11-25-2010 review by ocinside

This mobo has a 'Deluxe' equipment, great build quality and high OC results, the ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 is a high-quality mainboard for hardcore enthusiasts. Contrary to the 890GX, this motherboard does not provide an internal graphics processor, but on the other hand it has a legacy floppy connector and an IDE connector.

Compared To:

This mainboard was not compared to another board.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark 2003, 3D Mark 2006, 3D Mark Vantage, Sisoft Sandra.

Test Setup:

• CPU : AMD Phenom II X3 710
• Graphics Card : Gigabyte GV-N250OC-1GI
• Graphics Card II : Sapphire Radeon HD4870 512MB

Overclocking:

Base clock overclocking resulted in a BCLK of 320 MHz. Using the EZ Overclocking Turbo30 software, the X3 710 2600MHz processor was OCed to appr. 3.120 GHz.

september 29 2010 review by bcchardware

This mobo has Firewire, front and rear USB3 as well as rear eSATA3 and a Nice layout.

Overclocking:

AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE was OCed @ 3.61GHz @230MHz BCLK.

Compared To:

ASRock H55, X58, EVGA X58. In most benches this board was compared to its own OC results.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark Vantage, Cinebench, PC mark vantage, PMCore, Sisoft Sandra, x264 HD.

Test Setup:

• HDD : WD 300GB Raptor
• Mainboard : ASRock 890FX Deluxe 4
• OS : Windows 7 Ultimate x64
• Processor : AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE
• RAM : 2x2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3 1600MHz
• Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX 512MB

september 2 2010 review by anandtech

Conclusion:

The M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 consistently pulled out better scores, the difference was small, but it was there nonetheless. The reviewers suspect that the expertise of the ASUS engineers in BIOS tuning is at work here, either for faster memory access or better Turbo Core implementation. The ASUS M4A89GTD PRO-USB3 costs less, but the difference largely comes down to the board's selection of components. This mobo is based on the 890FX chipset, more expensive than the 890GX used by ASUS, and It has one more USB3 controller than the ASUS board. The 890FX Deluxe 4 an all-round workhorse, it does what it is supposed to do and does it very well. The reviewers lost their first deluxe4 during testing, but got a replacement from ASRock.

Overclocking:

An AMD Phenom II X6 1090T CPU was OCed @ 4.10 GHz vCore @ 1.42V using an air-cooler.

Benchmarks:

Bibble 5, Sorenson Squeeze 6.0, Application Performance, Gaming Performance, 7zip, Starcraft 2H.A.W.X, Resident Evil V, Winrar, x264 HD.

Compared To:

ASUS M4A89GTD PRO USB3

Test Setup:

• Air Cooling : Scythe Mugen II
• Graphics Card : Radeon HD5870
• Optical Drive : Plextor PX-B900A and Toshiba SD-H802A
• OS : Windows 7 x64
• PSU : Corsair HX620W
• RAM : 4GB 1600 MHz DDR3 CorsairXMS3 CM4GX3M2A1600C7
• SSD : OCZ Vertex 120GB