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so today i'm going to be doing a quick unboxing and first look at the ASUS

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m4a89 gtd pro motherboard the biggest

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difference between this one and their other 890 gx motherboard is

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that the other one has slash usb 3. so

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the 890 gx chipset is AMD's latest chipset for their phenom 2 phantom 3

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phenom athlon 2 all of their different cpus okay

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and what it brings to the table more than anything else is support for sata36

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gigabit per second now right now SATA 3 and usb 3 are really hot features

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everyone wants to have them but this chipset doesn't have integrated support

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for usb3 so that means it's up to the motherboard manufacturers to build that

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in using a third-party chipset so that's why this one does not include usb 3 but

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it does include SATA 6 gigabit per second support and you can see i think

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they're actually using completely the same box for these boards even i don't i

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don't think they've made like they've made a couple changes they've added a

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bar for usb 3 here and then that's about it so anyway this is going to be fairly

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similar to the one we already did for the pro slash usb 3 but why don't we

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open this up and do a quick unboxing here anyway so we've got an i o shield

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which includes their foamy padding at the back then we've got a user's guide which also

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has a little addendum about the vga switch card so that's this guy right

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here when you have one graphics card installed you should put the vga switch

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card into the other PCIe 16x slot and

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that will allow the board to function properly if you

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have two graphics cards in crossfire mode then it's fine to remove this and

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install another graphics card just make sure you don't lose it in case you ever

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want to go back to single graphics in the future next we've got the driver dvd don't use

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this install the latest off ASUS.com inside the user's guide you'll find the

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usual stuff including a motherboard overview some basics on how to plug everything in

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and i mean ASUS does a pretty good job of their motherboard manual so you

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should find everything you need in there next we've got four SATA cables

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including their cool i'm guessing these are SATA yeah these are labeled SATA six

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gigabit per second cables there's one straight and one right angle and then

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for the regular SATA two cables you've got one straight one right angle what i

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suspect is that the SATA two cables would work just fine for sata3 anyway

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but there you there you go these ones look cooler so

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yeah next we've got an ide cable and then we

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have their q connector so we have one usb and one for the front uh power hard

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drive led reset switch all that good stuff

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then let's get the board out itself it seems like most of our viewers were

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overwhelmingly in favor of the cameraman's view on uh on this this

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chipset heatsink so they do not think it looks like a tree or like a wave or like

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a green initiative sort of thing so i stand corrected i suppose but let's have

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a look at the overall layout of this board this is an am3 socket that means

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you've got support for ddr3 in dual

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channel configurations so up to 16 gigabytes i believe would be the spec

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for this particular board you've got a fair amount of room around the socket

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you can see that these mosfet and northbridge coolers don't actually go up

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all that high so if you're using like a good size tower heatsink you don't have

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to worry too much about there being any clearance issues there now let's keep

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moving our way around you've got ASUS proprietary ddr3

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dim slots so that means that the one end here is not actually a clip so you just

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slide the RAM in that side put it down into the other side and then clip it

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closed up here we've got our buttons for the turbo key2 as well as the core

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unlocker now core on locker is a huge feature for ASUS 890 gx boards because

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the other manufacturers at the time of filming this video do not have support

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for core unlocking and that's what a lot of people are doing with the lower end

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dual core and triple core AMD processors is they're actually able to turn off or

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turn on the uh the locked course so am

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ASUS has managed to get around AMD's restriction and they have enabled that

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feature on their 890 gx boards turbo key2 is kind of like what it sounds like

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makes the board go faster okay so memo k

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is their technology to make sure that no matter what kind of RAM you're running

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in here if you press this button it'll set it to safe settings which will allow

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you to post the board and configure it the way that you want the 24 connector

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as well as the eight pin connector are in their ideal locations at the right

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hand edge and the top of the board this

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is a really weird 8-pin connector i've never seen one like this before it's

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very tall that is all

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all right so then let's move around here is the chipset itself so that's where

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our status six gigabit per second ports you can see they're labeled here

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are running off of so we have one two three four five six SATA six gigabit per

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second ports here is your front panel hookups then you've got an ide port

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right here here we have a ton of usb 2.0

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connectivity so you could hook up like a card reader uh four front usb ports and

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even like uh like a fan controller like a

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m-cube t-balancer or something and have them all hooked up all at the same time

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without any third party cards then we've got our pci and pci express slot layout

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i really like this layout you've got two PCIe 16x slots those are crossfire ready

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then you've got a 1x slot as well as a pci slot that would be covered by dual

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slot graphics so after you got your crossfire cards and you have access to

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one pci express 4x slot and one pci slot

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i think that's a good mix for a board like this then let's move around to the

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back where we have the rest of our connectivity

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okay so we've got a ps2 port that's for keyboard then we've got one two three

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four usb 2.0 ports but then it gets a little

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bit sketchier so why don't we do this first and then we'll move over there so

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we have one optical audio out HDMI dvi

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vga then we have a firewire port gigabit

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lan and 7.1 audio now here's where it gets a little bit more confusing these

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two blue ports on the usb 3 model are actually usb 3 ports they are not

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labeled usb 3 ports and you can see that the usb 3 chipset is missing so those

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are usb 2 ports they are not usb 3 even

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though they are color coded blue this is also a usb port but it is a usb 2 slash

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e-SATA port that means that both kinds of connectors will actually fit in here

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and will operate with this particular slot you've got 7.1 audio as well as

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gigabit lan and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the m489 gtd pro not

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usb 3.