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Product Application:

AMD CrossfireX Motherboard

Product Provided by:

Sapphire

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NewEgg.com

Estimated MSRP:

$171.99 - $229.99

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Review by:

Paul

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

Aug 11th, 2008

 

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Benchmarks Continued

  

SuperPI
 

SuperPi

Default Clocks (2.66GHz) 30.530sec
Overclocked (3.0GHz) 25.569sec

 
HD Tach
 

HD Tach

Test 2.6Ghz 3.0GHz
Burst Speed 130.5 MB/s 134.9 MB/s
Avg. Read 78.5 MB/s 75.6 MB/s
Random Access 13.7ms 13.6ms

  

Gaming Performance

  

Supreme Commander
 

Settings are as follows; 1920x1200, High Settings 2x AntiAliasing.  Benchmark ran by creating a shortcut on the desktop and adding /perf and the end of the .exe.  In Vista, you will need to run this as an administrator or it will crash.
 

Supreme Commander

Default Clocks (2.6GHz) SupCom Mark 17192
FPS Average 62.970
Overclocked (3.0GHz) SupCom Mark 17403
FPS Average 67.886
 

Quake Wars: Enemy Territory
 

ET:QW was benched using a custom recorded demo using the console command "RecordNetDemo bench1" then benching it using the command "TimeNetDemo bench1".  If you attempt this, make sure you apply the following console commands prior to recording your demo.  First off, to get into the console press Ctrl + Alt + ~ at the same time.  Next type without the quotes, "seta com_unlockFPS 1" next "seta com_unlock_maxFPS 0".  This will prevent the game from capping the FPS at 60FPS.  You will still be capped at 30FPS while you are in the menu.  Next if you want to keep an eye on your FPS, you can type, "seta com_showFPS 1".  You should only have to type these once, and they should be saved to your config file.

  

Quake Wars: Enemy Territory

Default Clocks (2.6GHz) 94.3 FPS
Overclocked (3.0GHz) 103.1 FPS

  

Crysis
 

Crysis was benched using the HOC benchmark utility.  The settings were 1920 x 1200, very high settings, 2x AA, 16x Anisotropic and DX10.

  

Crysis

Default Clocks (2.6GHz) 10 FPS
Overclocked (3.0GHz) 12 FPS

  

Call of Juarez
 

     Call of Juarez was benched using 1920 x 1200 resolution, quality set to high and MSAA at 4x.

  

Call of Juarez

Default Clocks (2.6GHz) Min 16.0
Max 44.2
Average 25.5
Overclocked (3.0GHz) Min 14.7
Max 67.5
Average 32.3

  

Company of Heroes
 

     Company of Heroes was benched using the DirectX 10 patch, 1920 x 1200, and everything set to High.

  

Company of Heroes

Default Clocks (2.6GHz) Min 17.0 FPS
Max 61.8 FPS
Average 43.2 FPS
Overclocked (3.0GHz) Min 15.2 FPS
Max 62.1 FPS
Average 45.5 FPS

  

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

 


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