1 - Introduction

You know, it's nice to see AMD slowly regaining its grip in the technology industry. After a disastrous year we can finally note some changes and more importantly, new products that are really appealing. Face it, the Phenom X4 revision B3 processors are pretty nice mainstream performing Quad Core processors to work with, and they're priced fair as well. Then the Radeon Series 4000 wiped the slate clean in performance and price, which was just awesome, yet the one thing that remained a bit of a worry is the more enthusiast targeted mainboard products. Admit it, AMD's mainboard were not very good at overclocking.

With the more high-end consumer in mind they released the new 790GX series mainboards. This mainboard is a lot about status, as AMD want to re-establish their status and performance levels for their products again. Hey, in the end, all you have is your reputation right? And for a chipset manufacturer that means top dog electronics.

Therefore they unleashed its new AMD 790GX platform. A mainboard chipset that is aimed at the performance computer users and packs in a host of features.

One of the bigger features of the 790GX is advanced overclocking capability when paired with Phenom Black Edition processors, reportedly you can now achieve 3200-3400 MHz fairly well with Phenom X4 processors. And though that's still a good step away from Intel's frequency scaling .. that's not bad man. Not only is the mainboard very feature rich, tweakable and and versatile. It even comes with an integrated GPU and a price that seems reasonable.

With that being said, let's startup the review where we'll look more closely at the new features, performance and experiences of the FoxxConn mainboard we received through AMD to test.

Next page folks.