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Now in this part we will review AMD mainboard and for this occasion we have a motherboard from Gigabyte which is GA-MA790GP-DS4H. Gigabyte is well known as motherboard vendor with good durability and performance. With AMD's latest chipset 790GX and SB 750, this motherboard will have rich features and one of them is onboard graphic card. In this review we will use AMD latest processor and we will using LN2 too for cooling. Want to know the result ??? Let's check this out..
Specification
CPU
- Support for Socket AM2+/ AM2 processors: AMD Phenom FX processor/ AMD Phenom X4 processor/ AMD Phenom X3 processor/ AMD Athlon X2 processor/ AMD Athlon processor/ AMD Sempron X2 processor/ AMD Sempron processor
Hyper Transport Bus
Chipset
- North Bridge: AMD 790GX
- South Bridge: AMD SB750
Memory
- 4 x 1.8V DDR2 DIMM sockets supporting up to 16 GB of system memory (Note 1)
- Dual channel memory architecture
- Support for DDR2 1066 (Note 2)/800/667 MHz memory modules
- Integrated Memory
- 128MB DDR3 SidePort memory
Audio
- Realtek ALC889A codec
- High Definition Audio
- 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
- Support for Dolby Home Theater
- Support for S/PDIF In/Out
- Support for CD In
LAN Realtek
- 8111C chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)
Expansion Slots
- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16_1) (Note 3)
- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x8 (PCIEX8_1)
(The PCIEX16_1 and PCIEX8_1 slots support ATI Hybrid CrossFireX technology, ATI CrossFireX technology and conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)
- 3 x PCI Express x1 slots
- 2 x PCI slots
Storage
Interface South Bridge:
- 1 x IDE connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices
- 6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors supporting up to 6 SATA 3Gb/s devices
- Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID5, RAID 10 and JBOD
iTE IT8718 chip:
- 1 x floppy disk drive connector supporting up to 1 floppy disk drive
IEEE 1394
T.I. TSB43AB23 chip
- Up to 3 IEEE 1394a ports (1 on the back panel, 2 via the IEEE 1394a bracket connected to the internal IEEE 1394a header)
USB
Integrated in the South Bridge
- Up to 12 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 on the back panel, 8 via the USB brackets connected to the internal USB headers)
Internal I/O Connectors
- 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
- 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
- 1 x floppy disk drive connector
- 1 x IDE connector
- 6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors
- 1 x CPU fan header
- 2 x system fan header
- 1 x power fan header
- 1 x front panel header
- 1 x front panel audio header
- 1 x CD In connector
- 1 x S/PDIF In/Out header
- 2 x IEEE 1394a header
- 4 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers
- 1 x parallel port header
- 1 x serial port header
- 1 x chassis intrusion header
- 1 x power LED header
Back Panel Connectors
- 1 x PS/2 keyboard port
- 1 x PS/2 mouse port
- 1 x D-Sub port
- 1 x DVI-D port (Note 4)
- 1 x HDMI port
- 1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector
- 1 x IEEE 1394a port
- 4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
- 1 x RJ-45 port
- 6 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/Side Speaker Out/Line In/Line Out/Microphone)
H/W Monitoring
System voltage detection
- CPU/System temperature detection
- CPU/System fan speed detection
- CPU overheating warning
- CPU/System fan fail warning
- CPU/System fan speed control (Note 5)
BIOS
- 2 x 8 Mbit flash
- Use of licensed AWARD BIOS
- Support for DualBIOS™
- PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.4, ACPI 1.0b
Unique Features
- Support for @BIOS
- Support for Download Center
- Support for Q-Flash
- Support for EasyTune (Note 6)
- Support for Xpress Install
- Support for Xpress Recovery2
- Support for Virtual Dual BIOS
Bundle Software
- Norton Internet Security (OEM version)
Operating System
- Support for Microsoft® Windows Vista/ XP
Form Factor
- ATX Form Factor; 30.5cm x 24.4cm
Remark
- Due to different Linux support condition provided by chipset vendors, please download Linux driver from chipset vendors' website or 3rd party website.
- Due to most hardware/software vendors no longer offer support for Win9X/ME. If some vendors still has Win9X/ME drivers available, we will publish on website.
Note
- (Note 1) Due to Windows Vista/XP 32-bit operating system limitation, when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory size displayed will be less than 4 GB.
- (Note 2) Whether 1066 MHz memory speed is supported depends on the CPU being used.
- (Note 3) The DVI-D port does not support D-Sub connection by adapter.
- (Note 4) Whether the CPU/system fan speed control function is supported will depend on the CPU/ system cooler you install.
- (Note 5) Whether the CPU/system fan speed control function is supported will depend on the CPU/system cooler you installed.
- (Note 6) Available functions in EasyTune may differ by motherboard model.
