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Product Application:

AMD CrossfireX Motherboard

Product Provided by:

Sapphire

Available at:

NewEgg.com

Estimated MSRP:

$171.99 - $229.99

Availability:

Now

Review by:

Paul

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

Aug 11th, 2008

 

 

 

  

Synthetic Gaming Benches
 

I used the default settings for all of the following benchmarks.

  

  

PCMark Vantage Individual Tests
Test 2.6GHz 3.0GHz
Memories 3840 4060
TV and Movies 3749 3965
Gaming 4605 5008
Music 3784 4494
Communications 4506 4963
Productivity 3949 4229
HDD 3059 3075

  

  

3DMark Vantage Individual Tests
Test 2.6GHz 3.0GHz
Performance 10797 11356
High 8488 8660
Extreme 6403 6249

 

  

  

3DMark06

Default Clocks (2.6GHz) 14102
Overclocked to 3.0GHz 16553


 As you can see, the board puts up respectable numbers in all of the tests.

  

Conclusion

  

I have to be upfront with you on something, I was a little worried getting a motherboard from a company that is best known for making great video cards.  I quickly realized that there was no need for worry.  The motherboard installed and performed just as it should.  The BIOS is well laid out and is clearly designed with the overclocker and tweaker in mind.  In fact a person could write an entire article just on all of the options that you can tweak.  Bottom line is the Sapphire PURE CrossfireX 790FX is an excellent AMD motherboard.  It performs well, has tons of overclocking/tweaking options and is stable.  The Sapphire 790FX is probably one of the best choices in AMD motherboards available today.  Club Overclocker recommended!

  

Performance: 4 out of 5

Innovation:

4 out of 5

Quality:

5 out of 5

Stability:

5 out of 5
Aesthetics: 5 out of 5

Software/Drivers Pack:

4 out of 5

Overclocking:

5 out of 5
Value: 4 out of 5

Project Skill Level
(5 being most difficult)

4 out of 5

 

Page 1:   Intro & Specs
Page 2:   AMD 790FX Chipset
Page 3:   Packaging & Contents
Page 4:   Board Layout Part 1
Page 5:   Board Layout Part 2
Page 6:   BIOS
Page 7:   BIOS Cont
Page 8:   Overclocking & Testing
Page 9:   Gaming Performance
Page 10: Conclusion