Conclusion:

If you are looking for something special, sophisticated and technologically rich, then you should go for the Asus M4A89TD Pro. This mobo offers handy technologies for automatic overclocking that will work correctly and will be very helpful for novice overclockers. They also provide additional operating systems and performance-enhancing features that will also deminishes the power consumption. This mainboard lacks USB3.

Overclocking:

ASUS TurboV EVO is a monitoring and overclocking tool and utility that comes with this mobo, with lots of options such as Turbo Unlocker. The AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition was OCed @4109.7MHz , the FSB x16 to x18 and the vCore @ 1.45 V.

Compared to:

• ASRock 890FX Deluxe3
• ASUS M4A89TD PRO USB3, ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
• Biostar TA890FXE
• Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5
• Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD7
• MSI 890FXA-GD70

Benchmarks:

Cinebench 11.5, Fritz Chess Benchmark utility, x264 HD, 3D Mark Vantage, Far Cry 2, SuperPi, Resident Evil V, Power Consumption.

Test Setup:

• Memory : 2x2GB OCZ DDR3 1600MHz PC3-12800 Blade Series OCZ3B1600LV2GK
• Graphics Card : HIS HD 5850 H585F1GDG
• HDD : Seagate Barracuda XT HDD: ST32000641AS
• optical drive: Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7173A DVD RW
• Air cooler : Scythe Mugen 2
• Power supply : OCZ GameXStream OCZGXS700