1 00:00:00,399 --> 00:00:09,760 so today I'm going to be unboxing the latest from AMD the M4 a89 GTD Pro usb3 2 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:15,679 this is an ASUS motherboard featuring AMD's latest 890 GX chipset and the 3 00:00:13,519 --> 00:00:21,160 biggest difference between the AMD 890 GX chipset and anything that's come 4 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:25,359 before it is that it has native SATA 3 5 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:27,840 or SATA 6 gabit per second Support also 6 00:00:25,359 --> 00:00:31,720 I have this cool AMD football isn't this awesome bring your A game so I'm going 7 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:38,760 to throw it to the cameraman and hopefully he can catch it that was really lame that's okay it's done 8 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:43,680 now okay so here we go this features Extreme Design number one performance 9 00:00:40,879 --> 00:00:48,600 reliability and safety it is hybrid which we'll figure out later okay it 10 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:52,480 supports am3 ooh coreon Locker this is a big one so AMD has actually made it a 11 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:56,920 little bit more difficult for the motherboard manufacturers to allow you 12 00:00:54,399 --> 00:01:00,879 to unlock dual and triple course but ASUS seems to have found a way around it 13 00:00:59,199 --> 00:01:05,680 so they're enabling their users to do that you have support for GPU boost 14 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:10,200 Crossfire x side port and hybrid Crossfire X so that means that you can 15 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:14,280 use the integrated graphics and you can put like some kind of uh low-end 16 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:18,159 graphics card and you can run them in crossfire or something it seems very 17 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:21,759 convoluted and I can't imagine really any reason you would want to do that if 18 00:01:20,079 --> 00:01:27,640 you want to use an add-in graphics card you put one in if you don't then you don't core unlocker intelligently 19 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:32,960 unlocks true core performance yep GPU boost so you can actually overclock the 20 00:01:30,119 --> 00:01:40,159 integrated GPU that's pretty cool hybrid Pro processor turbo V Evo so okay you 21 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:45,200 can overclock with auto tuning okay turbo key2 this is basically like the 22 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:47,200 old turbo button on uh really really 23 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:50,680 really old Intel processors so they're saying that you can basically use a key 24 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:54,799 to boost your CPU performance up with one button press 100% solid capacitors 25 00:01:53,280 --> 00:02:00,600 it has memo K which I'll explain a little bit later SATA 6 gbit per second 26 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:02,320 and eup okay well why don't we open this 27 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:08,000 up and see if we can find more details on exactly what this thing is so the 28 00:02:05,799 --> 00:02:14,319 first thing we find inside ooh I like these already we find 29 00:02:10,879 --> 00:02:16,120 SATA connectors I just like them look at 30 00:02:14,319 --> 00:02:20,640 these they're black and white that's cool and they have like a two-tone color 31 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:25,200 scheme so it actually comes with oh it only oh it only comes with a couple like 32 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:29,239 that I'm guessing these are the SATA 6 gbit per second connectors although any 33 00:02:26,959 --> 00:02:33,760 decent SATA cable will run fine with SATA 6 gbit per second so they include 34 00:02:31,959 --> 00:02:36,800 two straight connectors one black and white one black and then two right angle 35 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:41,280 connectors one black and white and one black it's going to make it a little difficult to have a unified color scheme 36 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:47,720 in your build but what are you going to do okay next we have an IDE cable not 37 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:51,080 exciting next we have oh this these are good these are the Q connectors so you 38 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:54,000 use these if you have a case that doesn't have them in bricks and has them 39 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:57,920 all split apart to make things a little bit easier for yourself uh then you've 40 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:02,440 got one of these little ASUS VGA switch cards so I believe this is to turn 41 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:04,040 Crossfire fire on and or off uh please 42 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:08,680 keep the switch card on the black PCI e6x slot only remove it when you want to 43 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:12,560 install other devices okay I wouldn't mind seeing something 44 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:16,560 like that already installed on the motherboard that's okay though all right 45 00:03:14,799 --> 00:03:21,920 then we've got the io Shield which has their spongy foamy uh metally stuff on 46 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:23,799 the back then we have the user guide 47 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:28,480 which also includes a driver CD don't use this download the latest drivers off 48 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:31,680 the assus website oh ooh case badge 49 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:34,400 shiny metal case badge power by 50 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:38,560 ASUS okay then they oh there's info about the VGA switch card that's pretty 51 00:03:35,879 --> 00:03:43,319 useful thank you for that information tutorial uh document so it's for 52 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:47,120 installing One graphics card you put it in there okay well that seems pretty 53 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:50,959 self-explanatory I'm glad they included a little addendum for 54 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:56,079 that all right let's have a look o that's a nice looking board actually you 55 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:58,519 don't see too many like schmexy looking 56 00:03:56,079 --> 00:04:01,799 AMD boards these days but uh it looks like they've really gone all out on this 57 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:07,760 one here I'm going to I I'll do that camera man go away 58 00:04:04,319 --> 00:04:09,079 here put that in there okay so let's put 59 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:12,799 the board on top of the box here and have a look so yeah that looks really 60 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:16,440 nice so they've done a couple things completely differently that I have never 61 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:20,320 seen before first of all we've got these really cool looking uh vrm heat sinks we 62 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:25,919 should have a look at those from the side because they look pretty sweet and 63 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:29,759 I I'm just kind of going out on a limb here but I'm guessing because it's 64 00:04:27,759 --> 00:04:33,000 labeled hybrid technology it's all about the power savings so I'm thinking maybe 65 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:38,120 it's supposed to look kind of like a tree like 66 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:39,600 green but then it's blue so I I don't 67 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:45,160 know if that's for cameraman's giving me a funny look I don't think he agrees with me but but the North Bridge one 68 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:50,080 looks kind of like waves it's kind of like water which is also very 69 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:53,680 environmentally friendly so that's my guess I could be totally wrong and feel 70 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:58,919 free to leave your comments about whether you think I'm right or the cameraman should be giving me a funny 71 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:03,120 look about that green stuff so let's have a look at the layout of this board 72 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:09,960 it is an am3 board supporting up to 140 W TDP TDP CPUs so that means you can put 73 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:12,320 any am3 capable chip in here you've got 74 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:17,560 support for dual Channel DDR3 memory as with all am3 boards that support DDR3 75 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,720 it's dual Channel all right we've got a few buttons up here that should be 76 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:24,639 pretty relevant so we've got the turbo key 2 as well as the core un Locker 77 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:28,240 buttons and then we have the memo K button I said I'd explain that later 78 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:33,600 memo K basically means that even if you're using RAM that requires 79 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:36,160 more than stock voltage to run M will 80 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:39,800 automatically set all of the RAM at like a safe setting that means that you'll be 81 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:44,479 able to post even if you aren't running it at optimal settings also to do with 82 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:48,440 the RAM slots we've got these cool ASUS exclusive RAM slots that only have a 83 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:52,960 clip on one side the other side is not actually a clip so the intention is that 84 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:56,800 you just put Slide the RAM slot in that way and then put it down on this side 85 00:05:54,759 --> 00:06:00,840 and clip it in so that in theory it's a little bit easier to install all right 86 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:04,800 we've got the 20 24 pin connector in its ideal location along the right hand edge 87 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:07,919 of the board and this is probably the weirdest thing I've seen on a 88 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:13,919 motherboard in quite a while the 8 pin connector is huge look at this thing 89 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:17,560 okay so the eight pin connector ah rather than sticking about this high off 90 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:24,080 the board like we normally see I'm going to turn this around actually sticks like 91 00:06:20,639 --> 00:06:26,639 3 4 cm up from the board I'm guessing 92 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:31,720 that makes it a little bit easier to access in theory um one thing that it 93 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:35,280 would also do is make it a little bit more difficult for the um for any 94 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:40,160 cabling if you're bringing it up from the back of the board and then up around to the front it' have to be a little 95 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:43,759 longer but most power supplies might like most quality power supplies these 96 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:49,120 days have pretty long8 pin connectors anyway so I guess it's not two things it 97 00:06:47,039 --> 00:06:53,120 was cold outside and the batteries of the camera died so here we are back in 98 00:06:50,639 --> 00:06:57,440 the office and as I was discussing before the eight pin is really long that 99 00:06:55,840 --> 00:07:01,759 is really all I had to say about that beyond what I have already said so we 100 00:06:59,599 --> 00:07:07,840 we' got also PCI Express connectors so we've got two PCIe 16x connectors one 101 00:07:04,919 --> 00:07:12,160 PCIe 1X and one PCIe 4X this could be useful if you have say for example a 102 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:16,919 raid card or any other device that needs a little bit more bandwidth than a PCI 103 00:07:14,199 --> 00:07:20,240 e1x then down here we've got two PCI I think this is a very ideal layout 104 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:24,199 because if you're using two dual slot graphics cards I don't know how easy 105 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:29,879 this is going to be basically you'll have one PCI e4x and one PCI still 106 00:07:27,039 --> 00:07:35,560 available now USB connectors this board has tons check this out you've got four 107 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:39,840 USB headers Each of which is good for up to two ports or like one card readers so 108 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:44,560 you can connect a lot of USB devices to this particular motherboard down here 109 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:49,560 this is a big selling point here these are SATA 6 GB per second ports these are 110 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:56,199 native ports that means they're running right off of the AMD 890 GX chipset Okay 111 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:59,080 so we've got 1 2 3 4 here and I don't really like the placement of these two 112 00:07:57,919 --> 00:08:02,960 because they could potentially be covered by a full length dual width 113 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:06,360 graphics card here but you still got these two available and then we have two 114 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:11,039 more on the edge of the board which would also be accessible no matter what 115 00:08:08,639 --> 00:08:14,479 one IDE port as if I mean you know what actually I 116 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:18,400 shouldn't say that a lot of people are still using these for DVD dri so it's a 117 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:22,599 perfectly legitimate thing to continue to include on a motherboard no floppy 118 00:08:20,479 --> 00:08:27,240 connector though and that I can't say I'll miss so there we go let's have a 119 00:08:24,919 --> 00:08:30,639 look at the back here we have lots of different connectors let's start at the 120 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:37,839 top we've got a PS2 keyboard Port then we have 1 2 3 4 USB 2.0 ports and then 121 00:08:36,279 --> 00:08:41,159 we have hold on let me see if I can figure out what oh cool this is one of 122 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:49,640 those combo ports so we actually have 1 2 3 4 five USB 2.0 ports then we have an 123 00:08:45,519 --> 00:08:52,360 optical audio out HDMI out DVI out VGA 124 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:58,720 out so lots of different video output display adapter options then we have 125 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:05,519 fire wire and ESAT so this is one of those combo USB slat ports very cool 126 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:14,160 then we have a gigabit Lan and 7.1 audio thank you for checking out my unboxing 127 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:16,959 of the ASUS M4 a89 GTD Pro USB 3 wait no 128 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:21,399 stop wait stop hold on there's more I forgot I just said the name of the board 129 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:26,360 it has USB 3 right in it these blue ports they're USB 130 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:29,640 3 I didn't even say that also don't forget to comment on the video let me 131 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:36,519 know if you agree with me or the cameraman about the the green heat sink 132 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,519 design that is all