1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:07,120 today I'm going to be doing a quick outdoor unboxing of the ASUS M4 a89 TD 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:12,960 Pro now I already did unboxings of the GTD Pro as well as the GTD Pro USB 3 so 3 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:17,240 this is without the G which actually makes it better contrary to what you 4 00:00:14,719 --> 00:00:21,920 might think so this is using AMD's 890 FX chipset that means you've got full 5 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:26,519 support for AMD's Phenom 2x6 processors as well as any other Phenom or Athlon on 6 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:30,039 the am3 platform that you could possibly want to put in it it has turbo unlocker 7 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:34,760 which means that you can adjust your performance on demand basically it means 8 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:38,640 that you can unlock the turbo feature on the AMD 6 cores and you also have core 9 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:44,120 unlocker which means you can unlock cores that are not there on the triple 10 00:00:41,079 --> 00:00:46,039 cores and the Dual cores so let me see 11 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:49,800 what else we got oh yeah because it has an 890 FX chipset you've got native 12 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:54,120 support for SATA 6 GB per second that means all of the ports are SATA 6 gig 13 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:58,480 per second you also have power eat of support which is really cool if you have 14 00:00:55,879 --> 00:01:04,040 an external drive like the Seagate uh glex that I uh that I unboxed recently 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:09,320 that actually has a power D sat option so that's pretty cool as well we've got 16 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:11,680 an IO Shield we have wow not many 17 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:16,600 accessories for an 890 FX board we've got an IDE cable then we have the Q 18 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:20,479 connector for USB as well as the front panel connectors power switch reset 19 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:25,040 switch all that good stuff then we have four SATA 3 connectors or SATA 6 gbit 20 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:29,159 per second connectors there's no actual difference but they have a little label 21 00:01:27,079 --> 00:01:33,399 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 22 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:39,079 cuz they're black and white versus the old red ones that ASUS provides for SATA 23 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:41,040 2 here is the support DVD do not use it 24 00:01:39,079 --> 00:01:45,520 throw it away download the latest off the ASUS website and then we've also got 25 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:49,600 the turbo unlocker description so performance boost feature and it 26 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:56,840 dynamically adjusts hcpu core fore okay so yeah basically like turbo mode okay 27 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:59,479 good manual manual is in English and it 28 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:03,560 is long let's have a look at the board itself 29 00:02:00,759 --> 00:02:09,520 ASUS has done such a good job with with the with the Aesthetics of their most 30 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:13,280 recent boards I really really like what they've done they've gone from like kind 31 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:17,080 of a I mean it wasn't that long ago ASUS was producing motherboards the color of 32 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:21,400 cardboard and now almost everything's got a nice black PCB it's got a nice 33 00:02:19,519 --> 00:02:26,239 black and blue color scheme without you know any sort of random like you know 34 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:29,280 one orange port or anything like that we used to see that a lot where there's 35 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:33,360 just like everything is sort of one color except you know this dim slot is 36 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:37,200 yellow because yellow plastic was cheaper that day or whatever it's really 37 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:41,680 nice really sharp up here we've got our eight pin power connector so this is you 38 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:46,640 know I get a lot of questions about this the fact that one side is covered means 39 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:51,120 that if you only have a 4 pin power connector on your power supply you plug 40 00:02:48,599 --> 00:02:54,680 it into these ones if you have an 8 Pin power connector you take off this cover 41 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:58,840 and plug it into the whole thing so you can see there's eight pins under there 42 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:03,360 so that is why that covers on there just so that you don't accident try and plug 43 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:07,159 a four pin into this side okay then we have our am3 CPU socket that's where you 44 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:11,599 get support for all of the chips that I outlined before you have support for 45 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:16,200 dual Channel DDR3 memory and it uses ausa's Innovative only one side 46 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:19,599 Installation System so these are not actual Clips you just kind of slip the 47 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:24,040 module in there clip it down and then clamp it on the other side here are the 48 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:28,879 switches for Turbo key2 as well as their core unlocker so this core unlocker 49 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:32,959 switch I think I did a video on it yeah I did do a video on with the G Series 50 00:03:30,879 --> 00:03:36,840 board is as simple as you hit the switch and it unlocks the cores it's really 51 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:41,640 cool memo means that you can post with pretty much any memory as long as it 52 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:46,120 fits in the slot so M will run any module at a very very safe setting so 53 00:03:44,799 --> 00:03:53,360 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 54 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:57,519 IDE port and here are your SATA 6 gbit per second ports all lined up down here 55 00:03:55,599 --> 00:04:01,959 now these aren't the ideal locations for your SATA ports I'd prefer to see them 56 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:05,040 at a right angle like the IDE port here but what they have done is they've 57 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:10,799 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 58 00:04:08,799 --> 00:04:15,280 dual slot one installed here it's only going to come up to about here so as 59 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:18,440 long as you don't have like a PCI raid card or something this long then you're 60 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:22,160 not going to run into any trouble plugging in as many devices as you want 61 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:28,280 here's your BIOS chip here's your front USB 2.0 this board does not yes it does 62 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:31,720 feature USB 3.0 and as ter in terms of 63 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:34,360 expansion slots you've got dual PCIe 16x 64 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:37,479 support you've got one PCIe 4X slot that will still be exposed even if you're 65 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:41,400 running Crossfire and then you have two PCI slots one of which will be usable if 66 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:45,120 you are running Crossfire with dual slots here's your North Bridge it's 67 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:48,960 actually connected by a heat pipe to the mosfet cooler so I don't know if you can 68 00:04:46,919 --> 00:04:53,360 see that in there and this uses what someone suggested to me is more like a 69 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:58,440 tree than anything else it uses their tree style of heat sink that I really 70 00:04:55,479 --> 00:05:00,880 like it's just kind of cool looking let's look at that from a couple 71 00:04:59,479 --> 00:05:07,280 different angles cameraman always appreciates this kind of stuff where it's like you know more about Aesthetics 72 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:11,600 than actual performance and I'm starting to get that way myself to be perfectly 73 00:05:09,639 --> 00:05:14,520 honest let me see if there's anything else that I should really tell you about 74 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:20,080 on this board while the cameraman oh yeah hybrid technology I 75 00:05:17,479 --> 00:05:24,600 think I remember what that is I think it's something to do with power savings 76 00:05:21,919 --> 00:05:29,080 actually okay well let's have a look at the back of the board we've got two PS2 77 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:34,080 ports a clear seos button thank you ASUS that is the best best possible place for 78 00:05:31,039 --> 00:05:35,520 a clear seos button two USB 3.0 ports 79 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:40,800 you can tell because they're color coded blue and they also have more pins inside 80 00:05:37,479 --> 00:05:45,360 we have one optical audio out six USB 81 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:47,600 2.0 ports fire wire a powered EA Port 82 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:52,919 gigabit Ethernet as well as 7.1 Channel audio thank you for checking out my 83 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:56,600 unboxing of the M4 a89 TD Pro 890 FX 84 00:05:52,919 --> 00:05:56,600 motherboard from aus