Our test system was Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 32-bit with Forceware 180.

Due to our board's inability to run stable Phenom processors we had to run our benchmarks on an X2 4000+ we didn't have as many numbers as we would have. That said the 790GX chipset still performed well in fact we decided to see how would a plain 780G motherboard with a AMD's current best Phenom 9950 BE and our 790GX board with a much slower X2 4000+.

Amazingly even though the 780G board boasts two more cores, a faster processor at a faster clockspeed with the 790GX it is only 100 points behind. The GPU really is more important.

In PCMark which tests general PC performance the ECS with the much slower processor does come out quite a bit behind unlike as in 3DMark.