Friday, March 5th 2010

Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 Pictured

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At the ongoing CeBIT event, Gigabyte showed off its latest offer of motherboards including an interesting one based on AMD's upcoming 890FX chipset. Made for socket AM3 processors from AMD, the GA-890FXA-UD5 is based on the AMD 890FX chipset with SB850 southbridge. It expands a little on the chipset's features. The CPU is powered by a 10-phase VRM. It is wired to four DDR3 memory slots that are powered by a 2-phase VRM. The AMD 890FX drives four PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots (electrical x8 when all are populated, x16 on alternate slots otherwise). There are two PCI-E x1 and one PCI. All six of the SATA 6 Gb/s ports from the southbridge are internal, while an additional GSATA2 controller gives out two SATA 3 Gb/s ports, and drives the IDE connector. Connectivity options include 8+2 channel audio with Dolby Home Theater, two gigabit Ethernet interfaces, FireWire, and two USB 3.0 ports, apart from a number of USB 2.0 ports. The board is expected to release later next month.
Source: PC Watch

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32 Comments on Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 Pictured

#26
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
Liking the board, but I think Ill go with the 300 dollar CH 4 Extreme over this. Wonder if they have a high end FX board coming.
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#27
Grings
Right, im assuming the floppy connector is the one next to the IDE connector, so whats that under the pci slot?
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#28
Hayder_Master
tonyd223did I see a floppy connector?
JATownesI didn't even notice that. I guess some people still use them, but who uses a floppy and buys a 890FX board. Enthusiast use flash drives. No floppy for me.

Still makes me laugh though. :laugh:

EDIT: 500th post woohoo!!
did i see two floppy connector
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#29
gumpty
hayder.masterdid i see two floppy connector
Floppy drives in RAID. :laugh: Only for the hardcore. :cool:
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#30
Hayder_Master
gumptyFloppy drives in RAID. :laugh: Only for the hardcore. :cool:
:roll:
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#31
M3T4LM4N222
I'd prefer GX. Seeing how x8/x8 is only saturated by a few cards (and even w/ those cards there is only a 5% performance drop) and you get int. graphics to fall back on (Int. graphics that can handle CS:S exceptionally well) I used to always go for the top notch motherboard, but i'd always have a lower end CPU and higher end single GPU so I never end up using the other video card slot (Well I did have dual 5770's for one day, but that doesn't count :p)

When you look at it, the only real perks it has is x16/x16 and power/reset buttons(Something I like, but I am not interested in giving up int. graphics and paying $70+ more for)
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#32
wiak
Vagikethe X58A-UD3R, UD5, UD7 i think have 10 sata port; a combination of 3 & 6 Gbps.
same does Gigabyte's own 790FX-UD5P aka 6 from SB, 4 from a jmicron controller, i do think this new 890FX board also have two 3Gbps eSATA ports like the 790FXA-UD5 has, i still prefer the 790FX-UD5P board, why? you can easly convert the internal to external eSATA with the included bracket, why have some ports on the back you CAN NOT use at all if you dont have any eSATA enclusures and only internal hds ;)
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