MSI 890GXM-G65 DDR3 16GB USB 3.0 AMD Motherboard

A lot of interesting things have happened in the world of motherboards recently. The advent of SATA 6Gbps means our storage needs will have all the bandwidth they’ll need for at least a little while. USB 3.0 means our flash drives can join in on the bandwidth fun as well.

Sideport Memory

• Equipped 1 Gigabit (128MB) DDR3 1333MHz IGP boost memory to accelerate onboard VGA 3D performance enhanced up to an additional 1
• Independent IGP memory can reduce the consumption of system memory

Hybrid Crossfire

• Supports Onboard VGA with PCI-E graphic card combination 
• Easy to install 
• Double the graphic performance to meet your processing needs
• Save the money for two graphic cards and to reach ATI Crossfire function easily

APS
APS is Active Phase Switching, that is complete function to Control Power Demand With Switcing Dynamically, it’s for CPU, Memory and Chipset PWM.

140W Support

• Supports AMD high performance 140W CPUs 
• Reserve the ability for future CPU upgrade
• To fully release the power of AMD CPUs 

Specification

• Best overclocking capability
• Auto-BIOS detection offers the best overclocking configuration
• OC Genie enabled, CPU performance 26% up
• Increase 148% CPU performance by OC Genie + Unlock CPU Core
• APS is Active Phase Switching is complete function to Control Power Demand With Switcing Dynamically, it’s for CPU,
• Memory and Chipset PWM.
• Saving Power under Variable Loading.
• Power Usage More Efficiency.
• Revolutionary SuperSpeed USB 3.0, 10x faster than USB 2.0
• Up to 5Gbps bandwidth, boost data transfer rate between PC and USB device
• Support next-generation SATAIII, up to 6Gbps bandwidth
• Double the data transfer rate of SATAII (3Gbps)
• Best Radiation solution
• Excellent Air Convection
• Average temperature lower than “52℃” in high loading
• Supports 1080 Full-HD multimedia playback
• A perfect connection to HD visual effects
• Better casual gaming experience with DirectX 10 support
• Faster and Flexible and instant
• If BIOS crash, it still can boot from USB Drive
• Update BIOS from USB Drive by M-Flash Fucntion
• With the ESD dual-current protection chip, USB Safeguard can ideally protect your motherboard from the potential damage caused by static electricity when inserting USB devices.
• Longer lifespan than electrolytic capacitors
• Endurable to operation under higher frequency & temperature
• Avoid exploding capacitors to cause mainboards failure
• equipped additional 1Gbit (128MB) DDR3 1333MHz IGP memory to accelerate onboard VGA 3D performance up to 15%.
• Independent IGP memory can reduce the consumption of system memory.
• Help end-users upgrade CPU FSB directly.
• Buy an essential CPU but want to reach higher performance.
• Skip the complicated BIOS OC setting and enjoy the higher level CPU performance.
• The loss-less content protection technology with full-rate audio enjoyment from Blue-ray Disc
• Support for 24-bit / 192kHz sample rate offers high quality digital decoders and speakers
• support 7.1 channels playback, plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output (multiple streaming) through the front
• panel stereo outputsThe MSI Live Update online is designed to automatically download and update the BIOS and driver
• when there’s a new version online. It helps reduce the risk of getting the wrong file and minimize the trouble of searching the files from MSI website.Live Update 4 is a single utility software that automatically checks BIOS, driver and utility updates and installs for you , which can save your time for searching and lower the risk while updating.
• Equip with 2 or more PCIe x16 slots, ATI CrossFire Ready.
• The ultimate multi-GPU performance gaming platform.
• Provides 2.7x faster performance than single graphic card solution.

Technical Details

Model

• Brand : MSI
• Model : 890GXM-G65

CPU

• 64bit AMD® Phenom II CPU.
• Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.

Hyper Transport Bus

• HyperTransport 3.0 supporting speed up to 5200MT/s

Chipset

• AMD® 890GX and SB850 Chipset

Integrated Graphic

• Integrated ATI Radeon HD4290 GP

Main Memory

• Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 800/1066/1333/1600*/1800*/2133* (OC) DRAM, 16GB Max

Side Port Memory

• DDR3 DRAM 1Gbit

Slots

• PCI_E1 slot with x16 operation (PCI Express Bus SPEC V2.0 compliant)
• PCI_E2 slot with x8 operation (PCI Express Bus SPEC V2.0 compliant)
• When 2 PCI Express x16 slots are all installed, the PCIE x 16 lanes will auto arrange form x16/ x0 to x8/ x8. Do not use
• PCI_E2 slot when only one PCI Express x16 card is installed.
• 1 PCI Express x1 slot
• 1 PCI slot, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface.

On-Board IDE

• One IDE port by JMicron® JMB368
• Supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133 mode
• Supports PIO, Bus Master operation mode
• Can connect up to two IDE devices

On-Board SATA

• 5 SATA III (1~5) ports by AMD® SB850
• 1 eSATA III port by AMD® SB850
• Supports storage and data transfers at up to 6Gb/s

RAID Function

• SATA III 1~5 support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 mode by AMD® SB850

MSI Reminds You

• The RAID setup floppy disk is optional depending on the districts. You can download the files from the website to make the setup disk. 

Audio

• Chipset integrated by Realtek® ALC889
• True Blu-ray Audio Support
• Flexible 8-channel audio with jack sensing
• Compliant with Azalia 1.0 Spec

LAN

• Realtek PCI-E GbLAN controller 8111DL
• Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in single chip
• Supports 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s
• Compliance with PCI-Express Bus specification v1.0a

Internal I/O Connectors

• ATX 24-pin power connector
• ATX 4-pin 12V CPU power connector
• CPU x 1 / System x 1 FAN connectors
• CD-in connector
• Front panel audio connector
• Front panel connector
• Chassis intrusion switch connector
• 4 x USB 2.0 connectors
• 5 x Serial ATA III connectors=
• 1 x ATA133 HD connector
• 1 x Serial port connector
• 1 x Parallel port connector
• Clear CMOS jumper
• OC switch
• 1 x SPDIF-out  connector
• 1 x TPM module connector

Back Panel I/O Ports

• 1 x PS/2 keyboard or mouse
• 1 x 6 in 1 audio jack
• 4 x USB 2.0 ports
• 2 x USB 3.0 ports
• 1 x RJ45 LAN jack
• 1 x optical SPDIF-out port
• 1 x eSATA port
• 1 x DVI-D port
• 1 x Graphic Card port]
• 1 x HDMI port

Dimension

• 24.4cm(L) x 24.4cm(W) M-ATX Form Factor