Conclusion:

This mobo seems to be out of place in this roundup. The reviewers were concerned about its snowballing power consumption under heavy operational loads, so they were forced to limit their CPU overclocking. It also has a number of BIOS issues, just like the ASRock board.

Overclocking:

The reviewers set the CPU voltage at 1.4 V, which is but 0.1 V over the default value, and overclocked the cpu to 3.9 GHz, most other boards in this test reached 4.1 GHz.

Compared to:

• ASRock 890FX Deluxe3
• Asus M4A89TD Pro, ASUS M4A89TD PRO USB3, ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
• 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

Conclusion:

If you want a low-cost approach to a high-end AMD chipset the TA890FXE will be your motherboard. This mainboard also has a bare set of overclocking features. Unfortunately it lacks USB3 and the SB850 southbridge misses one of its SATA 6Gb/s ports, which has been converted into an eSATA port on the I/O panel. Furthermore it's equipped with the AMD core unlocking technology.

Overclocking:

An AMD Phenom II X6 1090T with standard cooler was tested with BUS overclocking, a final stable bus of 260MHz was reached without raising the voltage.

Test Setup:

• ram: 2x2GB Corsair XMS3-1600C9 DDR3
• hdd: 74GB Western Digital Raptor WD 740
• PSU: PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad 750W PSU Review
• Optical Drive: ASUS BC-1205PT-BD Blu-Ray Dual Layer SATA DVD Burner

Compared to:

• ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO, ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO, ASUS P7P55D Deluxe, ASUS P7P55D Premium, ASUS P7P55D-E PRO
• BIOSTAR TA890GXE
• Gigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H, Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H, Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P, Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R, Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5, Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6, Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P, Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD6,
• MSI 790GM-E65, MSI Eclipse Plus, MSI X58 Platinum.

Benchmarks:

Sysmark, PC mark Vantage, Power Consumption, 3D Mark 2006, 3D Mark Vantage, Sisoft Sandra, In the gaming benchmarks an ASUS ENGTS250 DK was used.