ECS A790GXM-AD3 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard Review

AMD have certainly had to fight off an amount of heat they got ever since they introduced their Phenom processor. Plagued by a bug which they fixed moderately fast, their reputation got a pretty big dent. Last year, after April, things started to look much better. The new B3 revision processors where pretty okay. Then in January 2009 they released their Phenom II processor. Processors with tremendous good value for money, being able to compete with Intel’s Core 2 Quad lineup of processors. And surely, while Intel has the upper hand in the high-end segment, AMD remains king of performance for money, as especially the Black Edition Phenom II processors offer good value and can be overclocked pretty darn well. Something the Guru3D readers like and enjoy doing very much.

With a successful launch of Phenom II processors, AMD has now started to further improve their chip design and overall performance. Squeeze more performance out of them, reach higher clock-frequencies, yeah the truth is, it isn’t looking so bad anymore, no sir. I think roughly half of the PCs in my office alone are Phenom II based computers. I like the price, and I certainly like the performance very much, plus they are very energy efficient with the AMD 790 chipset.

• Introduction
• The Chipset
• Socket AM2+ and AM3
• The ECS AM3 motherboard
• The ECS AM3 motherboard (2)
• The ECS AM3 motherboard (3)
• Power Consumption tested
• Phenom II overclocking & temperatures
• Overdrive | BIOS
• CPU-Z Screenshots
• Test Environment & equipment
• Performance – Dhrystone | Whetstone
• Performance Queen | ZLib CPU
• Performance Mandel FPU | x.264 transcoding
• Performance – DDR3 Memory read | write
• Performance – 3D Rendering | AES data encryption
• Performance – 3DMark06 CPU | WinRAR
• Performance – 3DMark Vantage GPU and CPU tests
• Game performance – FEAR | BIA:HH |Crysis WarHEAD
• Final Words & Conclusion

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