DFI LanParty DK 790GX-M2RS Motherboard Review

Motherboards/AMD AM2+ by massman @ 2009-01-04

DFI has taken the latest AMD 790GX chipset and loaded it on a flashy motherboard fitted with custom cooling and fully fleshed out BIOS which allows you to tweak almost every aspect of the AM2+ platform. Let us find out if the engineers at DFI were able to extract more performance from the 790GX chipset compared to the competition.

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SuperPi, Wprime and Lavalys everest

SuperPi and Wprime:

SuperPi has been around for ages now, but still reflects the performance of the technology. Being single threaded, you won't increase performance by inserting a quad core processor, but that's why we've chosen Wprime as an alternative. Wprime has been included in the HWBot benchmark suite for quite some time now and many people agree on the quality of the benchmark. Wprime works with multiple threads and is ideal to test multi-core processors.

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Both boards head to head in this one.

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Just a very minor difference between both setups, although you can find the DFI on top.

Lavalys Everest 4.50

We used the memory benchmark utility to measure the performance of the memory management.

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Again, keeping each other in balance.

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The DFI is noticeably faster, as the difference between both boards is large enough to speak about a significant difference. Using memset, we analyzed the two systems, but didn't find any setting that could explain everything.
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