Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P @ PC Perspective
“The appearance of the board is quite pleasing, and the layout again cause very few issues with me. The cooling system on the chips was also quite functional, and again was quite attractive in design. The Ultra Durable 3 features also seem to add a lot of value and security, and I believe that they actually add real engineering value to the product.”
ASUS Maximus II Gene @ Benchmark Reviews
“ASUS has some tough shoes to fill. Fortunately, they’re familiar shoes; their own, in fact. A long string of high performance motherboards that got adopted simultaneously by the enthusiast and gaming sets, led ASUS to create a specialty brand segment they call “Republic of Gamers”.”
ASUS Crosshair III Formula @ Motherboards.org
“The board also has the features you want from an AMD board including support for AM3 Phenom II CPUs, an LCD POSTER, the ability to “Level Up” your CPU with the flick of a button and onboard Start, Reset and MemOK buttons on the board. The one negative on this board is the lack of more than two PCI Express x16 slots as the flexibility of more slots offers more choices for the gamer.”
EVGA X58 3X SLI Classified @ Motherboards.org
“EVGA put a serious amount of time, energy and effort into the design of this motherboard, and it shows in all the features and extras this motherboard has. This is no amateur product, in fact it’s really a motherboard that is geared toward overclocking professionals who want the quality components, and overclocking capabilities the new 3X SLI Classified has to offer.”
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P @ Benchmark Reviews
“Along with AMD’s launch of the Phenom II and Athlon II processor families this year, we’ve also witnessed a steady shift in focus from their AM2+/DDR2 platform to a full AM3/DDR3 platform. The good news is that these newer AM3 processors support both DDR2 and DDR3 memory, allowing consumers to upgrade without replacing their whole system. Still, that leaves many wondering if they’re missing out by not making the jump to DDR3 memory. To help answer that question, today Benchmark Reviews puts Gigabyte’s DDR2-based MA790X-UD4P motherboard to the test.”
Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P @ OC Club
“When it came to overclocking, the Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P was a breeze. Because of the options available and the tweaking control, I was able to push every ounce that I could get out of it – which was pretty decent. By just playing with the multiplier and bus speed, I was able to push the Phenom II X4 955 processor to just under 3.9GHz at the maximum voltage of 1.5 volts.”
MSI Eclipse Plus @ PC Perspective
“A couple features that really stood out with the MSI Eclipse Plus was its ability to support quad CrossfireX and SLI video card configurations and having all three PCI-E slots capable of x16 speeds. This is fairly significant because most boards have that third PCI-E slot set at x8 or x4 speeds. The onboard OC dial and other buttons were a great addition, especially for those of us who swap out our hardware often.”
ASRock P45DE @ PCShopTalk
“In the Overclock settings submenu, we can set the CPU host clock, the DRAM frequency, but also the FSB to MCH strap (very useful function, which allows higher CPU overclocking when we have a small number of memory dividers, like this board does have). Here we can set also the voltages for the CPU,DRAM, NB,SB, GTLs and so on.”
Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P @ Neoseeker
“Overall, the Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P is a great board for a great price. The differences with the higher end MA790FXT-UD5P are small. Except the different chipset, there are some other physical differences which allow saving a couple of pennies here and there. These neither affect performance, nor reliability. If the higher-end MA90FXT-UD5P does not fit into one’s budget, the MA790XT-UD4P is there to help.”
ASUS M4A79 Deluxe @ Motherboards.org
“ASUS has done their usual solid job with a new motherboard release. As the chipsets used on this motherboard are not new, the performance across different boards using these two chipsets should be pretty close and they are. A lot of AM2+ motherboards support the AM3 CPUs with a BIOS Flash allowing for easy upgrade options for older motherboard chipsets.”