Aesthetically, it's a nice looking board. I'm just not seeing the need for yet another AM3+ board at this point. Are they really selling that well?

Seems like everything Gigabyte 970 and 990 chipset is crap.

^^ This. also, lets not forget the article guru3d posted about newer revision boards from Gigabyte using lesser quality parts, and therefore performing WORSE than the boards they're replacing. link here: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/gigabyte-pushing-it-a-motherboard-revision-too-far.html i have the R3 version of this model, and honestly i hate it. i can't get my DDR3 1866 ram to run any higher than 1600mhz, and thats with a fairly hefty voltage increase, otherwise it would only do 1333mhz. my advice to anyone considering this board: avoid, avoid, avoid!

This isn't a new revision of the board you have. It's a new board. This is GA-990XA-UD3 R5 v1.0

Seems like everything Gigabyte 970 and 990 chipset is crap.

Most AMD boards are crap. In my experience, the weakest link in any AMD based system has been the motherboard.

The 125 USD board comes with two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots (x8/x8), and a third PCIe 2.0 x16 slot (x4, toed to southbridge) Ummm No thanks we don't want ya cripple **** mobo what we want is PCIe 3.0 (x16/x16) + USB 3.1 and lots of it thanks not the usual 2/4 ports start getting rid of the USB 2.0 ports (I don't have a need for 12/14 USB 2.0 ports) and replace them with USB 3.0/3.1