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DFI LanParty Jr. 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard

Manufacturer: DFI
Product: DFI LanParty Jr. 790GX-M3H5
Date: Wed, Jul 15, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Jason Petermann -
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Bundle and BIOS

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

The box continues the tradition of the LanParty series with the Skateboarder logo. 

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

The bundle includes an IDE cable, a SATA cable and power adaptor, the backplate, a Crossfire bridge, a VGA/DVI adapter and the manual and driver/app CD. 

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

The DFI LanParty Jr 790GX-M3H5 motherboard sports the Phoenix AwardBIOS.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

Here is the Advanced BIOS page.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

Advanced Chipset Features are shown here.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

This shows the Integrated Peripherals.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

Here is the Health Status Page 1.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

Here is the Health Status Page 2.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

Shown here is the Genie BIOS page.  This is where all the tweaking is done!

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

This is where you have your DRAM configuration.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

This page shows the available memory frequencies.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

Here are the memory timings.  It should be noted that we could never get 1T to work on this board.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

CPU-NB voltage: max is 1.55v.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

HTT goes to an overkill of 700.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

You also have the opportunity to set the boot up clock... again, up to 700HTT.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

You can increase vcore up +775mV over default CPU voltage.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

vDimm goes all the way to 2.493.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

NB HT voltage: max is 1.55v.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

NB core goes up to 1.5v.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

NB PCIE voltage...

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

SB PLL voltage...

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

Side port voltage...

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

I LOVE the CMOS unloaded option.

DFI 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Review

When ACC is one, you are able to see four cores on our Phenom Triple Core CPU.  We will look at this in another review!

Next Page - Test Setup


Review Index
Page 1 - 790GX-M3H5 Motherboard Specs
Page 2 - Board Layout
Page 3 - Bundle and BIOS
Page 4 - Test Setup
Page 5 - Testing Results
Page 6 - Overclocking
Page 7 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion