Friday, January 8th 2010
ASUS M4A89GTOD PRO RS890 Motherboard Pictured
At the ongoing CES event, ASUS displayed some of its upcoming motherboards which included the M4A89GTOD PRO, an ATX form-factor model based on the AMD 890G chipset. The AMD 890G seems to be a successor to the AMD 790GX, in being a performance integrated graphics part. It integrates a DirectX 10.1 compliant IGP while supporting discrete graphics with 2-way ATI CrossFireX.
The M4A89GTOD PRO comes with an expansive feature-set thanks to the AMD 890G. The more interesting component being the AMD SB800 southbridge chip, which is on its way to being one of the first PC motherboard chipsets to natively support SATA 6 Gb/s. The chip doles out six SATA 6 Gb/s ports, while doing away with its on-die IDE controller. An external JMicron-made storage controller compensates with an IDE connector, a SATA 3 Gb/s port (colored black) and perhaps an eSATA port (at 3 Gb/s speeds), too.
The AM3 socket CPU is powered by a 5-phase (two chokes per phase) VRM. It is wired to four DDR3 DIMMs for dual-channel memory. Expansion slots include two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (x8, x8 when both are populated), two PCI, and one each of PCI-Express x4 and PCI-Express x1. There's the usual VIA-made 8+2 channel HD audio CODEC with optical SPDIF connectivity, FireWire, USB 2.0 ports from the southbridge, and observable display connectivity which includes DVI and D-Sub. Interestingly the blank padding right below the audio connectors shows there could be room for a revision with USB 3.0 support using an NEC-made two port USB 3.0 controller. ASUS may release this board a little later this year, probably in Q2.
Source:
F1CD.ru
The M4A89GTOD PRO comes with an expansive feature-set thanks to the AMD 890G. The more interesting component being the AMD SB800 southbridge chip, which is on its way to being one of the first PC motherboard chipsets to natively support SATA 6 Gb/s. The chip doles out six SATA 6 Gb/s ports, while doing away with its on-die IDE controller. An external JMicron-made storage controller compensates with an IDE connector, a SATA 3 Gb/s port (colored black) and perhaps an eSATA port (at 3 Gb/s speeds), too.
49 Comments on ASUS M4A89GTOD PRO RS890 Motherboard Pictured
pity its only got a DX10.1 part, hybrid crossfire might have been interesting in DX11
Should we expect 890FX for XFIRE?
Id love such a chip cos i am looking for a Phenom quad for a change!
New motherboards like this need to have usb 3 otherwise its just pointless.
Off topic - Nice to see you've got a Kodama as your avatar - love those little ones.
And yes Mr Smartass, I'm well aware that you can fit the slots either which way around, I think I've been tinkering for computers a while longer than you...
ohh i see
how much bandwith does USB 2.0 have?I don't liek his tone :roll:
you earned it :laugh:
In some cases, this does eliminate the issue of the latch hitting the graphcis card. However, this motherboard clearly has no issue with the latching hitting the graphics card, as the memory slots are plenty far away. So in this case it makes sense to mount the side without the latches at the top, as those are always more of a pain to unlatch when the motherboard is installed in a case because the power cables tend to block them.