ASUS by some respects is one of the many major computer manufacturers in most day to day operations or just a few bucks extra to get all of the premiums and satisfaction of a stable system to hit those scores or a descent frame rates in most dx10 games. Well the AMD branding in 2009 is a little dated in some stages, first of all, being left behind in the performance via CPU in most threading and calculation benchmarks over Intel with their new and improved Intel corei7 and the new generation LGA 1156 systems. Well there is a little room for improvement for Intel for prosing margins against the AMD variants, but still is the only available public market CPU that does a number in most server pack systems.
While the usability ratings of AMD is not well known in the CPU sector, while the ATI is in full swing with their own HD-5000 series and with the DX11 support and considered the fastest core available in the market, it is no biggy if they stuff up in one of their product, it can just be bailed out by one of their other more successful ones. In one of the respects on the new dragon series of AMD and their new range of Phenom II processors and also a refurbished chipset motherboard series the 790FX series and the much newer south bridge 750, comparing form the previous series of south bridges like the 680 which lacked in external ports and even a onboard Ethernet connection.
Well the physical forms of the ATX motherboard complete with heat sink coloured aluminium and pipe transfer is standard. With other distinct features placed into the top down version of the T-series of the new 790FX chipset, is the support of the AM3 processor pins that are new to the computer market, but not as big introduction as the Intel variants, which had an amount of praise in the public. Well first impressions is the support of DDR3 memory in any AMD system but fell short with the ASUS M4A79 chipset, which has a only native support of DDR2 memory but having an overclocking potential in a bandwidth speed of 1300MHz a first in any DDR2 memory in a AMD system with a onboard memory chipset. While other features like the turbo-v, anti-surge protection; normally fall upon the copy of Gigabytes ultra durable 3 series, there so called dubbed, Xtreme phase form ASUS.
In the testing of the ASUS motherboard form the rest of its counter parts, the P45 (well it is unfair for the Phenom to compete with the new corei7 and the core i5’s) and with AMD’s 790GX onboard graphics series. In the first part of completion, AMD still show some struggle in pure calculation processes and also multi-threading even against some of the mid-end processors like the Q9550, but the Phenom II X4 965, is considered the fastest CPU via its clock core of 3.4GHz, but fast enough in gaming or in multi-threading applications. Even the Overlocking potential of the DDR2 1300 is good news but only in small proportions, it struggle to even keep to the bare minimum of that core running 24-7. Even with the help of high voltage tweaks cannot keep it in check.
In careful evaluation of the M4A79 deluxe series of ASUS, even a bit of a good side of ASUS Xtreme series, it still has some flaws with the Phenom II and in there chipsets, well comparing it to the Intel’s offers of speed, you can be swayed to buy those instead, but in the matters of cost per performance, Intel is a premium, and AMD is a great bargain with processors coming at $96 apiece.