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Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 Pictured
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.
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i still hate the memory lay out should go blue, white, blue, white for those rams that are to big to by each other
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I like it...especially the dual lan, but I think my next board will be a Crosshair IV instead.
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woot they should have put a Marvell SATA 6Gbps controller instead of a JMicron SATA 3Gbps Controller
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did I see a floppy connector?
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I 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.
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Not really a big deal yet, but why not do it anyways Gigabyte
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needs more sata ports
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so besides the dual lan and "better" crossfire possibilities there isnt much different from the 890gx? Waiting for the 890x myself.
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Urgh ... the PCI-E x1 slots are useless.
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Off Topic: What do you use it for??
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It was logical that this board was coming. What surprised me was when they released the GA-790FXTA-UD5, which has the same feature set. I sure hope some reviewer compares the two. (I know that the 890's will be the best going forward, I was just surprised that Gigabyte took the 790FX and made a "890FX version" with SATA6 and USB3.) |
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^^ The 890GX has integrated graphics and Dual Crossfire runs at 8x/8x...The 890FX does not have integrated graphics and allows Dual Crossfire to run at 16x/16x...This also applies to the 790GX/FX chipsets.
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ah, my bad - was thinking of the x1 slot...
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cool finaly lets see that ud7 i know u got it lol
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I see a led post error screen on this. Is this the first gigabyte to have one?
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I wonder what the MSRP of this would be at time of release. I like it ALOT! After switching over to Gigabyte from MSI & DFI, I am pleased with my decision.
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lol, now I forgot what I was supposed to comment on
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It has a card-reader (CF, SD, etc) integrated into it. I plug the Floppy in for shits and giggles. And to hear the floppy power up - takes me back to the old days of my family's Amiga 500.
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Totally understandable for the nostalgia. I have an old 486 that still runs, and I still have some of the GIANT floppies for it too, so I understand the nostalgia aspect.
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