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Biostar's TA890GXE motherboard is a no-frills approach to the AMD 890GX chipset. It's a microATX form-factor motherboard so it can fit into nearly any case, it has robust graphics and storage options and most importantly it's affordable.
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Starting off with the PCI Express expansion slots...
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PCI Express
expansion options include a single x16 slot for graphics and a single x1
slot for peripherals (like a USB 3.0 card). Legacy devices are taken care
of with two 32-bit PCI slots.
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Five native SATA 6Gb/s (RAID
0,1,5,10) ports are supplied via the AMD SB850 chipset, and that's it for
SATA. A VIA VT6330 is added by Biostar to give the TA890GXE an eSATA port
and a dual-channel IDE connector for legacy devices.
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AMD's SB850 southbridge chipset
sits under this small passive cooler. Along the southern edge of the
motherboard are physical power and reset switches, the motherboard front
panel header, and three USB headers.
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Biostar's TA890GXE
motherboard supports up to 16GB of DDR3 1066/1333MHz memory in four DIMMs,
or 4GB for 32-bit operating systems. Memory can be overclocked to 1600MHz
if the memory will tolerate it.
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AMD Socket AM3 motherboards support newer 45nm chips
like the Phenom II / Athlon II and Sempron processors, right through to
AMDs 6-core 140W Phenom II X6. System bus is 5200MT/s, Hypertransport
3.
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Biostar's Power Saving LEDs indicate the
status level of this feature.
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Now let's move on with overclocking!
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