The Best AMD AM3 Motherboard in 2009 and 2010
December 27th, 2009 by adminThere are two of the best AMD am3 motherboard of the years, either are ECS A790GXM-AD3 and Asus Crosshair III Formula. In the last article I explained and reviewed about the best Intel motherboard. The two motherboard above is my opinion, I hope it will help you to compare each other.
OK before you are going to see my review may be you are interested about amd phenom motherboard or amd phenom ii. It will give you important information about the latest AMD technology.
ECS A790GXM-AD3 (The best AMD motherboard socket AM3 onboard VGA)
ECS A790GXM-AD3 uses AMD 790GX chipset and SB750. This motherboard from ECS has adoptedHybrid Crossfire-X technology. The AM3 motherboard provided integrated memory for the onboard graphic provide a two slot PCle X16, so the Crossfire is also can be activated if we don’t want use Hybrid mode. The memory slot is DDR3 type with the maximum speed in 1333Mhz, it is available for 4 slot and maximum 32GB
Switching in cooling system, this AM3 motherboard from ECS has been equipped with aluminum heatsink. Whereas for CPU power phase is only equiiped with 4 SET. And it was considered less for the overclocking activites.
The result of the PCMaark Vantage test syntetic amd Far cry gaming test is vey good.The motherboard get 98% from the performance. And the overlock get 59% result inlucing tuning BCLK 190Mhz`400Mhz, CPU volt 1,36`1,66v, RAM volt 1,6v`2,1v, Northbridge volt 1,15v`1,50v, CPU multiplier 8x-25x.
ASUS crosshair III formula ( The Best Motherboard AMD Socket AM3)
This motherboard uses AMD AM3 Socket and is powered by AMD 790FX and AMD SB750 chipset. This best product from ASUS is equipped with AMD crossfire technology so it is equippeda two Slot PCle X16. For the memory type, This Motherboard has supported DDR3-1600Mhz and maximum as much as 16gb. For the sound problem, this product do not provide sound card onboard. Instead of it is geven sound card discrete high quality SupremeFX X-Fi 8 Channel.
The cooling solution is a heatsink with copper base material that equipped with heatpipe. It has covered in each chipsets and MOFSETs. So certainly this AM3 motherboard is very good for overlocking activities. Plus CPU power phase available for 10 SET.