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