GIGABYTE 890GPA-UD3H Motherboard Reviews
New Chipset, Full Feature
Following in the series introduce the AMD 800 chipset, motherboard manufacturers immediately responded by releasing products based on these chipsets. One is Gigabyte, which sent the motherboard UD3H 890GPA to the Hardview office. This motherboard uses the AMD 890GX Northbridge, 785G series router is also equipped with on-board graphics card Radeon HD 42xx based sideport added memory. Both chipsets are actually quite similar, including in terms of performance, as indicated by test results Hardview. Through the BIOS update, motherboard chipset AMD 700 series also supports 6-core processors that AMD will soon emerge. However, the AMD 890GX chipset is still better overall. On-board graphics card Radeon HD 4290′s 890GX for example, more powerful than the HD 4200 in 785G.
The most interesting part of the motherboard is located on the Southbridge. AMD include native support for SATA-3 6Gbps in Southbridge chip SB850. Funny thing is, Gigabyte added a SATA-2 controller chips to increase port number of SATA so there are 6 SATA-3 ports plus 2 SATA-2 ports. Besides, Gigabyte also adds USB 3.0 support through NEC chip implanted on the processor socket. So the motherboard is ready to adopt a future feature, future proof, although its performance is not much different from the previous generation chipset.
Conclusion
AMD 890GX chipset motherboard uses the latest hardware support is ready to anticipate technological developments.
Specifications
Product by: GIGABYTE
Info: www.gigabyte.com.tw
| Processor | | | AMD AM3 |
| Chipset Northbridge |
| | AMD 890GX |
| Chipset Shoutbridge |
| | AMD SB 850 |
| Graphics Card Onboard | | | Radeon HD 4290 |
| Output Graphics Card Onboard | | | D-Sub, DVI, HDMI |
| Multiplier | | | Auto |
| Form factor | | | ATX |
| AGP/PCI/PCIe x16/PCIe x1 | | | 0/2/2/3 |
| USB/Firewire/Serial/Pararel/eSATA | | | 6/1/0/0/1 |
| PATA/SATA Port | | | 1/8 |
| Equipment | | | Installation Guide Book, Manual Book, CD Driver, Backpanel, IDE Cable (x1), SATA Cable (x4) |
| Benchmark | Point | |
| Sysmark 2007 | | | 170 |
| WinZip 14 (AES 256 bit) | | | 83 second |
| Left 4 Dead GPU/CPU | | | 36.95 / 52.92 fps |
| MediaShow Espresso (Transcode – CPU): | ||
| MPEG4 1920 x 1080 | 720 x 480 | | | 254 / 99 second |
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Tags: 890GPA-UD3H, AMD, Gigabyte, Motherboard, Northbridge, Reviews, Shoutbridge
