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so today we'll be unboxing a motherboard for mass rocket as part of their true three three three series I'm not sure who they got that marketing thing from but they mean USB 3.0 SATA 3 and eSATA three this is the 890 GX Xtreme so it's part of AMD's latest 800 series chipsets that means it is six core CPU ready phantom 2 x6 Athlon to Windows 7 crossfire X and integrated Radeon HD 4290 graphics are some of the some of the technologies included they also have support for true Blu ray as well as unlock core unlocking they use Japanese made long life capacitors and they also have eup which is less than 1 watt and off mode very cool so it's an energy savings feature let's move around to the back where we have ok they basically reiterate most of what they said on the front already awesome so let's get this board open first thing we find inside in terms of accessories is the guide to their instant boot application ok I'm a cold spot like that it comes in six different languages then we have a little a little pamphlet on there intelligent energy saver so this is a little application that shows you looks like how much power your systems pulling how many power phases are enabled very neat ok and then ok here we go so we've got included 1 2 3 4 included SATA 2 cables then we have an i/o shield which is color coded for your convenience then we have one molex to SATA power adaptor and one eSATA bracket very cool then we have a user's manual which includes a drivers and utilities DVD don't use this download the latest this is all English holy cow this is oh no it's not oh good ok the language is changed because I was gonna say this thing's like a novel so the manual shows you all the basics where to plug in your front panel connectors a little oh color picture guide to the motherboard that's very nice I don't think I've seen a color photo inside a motherboard manual before something every day you know you encounter for the first time alright itself is not sealed let's pull this baby up now as rocks a bit of a value brand but a lot of the time that doesn't prevent them from bringing a product to market at a value price with all of the high-end features so let's have a look at what they've got included here they've got a typical am-3 socket with support for a dual channel ddr3 memory up to 16 gigs at this time there are eight pin power connectors and it's ideal location up at the top left and then I've actually had questions about what makes it an ideal location the reason is that that's the easiest place to route up behind the motherboard tray most of the time and then there 24 pin power connector is also in its ideal location along the right-hand edge down here we're going to find the Southbridge cooler is kind of a just at our fin cooler a very standard affair but it's going to do a good job you can tell just looking at it you've got our six SATA three six gigabit per second ports here as well as a post debug LED thingamajiggy here's your front panel connectors they've also included onboard power and reset buttons very high-end features once again despite a more value image to this particular brand we have four USB 2.0 front panel headers here's your clear CMOS jumper and USB pw3 to be honest I can't tell you what that does okay so here is our slot layout we have one PCIe 1x slot three PCIe 16x slots although this one appears to be wired for 4x only and then we have three PCI slots so if you're running crossfire you're gonna want to use these two blue guys in fact this one is wired for 8 X only so you'll be running 8 X 8 X which does not impact performance significantly and then if you wanted to run 3-way crossfire I wouldn't really recommend it because this is a 4 X slot the Northbridge cooling is a pretty again a pretty standard affair you've got just a nice little tower heatsink here with a little asrock logo one heat pipe connecting it to the MOSFET cooler which is again very standard very functional let's move around to the back of the board where we will find all of our i/o and here what do we got so first we've got 1 2 3 4 USB 2.0 ports then we have a ps2 keyboard port VGA DVI and HDMI interfaces for the onboard graphics Hey a back panel clear CMOS button that's awesome considering that this is a value board then we have an eSATA port firewire USB 3.0 one gigabit ethernet optical audio out as well as 7.1 audio so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ass rock don't shoot you know this doesn't happen to be very often but I forgot what it's called the house rock 890 GX Xtreme 3