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MSI 790FX-GD70 motherboard
90
By George copley
Aug 28, 2009
Pros:
QUAD graphics support, power, reset, OC button and knob on board
Cons:
The PCI E2 should of been placed first
CPU AMD Phenom 11 X4 955 Black Edition 3.2Ghz Memory 2x CORSAIR 4096Mb 4Gb DDR3 1600 Twin3X4096-1600C9DHX KIT PC12800 Non

Video Card 2x MSI ATI Radeon HD4890 OC 1GB DDR5 2DVI/HDTV
Hard Drive 2x 300Gb VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 10000RPM SATA2 Fastest HDD Western Digital 16M Hard Drive

DVDPioneer DVR-217 Black SATA DVD Writer 20X DVD+/-RW Case Coolermaster Centurion 5

Power Supply Corsair 850W TX-850 ATX

Water Cooler Thermaltake Pro Water 880i water cooling unit

Cooling Corsair Dominator Airflow Fan
Mouse Cyber Snipa Stinger
Keyboard Cyber Snipa Warboard

HeadPhone Cyber Snipa Sonar 5.1
Mouse Pad Cyber Snipa Aluminium Mousepad








Install is XP Pro SP3 With latest Drivers and DX9c the hard drives are in Raid 0 and Both Video Cards are set in CrossFire
programs
AMD Overdrive
AMD Fusion
Tune XP 1.5
Acronis
AVG Free 8.5
Firefox 3.5.1
Adobe Flash player 10 Activex/plugin
XFire



Clocked 4009 Mhz
HTT Clock Freq 211 Mhz
HT Link Freq 2110 Mhz
NB Freq 2110.00 Mhz
Multiplier 19
Voltage 1.45 V
Memory VDDQ 1.650 V
PCIe Speed 110 Mhz

3DMark06 Overall Score 21495
SM 2.0 Score 8042
HDR/SM 3.0m Score 10844
CPU Score 5705


Super Pi 8M
Single Thread 3509
Multi Thread 12494
Multi proc speedup 3.56


WinRAR
Single Thread Proc MB
Single Thread Avg KB/s 882
Multi Thread Proc MB
Multi Thread Avg KB/s 2542


Everest Memory
Bandwidth

Read MB/s 8908
Write MB/s 8814
Copy MB/s 10963
Latency ns 50.0
 
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