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so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing and first look at the asou m4 a89 GTD pro motherboard the biggest difference between this one and their other 890 GX motherboard is that the other one has slash USB 3 so the 890 GX chipset is AMD's latest chipset for their phenom 2 phantom 3 Phenom at 1/2 all of their different CPUs ok and what it brings to the table more than anything else is support for say 2 3 6 gigabit per second now right now SATA 3 and USB 3 are really hot features everyone wants to have them but this chipset doesn't have integrated support for USB 3 so that means it's up to the motherboard manufacturers to build that in using a third-party chipset so that's why this one does not include USB 3 but it does include SATA 6 gigabits per second support and you can see I think they're actually using completely the same box for these boards even I don't I don't think they've made like they've made a couple changes they've added a bar for USB 3 here and then that's about it so anyway this is gonna be fairly similar to the one we already did for the pro slash USB 3 but why don't we open this up and do a quick unboxing here anyway so we've got an i/o shield which includes their foamy padding at the back then we've got a user's guide which also has a little addendum about the VGA switch card so that's this guy right here when you have one graphics card installed you should put the VGA switch card into the other PCIe 16x slot and that will allow the board to function properly if you have two graphics cards in crossfire mode then it's fine to remove this and install another graphics card just make sure you don't lose it in case you ever want to go back to single graphics in the future next we've got the driver DVD don't use this install the latest off asus calm inside the user's guide you'll find the usual stuff including a motherboard overview some basics on how to plug everything in and I mean a soos does a pretty good job of their motherboard manual so you should find everything you need in there next we've got four SATA cables include they're cool I'm guessing these are SATA yeah these are labeled SATA 6 gigabits per second cables there's one straight and one right angle and then for the regular say two two cables you've got one straight one right angle what I suspect is that to say the two cables would work just fine for say two three anyway but there you go these ones look cooler so yeah next we've got an IDE cable and then we have their Q connector so we have one USB and one for the front power hard drive LED reset switch all that good stuff then let's get the board out itself it seems like most of our viewers we're overwhelmingly in favor of the camera man's view on on this this chipset heatsink so they do not think it looks like a tree or like a way for like a green initiative sort of thing so I stand corrected I suppose but let's have a look at the overall layout of this board this is an am-3 socket that means you've got support for ddr3 in dual channel configurations so up to 16 gigabytes I believe would be respect for this particular board you've got a fair amount of room around the socket you can see that these mosfet and Northbridge coolers don't actually go up all that high so if you're using like a good sized tower heatsink you don't have to worry too much about there being any clearance issues there now let's keep moving our way around you've got this uses proprietary ddr3 dimms slots so that means that the one end here is not actually a clip so you just slide the RAM in that side put it down into the other side and then clip it closed up here we've got our buttons for the turbo key too as well as the core on locker now core on lockers a huge feature for a Seuss's 890 G exports because the other manufacturers at the time of filming this video do not have support for core unlocking and that's what a lot of people are doing with the lower-end dual core and triple core AMD processors is they're actually able to turn off or turn on the blocked course so any seuss as best managed to get around AMD's restriction and they have enabled that feature on their 890 GX boards turbo key to is kind of like what it sounds like makes the board go faster okay so memo okay is there technology to make sure that no matter what kind of round you're running in here if you press this button it'll set it to settings which will allow you to post the board and configure it the way that you want the 24 connector as well as the 8 pin connector are in their ideal locations at the right-hand edge and the top of the board this is a really weird 8 pin connector I've never seen one like this before it's very tall that is all alright so then let's move around here is the chipset itself so that's where our state of six gigabit per second ports you can see they're labeled here are running off of so we have one two three four five six SATA 6 gigabits per second ports here is your front panel hookups then you've got an IDE port right here here we have a ton of USB 2.0 connectivity so you could hook up like a card reader for front USB ports and even like like a fan controller like a em cube T balancer or something and have them all hooked up all at the same time without any third party cards then we've got our PCI and PCI Express slot layout I really like this layout you've got two PCIe 16x slots those are crossfire ready then you've got a 1x slot as well as a PCI slot that would be covered by dual slot graphics so after you got your crossfire cards and you have access to one PCI Express 4x slot and one PCI slot I think that's a good mix for a board like this then let's move around to the back where we have the rest of our connectivity ok so we've got a ps2 port that's for keyboard then we've got one two three four USB 2.0 ports but then it gets a little bit sketchy err so why don't we do this first and then we'll move over there so we have one optical audio out HDMI DVI VGA then we have a FireWire port Gigabit LAN and 7.1 audio now here's where it gets a little bit more confusing these two blue ports on the USB 3 model are actually USB 3 ports they are not labeled USB 3 ports and you can see that the USB 3 chipset is missing so those are USB 2 ports they are not USB 3 even though they are color-coded blue this is also a USB port but it is a USB 2 / eSATA port that means that both kinds of connectors will actually fit in here and will operate with this particular slot you've got 7.1 audio as well as Gigabit LAN and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the m48 9 GTD pro not USB 3