Our test system was Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 32-bit with ATI Catalyst 9.5 drivers and nForce 15.26.

 

The board seems to take slightly less power than the Asus M3A78-T probably because of the onboard video of the 790GX or possibly DDR3 taking slightly less power.

Not a major difference in transfer speed but the 790GX chipset comes out slightly on top.

Overclocking the motherboard we had some mixed results compared to the 790GX Asus M3A78-T, though the HyperTransport bus alone was able to go 200MHz above the 790GX overclocking our Phenom II X3 720 BE the processor came in 200MHz lower at 3.6GHz compared to 3.8GHz. The Nvidia chipests in general don't seem to overclock quite as well with AMD processors as ATI's but here we do see the bus went higher but we'd still prefer the CPU over the bus.