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ECS A790GXM-AD3 Motherboard Review

Manufacturer: Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS)
Product: ECS A790GXM-AD3 Motherboard
Date: Mon, Apr 06, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Jason Petermann -
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Test Setup


ECS A790GXM-AD3 Motherboard Review

Test Platform

Component

Brand/Model

Live Pricing

Processor

AMD Phenom II X3 720

AMD Phenom X4 9850 CPU 

Motherboard

ECS A790GXM-AD3

Zotac GeForce 8200-ITX WiFi

ECS A780GM-A Ultra

ECS 8200A

Asus M3A79-T Deluxe

Asus M3A78-T 


Video Card

Albatron GeForce 9600GT

Memory

 

Corsair 6400C4 DDR2 4GB Kit

Kingston HyperX PC3-13000

Hard Drive

Western Digital 250GB, 16mb Cache

Cooling

Corsair Nautilus

Power Supply

PC Power & Cooling 750

Operating System

Windows Vista Ultimate 64Bit

 

All tests were run using a clean install of Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit. For our stock speed tests, we ran everything at default timings for the CPU.  Our Corsair DDR2 kit was running at DDR2 800 speeds with timings of 4-4-4-12 with the exception of the ECS A780GM-A Ultra.  We could only run 5-5-5-18 on this board.  Our Kingston DDR3 kit was running at speeds of 1333 and 7-7-7-20 timings.

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Review Index
Page 1 - The Socket AM3 Black Series Gets Better
Page 2 - Board Layout and Bundle
Page 3 - BIOS
Page 4 - Test Setup
Page 5 - Testing Results
Page 6 - Overclocking
Page 7 - Conclusion