october 30 2010 review by ixbtlabs

The IGP lets you play games (settings on low), it's of course also possible to install a discrete video card. An unlocked processor was overclocked nicely for a motherboard of this class, the reviewers were less succesful with a 'locked' CPU.

Compared To:

MSI 890GXM-G65

Overclocking:

A Phenom II X2 720 was OCed @ 3.7GHz and a Phenom II X4 810 @ 3.38GHz

Benchmarks: 7-Zip, Crysis, Devil May Cry 4, FarCry 2, WinRAR, World in Conlict, x264, XviD 1.2.1.

Test Setup:

• CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 810
• Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
• Memory : 4GB Apacer DDR3-1333MHz
• OS: Windows Vista SP1 64-bit
• Power Supply: AcBel ATX-550CA-AB8FB

july 23 2010 review by tweaktown

Conclusion:

The performance of this mobo was a bit disappointing given the performance other ASRock boards deliver. It was app. the average performance for an 890GX based mainboard. The more creative layout may be the cause of some of the performance issues, this impacted the memory and HDD performance which in turn impacted the performance of other benchmarks. The reviewer gave it an overall rating of 80%.

Overclocking:

An AMD Phenom II X6 1095XT was overclocked @3872.25 MHz (242.02 BCLK X 16).

Test Setup:

• Memory: 2x2GB Kingston KXH12800D3T1K3/6GX.
• SSD: Kingston SSDNow 80GB.
• Air Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 with 2 fans.
• PSU: Cooler Master UCP1100.
• OS: Windows 7 x64.

Compared to:

• ASRock H55M PRO
• ASUS P7H55D-V EVO
• Foxconn H55MX-S, A9DA-S, 880GM Deluxe
• Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H, GA-H57M-USB3

Benchmarks:

Sisoft Sandra, Everest Ultimate, HyperPi, PC mark vantage, PC mark vantage x64, Lightwave 3D, AutoGK, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, SIMS 3, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Temperature, Power Consumption, 3D Mark Vantage, Cinebench, Far Cry 2. In the gaming benchmarks an AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB was used.