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Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD7

25 Mar 2010

The Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD7 is the vendor's flagship motherboard based on AMD's enthusiast class 890FX chipset. It is paired with a SB850 Southbridge which provides up to six SATA 6Gbit/s ports. USB 3.0 functionality is included, along with CrossFireX support.

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<h2 class="header-green">Product Specification</h2>
<table class="specs">
			<tr>
		<td class="prd_content">Processor Support and Chipset Type</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_lightgrey">
			<ul><li>AMD Socket AM3 Processors (Phenom II / Athlon II / Sempron)
</li><li>AMD 890FX and SB850</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
				<tr>
		<td class="prd_content">Memory</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_darkgrey">
			<ul><li>Supports 4 unbuffered DIMM of DDR3-1866 (O.C)/1333/1066/800 SDRAM
</li><li>Supports up to 16GB memory size</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
				<tr>
		<td class="prd_content">Storage</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_lightgrey">
			<ul><li>Southbridge
</li><li>6 x SATA 6Gbit/s ports
</li><li>Support AHCI controller with SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 and JBOD configurations
</li><li>Gigabyte SATA2 chip
</li><li>2 x SATA 3.0Gbps ports
</li><li>Support for SATA RAID 0, 1 and JBOD
</li><li>1 x Ultra DMA 133/100 for up to 2 PATA devices
</li><li>JMicron JMB363 controller
</li><li>2 x eSATA 3.0Gbps ports (rear I/O)
</li><li>Support for SATA RAID 0, 1 and JBOD
</li><li>iTE IT8720 controller
</li><li>1 x floppy drive connector</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
				<tr>
		<td class="prd_content">Audio</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_darkgrey">
			Realtek ALC889 HD CODEC		</td>
	</tr>
				<tr>
		<td class="prd_content">Networking</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_lightgrey">
			Dual Realtek 8111DL Gigabit Ethernet controllers		</td>
	</tr>
				<tr>
		<td class="prd_content">FireWire (IEEE 1394)</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_darkgrey">
			<ul><li>T.I TSB43AB23 chip:
</li><li>Up to 3 x IEEE 1394a ports (2 rear, 1 header)</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
				<tr>
		<td class="prd_content">Rear I/O</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_lightgrey">
			<ul><li>6 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
</li><li>2 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports
</li><li>2 x eSATA/USB combo ports
</li><li>2 x RJ45 LAN port
</li><li>6 x audio jacks
</li><li>1 x Optical S/PDIF output
</li><li>1 x Coaxial S/PDIF output
</li><li>1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
				<tr>
		<td class="prd_content">Internal Connectors</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_darkgrey">
			<ul><li>1 x 24-pin ATX power connector
</li><li>1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
</li><li>1 x floppy drive connector
</li><li>1 x IDE connector
</li><li>6 x SATA 6Gbit/s connectors
</li><li>2 x  SATA 3.0Gbps
</li><li>5 x fan headers
</li><li>1 x S/PDIF in header
</li><li>1 x S/PDIF out header
</li><li>3 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers
</li><li>1 x IEEE 1394a header
</li><li>1 x serial port header
</li><li>1 x parallel port header
</li><li>1 x Clear CMOS jumper
</li><li>1 x Clear CMOS button
</li><li>1 x Power button
</li><li>1 x Reset button</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
				<tr>
		<td class="prd_content">Expansion Slots</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_lightgrey">
			<ul><li>2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (x16/x16 if both slots filled, x8 if all four PCIe slots filled)
</li><li>2 x PCIe 2.0 x8 slots
</li><li>2 x PCIe 2.0 x4 slots (1 slot is by default configured at x1, to run at x4, it will disable Gigabyte SATA2 chip due to shared bandwidth)
</li><li>1 x PCI slot</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
				<tr>
		<td class="prd_content">Other Features</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_darkgrey">
			<ul><li>Q-Flash
</li><li>EasyTune
</li><li>Easy Energy Saver
</li><li>Q-Share
</li><li>Auto Green
</li><li>Xpress Recovery 2</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
				<tr>
		<td class="prd_content">Form Factor</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_lightgrey">
			XL-ATX form factor, 32.5 x 24.4cm		</td>
	</tr>
	</table>

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