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AMD 890GX
Gigabyte vs. ASRock
Two motherboard with AMD 890GX chipset
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| Author: |
Jouni 'Jipa' Vasama |
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27.07.2010 |
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Motherboards |
 In English
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Intro
We haven't had too many motherboard reviews over the last years, but this time we decided to give a closer look at
the AMD's new 8-series chipset architecture and the new features it has to offer. The current AMD chipsets are 890GX and
890FX, with the FX being the all-out enthusiast set and the 890GX having an integrated GPU.
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AMD 890GX
So what's new in the 890GX + SB850? First of all AMD beat Intel to be the first to include native support for S-ATA 6
Gbps. Other than that the feature list of the 890GX includes new Radeon HD4290 graphics and a single PCI-e x16 or dual
x8 slots.
It will be interesting to see how well the IGP performs as based on the specifications it's really a jump in
speed over the old chipsets. Really the only thing missing from the new chipset is native USB 3-support, but on both
motherboards in this review, as well as many other 890GX-boards, that's taken care of by a separate NEC controller.
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