october 11 2010 review by tweaktown

Adding a high-end video card caused a reduction in performance the reviewers did not expect. Slot placements are flexible and the board has a clean layout for good air flow.

Overclocking:

A Phenom II X6 1090T was OCed @ 3.776GHz, BCLK @ 230MHz.

Test Setup:

• CPU cooler : Corsair H70
• CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
• Video Card : ASUS HD 5870 V2 S.T.A.L.K.E.R
• Memory : 4GB Corsair CMT4GX3M2A2000C8
• OS: W7 Ultimate x64
• PSU: Corsair AX1200
• SSD: Corsair Force F120 120GB

Compared To:

This mainboard was compared with and without a Radeon HD5870 and with its own overclock results.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark Vantage, AutoGK, Cinebench, Far Cry 2, Lightwave, PC mark vantage, PC mark vantage x64, Power Consumption, Sims 3, Sisoft Sandra, Temperature Test.

may 22 2010 review by neoseeker

Conclusion:

The Gigabyte 890GX board took the lead, with dedicated as well as integrated graphics when compared to the ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3. The 890GPA-UD3H has less unique features the the ASUS board, a thing that has to be mentioned however is the 3x USB power. Combined with the iDevice on/off charge, it will fuel up any device in no time.

Overclocking:

A Phenom II x4 965 BE was overclocked @4050MHz, vCore 1.50V, BCLK 225MHz.

Compared to:

ASUS M4A89GTD PRO-USB3, ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO, Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P.

Benchmarks:

SiSoft Sandra Professional, WinRAR, PCMark Vantage, Handbrake, POV-Ray, Cinebench, HDTune, Far Cry 2, Bioshock, Crysis Warhead, Left 4 Dead, Power Consumption. In the gaming benchmarks an NVIDIA GTX 260 video card was used. The HD 4200 IGP was tested with Street Fighter IV and WIC.

Test Setup:

• Air Cooler: Cooler Master V8
• HDD: Seagate 7200.11 750GB
• PSU: Mushkin XP-800AP
• RAM: 4GB Mushkin DDR3 1600MHz

may 12 2010 review by hardwarecanucks

Compared to:

ASUS M4A78T-E, M4A785TD-EVO & M4A89GTD PRO.

Conclusion:

Next to the SATA3 and USB3 features this mobo has a great power delivery system, rock solid vCore and no droop, which makes it a perfect overclocker. The IGP is very capable an has an additional Sideport memory. The PCB has a great Layout, solid capacitors throughout, a Copper layer and a well designed passive cooling system. The Dual BIOS for redundancy and Crossfire-X Support with 8X/8X also need to be mentioned. This board has a good price/performance ratio.

Core unlocking:

There is a beta release of the BIOS released on April 20th, 2010 that is capable of unlocking a third or fourth core in an Athlon or Phenom X3/X4 CPU. This feature was not tested (yet).

Overclocking:

A Phenom II X2 550 was overclocked @4017.0MHz, BCLK 206MHz. With bus overclocking the reviewers reached a result of 315MHz. Memory: 4GB Patriot Sector 5 Viper II DDR3 2000. PSU: Tuniq Miniplant 950W.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark 2006, 3D Mark Vantage, Cinebench R10 x64 & R11.5 x64, Crysis, Far Cry, HyperPi 0.99b, wPRIME, Lame, Everest Ultimate, Left 4 Dead, PC Mark Vantage x64, Photoshop CS4, ScienceMark 2.0, Street Fighter 4, Valve Particle Simulation Benchmark, WinRAR 3.8.0, WIC, x264 HD, Power consumption, DRAM Voltage testing, CPU vCore Voltage test. In the gaming benches an EVGA GeForce GTX 280 1024MB 01G-P3-1280-AR was used.