DRIVERS: AMD 890GX CHIPSET

Additional expansion comes care of a PCI Express 2. As in most microATX motherboards space is at a premium, but fortunately with the high levels of integration of the AMD GX chipset this won't be a problem for most users - AMD 890GX Chipset board as it is, only needs a CPU and memory to give you full functionality as a PC.

Inside AMD's new GX and SB chipset

Even with the headers we fell this is a little skimpy, so make sure to count the amount of USB devices you use before buying, or be prepared to invest in a decent USB hub. That's proper 2.

This, unfortunately, is no more. AMD 890GX Chipset is it" on the unlocking front right now, more and more companies will follow Asus' lead and engineer it in.

It comes from ASUS and is about as feature-rich as they come. Tres simple! Discuss this article in our forums!

Have a comment you wish to make on this article? Feel free to head over to our related thread and put your words to our virtual paper! For comparison, we used a Gigabyte motherboard equipped with the G chipset.

Both graphics chips support DirectX We also used a pair of the recently launched 2. Beyond the motherboards, our testbeds were identical: The GX showed negligible improvement over the G chipset in our WorldBench 6 test suite, scoring a over the G's The GX began to pull away from the G during our graphics tests, but overall gaming performance is poor -- as expected, for an AMD 890GX Chipset graphics chip. AMD has been purposefully vague on the graphics specifications of its 8-series chipsets.

Today we know why. The AMD GX has the exact.

AMD GX chipset specifications AMD GX CPU compatibility list. Important: Below is a Supported by ASRock GX Extreme4 R