Tuesday, March 30th 2010
Gigabyte Readies GA-890FXA-UD7 High-End AMD Motherboard
Gigabyte is looking to share some of its latest innovations in motherboard design with its AMD platform lineup, with a new enthusiast-grade motherboard in the works that rivals up with some of the company's highest-end products from its Intel platform lineup. The GA-890FXA-UD7 is the newest in the league. The model stays above the recently revealed GA-890FXA-UD5. It is a socket AM3 motherboard geared up for AMD's newest six-core processors, based on AMD 890FX + SB850 chipset. It has six PCI-Express slots (electrical: x16/x8, x4, x8, x4, x16/x8, x8), and supports 4-way ATI CrossFireX. The CPU is powered by a 10-phase VRM, with 2-phase memory VRM.
For the first time on the AMD platform, Gigabyte uses its Hybrid Silent-Pipe cooler. The cooler connects the CPU VRM, 890FX northbridge, and SB850 southbridge using a heatpipe, and the heatsink over the northbridge has provision for a water-block (included), or a large and complex aluminum heatsink that fits into the top expansion slot. The SB850 natively supports six SATA 6 Gb/s ports complete with RAID 0,1,5,10 support. An additional GSATA2 controller gives out two SATA 3 Gb/s ports and the IDE connector. Connectivity includes 8+2 channel HD audio with optical and coaxial SPDIF connectors, two gigabit Ethernet controllers, two USB 3.0 ports, a number of USB 2.0 ports, and FireWire. It is expected to be out in a month.
Source:
Bit-Tech.net
For the first time on the AMD platform, Gigabyte uses its Hybrid Silent-Pipe cooler. The cooler connects the CPU VRM, 890FX northbridge, and SB850 southbridge using a heatpipe, and the heatsink over the northbridge has provision for a water-block (included), or a large and complex aluminum heatsink that fits into the top expansion slot. The SB850 natively supports six SATA 6 Gb/s ports complete with RAID 0,1,5,10 support. An additional GSATA2 controller gives out two SATA 3 Gb/s ports and the IDE connector. Connectivity includes 8+2 channel HD audio with optical and coaxial SPDIF connectors, two gigabit Ethernet controllers, two USB 3.0 ports, a number of USB 2.0 ports, and FireWire. It is expected to be out in a month.
50 Comments on Gigabyte Readies GA-890FXA-UD7 High-End AMD Motherboard
I thought Ultra Durable consisted of the whole motherboard being of high quality components.
oh and I noticed today that Ultra Durable "Classic" have no low RDs(on) fets and no Ferrite chokes at all! :shadedshu
I love gigabyte stuff heaps, but sometimes I worry
to be honest, i want a board just like this - but with 4+ USB 3.0 on the rear, and two with a header for case ports!
(when the USB 3 controller is became integrated)
was expecting a bit more tho we will see in a bit. (and that chipset isnt up and to the left just like the UD5 ... another redflag?)
So if your buying a Gigabyte board, you wont regret it ;)
am i stupid as the slot is not vertical and the cooler shows a retention for a pci case slot but horizontal???:banghead:
Oh and it looks like it can do 16x/16x can it not? Noticed a few people complaining about that but 2 of the slots have all the pins and the others are max 8x. I'm only assuming by looking and the fact that 790FX chipsets did 16x/16x so it would be silly if 890FX couldn't!