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so with the release of AMD's six core processors obviously there's a whole lot of motherboards to go with them and while AMD has done a great job of making sure that you can use older motherboards with their six quarts obviously for the best possible updated feature set you're gonna want to use a new 800 series chipset board so this is gigabytes 890 GPA - new t3h so the 890 G stands for 890 GX P I think is more like a series and then a means USB 3.0 as well as SATA 6 gigabits per second ultra durable and then three inch okay so basically they've got support for all am three CPUs including phantom 2 X 4 phantom 2 X 3 1 2 X 4 and phantom 2 X 6 all of that good stuff you got support for crossfire okay then you also have a four plus one phase power design they've got benchmarks on here for the onboard video so because this is a GX chipset it does have onboard video gigabyte it's got a three year warranty and US and Canada they've got a sticker on here to tell us about that and then there are three three three onboard accelerations so USB 3.0 USB power times three and what that means is that every USB port on a gigabyte 3-3-3 motherboard can deliver up to three times the power so if you're using a hub you can plug in three full USB 3.0 powered devices without actually using a powered hub then it also has SATA 3.0 or six gigabit per second and that is supported natively by AMD's latest chipset on the back I don't know that we've got a whole lot they're talking about they're easy energy saver a little bit as well as the benefits of a two-ounce proper PCB so lower temperature lower impedance lower EMI better power efficiency better overclocking all that good stuff okay so let's have a look at what is included with the you d3h here first of all we have the user's manual which has a utility and chipset driver etc DVD inside don't use this download the latest off the gigabyte website also inside is the i/o shield for whatever reason okay so the manual is in all English and it's about that thick there you go next we have the multilingual installation guidebook the installation guide book shows you how to install a CPU and CPU cooler Ram installed a case and power supply basically it's a little guide on how to build a PC and it's in like 300 million different languages here next we have four SATA cables to right angle two straight and then one IDE cable after that we will find a couple of stickers one of which is gigabyte and the other is Dolby home theater that is it for accessories that is a fairly bear accessory package or for a board at this sort of a price point important the important value adds because this does not look like a value board the first thing you'll notice about it is that it has huge cooling on both the Northbridge and on the voltage regulator modules which are up here so these are made of what appears to be aluminum they've got a heat pipe connecting them here and they look incredibly beefy for like a GX series or more value oriented board the first thing you'll notice obviously in the center of the board I already say first thing I think I did second thing you'll notice is this is an AM tree socket means you got support for all AM 3 CPUs including the new X 6 CPUs you've got your power connectors in there ideal locations up at the top left for the 8 pin and then over on the right-hand edge for the 24 pin you've got support for dual channel ddr3 they're color-coded so if you have a dual channel kit you're gonna install it first in the two blue modules and then if you want to add another kit you'll install it then in the two white slots not modules next we've got an IDE connector and what that's still doing on a board it's very hard to say and then under that we will find some more SATA ports or some SATA ports we have 6 SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports those are the blue ones and those are running off the AMD South Bridge and then we have two more and these are running off the gigabit chipset that's also providing IDE support so those are SATA 2 and the blue ones are SATA 3 ok then we have our front panel connectors for USB front headers so that means you can run up to eight USB ports off of these headers two firewire headers then you've got a floppy connector of all things and then moving on from there our front audio I've never liked this location for front audio I realize it probably makes life a little bit easier for the for the routing as far as the internal wiring is going so you got your ports here you got your audio chipset here you got your header here but I really do prefer it down here because it's a little bit tricky to run that connector over there from the front of some cases either way it's so it's usually doable so it's not that big of a deal first of all first I keep saying first of all I can't imagine why next we have our PCI Express 16x slot followed by another PCI Express 16x slot this one however you can see from the internal connectors runs at 8x speed so if you're running two graphics carts they're going to run at PCIe 8x speed for both of them which doesn't really impact performance anyway next we've got three PCIe 1x slots and two PCI slots so that means that if you've got two dual slot graphics cards you've got access to one two PCIe 1x and one PCI slot over either on the back of the board you will find all of our connectivity options here we've got one ps2 keyboard / Mouse port we have four USB 2.0 ports VGA HDMI and then what appeared did I say HDMI Wow I'm off today DVI and HDMI sure enough then we have optical audio out firewire Gigabit LAN and 7.1 audio thank you for checking out my unboxing of the GA 890 GPA you d3h