MSI 890FXA-GD65 AMD 890FX Motherboard Review

Specifications
CPU
• 64bit AMD® Phenom II X6/X4/X3/X2, Athlon II X4/X3/X2 and Sempron CPU.
Hyper Transport Bus
• HyperTransport 3.0 supporting speed up to 5200MT/s
Chipset
• AMD® 890FX and SB850 Chipset
Main Memory
• Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 800/1066/1333/1600*/1800*/2133* (OC) DRAM, 16GB Max
Slots
• 2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots
• 4 PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots
• 1 PCI slot, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface.
On-Board SATA
• 6 SATA III (1~6) ports by AMD® SB850
– Supports storage and data transfers at up to 6Gb/s
RAID Function
– SATA III 1~6 support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 mode by AMD® SB850
USB 3.0
• 2 USB 3.0 ports by NEC® uPD720200F1
Audio
• Chipset integrated by Realtek® ALC892
– True Blu-ray Audio Support
– Flexible 8-channel audio with jack sensing
– Compliant with Azalia 1.0 Spec
LAN
• Realtek PCI-E GbLAN controller 8111E
– Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in single chip
– Supports 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s
– Compliance with PCI-Express Bus specification v1.0a
Internal I/O Connectors
– 1 x ATX 24-pin power connector
– 1 x ATX 8-pin 12V CPU power connector
– CPU x 1 / System x 4 FAN connectors
– 1 x Front panel audio connector
– 1 x Front panel connector
– 1 x Chassis intrusion switch connector
– 2 x USB 2.0 connectors
– 6 x Serial ATA III connectors
– 1 x Serial port connector
– 1 x Clear CMOS jumper
– 1 x SPDIF-out connector
– 1 x TPM module connector
Back Panel I/O Ports
– 1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard port
– 1 x Clear CMOS button
– 1 x Coaxial SPDIF-out
– 1 x Optical SPDIF-out
– 8 x USB 2.0 ports
– 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack
– 2 x USB 3.0 ports (blue)
– 1 x 6 in 1 audio jack
Dimension
• 24.4cm (L) x 30.5cm (W) ATX Form Factor
Mounting
• 9 mounting holes.