GIGABYTE X299 UD4 Pro (Intel LGA 2066 Core i9/ATX/2 M.2/ USB 3.1 gen 2 Type-A/RGB Fusion/Motherboard)

This X299 UD4 Pro motherboard is the UD (Ultra Durable) line of Gigabyte motherboards. The components used to build this board are selected for their durability. There are two copies of system BIOS on the motherboard to handle any potential BIOS corruption.Performance is as good as any X299 motherboards, with many BIOS options to tweak the CPU and memory settings. RGB-Fusion works perfectly with the Antec DP501 case's RGB color display.The are two X16 PCIe slots, one X8 and two X4 slots. Although all PCIe slots look like the full length, only two of those are x16. Keep this in mind if you need to install multiple graphic cards.There are 8 DDR4 memory slots, two M.2 PCIe/SATA SSD slots. Plenty of SATA, USB 2.0, USB 3.0 and 3.1 ports. LAN port is built-in but no Wi-Fi onboard. I just used a PCIe Wi-Fi card to add that function.Given the performance and relatively low price of this board (for an X299 board with LGA 2066 CPU support anyway), I think it is a very good value.

This has been an outstanding board, with no issues as some have mentioned. I installed an Intel i7-7800x and overclocked using autotune to 4.2 GHZ successfully without any stabilization/heat problems. I would recommend using this board so long as you are using at least a 7800x to get full use of the 8 DIMM slots available rather than only 4 with the Kaby Lake X platform. The lighting zones are easy to setup and have several configuration settings both in BIOS as well as within windows.Con: The only problem I've had thus far is with the Bluetooth device, it seems to randomly work/not work and the drivers for the Bluetooth are not directly available on Gigabyte's website. I've reached out to them for the driver and/or assistance but have not heard anything. I don't think this one con is worth a star, as the Bluetooth is nice, but not necessary for my purposes.

This is a first for me. I got this board over an ASUS one after it was recommend for better stability. After approximately 3 weeks, suddenly problems. I had new RAM of the same type on hand, tried that, no that was not it. So I called the, they seemed very sympathetic, the man even admitted that a certain type of electrical failing had been common on these boards. They had it for 2 weeks, NEVER let me know there was an issue of any sort. I finally got it, opened box a few days ago: "WE ARE NOT FIXING IT BECAUSE WE HAVE DETERMINED THE DAMAGE IS PSYCHICAL AND HENCE NOT COVERED." How, exactly, could the damage be "physical" when the board was sitting on my desk inside my home office behind a locked door? Moreover, IF that was their determination, why not send me a notice and at least give me the option of a repair and letting me know how much it would be? Nope. Sent it back, still broken, with no effort at fixing, expelling to me that I HAD BROKEN IT (!!!!) through external damage. amazing. Avoid this company like the plague, nothing good EVER comes from these people.

This is a well built, feature rich MOBO. Here are two of the things that made me a fan.For my use, the number of USB ports on the back panel is more than enough, but having two internal USB 3.1 Gen 1 headers may come in handy. One accomodates USB ports on the front panel. However I've been considering an internal media card reader (CR, SD, micro SD etc.) and there aren't a lot of reader options without at least one or two USB 3.0 ports. Having the second internal 3.1 header available means I can go this route w/o having non-functioning ports on the reader (even if they are not needed).However, it was dual ethernet ports that turned out to be the big, unanticipated advantage. I built this system to fulfill a need to set up and tear down several VMs (for personal development reasons, not real-world use). I ran into issues with VM IP address assignments caused by my use of wifi (highly unlikely in real-world scenarios - VMs aren't hosted on servers having wifi only connectivity). This MOBO provided an easy solution. I connected the computer to the router via ethernet using one network interface. I configure VMs using the other network interface.This is the only MOBO I've had that was designed for desktop workstations and came with 2 network interfaces out-of-the-box. And that saved me a ton of time I would have spent searching for a solution to a very atypical problem. The many features of this board make it very versatile.One thing to look out for though, is that there are trade-offs between the many SATA/M2/PCIe options. You can't engage every connector on the board at once. If you are pushing any boundaries on expansion slots, you may want to visit GIGABYTE's specifications page for this board to understand limitations that affect combinations of SATA, M2 and PCIe devices. Apparently these arrise from the number of chipset lanes so they can vary by CPU.