Asus CrossHair IV Formula

This AMD Motherboard by Asus comes from Republic of Gamers series, CrossHair IV formula has modernity features comparing the previous version. It uses AMD 890FX chipset and strengthened with Northbridge chipset SB850. and also has been used AM3 socket Ok In this article I am going to full review this product. So let’s go to the next paragaph Continue reading

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Asus M4A89GTD Pro Review

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. Continue reading

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ECS A785GM-AD3 Black Series

In this years ECS has launched a A785Gm-AD3 motherboard which uses the 785G+S870 Southbridge/Northbridge combination. Comparison with other AMD motherboard, the price is pretty cheap only 112$. In this article I am just going to the black series in this product. Features scores is only get 35, Compability is 10. All of the perfomance in this mainboard I think gets 11. Continue reading

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Gigabyte GA-890 GPA-UD3H

Recently AMD show us the new chipset for AM3 motherboard, it called AMD 890 GX which has been embedded to Gigabyte GA-890 GPA-UD3H. yeah, motherboard has quickly adopted the new northbridge chipset AMD 890GX to be inserted into one of their latest  product. in other word is uses AM3 socket. For this article I am going to explain and review this product… Continue reading

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Assisted AMD Phenom II, Corsair Break Records

Corsair flash memory producers have broken the world record. Corsair achievements are inseparable from the help of the AMD Phenom II. Record what is it?

Behind the record, it has launched a new Corsair Dominator GTX4 barunnya named. Dual-channel memory is the one who has broken the world record in terms of frequency in the AMD processor. Continue reading

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Biostar TA890FXE AM3

One of the best manufacture for motherboard, Bioustar Microtech has recently launched the new AMD motherboard which fully support AMD 8xx chipset series, including 890FX, 890GX, 880Gand 870X. you know,  In the last month AMD launched new product, chipset 890FX and Processor phenom II X6, the product is Biostar TA890FXE.

Chipset AMD 890FX is really followed by HyperTransport 3.0 and south bridge SB850 which fully support SATA 6.0 GBps. In this motherboard, Biostar TA890FXE provides a great socket which support AM3 processor including Phenom II X6. The motherboard has 6 phase PWM features, Colored Black PCB, four slot PCI express 2.0 x 16 which can handle ATi crossfirex technology, 7.1 channel HD BlueRay for audio, Gigabyte ethernet, Firewire connector and LED debug.

nullAccording to AMD, southbridge SB850 doesn’t support ACC function but can be replaced by BIO-unlocking technology from Biostar that can give you take advantage in unlock extra core. Bio-unlocking is also  available for Biostar seri 8xx motherboard. to see more information about this AMD motherboard you can read in here.

For price of Biostar TA890FXE AM3 motherboard is none yet, So if you want to buy this product, keep in this article.

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AMD Phenom II X4 910, 2600 MHz

For this article, I don’t want to review motherboard, but I will happily review AMD processor. It will give you some experience about using AMD processor. AMD phenom II X4 910 seems like AMD Phenom II X4 955, especially in specification and design. It has 940 pin in back and uses AM3 socket. Continue reading

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JW-A785GMT EXTREME

There is one motherboard again which full support by AMD chipset 785G, J & W provides A785GMT Extreme Series. This product is still use CPU AM2+ socket but has a DDR3 DIMM in their system. Mirco ATX is a size of this product, it looks really small comparing others.

The equipment components of JW-A785GMT extreme is enough complete except for PCI Express x16 slot is only available for one slot, but can definitely control Hybrid Crossfire fully. For the main memory of this AMD motherboard, J&W has already used a new technology, there are 4 slot DIMM for DDR3 memory with 16 GB for maximum slots and 4 GB for each slot.

For the storage device, the JW A785GMT extreme provides 6 slot of  SATAII and can also control the RAID function. Whereas for expansion available for 2 PCI and a PCIe x1. The cooling system of this motherboard is really awesome for me, eventually it uses solid capacitor which spread over all sectors. In conclusion, JW-A785GMT EXTREME resistant to heat and long-lived.

Heatsink of this AMD motherboard has used heatpipe and protect all heat source including MOSFET and each chipset. Unfortenatelly,with complete cooling system, micro-ATX product from J&W only has 5 unit CPU power phase. it is not enough when you need more power.

This motherboard is integrated with ATI radeon HD 4200 DX 10,1 graphics with 128 DDR3 sideport memory. For Audio This AMD motherboard uses integrated ATI RS690 HDMI AMD RS880 chipset, high quality definiton audio controller. Integrated LAN uses Realtek RTL8168D/8111D family PCI-E Gigabyte ethernet NIC.

The total performance of JW-A785GMT EXTREME AMD motherboard is only 86%. But it has a high score in sintetic test PCMark Vantage Harddisk in 100%.  here is the total scores of each test :

  • Total Performance : 86%
  • Equipments : 62%
  • OverClock : 75%
  • Energy Saving (97 Watt) : 71%
  • Handling : 73%

The price of JW-A785GMT EXTREME motherboard is about 105$

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The Short Story of Motherboard for AMD

AMD is the main manufacture of processor, and this company has became the main enemy of intel corporation. To install processor you have to look the compatibility of motherboard. it means, You can’t install AMD processor in motherboard which is created for intel processor. So you need a correct choose to buy this component.

One of the best think in AMD, they have a low price comparing with intel. So you can make a cheap computer with AMD motherboard. Amd also has a child company in a GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) called ATI. With Nvidia , the both company are the best manufacture that provide a best video card chipset. Because of that, in the latest newst, Apple will switch their processor to AMD in their laptop, Macbook Pro.

In this blog you could get the best review of AMD motherboard. And if you wish I will provides you with manual and driver downloads link if you get lost them. I will review the best motherboard that provided a major manufacture such as ASUS, ECS, Gigabyte, MSi and others.

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