{"video_id":"9vZiGsKJUdg","title":"ASUS M4A89TD PRO 890FX SATA3 USB3 Crossfire Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":355,"segments":[{"start_s":0.44,"end_s":7.12,"text":"today I'm going to be doing a quick outdoor unboxing of the ASUS M4 a89 TD","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.88,"end_s":12.96,"text":"Pro now I already did unboxings of the GTD Pro as well as the GTD Pro USB 3 so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.96,"end_s":17.24,"text":"this is without the G which actually makes it better contrary to what you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.719,"end_s":21.92,"text":"might think so this is using AMD's 890 FX chipset that means you've got full","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.08,"end_s":26.519,"text":"support for AMD's Phenom 2x6 processors as well as any other Phenom or Athlon 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button two USB 3.0 ports","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":334.08,"end_s":340.8,"text":"you can tell because they're color coded blue and they also have more pins inside","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":337.479,"end_s":345.36,"text":"we have one optical audio out six USB","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":340.8,"end_s":347.6,"text":"2.0 ports fire wire a powered EA Port","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":345.36,"end_s":352.919,"text":"gigabit Ethernet as well as 7.1 Channel audio thank you for checking out my","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":348.84,"end_s":356.6,"text":"unboxing of the M4 a89 TD Pro 890 FX","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":352.919,"end_s":356.6,"text":"motherboard from aus","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"today I'm going to be doing a quick outdoor unboxing of the ASUS M4 a89 TD Pro now I already did unboxings of the GTD Pro as well as the GTD Pro USB 3 so this is without the G which actually makes it better contrary to what you might think so this is using AMD's 890 FX chipset that means you've got full support for AMD's Phenom 2x6 processors as well as any other Phenom or Athlon on the am3 platform that you could possibly want to put in it it has turbo unlocker which means that you can adjust your performance on demand basically it means that you can unlock the turbo feature on the AMD 6 cores and you also have core unlocker which means you can unlock cores that are not there on the triple cores and the Dual cores so let me see what else we got oh yeah because it has an 890 FX chipset you've got native support for SATA 6 GB per second that means all of the ports are SATA 6 gig per second you also have power eat of support which is really cool if you have an external drive like the Seagate uh glex that I uh that I unboxed recently that actually has a power D sat option so that's pretty cool as well we've got an IO Shield we have wow not many accessories for an 890 FX board we've got an IDE cable then we have the Q connector for USB as well as the front panel connectors power switch reset switch all that good stuff then we have four SATA 3 connectors or SATA 6 gbit per second connectors there's no actual difference but they have a little label on them that says SATA 6 gbit per second I don't know if you're going to be a able to read that and they look cooler cuz they're black and white versus the old red ones that ASUS provides for SATA 2 here is the support DVD do not use it throw it away download the latest off the ASUS website and then we've also got the turbo unlocker description so performance boost feature and it dynamically adjusts hcpu core fore okay so yeah basically like turbo mode okay good manual manual is in English and it is long let's have a look at the board itself ASUS has done such a good job with with the with the Aesthetics of their most recent boards I really really like what they've done they've gone from like kind of a I mean it wasn't that long ago ASUS was producing motherboards the color of cardboard and now almost everything's got a nice black PCB it's got a nice black and blue color scheme without you know any sort of random like you know one orange port or anything like that we used to see that a lot where there's just like everything is sort of one color except you know this dim slot is yellow because yellow plastic was cheaper that day or whatever it's really nice really sharp up here we've got our eight pin power connector so this is you know I get a lot of questions about this the fact that one side is covered means that if you only have a 4 pin power connector on your power supply you plug it into these ones if you have an 8 Pin power connector you take off this cover and plug it into the whole thing so you can see there's eight pins under there so that is why that covers on there just so that you don't accident try and plug a four pin into this side okay then we have our am3 CPU socket that's where you get support for all of the chips that I outlined before you have support for dual Channel DDR3 memory and it uses ausa's Innovative only one side Installation System so these are not actual Clips you just kind of slip the module in there clip it down and then clamp it on the other side here are the switches for Turbo key2 as well as their core unlocker so this core unlocker switch I think I did a video on it yeah I did do a video on with the G Series board is as simple as you hit the switch and it unlocks the cores it's really cool memo means that you can post with pretty much any memory as long as it fits in the slot so M will run any module at a very very safe setting so that you can get into the BIOS and adjust it to what it's supposed to run at here is the Southbridge here is your IDE port and here are your SATA 6 gbit per second ports all lined up down here now these aren't the ideal locations for your SATA ports I'd prefer to see them at a right angle like the IDE port here but what they have done is they've really kept it out of the way of your graphics card so even if you have a dual slot graphics card installed here and a dual slot one installed here it's only going to come up to about here so as long as you don't have like a PCI raid card or something this long then you're not going to run into any trouble plugging in as many devices as you want here's your BIOS chip here's your front USB 2.0 this board does not yes it does feature USB 3.0 and as ter in terms of expansion slots you've got dual PCIe 16x support you've got one PCIe 4X slot that will still be exposed even if you're running Crossfire and then you have two PCI slots one of which will be usable if you are running Crossfire with dual slots here's your North Bridge it's actually connected by a heat pipe to the mosfet cooler so I don't know if you can see that in there and this uses what someone suggested to me is more like a tree than anything else it uses their tree style of heat sink that I really like it's just kind of cool looking let's look at that from a couple different angles cameraman always appreciates this kind of stuff where it's like you know more about Aesthetics than actual performance and I'm starting to get that way myself to be perfectly honest let me see if there's anything else that I should really tell you about on this board while the cameraman oh yeah hybrid technology I think I remember what that is I think it's something to do with power savings actually okay well let's have a look at the back of the board we've got two PS2 ports a clear seos button thank you ASUS that is the best best possible place for a clear seos button two USB 3.0 ports you can tell because they're color coded blue and they also have more pins inside we have one optical audio out six USB 2.0 ports fire wire a powered EA Port gigabit Ethernet as well as 7.1 Channel audio thank you for checking out my unboxing of the M4 a89 TD Pro 890 FX motherboard from aus"}