ASRock M3A780GXH/128M Review --- TheThirdMedia Hardware

Test Setup

Not much has changed with my AM3 test bed; however, I did mount fullcover waterblocks to my two HD 4870x2 graphic cards. Rather than separate the two cards for testing, I left them together and disabled the second card. Other than that everything is the same with Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP2 being used and the latest versions of all the benching software being used (there are new 3DMark patches out, fyi). Memory was set to DDR3-1600 7-7-7-21-28-1T and the memory controller was set to 2GHz with unganged operation.

For the overclocking segment, on air vcore was set to 1.5v, vNB set to 1.3v, and vHTT set to 1.35v, and everything else was left as is. For the extreme overclocking session vcore was set to 1.57v, vNB set to 1.4v, and vHTT set to 1.35v. For cooling during the extreme overclocking session my mini cascade was utilized which holds 250w @ -70 Celsius and achieves CPU temperatures seen using dry ice.

AMD Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	AMD Phenom II X4 955	Click Here
Motherboard	ASRock M3A780GXH/128M	Click Here
Memory	Corsair 2x2GB DDR3-1866C7 Dominator GT	Click Here
Video Card	PaLiT HD 4870x2	Click Here
Hard Drive	Seagate 7200.10 320GB	Click Here
Cooling	Scythe Ninja RevB	Click Here
Power Supply	Corsair HX1000	Click Here
Operating System	Windows Vista Ultimate	Click Here

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