ECS A785GM-M Socket AM3 Motherboard

Overclocking
The board has support for the latest Phenom II processors, including the X6 1100T that we used for our tests. You may end up buying this board with a different view on running the system, as you may want to squeeze some more performance from it by overclocking.

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We overclocked this board using the settings in the BIOS as it gives the clearest way of overclocking and has always been a more trusted method than Windows based overclocking, or so we thought.

This board was a funny one as after all of the tests were run, no matter what settings were put into place, the board would not clock above 800MHz. I can hear you all shouting at the screen “Cool and Quiet”, but alas you are wrong as no form of heavy workload shifted it from 798.8MHz. It also seemed that no matter what settings were invested into the BIOS, nothing would change. Voltage and multiplier changes gave no real-world change whatsoever, leading us to believe that this board actually had a slight fault or that the BIOS from 2010 didn’t fully support the Phenom II X6 1100T and we can only hope that ECS can rectify this for users hoping to bundle the two together.

Sorry folks, but our aim at eTeknix is to be brutally honest and not to sugar coat anything. We know this may not be the result ECS are hoping for us to print, but our first hand testing doesn’t lie.