Asus M3A78-T Motherboard Review ~ HD 3300 IGP Overclock Fun

Motherboards/AMD AM2+ by massman @ 2009-05-06

Today, we have a look at the Asus AM2+ motherboard, the M3A78-T, which is one of the higher-end motherboards from their AM2+ series. It comes with HD3300 onboard GPU which we overclocked to the limit… and beyond, running Crysis at 1280x1024 at 30fps!

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Test setup and methodology

Test setup

Madshrimps' AMD Test Setup


CPU
  • AMD Phenom X4 9950
  • AMD Phenom II X3 720BE
  • AMD Phenom II X4 940BE
    • Cooling
  • Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer
    • Mainboard
  • Asus M3A78-T
  • DFI Lanparty DK 790GX-M2RS
  • Foxconn A7DA-S
    • Memory
  • 2 * 1GB Crucial Ballistix
    • Other
  • Sapphire 4870X2
  • Antec 1000W PSU
  • Western Digital 320Gb SATA HDD
  • Windows XP SP3
  • OCZ Freeze thermal paste
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    Methodology

    The following benchmarks were used:

  • Lavalys Everest: Memory latency
  • SuperPi 1M
  • Wprime 32M
  • Wprime 1024M

  • PCMark05
  • TechArp X264 HD benchmark
  • Cinebench 10

  • 3DMark2001SE
  • 3DMark06
  • Crysis

    We ran both setups at 2,6 and 3,2GHz to compare. Detailed information here:

    Madshrimps (c)


  • Phenom X4 9950BE - 200x13=2600Hz - 2000MHz (NB) - 400MHz 4-4-4-10 - Ganged
  • Phenom X4 9950BE - 200x16=3200MHz - 2000MHz (NB) - 533MHz 5-7-7-25 - Ganged
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