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Chapter 1
Introduction of AMD 890GX Motherboards
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Features of motherboard
The AMD 890GX chipset motherboard series are based on the latest AMD 890GX
Chipset and the SB 850 chipset which supports: Phenom™ II X 4, Phenom™ II X3 ,
Phenom™ II X2 processor; Athlon™ II X4; Athlon™ II X3; Athlon™ II X2 processor
and Sempron AM3 CPU under 125W power consumption. With an integrated
low-latency high-bandwidth DDRIII memory controller and a highly-scalable Hyper
Transport technology-based system bus up to HT 3.0. AMD 890GX Platform Processor
Chipset motherboard series deliver the outstanding system performance and
professional desktop platform solution.
The AMD 890GX Series motherboards support new generation Socket AM3
processors with an integrated DDRIII memory controller for Dual channel DDRIII
800/DDRIII 1066 / DDRIII 1333 Module up to 16GB, also providing DDRIII 128Mb
GPU Memory. The motherboard supports ULTRA ATA 133 connectors and Serial
ATA3 with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD functions which support up to two IDE and six
Serial ATA3 devices to accelerate hard disk drives and guarantee the data security
without failure in advanced computing performance.
The AMD 890GX motherboards provide 10/100/1000 LAN function with Gigabit LAN
chip which supports 10/100/1000Mbps data transfer rate. And the embedded
8-channel HD Audio CODEC is fully compatible with Sound Blaster Pro standards
that offer you with the home cinema quality and satisfying software compatibility.
The AMD 890GX Series motherboards deliver outstanding value and performance for
gamers, with a true bandwidth design for Multi-GPU configurations. This high
bandwidth architecture in the AMD 890GX chipset is with the flexibility for single or
dual card configurations. The AMD 890GX chipset provides two PCI Express 2.0
x16@8 lane slots to support simultaneous operation of graphics cards for astonishing
performance with brilliant and intense 3D graphics.
AMD 890GX Series motherboard series offer two PCI-Express 2.0x16@ 8 lanes
graphics slots. When PE4 installed switch card, the PE1 becomes PCI-Express
2.0x16@ 16 lanes graphics slot. Two PCI Express x1 I/O slot tackling the most
demanding multimedia tasks nowadays. The AMD 890GX motherboards also carry
two 32-bit PCI slots to guarantee the rich connectivity for the I/O peripheral devices.
This motherboard support Hybrid CrossFireX function, the VGA Card on PE1 or PE4
will activate a Hybrid CrossFire with the onboard VGA Card, the performance will be
increased 15% to 75%.
Embedded USB controllers as well as capability of expanding to 12 of USB2.0
functional ports delivering 480Mb/s bandwidth of rich connectivity and two of USB3.0
functional ports delivering 5 Gbps bandwidth of rich connectivity.(USB3.0 can not run
under DOS, but can be run under the OS)
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