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so today i'll be doing a quick unboxing of the gigabyte 890 FX a UD 5 and the reason i'm actually unboxing this is i unboxed the 890 FX aud seven very recently and i was going to use it on my test bench but i didn't realize even at the time i was unboxing it that it's actually one of those boards that's like once lot longer than a normal ATX motherboard so it didn't even fit on my test bench so now I need a different motherboard that supports USB to USB 3 e-sata and firewire so yeah they're there there's one thing about this motherboard it has support for seemingly every conceivable external drive interface possible so let's go over some quick features here first of all it has their 333 onboard acceleration that means you got USB 3 USB power 3x and so USB power 3 X is a way to deliver three times the power through the USB 2 as well as the USB 3 ports so it means you can power more devices off one port very cool Thank You gigabyte we've also got say 23 which is four times the speed via raid 0 oh ok that's an interesting way to measure that because it's actually two times the speed of c22 but I guess if you r 80 did it would be four times the speed ok and then we have a three-year warranty in the US and Canada as well as their new on/off charge so you can see they've got like an iPhone plugged into a USB port their USB ports will actually charge certain devices even when the computer is powered off pretty sweet we've also got support for ultra durable 3 which is a 2 ounce cost of copper PCB Japanese solid caps all that good stuff we have support for amd's latest phantom 2 x6 6 core processors as well as support for auto unlocking so if you plug in a dual core or a triple core then you will be able to just automatically unlock the extra cores as long as they are stable we have support for 3-way crossfire X as well as native support for say 236 gigabit per second via the SB 850 so that means that unlike the Intel boards out there in these latest chipsets actually supports a 23 natively you don't have to plug in any additional third party chips to the motherboard okay so let's have a look at the accessories that are included first we've got an i/o shield and the cameraman is apparently trying to move his wrist rest thing so that he can get closer and look at my i/o shield there we go then we have a user's manual which has a driver DVD or utility DVD rather download Billy to stop the gigabyte website don't bother with that in here we've got this is all English and it covers bios settings installing your drivers a couple basic troubleshooting things front panel headers we're to plug stuff into the motherboard then you've got like a physical installation guide book so how to install a cpu this is more like a quick start guide and it's in a bunch of different languages including wow what is this okay leave a comment if you know what language this is are you not even focused there you go wow I yeah never heard of that okay next we've got four SATA port or SATA ports for SATA cables and these are two right angle and two straight cables and then one ide cable and then a random piece of paper it's doing something in there for sure okay here we go is that like a weird angle to I haven't I've never seen a box like this before all right oh we've got a gigabyte powered sticker so this is powered by gigabyte or rather your computer will be when you put this motherboard in it all right let's get this board up in here stop rambling so this board so far actually looks an awful lot like the ud7 that i already had a look at i see i can i can see right away that there are quite a few things in common so let's start at the let's start at the center the board we've got an am3 socket with support for the latest phantom tues and including X 4 X 6 X 3 X 2 s whatever it is you want to put in there it will be supported as long as it is a m3 so that means that you do have support for a dual-channel ddr3 memory memory controllers in the CPU so am-3 CPUs ddr3 board thumbs up good stuff up at the top of the board we've got our 8-pin cpu power connector right where it belongs and that's under sort of the the MOSFET cooling which I guess we'll have a closer look at later as I mentioned before ddr3 dual-channel these are color coded so you want to put your dual channel matching dims in the same color slots then we have on-board power and reset this is the perfect place for those in my opinion because I think having them down at the bottom of the board doesn't make any sense because as soon as you load it up with expansion cards you can't access anything down here anyway this is great you've got your 24 pin power right where it belongs as well as your floppy and ide connectors next you've got a clear CMOS button and while this isn't quite as good as at the back I owe plate it is way better again than having it down at the bottom of the board where you can hardly even access it when its installed in a case this is terrific okay on the side we've got to say to two ports those are running off a third-party chipset which actually I can't tell who makes it because it's labeled gigabytes 802 okay and then we have six say two three ports so those are all running off of the ATI SB 850 southbridge then we've got system fan I don't know what these are TSL one and tsr 1 i'm guessing this is left and right but um hmm left and right of what impossible to say at this time okay we've got another clear CMOS jumper here that's kind of interesting so you can clear the CMOS the old fashioned way as well and then we've also got our front panel headers including three USB one firewire and 1.com then we have an lpt wow really that's a parallel port header I haven't seen that on a board in a while okay mom good good on you gigabyte for including that for the people who still need it okay then we've got two PCIe 1x slots for physical pcie 16x slots and one pci slot now looking at the electrical connections in these slots these two are going to be 16 x 16 x if you're running sli or crossfire sli if you're running crossfire this board does not support sli only three way crossfire and then these two ports are going to run in eight X mode regardless of what you're doing actually you know what this one's for X only so if you're running to crossfire cards you're going to use this one and cover this slot and then you're going to use this one and cover this slot for the maximum electrical connectivity speed and then if you run three cards you add another one here covering the PCI slot and it would run 16 x 16 x 8x now since 8x actually doesn't have an impact on performance with modern video cards what I would probably do is I try and find the long crossfire bridge and I'd run it in this one in this one that way you've got a nice big gap between your cards you leave open a 16 X maybe electrical 8x at that point as well as a 4x lot and a 1x lot and then you cover the ancient pci slot that's probably what I would do so here we've got our cooling solution so here's the little cooler on the SB 850 southbridge you can see that it's not going to do a whole lot cooling wise but it looks cool and since it doesn't kick off a whole lot of heat anyway it doesn't really matter gigabyte has their kind of Aztec inspired looking northbridge cooler on here I really like this once again that doesn't have like very doesn't have a lot of fins on it is not going to do a whole lot of cooling but it totally doesn't matter because the Northbridge again also doesn't kick off a lot of heat then we've got our MOSFET cooler this one does actually do some cooling it's cooling the a plus 2 phase power design that is going to be delivering power to up to six cores worth of cpu processing power and this board unlike the ud7 it's actually a normal length so the ud7 doesn't have a slot here it skips this slot and then it has seven slots so the board is actually a little bit longer go figure okay then we're moving on to the back where we will find ports so there are 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 USB 2.0 ports 1 ps2 keyboard mouse combo port then you've got digital audio out in both flavors optical as well as coaxial then you've got two firewire ports and these two are besides being USB 2.0 ports they are also a SATA ports so the USB 2.0 contacts are on the bottom and the esata contacts are up here on the top very cool then we have USB 3.0 two gigabit ethernet as well as 7.1 audio out thank you for checking out my unboxing at the 890 fxa you d 5