Upcoming 890FX Motherboards - Due April 26th

Troezar · 30 Mar 2010 at 20:17

Hmm looking very interesting, I've always had MSI boards but I like the look of the Gigabyte one. Very interested to see how they perform with the X6 chips...

Nelly · 11 Apr 2010 at 11:33

Biostar have changed their design for the 890FX, originally was this:

Seen below, the upcoming board features 6 phase PWM and supports Athlon II or Phenom II CPUs with a TDP of up to 140W, and has a black PCB, a relatively beefy cooling system, four DDR3-1800 memory slots, the BIO-unlocKING technology for unlocking processor cores, and four PCI-Express x16 slots for CrossFireX setups.

The TA890FXE includes one eSATA and five SATA 6.0 Gbps ports, Gigabit Ethernet, 7.1 channel audio, a FireWire connector, a debug LED, and nothing but solid capacitors.

namegt said:
Hi guys
Now I start the test
Meet the 890FX chipset and 555BE
4G is here and easy overclocking.
More ready to test

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1127734
Biostar 890FXE + 555BE unlock 4G

bhavv · 11 Apr 2010 at 14:12

I like the Asus, MSI and UD5, the UD7s are ugly, but come ready for water cooling.

thingemajib · 11 Apr 2010 at 14:47

4ghz at 1.35v on a b55. that impressive.
takes 1.525 on mine :/

mattjd · 11 Apr 2010 at 16:03

890fx supports x16 / x16 in crossfire

Nelly · 11 Apr 2010 at 16:30

thingemajib said:
4ghz at 1.35v on a b55. that impressive.
takes 1.525 on mine :/

No stability tests though, so I doubt it's stable but you never know . . . .

Nelly · 13 Apr 2010 at 10:57

Here is an exclusive pic

Asrock 890FX Deluxe3

Troezar · 13 Apr 2010 at 13:44

Are these likely to have X6 compatibility out of the box?

Nelly · 13 Apr 2010 at 14:04

Troezar said:
Are these likely to have X6 compatibility out of the box?

Yes definitly 100%, no bios update required.

skippy2421 · 13 Apr 2010 at 14:47

stulid said:
Do want the msi!

you sir have taste

These combined with the arrival of the 6 core amd chips may cause me to upgrade in the not too distant future. It won't be immediately anyways as i want some of those quicker 6 cores to come out and to see if intel throw out a main stream 6-core.

thingemajib · 13 Apr 2010 at 16:30

i wonder if that fans on the asrocks VRMs is there because they make a lot of heat/the heatsink aint suffiecient, or if its a feeble attempt at making it look more OC friendly.

either way, i dont like it...

GothicGhost · 15 Apr 2010 at 18:01

Anyone know how much they going to cost ?

Are they worth it over say over this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-366-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

Cheers.

mmj_uk · 16 Apr 2010 at 23:35

Someone is selling the Crosshair IV for £167.

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 03:33

cant wait for the 890GX does it come with the lcd readout thing?

nightmare99 · 17 Apr 2010 at 08:25

The Asrock 890GX Extreme3 should be available now it will be about £100 inc

Balb0wa · 17 Apr 2010 at 11:44

nightmare99 said:
The Asrock 890GX Extreme3 should be available now it will be about £100 inc

hmmm indeed

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 13:33

does the
Asus Crosshair IV Extreme come with the lcd readout like the older ver did?

Nelly · 17 Apr 2010 at 14:38

chaosquall said:
does the
Asus Crosshair IV Extreme come with the lcd readout like the older ver did?

According to this no but this is for the Formula, but this might not be final retail.

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 20:09

Nelly said:
According to this no but this is for the Formula, but this might not be final retail.

Thanks for that, a shame if it doesnt come with it, was quite a nice feature, it could still come with it tho. I have looked so many places and cant find much info on them.

Ill prob get the higher level one somepoint i was going to do a ddr2 ram upgrade but ram is so expensive...i decided for a new mobo and ddr3 ram, also wanted usb 3.0 to future proof it a lil

arknor · 17 Apr 2010 at 20:34

thingemajib said:
i wonder if that fans on the asrocks VRMs is there because they make a lot of heat/the heatsink aint suffiecient, or if its a feeble attempt at making it look more OC friendly.

either way, i dont like it...

yea i was glad when we got away from fans cooling the northbridge, they always used the cheapest nasty crap fans that would usually die within 6 months or rattle