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ECS A790GXM-A Black Series Motherboard Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: September 10, 2008
Page: 8 of 13
Real-time pricing for ECS A790GXM-A.
ECS Elitegroup Computer ECS A790GXM-A Motherboard - AMD 790GX Socket AM2 ATX Video HDMI PCI Express 2.0 Hybrid CrossFire Support Gbit LAN RAID
CircuitCity: $119.99 CompUSA: $119.99
TigerDirect: $119.99 Newegg: $109.99

3DMark Vantage
Hardware Secrets Golden Award

3DMark Vantage measures Shader 4.0 (i.e. DirectX 10) performance. We couldn’t run this program with GeForce 8200 nor with AMD 780G even running the lowest video configuration possible, called “Entry Level”. Surprisingly enough we were able to run this program with AMD 790GX, which is impressive – this is the first time we’ve seen an on-board video solution being able to run this program. Below you can see the results for this chipset and for the add-on 64-bit Radeon HD 3450 installed on a PCI Express x16 slot from the reviewed motherboard with its on-board video disabled. When we enabled them to work together in parallel under CrossFire, however, the system rebooted. We tried several times to no avail.

We are presenting two results: the Entry score – which puts CPU performance for physics calculations into the equation – and the GPU score – which is the score of only the GPU.

ECS A790GXM-A Black Series

ECS A790GXM-A Black Series

As you can see the integrated graphics from AMD 790GX and Radeon HD 3450 achieved the same performance level on 3DMark Vantage, which is really impressive. AMD 790GX is not only the first integrated graphics chipset we’ve seen running 3DMark Vantage, but it also achieved the same performance as an entry-level add-on card.

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