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"