Remove the heatsink and this is the SB850 Southbridge chip. This chip controls interaction with peripherals. It can support 14 USB 2.0 ports, Six SATA 6Gb/s channels, One Parallel ATA channel, as well as interfacing with the HD Audio and Gigabit Ethernet controllers on the motherboard.
 

Remove the heatsink and this is the SB850 Southbridge chip. This chip controls interaction with peripherals. It can support 14 USB 2.0 ports, Six SATA 6Gb/s channels, One Parallel ATA channel, as well as interfacing with the HD Audio and Gigabit Ethernet controllers on 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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