WEBVTT 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 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:15.679 this is an ASUS motherboard featuring AMD's latest 890 GX chipset and the 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:21.160 biggest difference between the AMD 890 GX chipset and anything that's come 00:00:17.840 --> 00:00:25.359 before it is that it has native SATA 3 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:27.840 or SATA 6 gabit per second Support also 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 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 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:43.680 now okay so here we go this features Extreme Design number one performance 00:00:40.879 --> 00:00:48.600 reliability and safety it is hybrid which we'll figure out later okay it 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 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:56.920 little bit more difficult for the motherboard manufacturers to allow you 00:00:54.399 --> 00:01:00.879 to unlock dual and triple course but ASUS seems to have found a way around it 00:00:59.199 --> 00:01:05.680 so they're enabling their users to do that you have support for GPU boost 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:10.200 Crossfire x side port and hybrid Crossfire X so that means that you can 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:14.280 use the integrated graphics and you can put like some kind of uh low-end 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:18.159 graphics card and you can run them in crossfire or something it seems very 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:21.759 convoluted and I can't imagine really any reason you would want to do that if 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 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:32.960 unlocks true core performance yep GPU boost so you can actually overclock the 00:01:30.119 --> 00:01:40.159 integrated GPU that's pretty cool hybrid Pro processor turbo V Evo so okay you 00:01:37.240 --> 00:01:45.200 can overclock with auto tuning okay turbo key2 this is basically like the 00:01:41.960 --> 00:01:47.200 old turbo button on uh really really 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:50.680 really old Intel processors so they're saying that you can basically use a key 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:54.799 to boost your CPU performance up with one button press 100% solid capacitors 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 00:01:57.360 --> 00:02:02.320 and eup okay well why don't we open this 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 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:14.319 first thing we find inside ooh I like these already we find 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:16.120 SATA connectors I just like them look at 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 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 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:29.239 that I'm guessing these are the SATA 6 gbit per second connectors although any 00:02:26.959 --> 00:02:33.760 decent SATA cable will run fine with SATA 6 gbit per second so they include 00:02:31.959 --> 00:02:36.800 two straight connectors one black and white one black and then two right angle 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 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 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:51.080 exciting next we have oh this these are good these are the Q connectors so you 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 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:57.920 all split apart to make things a little bit easier for yourself uh then you've 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:02.440 got one of these little ASUS VGA switch cards so I believe this is to turn 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:04.040 Crossfire fire on and or off uh please 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 00:03:06.640 --> 00:03:12.560 install other devices okay I wouldn't mind seeing something 00:03:10.760 --> 00:03:16.560 like that already installed on the motherboard that's okay though all right 00:03:14.799 --> 00:03:21.920 then we've got the io Shield which has their spongy foamy uh metally stuff on 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:23.799 the back then we have the user guide 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:28.480 which also includes a driver CD don't use this download the latest drivers off 00:03:25.440 --> 00:03:31.680 the assus website oh ooh case badge 00:03:28.480 --> 00:03:34.400 shiny metal case badge power by 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:38.560 ASUS okay then they oh there's info about the VGA switch card that's pretty 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:43.319 useful thank you for that information tutorial uh document so it's for 00:03:41.720 --> 00:03:47.120 installing One graphics card you put it in there okay well that seems pretty 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:50.959 self-explanatory I'm glad they included a little addendum for 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 00:03:53.040 --> 00:03:58.519 don't see too many like schmexy looking 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 00:04:00.040 --> 00:04:07.760 one here I'm going to I I'll do that camera man go away 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:09.079 here put that in there okay so let's put 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 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:16.440 nice so they've done a couple things completely differently that I have never 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 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:25.919 should have a look at those from the side because they look pretty sweet and 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 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:33.000 labeled hybrid technology it's all about the power savings so I'm thinking maybe 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:38.120 it's supposed to look kind of like a tree like 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:39.600 green but then it's blue so I I don't 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 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:50.080 looks kind of like waves it's kind of like water which is also very 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:53.680 environmentally friendly so that's my guess I could be totally wrong and feel 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 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 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 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:12.320 any am3 capable chip in here you've got 00:05:09.960 --> 00:05:17.560 support for dual Channel DDR3 memory as with all am3 boards that support DDR3 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 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 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:28.240 buttons and then we have the memo K button I said I'd explain that later 00:05:26.440 --> 00:05:33.600 memo K basically means that even if you're using RAM that requires 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:36.160 more than stock voltage to run M will 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 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 00:05:41.960 --> 00:05:48.440 the RAM slots we've got these cool ASUS exclusive RAM slots that only have a 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 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 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 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 00:06:02.520 --> 00:06:07.919 of the board and this is probably the weirdest thing I've seen on a 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:13.919 motherboard in quite a while the 8 pin connector is huge look at this thing 00:06:11.440 --> 00:06:17.560 okay so the eight pin connector ah rather than sticking about this high off 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:24.080 the board like we normally see I'm going to turn this around actually sticks like 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:26.639 3 4 cm up from the board I'm guessing 00:06:24.080 --> 00:06:31.720 that makes it a little bit easier to access in theory um one thing that it 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:35.280 would also do is make it a little bit more difficult for the um for any 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 00:06:37.840 --> 00:06:43.759 longer but most power supplies might like most quality power supplies these 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:49.120 days have pretty long8 pin connectors anyway so I guess it's not two things it 00:06:47.039 --> 00:06:53.120 was cold outside and the batteries of the camera died so here we are back in 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:57.440 the office and as I was discussing before the eight pin is really long that 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 00:06:59.599 --> 00:07:07.840 we' got also PCI Express connectors so we've got two PCIe 16x connectors one 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 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:16.919 raid card or any other device that needs a little bit more bandwidth than a PCI 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 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:24.199 because if you're using two dual slot graphics cards I don't know how easy 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:29.879 this is going to be basically you'll have one PCI e4x and one PCI still 00:07:27.039 --> 00:07:35.560 available now USB connectors this board has tons check this out you've got four 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 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:44.560 you can connect a lot of USB devices to this particular motherboard down here 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 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:56.199 native ports that means they're running right off of the AMD 890 GX chipset Okay 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 00:07:57.919 --> 00:08:02.960 because they could potentially be covered by a full length dual width 00:08:01.280 --> 00:08:06.360 graphics card here but you still got these two available and then we have two 00:08:04.840 --> 00:08:11.039 more on the edge of the board which would also be accessible no matter what 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:14.479 one IDE port as if I mean you know what actually I 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 00:08:16.440 --> 00:08:22.599 perfectly legitimate thing to continue to include on a motherboard no floppy 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 00:08:24.919 --> 00:08:30.639 look at the back here we have lots of different connectors let's start at the 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 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 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 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:52.360 optical audio out HDMI out DVI out VGA 00:08:49.640 --> 00:08:58.720 out so lots of different video output display adapter options then we have 00:08:56.120 --> 00:09:05.519 fire wire and ESAT so this is one of those combo USB slat ports very cool 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 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:16.959 of the ASUS M4 a89 GTD Pro USB 3 wait no 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 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:26.360 it has USB 3 right in it these blue ports they're USB 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 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:36.519 know if you agree with me or the cameraman about the the green heat sink 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:36.519 design that is all