The UD3 has always been the middle-child of the Gigabyte line of motherboards and so it's been fairly difficult to place. If what you desire is the cheapest possible motherboard that bears Gigabyte branding, the UD2 is the chap. If however you want a plentiful supply of bells and as many whistles as it's possible to fit within a 12x8 block piece of hardware, then the UD5 and UD7 will be exactly the fellows for you. So the UD3, which isn't so cheap that its quality is almost a secondary consideration, but neither is it so amazing that you're likely to use it as the basis for a Colossus, tends to fall into the middle. It's a jack of all trades and by being so difficult to pigeon-hole it truly is a test of going into a review free from the burden of expectation. We know it's not going to be so cheap that as long as it has room to put the hardware in we'll be happy, but we also know it's not going to blow us away by having 24 phase power and 12 PCIe sockets. Therefore we have to have a clean mind and just see where exactly on the sliding scale it fits. So let's crack on.