14 DAY TRIAL // Advanced Micro Devices will be releasing quite a few products during 2010. Already, the company has turned heads with its DirectX 11 cards, of which the most recent is the HD 5670. Nevertheless, one should not forget that AMD was originally a processor maker and has released many chips and chipsets over the years, with the latest such product set for launch in April. AMD is working on the 890GX chipset and, in parallel, hardware makers are already in advanced stages of developing motherboards based on it. Like ECS, Gigabyte is readying one such product, known as the GA-890GPA-UD3H.
The upcoming chipset from the CPU and GPU maker will take the place of the now-old 790GX. Built around the AM3 socket, the chipset is now being used in Gigabyte's product, which will also boast next-generation, high-speed interfaces and a large array of I/O and connectivity options.
The GA-890GPA-UD3H will employ the NEC USB 3.0 controller chip, which, obviously, means that the mainboard will feature USB 3.0 support. Gigabyte's product uses the ATX form factor and has eight SATA 6.0 Gbps ports, two USB 3.0 connectors, four DDR3 memory slots with a frequency of 1866+ MHz, two PCI Express x16 slots for high-end graphics, as well as onboard DirectX 10.1 video. In addition, the board has 7.1 channel audio, Gigabit Ethernet, DualBIOS, as well as DVI, HDMI and D-Sub outputs. Of course, the board has ports and connectors for common peripherals, such as PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
This motherboard will, naturally, not be launched before Advanced Micro Devices gets around to officially introducing its chipset. As such, the Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H motherboard will likely come out around the end of the current or during the second quarter of 2010.
Since the motherboard was only just pictured, there are no details, official or otherwise, on the price that it will sport.