This is an AMD 890FX based motherboard that headlines the upper end of their mainstream products.Īs the name suggests, the M4A89TD PRO/USB3 does have USB 3.0 on-board along with a host of other features. Today we are taking a look at one of these the ASUS M4A89TD PRO/USB3. It is this mindset that allows ASUS to produce the excellent products that they have. This team of tinkerers continues to improve on their designs with new BIOS features, new drivers and in some cases, new revisions of products that ASUS already has on the market.
ASUS makes some great boards, but to the R&D team it is still not enough. This is what you get when you talk about ASUS' R&D team. Well, imagine a room full of the same people. There is always one more tweak, hack, or adjustment to be done to get that few extra MHz out of their systems. We however overclocked manually through the BIOS - the results were really dandy as we took it towards 4 GHz quite easily - and again, this overclock was managed with a simple OCZ Vendetta air-cooler.Have you ever known someone that just has to tinker with things? You know the guy I am talking about. Now what you can do best with AMD overdrive is to determine how high you can overclock and then transfer the final stable in the bios to make it permanent (if you would like that of course). Play around with it, don't be afraid of a crash. In AMD Overdrive you can simply max out the CPU voltage towards ~1.55V and increase the multiplier. The new revision is version 3.2 and it's one of the best tweaking utilities out there.įor this review we used the latest 3.2 beta which has some cool new options. However as always we prefer to overclock manually.Īlternatively you can use AMD's Windows compatible Overdrive interface that allows very easy overclocking of the Phenom II processors.
in the case of this motherboard we can use the BIOS Step UP function which helps us overclock a nice bit all by itself. We can now overclock in several ways, modern motherboards often have automated overclock features. This processor has an unlocked multiplier. The processor we are using in this test is obviously the Phenom II X6 1090T. If you decide to start an overclocking session with the Phenom processor typically you are much better off with the BE editions (CPU multiplier unlocked).
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