We will review the A790GXM-AD3 motherboard from the folks at ECS Elitegroup. This article will entail two primary focuses. The first being a review on this motherboard, the second... to observe if we actually see a performance increase from DDR2 over DDR3 memory.

Now despite the fact that the AM2+ based (A790GXM-A) predecessor looks very much like the AM3 version, the new ECS 790GXM-AD3 definitely has a different PCB design. Much cleaner and a few more features... let's have a look.