october 7 2010 review by bcchardware

Those looking for a mainboard with the latest features, at a bargain price will have to look hard to find another board that can match the value of this board. Although the overclocking capabilities look pretty good, this mobo doesn't overclock very well, especially with a six core CPU.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark Vantage, Cinebench, DVDShrink, Far Cry 2, Gaming Performance, PMCore, x264 HD, CrystalDiskMark, iPerf Network Performance, RightMark Audio Analyzer.

Test Setup:

• CPU : AMD Phenom II X6 1050T
• Memory : 8GB Crucial DDR3 1333MHz
• SSD : Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB
• Video Card : ATI Radeon HD5870 1024MB
• Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

Overclocking:

The reviewer performed bus overclocking and had a max BCLK in between 225MHz and 232MHz.

september 25 2010 review by kitguru.net

Conclusion:

This is a high-quality motherboard that performed well. Excellent for overclocking with easy to use options for novices, experienced overclockers will have lots of tweakable options. This mobo supports SATA 3.0 , USB3 and eSATA 3.0. Core unlocking is also possible.

Overclocking:

Aan AMD Athlon II X4 635 CPU was OCed to 3.48GHz.

Benchmarks: 3D Mark Vantage, Cinebench R10 and R11.5, FRAPS, Grand Theft Auto IV, KitGuru Photoshop Benchmark, PC Mark Vantage, Sandra 2010, SuperPi.

Compared To:

This board was not compared to another motherboard, instead it was compared to its own overclocking results.

Test Setup:

• Computer Case : Thermaltake Level 10
• CPU : AMD Athlon II X4 635 2.9GHz
• CPU Cooler: Noctua C12P SE14
• HDD : Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB
• OS : indows 7 Home Premium x64
• Power Supply : Corsair HX850W
• RAM : Corsair Dominator 4GB DDR3