the UD2H and Llano in general is quite cost effective, as an all in one motherboard, processor and graphics will set you back around £180 in total for the A8-3850 which is the flagship processor in the Llano range. A price that certainly can’t be grumbled at, especially if you already have storage drives, memory etc… as it would leave this to be a very simple upgrade path.

We are still fully behind AMD and the products they are developing, and it seems that Gigabyte have managed to harness the power of the platform extremely well. One thing we do wish is that Gigabyte would hurry up with their UEFI BIOS, as it’s the only missing ingredient from this fantastic recipe.

Pros

• Reliable manufacturer
• Packed with features considering its size and form factor
• Great performance
• Overclocks well
• Stable when overclocked
• Functionality to CrossFire a discrete GPU with APU

Cons:

• Still very new technology