June 3 2011 review by pcper

AMD has finally released the official chipsets and boards for the Bulldozer CPU. Asus took a big lead here with their SABERTOOTH board, MSI is not all that far behind. A few BIOS fixes and perhaps a revision, and we have a competitive part from MSI that actually costs a little less than the rather lean and sparse TUF product.

Benchmarks Tested:

3D Mark Vantage, HD Tach, Power Consumption, Sisoft Sandra, USB 3.0 Performance.

Compared To:

MSI 990FXA-GD80

Test Setup:

• CPU : AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
• Graphics Card : AMD Radeon HD 5870
• Memory : 2 x 2GB OCZ DDR3 1600MHz Platinum
• HDD : 2 x WD Caviar Black 1TB 7200 SATA 6G
• Optical Drive : Lite-On DVD-R/RW
• PSU : Corsair TX750W
• Operating System : Windows 7 Ultima

Overclocking:

A Phenom II X6 1090T was OCed @ 3.724 GHz.