ASRock M3A780GXH/128M Motherboard Review

The ASRock M3A780GXH/128M and the Asus M4A79T-Deluxe are the two direct comparisons in this review as both use identical processors and utilize DDR3. In nearly all the tests the ASRock M3A780GXH/128M lagged ever so slightly behind in performance with a major hit occurring in 3DMark Vantage. If you compare the 3DMark Vantage GPU score across all the platforms, the Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte motherboards are all within 1000 points of each other while the ASRock M3A780GXH/128M is ~3000 points lower than its direct competition. Other than 3DMark Vantage, the ASRock M3A780GXH/128M holds within 3-7% of its competition, which may be due to the different chipsets and BIOS maturity.