Gigabyte 890FXA-UD7 Phenom II X6 Crossfire Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=52042

This is the baddest, biggest (especially biggest) AMD motherboard out there. It uses an XL-ATX form factor to fit in every feature under the sun including 4-way CrossfireX, USB3, SATA3, and pretty much everything else (including the kitchen sink)

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Science & Technology

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• Gigabyte
• 890FXA-UD7
• AM3
• DDR3
• Phenom
• II
• X6
• USB3
• SATA3
• CrossfireX
• Motherboard
• Unboxing

[yushao100]

not only quad crossfire compatible, but floppy compatible too :D

[aoryi]

but.... wil it make me a sandwich?

[MrPummetje]

Have it ! really fast overclocks great my setup: 890fxa ud7 amd phenom x6 1100t @ 4ghz Corsair H60 Corsair Dominator 16gb 1333mhz eah 6850 @ 1000/1175 coolermaster haf x crucial m4 64gb spinpoint f3 1tb 500 watt modxstream psu this is an great motherboard my games all are smooth :)

[Ruebarb263]

Great review' deff better than my sub £50 mb lol sub me for reviews ;)

[freecomptechreview]

Will it Blend?



[gizengar111]

but will it run minesweeper?

[jasonlib1996]

with the water cooling stuff intergrated does that mean that you HAVE to use water cooling or will air cooling still work fine?

[24149421]

@chadou17 sure is 16x in 2

[chadou17]

If I have just 2x hd 6870, it will be 2*x16 or 2*x8 ?? please answer i want to buy this one ! thanks :)

[gl1000k2]

Those quickly discarded "Cross - [space] - Fire" bridges that come with this mobo are not like the crossfire bridges you get with your videocard. These are 10cm long, which means you can do a dual CrossfireX over both PCI Express X16 slots (2nd one is above the white PCI slot), avoiding the usual PCI-E X8 in the middle.

That gains you a little bit of performance, but more important: if you use aircooling, it leaves a nice corridor of cool airflow between two hot videocards.

[scythe515]

@seba3001 I know that the Intel Ich10r has a bandwidth cap of about 700 MB per sec. I was wondering if the AMD 850 had improved beyond the Intel chip. Most Mobo reviews do not check Storage bandwidth to see if the Sata ports operate at their full potential.

[seba3001]

@scythe515 Placing too many SSDs on a Raid0 array it's not safe at all, man. I mean, if your system is stable you shouldn't find any problem with 2 SSDs on raid0 in like, years. But placing aditional SSDs to the array increases the data corruption probability exponentially. Bear that in mind, you are sending your stream of data divided (and damn fast), but if a single part fails, the whole data wil be lost.