Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P Motherboard Review - PAGE 12

Carl Poirier - Friday, July 10th, 2009 Like +my favourites

Left 4 Dead is a first-person shooter developed by Valve. It uses the Source Engine. Four survivors must fight against infected people in order to reach a safe area.

Mirror’s Edge is referred by some as a first-person runner. It is a game powered by the Unreal Engine 3 but with the addition of a new lighting solution. What is great of the PC version is that it supports NVIDIA PhysX, which a very few games do.

These games were not its moment of glory. It finished last, equal to the ASUS M4A79 Deluxe in Left 4 Dead and to the 790FX-GD70 in Mirror's Edge. It did beat its opponents once overclocked, though.

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Article Index

1.	Introduction & Specifications
2.	The Board
3.	The BIOS
4.	More BIOS: Overclocking
5.	Test setup and benchmarks used
6.	SiSoft Sandra
7.	HandBrake & POV-Ray
8.	WinRAR & Cinebench
9.	HD Tune & PCMark
10.	Crysis Warhead & Bioshock
11.	Call of Duty: World at War & Far Cry 2
12.	Left 4 Dead & Mirror's Edge
13.	Overclocking, Power consumption & Conclusion

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Nu Wa Rocks Jul 8, 09

Nice review. I looks at both boards and it seem that if you want the Cross-fire or SLI ability, then this board would be nice for 2x cross or SLI. Other than that, I would go with the cheaper cousin MA790XT-UD4P since it has very similar capabilities. The cheaper cousin also does cross-fire/SLi, but it will have to do it at 8x speed instead of the 16x speed on the expensive board.
For me, I'm cheap so I like the cheaper board better (since I know I'll probably never do cross-fire or SLI).

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kspiess Jul 8, 09

Thanks Slayer.

YA this board looks pretty good.

For myself, 2 PCIE is certainly enough. Most people I'd say only need 1 slot. No one really needs 3 slots. Getting three video cards isn't really that great of an idea, I'd say. Unless you are building a Folding farm, anyways. Certainly not for the added potential game performance.

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courgan Jul 8, 09

quote kspiess
For myself, 2 PCIE is certainly enough. Most people I'd say only need 1 slot. No one really needs 3 slots. Getting three video cards isn't really that great of an idea, I'd say. Unless you are building a Folding farm, anyways. Certainly not for the added potential game performance.

I could not agree more
nice board and review
btw when you gonna start folding again?

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