GIGABYTE has a long line of quality motherboards, today we have an opportunity to look at their latest motherboard. The GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 is the flagship motherboard in GIGABYTE's AMD product stack. Along with the flagship status comes a price to match. The GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 has a sticker price of $209.99 after rebate at Tiger Direct. It's a little on the steep side for AMD motherboards, but your getting a whole lot for your money. The GIGABYTE name alone is synonymous with quality. Just about anybody who has been building their own systems in the last couple of decades has likely owned at least one GIGABYTE product if not more. In recent years GIGABYTE has expanded their product line to include just about everything under the sun when it comes to computer components and peripherals. Right now you can arm yourself with GIGABYTE cases, gaming mice, gaming keyboards, optical drives, power supplies, CPU coolers, and just about anything else you can think of! The only computer components GIGABYTE doesn't have in their array is processors, RAM, hard drives and SSD's! Aside from those few components you can build a complete system with all GIGABYTE components! But, I digress. Getting back to the object on hand, the GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7. The GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 is based upon the latest and greatest chipset from AMD, the AMD 990FX and AMD SB950. A couple of features come along with the AMD 990FX chipset that weren't available with the previous generation chipsets. The first and arguably the most notable is ability to run NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface). While there were no actual changes to the chipset design to allow this, NVIDIA will now allow motherboard manufacturers the capability for SLI licensing on their AMD 990 motherboards. Of course this comes at a price from NVIDIA, and adds to the final cost of the board. Oh the price we have to pay for full functionality. The second feature that the AMD 990 chipset brings to the table is AM3+ support. The AMD AM3+ socket is the only socket that will support the new AMD FX 'Bulldozer' processors. Good new though, you can still run the previous generation AM3 Phenom II/Athlon II processors in socket AM3+ motherboards like the GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7.