Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6 Review @ OCWorkbench
OCWorkbench reviews the Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6 motherboard, giving it a final rating of 8.5/10 and the ‘Silver Award’. Here is a part of the conclusion:
In terms of features, this board has an array of good stuff built onto this board. Basically, what you want from a board is already there. With 4 slots of PCIe, the board is basically ready for CrossFire X. Features like Quad cooling, eSATA2, Double Phase and Quad BIOS are probably the most important enhancements added to make this board a stable and screamer.
Overclocking options are plenty on the MA790FX-DQ6. Add voltages as you want, change ram timings and CPU clks up to 500MHz. The only regret is that the CPU multipier is missing when we tested it with a GP-9600. With the Black edition X2 5000+, we are able to overclock the board to 6 x 420MHz aircooled with HT Link lowered to 400MHz (x2) and Vcore pumped to 1.40v (default is 1.25v). [...]
Overall, the MA790FX-DQ6 mimics the DQ6 series of Intel platform (P35-DQ6) etc. It has all the power needed to drive the latest processors. The only regret is that the F2j bios still doesn’t come with a multiplier option for us to overclock the system by lowering the multiplier.
Read the full review of the Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6 motherboard here.