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march 31 2010 review by bjorn3d


Gigabyte 790XT-USB3

This motherboard was compared to the Asus M4A89GTD Pro, Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H, 790FXT A-UD5 and GA-MA770T-UD3. Allthough there are HD Tune, HD tach and ATTO benchmark results, no USB 3.0 device was tested.

Conclusion: The board essentially didn't overclock at all and next to that there's no support for SATA 6 Gb/s. The reviewers suggest you buy an 890 GX. The 890 GX is a good overclocker, has SATA6 supported by the new SB850 chipset, VRM cooler, and above all it's cheaper !

Overclocking: The OC results were very disappointing. The BCLK reached 205MHz wich is a gain of 2.5%. The CPU cooler was a Cooler Master Hyper TX-3 and the memory used was 2x2GB 1600MHz GSkill DDR3 PC12800.

Benchmarks: Everest, POV Ray, Winrar, Excel, Blender, Cinebench, 3D Mark Vantage, Sandra, HDtach, HDtune, ATTO, Far Cry 2.


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On march 31 2010 93% of the people who bought this mobo from newegg rated it as good or excellent. Only one person got a BSOD when installing windows 7.
Below are the Cinebench x64 rendering results with some cheaper AM2+ / Intel boards.

Motherboard
Cinebench R10 64 bit
(higher is better)
Gigabyte GA-790XT-USB3
AMD Athlon II X3 635

10880
ASUS M2N68-AM PLUS PRO
Athlon II X2 240

5930
ASUS M4A78-EM
Phenom II X3 710

8083
ASUS P5G41-M
Intel Pentium E6300

6093
        


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