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Chapter 1
Introduction of AMD 890GX Motherboards
1-1 Features of motherboard
The AMD 890GX chipset motherboard series are based on the latest AMD 890GX
Chipset and the SB 850 chipset which supports:
AMD Phenom™ II X 6, Phenom™ II
X 4, Phenom™ II X3 , Phenom™ II X2 processor; Athlon™ II X4; Athlon™ II X3;
Athlon™ II X2 processor and Sempron AM3 CPU under 125 power consumption.
With an integrated low-latency high-bandwidth DDRIII memory controller and a
highly-scalable Hyper Transport technology-based system bus up to HT 3.0. AMD
890GX Platform Processor Chipset motherboard series deliver the outstanding system
performance and professional desktop platform solution.
The AMD 890GX Series motherboards support new generation Socket AM3
processors with an integrated DDRIII memory controller for Dual channel DDRIII
800/DDRIII 1066 / DDRIII 1333 Module up to 16GB, also providing DDRIII 128Mb
GPU Memory. The motherboard supports ULTRA ATA 133 connectors and Serial
ATA3 with RAID 0, 1, 5,10 and JBOD functions which support up to two IDE and six
Serial ATA3 devices to accelerate hard disk drives and guarantee the data security
without failure in advanced computing performance.
The AMD 890GX motherboards provide 10/100/1000 LAN function with Gigabit LAN
chip which supports 10/100/1000Mbps data transfer rate. And the embedded
8-channel HD audio chip is fully compatible with Sound Blaster Pro standards that
offer you with the home cinema quality and satisfying software compatibility.
The AMD 890GX Series motherboards deliver outstanding value and performance for
gamers, with a true bandwidth design for Multi-GPU configurations. This high
bandwidth architecture in the AMD 890GX chipset is with the flexibility for single or
dual card configurations. The AMD 890GX chipset provides one PCI-Express
2.0x16@ 16 lanes graphics slot and one PCI-Express 2.0x16@ 4 lanes graphics slot
to support simultaneous operation of graphics cards for astonishing performance with
brilliant and intense 3D graphics.
AMD 890GX Series motherboard series offer one PCI-Express 2.0x16@ 16 lanes
graphics slot and one PCI-Express 2.0x16@ 4 lanes graphics slot. One PCI Express
x1 I/O slot tackling the most demanding multimedia tasks nowadays. The AMD
890GX motherboards also carry two 32-bit PCI slots and one mini-PCIE slot to
guarantee the rich connectivity for the I/O peripheral devices. This motherboard
support Hybrid CrossFireX function, the VGA Card on PE2 or PE3 will activate a
Hybrid CrossFire with the onboard VGA Card, the performance will be increased 15%
to 75%.
Embedded USB controllers as well as capability of expanding to 10 of USB2.0
functional ports delivering 480Mb/s bandwidth of rich connectivity and 2 of USB3.0
functional ports delivering 5Gbp/s bandwidth of rich connectivity, these motherboards