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- Date:
- Tuesday , July 06, 2010
- Author:
- Daniel Dobrowolski
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 Motherboard Review
ASUS' latest AM3 offering promises to be at least an interesting one. Not only does it feature USB 3 and SATA 6Gbps support, it also offers the lowest cost of entry into the world of quad core computing with support for a Core Unlocker. All with an 890GX chipset with integrated graphics as well.
Gaming Benchmarks
As always, these benchmarks in no way represent real-world gameplay. They are all run at very low resolutions to try our best to remove the video card as a bottleneck. I will not hesitate to say that anyone spouting these types of framerate measurements as a true measuring tool in today’s climate is not servicing your needs or telling you the real truth.
The gaming tests below have been put together to focus on the processor power exhibited by each system. All the tests below consist of custom time demos built with stressing the CPU in mind. So much specialized coding comes into the programming now days we suggest that looking at gaming performance by using real-world gameplay is the only sure way to know what you are going to get with a specific game. Our CPUs & Real-World Gameplay Scaling would be a great place to start.
Graphs are labeled as follows: Motherboard - CPU Clock - FSB Clock - Memory Clock
Lost Planet
Lost Planet is one of those few games that really takes advantage of multiple threads and the M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 and AM3 CPUs just can't compete with the 8 threads of a Core i7 system.
Call of Juarez
The M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 does as it should here this being a GPU limited benchmark. It does show us that the motherboard's PCIe system is working fine.
Quake 4
The M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 has another solid showing in this test and beats out the Core i5 750 based systems.
FarCry 2
The M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 does as it should in this test.
Crysis SP Demo
The M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 does really well here, but falls behind the Intel based test systems as the Core i5/i7 systems are simply much stronger when it comes to instructions per clock.