Asus M4A89GTD Pro uses the new 890GX chipset from AMD, the farm factor in this motherboard is ATX. For your information, This chipset has integrated graphics, HD 4290 which has 40 steam processors. The graphics chip is required to support Shader Model 4.1 and 4X AA, 32-bit floating point filtering. Ok Let’s continue to review this motherboard for Phenom, Athlon, Sempron.
You know recently, this amd motherboard is based upon AMD’s 890GC chipset which offers 22 PCI Express lanes to split into 16 for external graphics. Uses AM3 socket for the processor. The 890GX chipset also has the display controllers. The motherboards lets you to attach a SATA 6 GB/s device without a bridge chip, it is because the SB850 Southbridge brings the solution for SATA 6 GB/s devices in a motherboard chipset. This Amd’s chipset does not support USB 3.0 natively but it will be supported on the M4A89GTP pro board by a NEC like other motherboards. It means USB 3.0 devices can get the maximum 900mA of power.
The All features of the Asus M4A89GTD Pro Review Motherboard
- Processor Types : Phenom II/Athlon II/ Sempron 100
- Form Factor : ATX
- Chipset : 890GX
- North Bridge : 890GX
- Memory speed : DDR3 2000 (OC)/DDR3 1333/DDR3 1066/ DDR3 800
- Number of CPUs : 1
- QPI : 5200MT/s
- Memory Type : DDR3
- Memory Channels : Double
- Maximum Memory : 16GB
- External Graphics PCI Express : x16 x2
- IGP : HD 4290
- South Bridge : SB 850
- Audio : 8-channel
- IDE : 133/100/66
- SCSI : None
- SATA : 3.0 GB/s
- RAID : 0, 1, 0+1, 5, 10
- LAN : 10/100/1000 4 LAN Ports
- Firewire : IEEE 1394a
- USB : USB 2.0
- BIOS : AMIBIOS
- Socket : Socket AM3
The design of M4A89GTD Pro uses 100% MemOK, solid capacitors, EZ memory and EZ video card install which make an extreme design. If you don’t know the features design of this Asus motherboard, I will explain it. EZ video card install is done by having and extra wide lock on the PCI Express slot. MemOK is a default memory, its uses when user have issues with memory.
Asus has done and outstanding job with the new chipset of this AMD motherboard, and bring many features on Asus M4A89GTD Pro so my conclusion, this is a really very solid motherboard. The price of Asus M4A89GTD Pro motherboard is not too onverly to be affodable. The price is about $146 in USA.