Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H 890GX Crossfire DDR3 Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,172 words · ~5 min read
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so with the release of AMD's six core processors obviously there's a whole lot
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of motherboards to go with them and while AMD's done a great job of making
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sure that you can use older motherboards with their six cores obviously for the
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best possible updated feature set you're going to want to use a new 800 series
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chipset board so this is gigabytes 890
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gpa-3 so the 890g stands for 890 GX P I
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think is a more like a series and then a
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means USB 3.0 as well as SATA 6 gbit per
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second Ultra durable and then 3H um okay
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so basically they've got support for all am3 CPUs including Phenom 2x4 Phenom 2x3
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aflon 2x4 and Phenom 2x6 all of that
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good stuff you got support for Crossfire okay then you also have a 4 plus one
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phase power design they've got benchmarks on here for the Onboard video
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so because this is a GX chipset it does have Onboard video G has got a
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three-year warranty in US and Canada they've got a sticker on here to tell us
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about that and then there are 3 three3 onboard acceleration so USB 3.0 USB
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power time 3 and what that means is that every USB port on a Gigabyte 333
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motherboard can deliver up to three times the power so if you're using a hub
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you can plug in three full USB 3.0
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powered devices without actually using a powered Hub then it also has SATA 3.0 or
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6 gbit pers second and that is is supported natively by AMD's latest
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chipset on the back I don't know that we've got a whole lot they're talking
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about their easy energy saver a little bit as well as the benefits of a 2 O
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copper PCB so uh lower temperature lower impedance lower Emi uh better power
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efficiency better overclocking all that good stuff okay so let's have a look at
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what is included with the ud3h here first of all we have the users manual
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which has a utility and chipset driver
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Etc DVD and don't use this download the latest off
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the Gigabyte website also inside is the io shield for whatever reason okay so
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the manual is in all English and it's about that thick there you go next we
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have the multilingual installation guide book the installation guide book shows
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you how to install a CPU and CPU Cooler RAM install a case and power supply
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basically it's a little guide on how to build a PC and it's in like 300 million
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different languages here next we have
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four SATA cables two right Le two straight and then one IDE cable after
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that we will find a couple of stickers one of which is Gigabyte and the other
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is Dub home theater that is it for accessories that is a fairly bare
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accessory package for um for a board at
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this sort of a price point but it looks like Gigabyte has focused more on using
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a higher-end chipset for one thing and on delivering sort of the important the
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important value ads because this does not look like a value board the first
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thing you'll notice about it is that it has huge cooling on both the North
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Bridge and on the voltage regulator modules which are up here so these are
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made of what appears to be aluminum they've got a heat pipe connecting them
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here and they look incredibly beefy for like a a GX series or more value
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oriented board the first thing you'll notice obviously in the center of the B
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did I already say first thing I think I did second thing you'll notice is this is an am3 socket means you got support
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for all am3 CPUs including the new X6
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CPUs you got your power connectors in their ideal locations up at the top left
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for the eight pin and then over on the right hand Edge for the 24 pin you've
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got support for dual Channel DDR3 they're colorcoded so if you have a dual
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Channel kit you're going to install it first in the two blue modules and then
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if you want to add another kit you'll install it then in the two white slots
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not modules next we've got an IDE connector and what that's still doing on
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a board it's very hard to say and then uh under that we will find some more
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SATA ports or some SATA ports we have six SATA 3 6 gbit per second ports those
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are the blue ones and those are running off the AMD Southbridge and then we have
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two more and these are running off the gigabit chipset that's also providing
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IDE support so those are SATA 2 and the blue ones are SATA 3 okay then we have
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our front panel connectors four USB
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front headers so that means you can run up to eight USB ports off of these
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headers two fire wire headers then you've got a floppy connector of all
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things and then moving on from there our front audio I've never liked this
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location for front audio I realize it probably makes life a little bit easier
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for the uh for the routing as far as the internal uh wiring is going so you got
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your ports here you got your audio chipset here you got your header here
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but I really do prefer it down here cuz it's a little bit tricky to run a
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connector over there from the front of some cases either way it's uh it's
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usually doable so it's not that big of a deal first of first I keep saying first of
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all I can't imagine why next we have our PCI Express 16x slot followed by another
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PCI Express 16x slot this one however you can see from the internal connectors
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runs at 8X speed so if you're running two graphics cards they're going to run
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at PCIe 8X speed for both of them which
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doesn't really impact performance anyway next we've got three PCIe 1X slots and
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two PCI slots so that means that if you've got two dual slot graphics cards
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you've got access to one two PCI e1x and one PCI slot over around the back of the
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board we will find all of our connectivity options here we've got one
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PS2 keyboard/mouse Port we have four USB
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2.0 ports VGA HDMI and then what appear
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did I say HDMI wow I'm off today
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DVI and HDMI sure enough then we have
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optical audio out fire wire gigabit landan and 7.1 audio thank you for
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checking out my unboxing of the g890 GPA
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ud3h