The Asus Crosshair III Formula is loaded with great features and also ships with supplied software, which helps the user configure the board and monitor it without any trouble. As far as performance is concerned the motherboard performed very well when compared to its competitors. We also managed to overclock the board’s FSB to 260 using automatic settings and, going the manual route, we think it has got tons of overclocking potential.

Over-clocking, Tweaking, and Optimizing, are just a few terms used by PC users whom TechwareLabs list as Extreme Gamers or those who are not just looking to get a standard system, but are the ones who are willing to tweak their systems and get every last drop of performance. For those select individuals ASUS has built a motherboard like nothing that has been released to date. The ASUS M4A79 Deluxe is an over-clocker’s dream when it comes to selecting processor, RAM, DRAM, North and South bridge voltages. Now, this may not surprise most of us who over-clock our systems, but how you select what the settings are is very suprising.

The performance of this board was average. It kept up with the others, but did not really excel in any one area. Overclocking on the board was... well, we do not know since our board died while being overclocked with only the CPU voltage increased to 1.45V. We hope to look at another board to give us a better idea in the near future after we get a replacement from MSI. From reading around the web, we are not the first to see a board blow due to some cheaply made voltage regulators. The MSI 790FX-GD70 is not the motherboard to use if you plan on doing even mild overclocking.

Albatron has launched K3780E, a motherboard comprised with two PCBs: a system board, where is the processor and chipset, and an I/O board, where are the motherboard connectors. System board includes an AMD ASB1 BGA embedded processor, the AMD 780E northbridge chip with an integrated Radeon HD 3000 (DirectX 10) chip graphics and SB710 southbridge chip supporting four SATA-300 ports. I/O board includes one PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, one VGA port, one HDMI port and audio connectors.

The rest of the specifications include 3+1 phase VRM for AM2+ with MSI's APS (active phase switching) feature, two DIMM slots for DDR2 memory, six SATA and one IDE port, single PCI-Express x16 slot, two plain PCI and one PCI-Express x1 slot. The VRM supports up to 125W TDP CPUs. The back panel includes PS/2 ports, D-Sub and DVI outputs, four USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet port and audio jacks for integrated 7.1-channel audio.