In addition to the six native SATA 6Gb/s connectors on the motherboard, this JMicron chip is used to control an additional two SATA 3Gb/s (colloqiually known as SATA 2) channels. It also controls the two E-SATA ports on the backplane of the motherboard.
 

In addition to the six native SATA 6Gb/s connectors on the motherboard, this JMicron chip is used to control an additional two SATA 3Gb/s (colloqiually known as SATA 2) channels. It also controls the two E-SATA ports on the backplane of the motherboard.

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PC Building: Know your way around Gigabyte's GA-890FXA-UD7 motherboard

29 Apr 2010  |  Comments

To complement the launch of the new Phenom II X6 CPUs, AMD has a new chipset, the 890FX. Gigabyte has taken this chipset and built the GA-890FXA-UD7 motherboard. In order to get a better idea of how this new chipset interacts with your hardware, we have stripped the heatsink and investigated just what the major chips on the motherboard do.

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