ASUS M4A89TD Pro/USB3

Zitat: One of the best things about the ASUS M4A89TD Pro/USB3 is its overclocking ability. To this day it is arguably the best overclocking AMD equipped motherboard to have been tested here. We were amazed to see the HTT frequency hit over 300MHz, and with the ease it did so as well. There is no doubt with more time and tweaking we could see it even crush that 309MHz. The second half of our overclocking session went towards trying to get the highest overall frequency and it went pretty well in that area too. Our run-of-the-mill Phenom II 965BE managed a very respectable 4128Mhz, just coming up short of a stable 4200MHz. ASUS provides so many ways to overclock, for the novice as well as the expert, in order to gain that extra performance from their system. CPU Level Up may be the easiest because it only takes selecting what processor you was to copy and the system does the rest. Other options are Turbo Locker and Auto Tune. Our method was a combined effort of using the BIOS and TurboV, which while it isn´t included, is well worth popping over to ASUS´ website for. For those with processors that are known to have unlockable cores, ASUS added the Core Locker feature, which you do not even have to enter the BIOS to enable. Simply pressing F4 during boot up is all it takes. The M4A89TD is aesthetically pleasing with it´s different shades of blues and gray which react nicely with the dark PCB. The rest of the layout we believe have some minor quirks, but nothing that should keep you from building a nice rig. One of them was the placement of the aux 8-pin power connector, which is stuck behind the power regulator heat sink. The second was the placement of the SATA connectors which was divided into two sets and not at a more desirable right angle. The added JMicron-controlled IDE plug is right angled and we could have done with out that, instead replaced by the right angled SATA plugs If you are looking for the perfect benching motherboard, or a motherboard to build a nice gaming rig around and don´t want to pay out the back-side for it, you really can´t go wrong with the ASUS M4A89TD Pro/USB3.

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Zitat: The ASUS M4A89TD PRO/USB3 is a very capable motherboard with multiple usage models. It is a great gaming platform (that will not cost you an arm and a leg) while also more than competent to handle workstation level tasks. The design departures we noted in the layout section did not cause us any issues at all. Instead we found the board to have a most effective layout for airflow, installation and day to day usage. HDD performance did seem to be lower than expected, but with the areas we saw as problematic, we think this could be a combination of the SB850 and the Trim firmware on the Corsair Force 120 SSDs we are using. At $184.99 from NewEgg.com you will be getting a lot for your money as you put together your AMD system. ASUS’ Core Unlocker will even allow you to try your luck at picking a dual or tri core CPU that may have extra “hidden” cores. Simply put, you would not go wrong in picking up the M4A89TD PRO/USB3 for any AMD system you are planning on.

Zitat: The ASUS M4A89TD-Pro/USB 3 motherboard does the job and does it pretty well. In terms of features the M4A89TD-Pro has support for USB 3.0, SATA 6 Gb/second and CrossfireX. One advantage of the 890FX chipset is full x16 bandwidth with two video cards like the HD5970 giving four GPU goodness with full bandwidth to both of the cards. Performance was good on this motherboard; with overclocking the board reached 4GHz. ASUS always includes good support and their MemOK! Button ensures memory compatibility.