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ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AMD 890GX Motherboard Review
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AMD 890GX Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
The ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 motherboard is built around the 55nm AMD 890GX and SB850 southbridge. It has 128MB of onboard DDR3-1333 sideport memory for the integrated DX10.1 ATI Radeon HD 4290 graphics. Its AM3 CPU socket will accommodate AMD Phenom II and Athlon II processors, right through to the six-core Phenom II X6.
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External Mfg. Website: ASUS Mar 02 2010   J. Apong  
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Inside the BIOS Options

The ASUS AI Tweaker controls in the BIOS offer both voltage and clock speed adjustments for overclocking the ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3's memory, CPU and IGP settings old school style.

The IGP can have both its access to the embedded 128 MB of DDR3 1333Mhz Sideport Memory and it allocation of system memory customized, depending on user need. It's also possible to overclock the IGP through this menu as well. Note that if 'GFX Engine Clock Override' is enabled for BIOS overclocking of the GPU, it disables the ASUS GPU software overclocking tool in Windows.

The Radeon HD 4290 IGP can be further configured on its own advanced page, along with the integrated HD audio codec.

ASUS' Core Unlocker can also be enabled through the M4A89GTD PRO/USB3's BIOS options menu, which will tell you the current state of the processor's cores and allow the user to set how many cores need to be unlocked.

Memory timings can all be set manually in the M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 motherboard's BIOS, which allows users to tune memory DIMMs down to the individual clock cycle.

Next up, power draw measurements and PCSTATS test system specs... then it's on to benchmarks!

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Contents of Article: ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3
 Pg 1.  ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AMD 890GX Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  ATI Radeon HD 4290 Integrated Graphics
 Pg 3.  Introducing the AMD 890GX / SB850 Chipsets
 Pg 4.  Motherboard Highlights Photo Gallery
 Pg 5.  Overclocking CPU/IGP Tests and ASUS OC Software Report
 Pg 6.  — Inside the BIOS Options
 Pg 7.  Power/SATA3 Benchmarks, Test System Specs
 Pg 8.  Motherboard Benchmarks: Sysmark 2007
 Pg 9.  Motherboard Benchmarks: Sandra 2009
 Pg 10.  Motherboard Benchmarks: PCMark Vantage
 Pg 11.  Motherboard IGP Benchmarks: 3DMark06
 Pg 12.  Motherboard IGP Benchmarks: 3DMark Vantage, FEAR
 Pg 13.  DX10 Motherboard IGP Benchmarks: Call of Juarez, Crysis
 Pg 14.  HD Playback CPU Load, ATI Stream testing
 Pg 15.  AMD 890GX for Media Center? Yes

 
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