july 16 2010 review by tweaktown
The 3 at the end of extreme3 stands for USB3 and SATA3, eSATA 3.0 and finally three way CrossfireX.
Conclusion:
This mobo was a solid performaner for most tasks, there were some issues with the ram and IGP in case of
overclocking, hopefully a future BIOS update will resolve these problems. The reviewer gave it a 95% 'value for money' rating.
Overclocking:
An Phenom II X6 1090T was OCed @4015.96 MHz stable 251x16, the RAM was hard to overclock, The RAM/IGP issue was so
bad that during overclocking session we ended up with double digit scores for 3DMark and Far Cry 2 would not load!.
The reviewer also explains the OC Tuner.
Compared to:
Test Setup:
- Memory: 2x2GB Kingston KXH12800D3T1K3/6GX.
- SSD: Kingston SSDNow 80GB.
- Air Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 with 2 fans.
- PSU: Cooler Masrer UCP1100.
- OS: Windows 7 x64.
Benchmarks:
HyperPi, Lightwave 3D, AutoGK, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, SIMS 3, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Temperature, Power
Consumption, 3D Mark Vantage, Cinebench, Far Cry 2, Lavalys Everest Ultimate, PC mark vantage, PC mark vantage x64,
Sisoft Sandra. In the gaming benchmarks an AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB was used.
