ECS A890GXM Black

This  board supports AMD's socket AM3 and comes with a USB

3.0 card bundle. Having USB 3.0 PCI-E x1 card for supporting super speed USB 3.0

not only gives performance boost but also flexibility of using this card

independently. When we attached this card on MSI's 790 FX, the board was able to

support it. Other  feature  includes Dual Giga LAN with Teaming feature that

enables two single connection to act as single connection for double bandwidth.

The board comes with On Chip AMD 890GX-based with ATI Radeon HD4290 graphics.

In graphical performance, using 3D Mark and POV-Ray, this

board was able to give  results of  14530 and 71203. Overall performance of this

board was tested using CineBench and PC Mark; the scores were 13693 and 10187

respectively. Comparing  these results with  AM3 Socket based MSI 790GX-G65

motherboard, this one performs far better. Interesting facts about on-board vs

card-based USB 3.0 support can be found in the cover story.

Bottomline: With

interesting card based USB 3.0 support and Dual Giga LAN, this one is high on

both performance and features.

Test Bed: OS- Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit, CPU-AMD Phenome II

X4 965 @ 3.39 GHz, RAM-2GB Patriot 1800 MHz, Graphics Card:- Nvidia 9600GTx, HDD:-

120GB SAta 7200 rpm, Monitor:- LG Flatron 775FT 17"