ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe WiFi-AP motherboard review

After looking at a Phenom processor earlier this week, and Radeon HD 3870 graphics boards before that, we are now left with only one aspect of AMD's so-called "Spider" platform yet to be examined here at Elite Bastards.  Naturally, it would be remiss of us not to afford some coverage to this final piece in the arachnid jigsaw puzzle, so to fill this void here we are again, with an AMD 790FX motherboard waiting in the wings to be put through its paces.

That motherboard is ASUS' M3A32-MVP Deluxe WiFi-AP - Not a product name to trip off the tongue, but all you need to know for now is that it features AMD's latest high-end motherboard chipset (including support for four PCI Express GPUs), coupled with an on-board 802.11n capable wireless network adapter, and with support for the latest range of Phenom CPUs.  While we weren't hugely enamoured of Phenom itself in our earlier review, can the 790FX chipset make up for some of that disappointment?  Let's take a look.