may 26 2010
overclock3d reviewed the ASUS P6X58D-E
Conclusion:
The major visual difference between this mobo and the Premium is the difference in heatpipes, besides that ASUS has taken a few unimportant features off their Premium model to produces this board. The BIOS is easy to navigate with all the necessary options for easy overclocking. SATA6 and USB3.0 make this mobo ready for the future. In short this mobo has an excellent overclocking performance, is well laid out and has a nice look. Most important it's a bargain. The reviewer gave it a recommended award.
Overclocking:
A Core i7 930 was OCed @4.2GHz, 200x21.
Benchmarks:
POV Ray3D Mark Vantage, Cinebench, Crysis, DiRT 2, Lavalys Everest Ultimate, PC mark vantage x64, Sisoft Sandra, Unigine Heaven
2.0, wPrime. In the gaming benches an ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB was used.....More
may 25 2010
xbitlabs reviewed the BIOSTAR TH55XE
Conclusion:
This mainboard has a good design with modern functionality. The BIOS options allow fine-tuning and there were no problems running
this board in the nominal as well as overclocked mode. A number of its features are typical of higher-class products, still this board
is affordable. The reviewer gave it a very high mark.
Overclocking:
A Core i3-540 was overclocked from 3.07 to 3.9 GHz.
Benchmarks:
Cinebench, Fritz Chess, Everest, x264 HD, 7zip, SuperPi, 3D mark Vantage, Resident evil 5, Far Cry 2, Power Consumption. In the
gaming benches a HIS HD 5850 H585F1GDG Graphics card was used.....More
may 15 2010
kitguru reviewed the ASUS Rampage III Extreme
Compared to:
Asus Rampage II Gene. In the synthetic benchmarks an Intel Core i7 980x, i7 975, i7 920 and i5 750 were compared.
Conclusion:
The Asus Rampage III Extreme is a Solid, flexible and hugely capable overclocker. The design is excellent with
parallel positioned SATA connectors, multiple 12V power input for overclocking stability, a good heatsink design and optional active cooling. The only downside is the high price. It's the fastest, most feature rich motherboard for hardcore enthusiast in the market.....More
may 14 2010
pcstats reviewed the BIOSTAR TA890GXE
Conclusion:
This board is a bit of a stripped version, but all-right for a media-center or HTPC, the Radeon HD 4290
supports HDMI 1.3 output and hardware acceleration for BluRay and H.264. The TA890GXE draws very little power when
combined with a low TDP processor and the retail price is very low, because of omitting the SidePort memory, no USB
3.0 support and not enough USB 2.0 ports.
Benchmarks:
SYSMark 2007, Sandra, PC Mark Vantage,3D Mark 2006, 3D Mark Vantage, F.E.A.R., Call of Juarez, Crysis, power
consumption.....More
may 13 2010
motherboards.org reviewed the BIOSTAR TA890GXB HD
Conclusion:
This mobo is a great choice for someone who wants to build an inexpensive 6 core system. Overclocking is excellent and it can also be used as a basis for
an inexpensive Home Theatre PC option. The HD 4290 IGP can only be used for for casual gaming.
Overclocking:
There is a dedicated page for the BIOS and overclocking, allthough some OC features are explained, you won't find any overclocking results.....More
may 12 2010
hardwarecanucks reviewed the Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H
Compared to:
ASUS M4A78T-E, M4A785TD-EVO & M4A89GTD PRO.
Conclusion:
Next to the SATA3 and USB3 features this mobo has a great power delivery system, rock solid vCore and no droop, which makes it a perfect overclocker. The IGP is very capable an has an additional Sideport memory. The PCB has a great Layout, solid capacitors throughout, a Copper layer and a well designed passive cooling system. The Dual BIOS for redundancy and Crossfire-X Support with 8X/8X also need to be mentioned. This board has a good price/performance ratio.....More
may 10 2010
PureOC reviewed the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
Conclusion:
The Crosshair IV Formula has a lot of features, is very easy to use, stable, very overclockable, innovative, and brings quality to the market, this
mobo is for those who want the highest quality. The price is very high though, many other boards cost less, if you don't plan to get everything out of your
board than there are cheaper options.
Overclocking:
The Manual Overclock was devided into three sections:
- MAX BCLK: After a few voltage changes, the reviewers reached 320MHz, with a Phenom II X4 925, an increase of 60%.
- MAX Memory: Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 was raised to 955MHz, which resulted in a final 1910MHz overclock.
- MAX CPU: A Phenom II X6 1090T BE was OCed @4.2GHz stable, vCore just under 1.5v.
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may 6 2010
ProClockers reviewed the ASRock X58 Extreme3
Compared to:
ASRock H55M Pro, Gigabyte P55A-UD6, ASUS P7P55D-E Deluxe.
Conclusion:
A feature-rich mobo that has everything you need: good overclocking, USB3 and SATA3, stunning layout and the
components are nicely placed, including the right distance between the first two PCIe x16 slots. ASRock has made the
cooling system too tall, it could get in the way with larger coolers like the Thermaltake Frio and the Cogage Arrow.
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may 5 2010
tweaktown reviewed the ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer
Compared to:
ASRock P55DE3, ASUS Maximus III Extreme, EVGA P55 FTW.
Conclusion: A versatile board with extra lanes for SLI/Crossfire and the layout is fairly clean. The HDD performance is good for Audio and Video work and next to that it is a good overclocker. This mobo can be considered a good all-around board.
Overclocking: A Xeon X3470 was OCed @4106.51MHz with minor tweaks to the CPU and PLL voltages. TurboV: has a new feature that allows you to hard set the memory to 1600MHz @ 1.65 Volts and run the overclock from there.
Benchmarks: 3D Mark Vantage, AutoGK, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare, Cinebench, Everest, Far Cry 2, HyperPi 0.99, LightWave 3D, PC Mark Vantage, Sisoft Sandra, Power consumption, Temperatures. In the gaming bences a Radeon 5870B was used.
Test setup: --
CPU: Intel Xeon 4370 --
CPU Air Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 + extra fan --
Memory: 2X2G Kingston DDR3 KHX1600C9D3T1K3/6GX --
SSD: Kingston SSDNow M 80GB --
PSU: Cooler Master UCP 1100 --
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
may 1 2010
guru3d reviewed the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
This board was not compared to another moteherboard, but to a lot of Intel and AMD Prosessors.
Conclusion: This board has a stealthy passive cooling design in red and black, and the choice of component usage is very good as well. There's plenty of PCIe bandwidth for multi-GPU graphics. The tweaking options are superb and next to that ASUS also embedded ROG connect onto this motherboard allowing you to OC through software on another computer or notebook. The Crosshair IV Formula is a fantastic mobo with a an extensive feature set.
Overclocking: A Phenom II X6 1095T was overclocked @4100MHz. Memory: 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Corsair Dominator CAS9 -- PSU: BFG 1200 EX.
Benchmarks: Lavalys Everest, 3D Mark 2006 and Vantage, Far Cry 2, Handbrake, USB 3.0, SATA 6 GB/s, Crysis WarHEAD, SiSoft Sandra, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, Resident Evil 5, Medialink Espresso. In the gaming Benchmarks a Radeon HD 5870 1GB video card was used.
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