Jetway, comes in the great time for AMD to unveil their new AM3 socket processor with also the inclusion of the new DDr3 memory interface for better bandwidth headroom, form under 1066MHz to the mark of 2000MHz frequency bus plus the inclusion of dual channel onboard memory controller for better transfer to the CPU and the dual channel DDR3 modules and also support of no more than 16GB.
But the onboard graphics with the support of the 79GX chipset form AMD is the most functional motherboard and obviously boast an onboard dedicated memory of 512MB HD-3300 graphics chipset. With the same 55nm fabrication process to fit both the Northbridge chipset controller of the rest of the PCIex slots and expansions cards and HD onboard card, which can support hybrid crossfire one half of the graphics equation the external discrete graphics will do most of the hard calculations in games and demand apps, while the onboard card will do more of the light load or just play HD movies and work on word, to save up the power hungry graphics on more simple apps.
While the board looks more of the norm for most heat-pied boards in the usual ATX form factor with the eye sore on the PWM’s heat sink with the black aluminum fins raising the heat out of the power regulators to the CPU and the Northbridge chipset, but also a small horse trademark in the middle of the two main graphics slot, probably the I/O chipset or the Southbridge in its respect.
The board has the overall black PCB color with enough space and also some of the features for an enthusiast to keep up the demand from the platform rival form Intel, this board has the usual eight and 24-pin power connectors with four dual channel DDR2 modules but having to resort a smaller low profile kits for this: while the only problem is the space given in the module slots, the board still gave the dual PCIex space for dual slot 4870’s for any crossfire configuration or quad crossfire with the monster 4870X2’s, and still usable with two PCI peripheral slots and two PCIex 1x electrical slots for low profile cards. While the storage and the I/O ports are not in the great abundance the SATA ports are facing up and only have a total of six standards and also a serious limit of USB ports in the back I/O, but may compensate with another three eSATA ports and also the three display options HDMI, DVI and SVGA.
While the performance of the 790GX is great all round for gaming and also the multimedia applications, and even in some raw performance in the CPU. But when you hit it with a new Phenom II processor probably the 920 with 3.0GHz standard frequency, you can come up with better performance marks with the higher clock frequency than the previous phenom you can get a 15% increase in the media video encoding ad also in some games more in the RTS games like command and conquer: red alert 3 and the supreme commander franchise. But some down turn in some compatibilities in fusion form AMD and also space in between the memory and the CPU, the thermalright cooler cannot fit that much space, but another 790GX board for any AMD fan.
