3-12-2011 review by hardwarecanucks

The strength of these budget AMD mainboards lie in some technologies that are usually seen with more expensive products. Dedicated push-buttons are included for core unlocking and overclocking which can literally increasing your system's performance without having to fiddle with a dozen or so settings.

Compared To:

M4A88TD-V EVO-USB3

Overclocking:

An X6 1090T was OCed 3.6GHz. This mobo suffers from an automatic downclocking features that lower the cpu clock, whenever CPU temps are past a certain threshold.

Test Setup:

• CPU : AMD Phenom II X6 1090T and X2 555BE
• CPU Cooler : Corsair H50
• HDD : Western Digital 640 GB
• Memory : 2x2 GB DDR3 1600MHz Patriot PGS34G1600ELKA
• Operating System : Windows 7 Pro x64
• PSU : XFX XXX Edition 650W
• Video Card : Ati Radeon HD4250

Benchmarks:

3D Mark 2006, 3D Mark Vantage, Cinebench, Crysis, HyperPi 0.99b, Lavalys Everest Ultimate, Left 4 Dead 2, PC mark vantage x64, Power Consumption, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., ScienceMark, Temperature Test, Winrar, x264 HD.