{Review} ~ D.F.I LANPARTY UT 790FX-M2R ~ "Unleashing The Beast"

[Brother Esau]

With all of the bad Publicity abroad on the "NET" with AMD/ATI lately the "New" offerings from AMD have been cast into a Dark & Dismal place but, for those of us that keep the Torch Burning for AMD we see a very promising Future with great things to come so lets have a look at what the "New" D.F.I LANPARTY UT 790FX-M2R has to offer show casing the "New" AMD/ATI Spider Platform shall we?

I have decided to Focus in on the the Graphics and Ram Bandwidth Performance Attributes of this "New" Platform due to the Errata 298 Issues surrounding AMD "Phenom" Native Quad Core Processors so in lieu of the Phenom I have selected AMD's Flag Ship Dual Core Processor the AMD Athalon X2 6400+ Black Edition for the review along with 2gb ~Cell Shock~ (PC2 8000) 4-4-4-12 and two of the "New" POWERCOLOR AX3850 HD 3850 to run in CrossFire on the New "Blistering" D.F.I LanParty UT 790FX-M2R/

I will also be using "2gb" OCZ FLEX XLC (PC2 9200) for Testing as well for those of us that need lower Voltage High Performance Ram that scales exceptionally well to be used in conjunction with the Phenom Processors this is a most viable option for those using Quad Core Processors that are limited by Vdimm with the IMC in the Phenom Processor

[Brother Esau]

Lets have a closer Look at what this new Radical platform holds for Gamers! First off the Gaming in Cross Fire is absolutely Lucid and the Graphics of the New ATI HD 3850's is nothing less than stellar in Imagery and performance! And contrary to all the latest Intel Hype AMD by far is still the better Gaming Platform even compared to my D.F.I Lanparty UT P35-T2R Q6600 @ 3.55ghz it wipes it up on the battle field

[Brother Esau]

First lets start with a Little ~Cell Shock~ (PC2 8000) 4-4-4-12 action to get things Kicked off Let me just add for the Record these examples are just very slightly and I mean very slightly just barely scratching the surface of the Raw Power and Potential of this Kick Ass new D.F.I board! If I were to have a processor that would have more overclocking Headroom "My God" I shudder to think of what this board could achieve in Overclocking records "NO JOKE" this is one Bad Mutha F@cka

No Tweaking what so ever just primary timings and some voltage adjustment was used so far

[Brother Esau]

Now some OCZ FLEX XLC (PC2 9200) results Witness the Raw Memory Performance and exceptionally Low Latency of this New D.F.I board in action! Once again just to clarify things I want to show the Raw Un-tweaked Power of this Board and there is no crazy voltage being used

[Brother Esau]

OCZ FLEX XLC (PC2 9200) .......3DMARKK 05 Benches NO Overclocking of Graphics Cards what so ever!..................SHWWING!!!!!!!!!

Take Note: as to how well the 2 X HD 3850's Scale in Cross Fire with the CPU / RAM Overclock

EDIT: For those of you with Phenom or soon to be buying one and this awesome Motherboard the OCX FLEX XLC (PC2 9200) 5-5-5-18 is a great set of Ram scales exceptionally well and as you can see it does almost as well as the Cell Shock 4-4-4-12 in terms of latency and not once has it ever been over 2.21Vdimm in Bios during testing!

[Brother Esau]

Here are some more Examples of what you can expect in terms of Ram Performance on this Board. Unfortunately 3540mhz is pushing the envelope with this chip The screen shots are merely suicide runs nothing more Like I said if I possessed a Processor with Exception Overclocking Headroom say maybe another 300mhz worth I could really make this board dance a jig


Gonna be doing a clean reformat and see what this New 12/11/07 Bios brings to the table with my Cell ShocksAttachment 68938

[zanzabar]

wow u took up a whole page


dose that board have built in vdroop control like the new intel ones do

[Brother Esau]

No vdroop on this board Lad

[jimmyz]

So how is it treating those cellshocks Campbell? I wanna see oc results, and scores.

[Psycho_eddie]

When can i expect to get hold of one of these in UK?? I really need one for some serious OCing!!

Nice review

[Brother Esau]

So how is it treating those cellshocks Campbell? I wanna see oc results, and scores.

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!!!!! Untill I get this

[emoners]

mmm mmm good!

[Wiggy McShades]

hey i know its a wierd request but can you try some 1t mem overclocking? i know back in the 939 days it used to be the way to go, but im moving to an am2 system too so im curious cept im waiting for 780a but still got a 560 to hold me over

[Morais]

Loved the 4th picture...
sitting and watching

[freeloader]

Time to ditch my quad and grab a 6400+. Just something new to toy with.

[Lightman]

Very nice review Brother Esau!

As others said try 1T and please touch 1200MHz on mem ...

[Wiggy McShades]

brother i know you once owned a C2Q and so did i but i wanna know weather at high ress with AA and AF is there anyway you can show there is little to no loss in FPS?

[Brother Esau]

Just woke up Sorry guys it was very late when I put this up and I have screen shots all over the Place and I noticed that I do not have my One Everest score with Mem Read over 11109mbs

[Praz]

Looking Good Campbell

[Brother Esau]

Thanks John Now lets just Hope that AMD can get their act together and get us some new Processors to Explore the Full Potential of this Awesome Motherboard

[Brother Esau]

Will be doing some OGG Compression Benches and WinRAR too keep posted


790FX-M2R

[Brother Esau]

When can i expect to get hold of one of these in UK?? I really need one for some serious OCing!!

Nice review

Outside of Motherboardpro.com where I got mine from I am unaware of anyone selling them in the states let alone Europe I have actually spoken with Sean @ D.F.I inc San Jose , CA on the Phone and he said they do not expect anymore until after the New Year.

[tictac]

Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...fi%2b790fx

[alpha0ne]

This should be the first board I buy in '08 if it ever makes it to AU


Thanks Brother Esau for the thread

[Brother Esau]

Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...pk=dfi%2b790fx

MotherboardPro.com has it for $259.00 wow was just checking the EGG Head the other day and it was not on there