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today I'm going to be doing a quick outdoor unboxing of the ISIS and for a 890 D probe now I already did unboxings of the GTD pro as well as the GTD pro USB 3 so this is without the G which actually makes it better contrary to what you might think so this is using AMD's 890 FX chipset that means you've got full support for AMD's venom 2 X 6 processors as well as any other Fenimore Athlon on the am-3 platform that you could possibly want to put in it it has turbo unlocker which means that you can adjust your performance on demand basically it means that you can unlock the turbo feature on the AMD 6 course and you also have koron Locker which means you can unlock cores that are not there on the triple cores and the dual cores so let me see what else we've got oh yeah because it has an 890 FX chipset you've got native support for SATA 6 gigabits per second that means all of the ports are SATA 6 king per second you also have power eSATA support which is really cool if you have an external drive like the Seagate go flex that I that I unboxed recently that actually has a powered eSATA option so that's pretty cool as well we've got an i/o shield we have Wow not many accessories for an 890 FX board we've got an IDE cable then we have the Q connector for a USB as well as the front panel connectors power switch reset switch all that good stuff then we have four state of three connectors or SATA 6 gigabits per second connectors there's no actual difference but they have a little label on them that says say 2 6 gigabit per second I don't know if you're gonna be able to read that and they look cooler because they're black and white versus the old red ones that assumes provides 4 SATA 2 here is the support DVD do not use it throw it away download the latest off the assist website and then we've also got the turbo unlocker description so a performance boost feature and it dynamically adjusts each CPU core for you ok so yeah basically like turbo mode ok good manual manual is in English and it is long let's have a look at the board itself as Zeus has done such a good job with the emphasis with the aesthetics of their most recent boards I really really like what they've done they've gone like kind of a I mean it wasn't that long ago a Seuss was producing other boards the color of cardboard and now almost everything's got a nice black PCB it's got a nice black and blue color scheme without you know any sort of random like you know one orange port or anything like that we used to see that a lot where there's just like everything is sort of one color except you know this dim slot is yellow because yellow plastic was cheaper that day or whatever it's really nice really sharp up here we've got our eight pin power connector so this is you know I get a lot of questions about this the fact that one side is covered means that if you only have a four pin power connector on your power supply you plug it into these ones if you have an eight pin power connector you take off this cover and plug it into the whole thing so you can see there's eight pins under there so that is why that covers on there just so that you don't accidentally try and plug a four pin into this side okay then we have our m3 CPU socket that's where you get support for all of the chips that I outlined before you have support for dual channel ddr3 memory and it uses a Seuss's innovative only one side installation system so these are not actual clips you just kind of slip the module in there clip it down and then clamp it on the other side here are the switches for turbo key 2 as well as their core unlocker so this core on Locker switch I think I did a video on it yeah I did do a video on it with the G Series board is as simple as you hit the switch and it unlocks the cores it's really cool mem okay means that you can post with pretty much any memory as long as it fits in the slots and then okay will run any module at a very very safe setting so that you can get into the BIOS and adjust it to what it's supposed to run at here is the Southbridge here is your IDE port and here are your SATA 6 gigabits per second ports all lined up down here now these aren't the ideal locations for your SATA ports I'd prefer to see them at a right angle like the IDE port here but what they have done is they've really kept it out of the way of your graphics card so even if you have a dual slot graphics card installed here and a dual slot one installed here it's only going to come up to about here so as long as you don't have like a PCI raid card or something this long then you're not going to run into any trouble plugging in as many devices as you want here's your BIOS chip here's your front USB 2.0 this board does not yes it does feature USB 3.0 and its term in terms of expansion slots you've got dual PCIe 16x support you've got one PCIe 4x slot that will still be exposed even if you're running crossfire and then you have two PCI slots one of which will be usable if you are running crossfire with dual slots here's your North Bridge it's actually connected by a heat pipe to the MOSFET cooler so I don't know if you can see that in there and this uses what someone suggested to me is more like a tree than anything else that uses their tree style of heatsink that I really like it's just kind of cool-looking let's look at that from a couple different angles camera man always appreciates this kind of stuff where it's like you know more about aesthetics than actual performance and I'm starting to get that way myself to be perfectly honest let me see if there's anything else that I should really tell you about on this board while the camera man oh yeah a hybrid technology I think it's something to do with power savings actually ok well let's have a look at the back of the board we've got two ps2 ports a clear CMOS button thank you a soos that is the best possible place for a clear CMOS button two USB 3.0 ports you can tell because they're color-coded blue and they also have more pins inside we have one optical audio out six USB 2.0 ports firewire a powered eSATA port Gigabit Ethernet as well as 7.1 channel audio thank you for checking out my unboxing of the m4 a8 9td pro 890 FX motherboard from Asus