Just herded up a trio of new mainboards equipped with AMD's 990FX chipset, which will support those famed 8-core Bulldozer-based processors when they finally arrive, as well as being compatible with existing Phenom II and Athlon II chips. All the boards had similarly high performance, good connectivity and plenty of overclocking and tweaking potential. However, the $229 Asus CrossHair V Formula inched its way to overall victory thanks to its reliability, attractive build and smart layout. The ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional placed second despite being cheaper at $200 and having richer connectivity,

M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3, that’s the motherboard from ASUS that was driven by the AMD 880G and SB850 chipset. Naming conceded can be seen that the motherboard supports USB 3.0 interface. Only like any other motherboard manufacturers, ASUS includes a shard from NEC to take round two USB 3.0 ports located on the backpanel.

SATA ports are tolerant of also have adopted the latest technology that is SATA 3 derived from SB850 southbridge. Of the six ports provided natively by SB850, ASUS only embody five ports as SATA ports for storage, while the other one is allocated to the eSATA anchorage on the backpanel. Of route it gives advantages as well disadvantages. The more favourably gained is the evaluate of the motherboard can be reduced because no additional tariff to involve additional chips to submit to eSATA. Meanwhile, the impoverishment is the set-back of one harbour to the internal distinct disk storage.

Dissimilar to the room that was driven by the AMD 880G some time ago, this hour disquieting to add SidePort ASUS retention to raise conduct of its onboard graphics, the ATI Radeon HD 4250. The follow-up is honestly surprising, with the make out 408 points in 3DMark Vantage evenly proportioned resoluteness 890GX onboard graphics.

To accelerate the move of the onboard graphics are acquainted with, ASUS also includes onboard graphics and overclocking menu SidePort tribute through the BIOS.

Not forgetting ASUS also includes auto overclocking participate and core unlocker in the formulate of switches. To entrust both, you only trouble to corps the two switches that are elbow to go along with the drawn in. Both switches are also located adjacent to the memOK! This button has a aim to complement recollection compatibility with this motherboard.