WEBVTT 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 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 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:17.240 this is without the G which actually makes it better contrary to what you 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 00:00:19.080 --> 00:00:26.519 support for AMD's Phenom 2x6 processors as well as any other Phenom or Athlon on 00:00:24.400 --> 00:00:30.039 the am3 platform that you could possibly want to put in it it has turbo unlocker 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:34.760 which means that you can adjust your performance on demand basically it means 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 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:44.120 unlocker which means you can unlock cores that are not there on the triple 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:46.039 cores and the Dual cores so let me see 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 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 00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:58.480 per second you also have power eat of support which is really cool if you have 00:00:55.879 --> 00:01:04.040 an external drive like the Seagate uh glex that I uh that I unboxed recently 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 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:11.680 an IO Shield we have wow not many 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 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:20.479 connector for USB as well as the front panel connectors power switch reset 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:25.040 switch all that good stuff then we have four SATA 3 connectors or SATA 6 gbit 00:01:22.960 --> 00:01:29.159 per second connectors there's no actual difference but they have a little label 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 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:39.079 cuz they're black and white versus the old red ones that ASUS provides for SATA 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:41.040 2 here is the support DVD do not use it 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:45.520 throw it away download the latest off the ASUS website and then we've also got 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:49.600 the turbo unlocker description so performance boost feature and it 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:56.840 dynamically adjusts hcpu core fore okay so yeah basically like turbo mode okay 00:01:53.320 --> 00:01:59.479 good manual manual is in English and it 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:03.560 is long let's have a look at the board itself 00:02:00.759 --> 00:02:09.520 ASUS has done such a good job with with the with the Aesthetics of their most 00:02:07.600 --> 00:02:13.280 recent boards I really really like what they've done they've gone from like kind 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 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:21.400 cardboard and now almost everything's got a nice black PCB it's got a nice 00:02:19.519 --> 00:02:26.239 black and blue color scheme without you know any sort of random like you know 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 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:33.360 just like everything is sort of one color except you know this dim slot is 00:02:31.720 --> 00:02:37.200 yellow because yellow plastic was cheaper that day or whatever it's really 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 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 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:51.120 that if you only have a 4 pin power connector on your power supply you plug 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 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 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 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 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:11.599 get support for all of the chips that I outlined before you have support for 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:16.200 dual Channel DDR3 memory and it uses ausa's Innovative only one side 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:19.599 Installation System so these are not actual Clips you just kind of slip the 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 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:28.879 switches for Turbo key2 as well as their core unlocker so this core unlocker 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 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 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:41.640 cool memo means that you can post with pretty much any memory as long as it 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:22.160 not going to run into any trouble plugging in as many devices as you want 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 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:31.720 feature USB 3.0 and as ter in terms of 00:04:28.280 --> 00:04:34.360 expansion slots you've got dual PCIe 16x 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 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:41.400 running Crossfire and then you have two PCI slots one of which will be usable if 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:45.120 you are running Crossfire with dual slots here's your North Bridge it's 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 00:04:46.919 --> 00:04:53.360 see that in there and this uses what someone suggested to me is more like a 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:58.440 tree than anything else it uses their tree style of heat sink that I really 00:04:55.479 --> 00:05:00.880 like it's just kind of cool looking let's look at that from a couple 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 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:11.600 than actual performance and I'm starting to get that way myself to be perfectly 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:14.520 honest let me see if there's anything else that I should really tell you about 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:20.080 on this board while the cameraman oh yeah hybrid technology I 00:05:17.479 --> 00:05:24.600 think I remember what that is I think it's something to do with power savings 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 00:05:26.440 --> 00:05:34.080 ports a clear seos button thank you ASUS that is the best best possible place for 00:05:31.039 --> 00:05:35.520 a clear seos button two USB 3.0 ports 00:05:34.080 --> 00:05:40.800 you can tell because they're color coded blue and they also have more pins inside 00:05:37.479 --> 00:05:45.360 we have one optical audio out six USB 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:47.600 2.0 ports fire wire a powered EA Port 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:52.919 gigabit Ethernet as well as 7.1 Channel audio thank you for checking out my 00:05:48.840 --> 00:05:56.600 unboxing of the M4 a89 TD Pro 890 FX 00:05:52.919 --> 00:05:56.600 motherboard from aus