Why Asus' M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 is our latest A-listed motherboard

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Why Asus' M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 is our latest A-listed motherboard
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A great motherboard, at a great price. The Asus M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 motherboard is designed for the next generation of AMD CPUs.

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Asus' latest Socket AM3 motherboard is based on the new AMD 890GX chipset, which includes a SATA/600 controller plus the new Radeon HD 4290 GPU with support for DirectX 10.1 and dual-stream Blu-ray.

The board offers two USB 3 ports, plus a Core Unlocker switch that enables all usable cores on your CPU, potentially turning your X2 or X3 processor into a true quad-core model.

Meanwhile, Turbo Key II automatically pumps up your processor to its highest stable frequency, and GPU Boost does the same for graphics.

If you want to squeeze every drop of performance from an AMD CPU, the M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 makes it easy - although, arguably, you could buy a cheaper board and invest more in the processor in the first place.

This Review appeared in the June, 2010 issue of PC & Tech Authority Magazine

Source: Copyright © PC Pro, Dennis Publishing

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Comments: 2
totoaus
20 May 2010
There are no specs in the tab, there is very little justification in the article; so there is no reason for me to believe you have rationally or justifiably chosen this as "out latest A-listed motherboard."
You may as well have drawn it out of a hat.


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Why Asus' M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 is our latest A-listed motherboard?
A great motherboard, at a great price. The Asus M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 motherboard is designed for the next generation of AMD CPUs.

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Slatts
20 May 2010
strangly enough, the specs were under the featured retailer tag on the main page of the review.
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ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3, Socket AM3, Dual DDR3-2000, AMD 890GX+SB850, HT 3.0, Onboard Radeon HD 4290, VGA, DVI, HDMI, 6x SATA (6x SATA3), 1x eSATA, 1x IDE, CrossFireX, 2x PCIe x16 (x16+x8), 1x PCIe x4, 1x PCIe x1, 2x PCI, 14x USB (2x USB3), 2x FireWire, Gigabit LAN, 7.1ch ALC892, ATX
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