DFI LP UT 790FX-M2R AMD 790FX chipset mainboard Review Conclusion
Bluetooth 16 Nov 2007

Conclusion

DFI puts out an impressive package with this flagship 790FX product. Performance of this board is pretty impressive with the X2 5000+ CPU. With CrossFire enabled, we can see that the 3D performance shot up to performance levels of a 8600GTS and beyond.

In terms of features, this board has an array of good stuff built onto this board. Basically, what you want from a board is already there. With 3 slots of PCIe, the board is basically ready for CrossFire X. The down side is that it only has 3 slots, so you won't be able to run Quad Fire on it in the future. Well, it doesn't really matter at this point of time as we tested 3 2600XT and run them in CrossFire mode, the performance is worse than using 2 cards. The catalyst 7.11 driver is simply not ready for CrossFire X as yet.

There are simply too much overclocking options available in the BIOS. Sometimes I just wonder how often do I need to meddle with these settings which most, even tech people aren't sure what are the settings meant for. Voltage range is something most overclockers will fall in love with. Not only can you adjust the Vcore, you can even add another 25% more to it. It is simply insane.

With the Black edition X2 5000+, we are able to overclock the board to 8 x 420MHz aircooled with HT Link lowered to 400MHz (x2) and Vcore pumped to 1.40v (default is 1.25v). Click here to see BIOS Screen shots.

The package is superb. So far, i think DFI is the first company to provide an additional heatpipe in the package. The Debug LED and the EZ buttons are also cool stuff that I like.

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