The BIOSTAR being one of the company that they are devoted to their AMD masters, and they did, more like the XFX and EVGA guys go with the NVIDIA, BIOSTAR being the leaders on pro AMD and now ATI boards. While they also supply Intel, they more on the league on AMD, with the 700 series of AMD is a good inclusion of the AMD spider series with the AMD Phenom Black edition, not as great as it is, still perform well in most of the work and benchmarks in real life situations, but with the hype about quad cores is just a big publicity stunt, saying, (buying a quad you can get good out of the performance sector more on the multi-threading applications or better some games) yes, there are benefits, all in all dual cores are my advice for most normal use in computers, in both gaming and also in word processes and adobe.
Let’s get going, with the BIOSTAR 790GX, with the layout of the board being very spacious in the CPU and in some places (with the RAM slots are a bit crammed) and also the Heat sink combo of the Northbridge and the Southbridge are used an integrated aluminium and copper alloys just to keep the cost low, and the board being given Six right angled SATA ports, Dual PCIex for crossfire and also hybrid Crossfire with the use of the 790GX with the integrated HD3300, and also the use of HD decoding, (as the same as the Gigabyte 790GP-DS4H).
And with mentioning about Gigabyte, the general layout of the board is similar to the gigabyte, with the same PCB colour and also the heat sink combo, almost make it a clone, but the difference of the board in the appearance is the use of the older electrolyte capacitors, in ¾th’s of the board, other than the CPU having a durable and long lasting, not to mention low power consumption, the others get a liquid electrolyte capacitors that can be unstable in overclocking, while not being felt in our board, the use of the four pin CPU connector, can sometimes limit your CPU overclocking theoretically about 30MHz less.
With our test being on the decoding being good all-round, with the overclocking as the theoretical is correct cannot exceed about 14MHz in the video and the CPU, the Phenom 9950, put the gaming speed about 5%, a real shocker even with the cut cornering on some stuff like the electrolyte capacitors, being up in our expectations, this can be in some a home theatre system, lesson on the gaming and overclocking, says that this has some limit, like the heat and all, but good enough to pass as a theatre board.
