BIOSTAR TA890FXE Preview
Taipei, Taiwan, April 2nd, 2010 – BIOSTAR MICROTECH INT’L CORP., a professional manufacturer of motherboards today reveals its new AMD 8xx series chipset motherboard line up, including 890FX, 890GX, 880G, and 870X chipset family.
Later this month, AMD will be releasing their most important product in 2010 – the enthusiast 890FX chipset and Phenom II X6 processor. AMD 890FX chipset, codenamed RD890 accompanied by HyperTransport 3.0 and South Bridge SB850, which provides native support for SATA 6.0 Gbps.
BIOSTAR famous T-Series “TA890FXE” motherboard supports existing and upcoming socket AM3 processors, including Phenom II X6. “TA890FXE” is powered by a 6 phase PWM, supporting 140W processors, four PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots supporting ATI CrossFireX technology, apart from two legacy PCI slots.
7.1 channel HD Blu-Ray audio, Gigabit Ethernet, and FireWire make for the rest of it
According to AMD official announcement earlier that SB850 does not support ACC function; but BIOSTAR “BIO-unlocKING” technology breakthrough the limitation and provides the flexibility to unlock extra core(s) achieving much greater performance with lower cost. “BIO-unlocKING” technology is available on every BIOSTAR 8xx series motherboard.
“TA890FXE” also obtains the T-Series tradition; it offers outstanding overclocking capability for all time. We shall expect some amazing records later on.
| ? | ATX | mATX | ||
| Chipset | 890FX+SB850 | 890GX+SB850 | 880G+SB850 | 880G+SB850 |
| Model name | TA890FXE | TA890GXE | TA880G HD | TA880GB HD |
| PWM | 6 Phase (140W) | 5 Phase(140W) | 4 Phase (125W) | 4 Phase (125W) |
| GTO 63 | GT60 AMD Phenom II X6 SATA6Gbps |
GT60 AMD Phenom II X6 SATA6Gbps |
GT60 AMD Phenom II X6 SATA6Gbps |
GT60 AMD Phenom II X6 SATA6Gbps |
| Unlock CPU | BIO-Unlocking | BIO-Unlocking | BIO-Unlocking | BIO-Unlocking |
| Solid cap | 100% X.D.C | 100%X.D.C | 100% X.D.C | X.D.C |
| DDR3 | 4 DDR3-1800(OC) | 4 DDR3-1600(OC) | 4 DDR3-1600(OC) | 4 DDR3-1600(OC) |
| Digital Video | – | DVI + HDMI | DVI + HDMI | DVI |
| Graphic | – | HD4290 @ 700MHz | HD4250 @ 560MHz | HD4250 @ 560MHz |
| Side port | – | 128M DDR3 | 128M DDR3 | ? |
| 1394a | 1394a | 1394a | – | – |
| LAN | GbE | GbE | GbE | GbE |
| Audio | 8Ch(ALC892) | 8Ch(ALC892) | 8Ch(ALC892) | 6Ch |
| PCI-Express (X16) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Expansion slot | 1 x PCIEx1 2 x PCI |
1 x PCIEx1 2 x PCI |
1 x PCIEx1 2 x PCI |
1 x PCIEx1 2 x PCI |
| Storage | 5 x SATA6Gbps RAID 0,1,5,10 1 x eSATA2 1 x IDE by VT6415 |
5 x SATA6Gbps RAID 0,1,5,10 1 x eSATA 1IDE by VT6415 |
6 x SATA6Gbps RAID 0,1,5,10 |
6 x SATA6Gbps RAID 0,1,5,10 |
| I/O | 2 x PS/2, 2 x SPDIF, 6 x USB, 1 x 1394, 1 x eSATA, 1 x RJ45, 8Ch Audio | 2 x PS/2, 1 SPDIF, 1 x HDMI, 1 x DVI, 1 x Dsub, 1 x 1394, 1 x eSATA, 4 x USB, 1 x RJ45, 8Ch Audio | 2 x PS/2, 1 x HDMI, 1 x DVI, 1 x Dsub, 4 x USB, 1 x RJ45, 8Ch Audio | 1 x PS/2, 1 x HDMI, 1 x DVI, 1 x Dsub, 4 x USB, 1 x RJ45, 6Ch Audio |