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so today I'm gonna be unboxing the latest from AMD the m4 a 89 GTD Pro / USB 3 this is an ASUS motherboard featuring AMD's latest 890 GX chipset and the biggest difference between the AMD 890 GX chipset and anything that's come before it is that it has native theta 3 or SATA 6 gigabits per second support also I have this cool AMD football isn't this awesome bring your a-game so I'm gonna throw it to the cameraman and hopefully you can catch it that was really lame that's okay it's done now ok so here we go this features extreme design number one performance reliability and safety it is hybrid which we'll figure out later ok it supports am three ooh poor on Locker this is a big one so AMD has actually made it a little bit more difficult for the motherboard manufacturers to allow you to unlock dual and triple course but as soon as seems to have found a way around it so they're enabling their users to do that you have support for GPU boost crossfire X side port and hybrid crossfire X so that means that you can use the integrated graphics and you can put like some kind of low end graphics card and you can run them in crossfire or something it seems very convoluted and I can't imagine really any reason you would want to do that if you want to use an add-in graphics card you put one in if you don't then you don't core unlocker intelligently unless true core performance yep GPU boost so you can actually overclock the integrated GPU that's pretty cool hybrid processor turbo the Evo so ok you can overclock with auto-tuning ok turbo key to this is basically like the old turbo button on really really really old Intel processors so they're saying that you can basically use a key to boost your CPU performance up with one button press 100% solid capacitors it has mint okay which I'll explain a little bit later SATA 6 gigabits per second and EU p okay well long we open this up and see if we can find more details on exactly what this thing is so the first thing we find inside ooh I like these already we find sate connectors I just like them look at these they're black and white that's cool and they have like a two-tone color scheme so it actually comes with all it only oh it only comes with a couple like that I'm guessing these are the SATA 6 gigabits per second connectors although any decent SATA cable will run fine let's say the six gigabit per second so they include two straight connectors one black and white one black and then two right angle connectors one black and white one black it's gonna make it a little difficult to have a unified color scheme in your build but what are you gonna do okay next we have an IDE cable not exciting next we have all this these are good these are the Q connectors so you use these if you have a case that doesn't have them in bricks and has them all split apart to make things a little bit easier for yourself then you've got one of these LITTLEST sous-vide I switch cards so I believe this is to turn crossfire on and/or off please keep the switch card on the black PCIe 16x lot only remove it when you want to install other devices okay I wouldn't mind seeing something like that already installed from the motherboard that's potatoes all right then we've got the i/o shield which has their spongy foamy medley stuff on the back then we have the user guide which also includes a driver CD don't use this download the latest drivers off the assist website Oh chase badge shiny metal case badge powered by a soos okay then they oh there's info about the VGA switch card that's pretty useful thank you for that information of toriel document so it's for installing one graphics card you put it in there okay well that seems pretty self-explanatory I'm glad they included a little addendum to that alright let's have a look that's a nice looking board actually you don't see too many like smexy looking AMD boards these days but it looks like they've really gone all out on this one yeah I'm gonna I'll do that kind of angle it okay put that in there okay so let's put the board on top of the box here and have a look so yeah that looks really nice so they've done a couple things completely differently that I have never seen before first of all we've got these really cool-looking vrm heatsink we should have a look at those from the side because they look pretty sweet and I'm just kind of going out on a limb here but I'm guessing because it's labeled hybrid technology it's all about the power savings so I'm thinking maybe it's supposed to look kind of like a tree like green but then it's blue so I don't know if that's for camera man's giving me a funny look I don't think he agrees with me but but the Northbridge wine looks kind of like waves it's kind of like water which is also very environmentally friendly so that's my guess I could be totally wrong and feel free to leave your comments about whether you think I'm right or the cameraman should be giving me a funny look about that green stuff so let's have a look at the general layout of this board it is an m3 board supporting up to 140 watt TDP TDP CPUs so that means you can put any a m3 capable chip in here you've got support for dual channel ddr3 memory as with all a m3 boards that support ddr3 its dual channel alright we've got a few buttons up here that should be pretty relevant so we've got the turbo key 2 as well as the core unlocker buttons and then we have the memo K button I said I'd explain that later mem okay basically means that even if you're using Ram that requires more than stock voltage to run memo K will automatically set all of the RAM at like a safe setting that means that you'll be able to post even if you aren't running it at optimal settings also to do with the RAM slots we've got these cool a seuss exclusive RAM slots that only have a clip on one side the other side is not actually a clip so the intention is that you just put slide the RAM slot in that way and then put it down on this side and clip it in so they in theory it's a little bit easier to install alright we've got the 24 pin connector and it's ideal location along the right-hand edge of the board and this is probably the weirdest thing I've seen on a motherboard in quite a while the 8 pin connector is huge look at this thing ok so the 8 pin connector rather than sticking about this high off the board like we normally see I'm going to turn this around actually sticks like 3 4 centimeters up from the board I'm guessing that makes it a little bit easier to access in theory one thing that it would also do is makes it a little bit more difficult for the for any cabling if you're bringing it up from the back have a board and then up around to the front it have to be a little longer but most power supplies might like most quality power supplies these days have pretty long eight pin connectors anyway so I guess it's not two things it was cold outside and the batteries of the camera died so here we are back in the office and as I was discussing before the eight pin is really long that is really all I had to say about that beyond what I have already said so we've got also PCI Express connectors so we've got two PCIe 16x connectors one PCIe 1x and one PCIe 4x this could be useful if you have say for example a raid card or any other device that needs a little bit more bandwidth than a PCIe 1x then down here we've got 2 PCI I think this is a very ideal layout because if you're using two dual slot graphics cards how easy this is going to be basically you'll have one PCIe 4x and one PCI is still available now USB connectors this board has tons check this out you've got 4 USB headers each of which is good for up to 2 ports or like one card reader so you can connect a lot of USB devices to this particular motherboard down here this is a big selling point here these are SATA 6 gigabits per second ports these are native ports that means they're running right off of the AMD 890 GX chipset ok so we've got one two three four here and I don't really like the placement of these two because they could potentially be covered by a full-length dual width graphics card here but you still got these two available and then we have two more on the edge of the board which would also be accessible no matter what one ide port as if no I mean you know what actually I shouldn't say that a lot of people are still using these for DVD drives so it's a perfectly legitimate thing to continue to include on a motherboard no floppy connector though and that I can't say I'll miss so there we go let's have a look at the back here we have lots of different connectors let's start at the top you've got a ps2 keyboard port then we have one two three four USB 2.0 ports and then we have hold on let me see if I can figure out what oh cool this is one of those combo ports so we actually have one two three four five USB 2.0 ports then we have an optical audio out HDMI out DVI out VGA out so lots of different video output display adapter options then we have firewire and eSATA so this is one of those combo USB / eSATA ports very cool then we have a Gigabit LAN and 7.1 audio thank you for checking out my unboxing of the soos m4a 8 9 GTD Pro / USB 3 wait no stop wait stop hold on there's more I forgot I just said the name of the board it has USB 3 right in it these blue ports their USB 3 I didn't even say that also don't forget to comment on the video let me know if you agree with me or the cameraman about the the green heatsink design that is all