ECS A890GXM-A2 Review

Published by Christian Ney on 13.12.10
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BIOS

The following settings are used in the whole test except in the overclocking section.

   

   

   

   


The BIOS is almost complete, and is quite good for aircooling and/or watercooling overclocking. However we notice two huge negative points:

  • The different frequencies are not synchronised with the bus. For example if we have a bus of 200 mhz and the processor at 2000 mhz (the multiplier is 10). But if you increase the bus at 280MHz, the processor will always be written running at 2000 MHz and yet it will be at 2800 MHz (10 x 280 MHz). It's the same for the RAM and Northbridge HT.
  • You cannot save settings in profiles. So if you miss overclocking or if the BIOS crash, we must all act together without exception.



Page 1 - ECS A890GXM-A2 Page 9 - SuperPi/WPrime
Page 2 - Specifications Page 10 - Games
Page 3 - Presentaion/Layout/I/O/Bundle Page 11 - Software ECS
Page 4 - BIOS Page 12 - Temperatures
Page 5 - Test Setup Page 13 - Overclocking
Page 6 - FutureMark Page 14 - Radeon HD 4290
Page 7 - SiSoft Sandra 1 Page 15 - Conclusion
Page 8 - SiSoft Sandra 2  



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