MSI 890FXA-GD70 ATX AMD Motherboard

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Excellent board for OCin. Tons of alternatives, Excellent layout if using Higher-End Graphics Cards. Board was in a position to OC my 1090t up to 4.1Ghz Stable along with CoolIT ECO (ALC) Motherboard doesn't explain all bios settings in detail, but not adequate to deduct an egg. MSI 890FXA-GD70 AM3 MoBoAMD Phenom 2 X6 1090T Black 3.2GhzCoolIT ECO Liquid Cooling (ALC)CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB ƒ x 4GB) DDR3 1600CORSAIR Nova 32GB, SSD , SATA two 2 x WD Caviar Black 1TB, HDD, SATA two, RAID LG Blu-ray Combo SATACoolMax 600W PSUNZXT Phantom Complete Tower

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A lot of characteristics and attachments. Performs flawless. The only nit-choose I have is with the USB hub driver not becoming set up by anything other than the motherboard's driver disc. This is my second MSI motherboard I have bought for myself.Operating as follows:Windows 7 Pro. x64Antec 3-HundredAntec 650WPhenom II X4 965 @ 3.4 GHZfour GB RAM @ 1333 MHZ

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anything, dropped appropriate in with out skipping a beat. looks greatcrossfire 16ቬjust purchase it!!! dosent come with beer....... was originaly going with the formula 4 but arived doa and went out of stock. am really pleased though, this board is wonderfull and i like how the cardz are spaced apart when in crossfire. 1090txfx 6870 black in crossfire1000w cougar cmx psucoolermaster 932 black BOO YA!!

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It came up proper away...MSI Motherboard, MSI Video Card, Solid State Drive. It is incredibly quickly. Windows 7 would be already up "NOW". I haven't even tried to More than Clock it. Documentation. Like: apply the rear panel/labels Ahead of MOUNTING THE MOTHER BOARD...some of the picture/descriptions don't match the acutal board. AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHzMSI 890FXA-GD70 AM3MSI N460GTX CYCLONE 1GD5/OC HP 8X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA BDVital RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLWestern Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX Corsair Expert Series PS CMPSU-750AX

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Effectively.. anything? SATA III, USB 3., Incredible overclocking prospective, AM3 CPU support, DDR3 help, Capability to run dual GPUs at 16x every (this is a Large pro for me). The built in LED status lights and BIOS debug indicators give you an concept what the board is undertaking if you must ever encounter a issue. Also, the on-board audio is substantially much better than that of other boards I've observed. The PCIe slots are configured in a weird way. That is only to say, with my dual Radeon 6870's, I only have one particular open expansion slot operating at 4x. The 1x and PCI slots are covered by the cards, and the other two complete sized PCIe slots are non-functional with this setup. I know that the size of the video cards is partly to blame, but still, it'd be good to have much more than one particular open expansion slot. I listed the PCIe situation as a con only in hopes of supplying insight to other purchasers. To me, it's not a con large adequate to warrant losing an egg.

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board looks soild its has post but heres were the issue is no windows 7 trim help on the 6gbs drives. has passed most testing seems to perform other than the situation at hand ! windows 7 support dosent perform for the c300 ssd i bought with the board. i have reinstalled 7 instances following a clean set up of windows 7. when i referred to as msi support asking for help i explained what was taking place. the frist reply out of the tek was ( what is windows 7 trim help ? ) theres a couple of factors i am going to attempt on my own to see if i can get it to work but it may well just get sent back for a rma. dont anticipate any assistance from msi help ! the manual and information sent with the board is a joke ! i have usually utilised Asus boards never ever ran into this issue. i tought i would give MSI a attempt but i belive at this point its was a major mistake !!! Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Buyer,We would like to apologize for the challenge you have knowledgeable with this certain mb. Please e mail me directly by way of usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial quantity and your complete speak to facts, subject heading "EAH890FXA". I would like to help you get this resolved.Very best Regards,User HelpMSI Product Help

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Ideal bang for your buck. lots of attributes overclocking is a breeze. Uncomplicated to install. Paid 赓 before ฤ mail in rebate. none Appear at the features and do the math. A good value if your on a price range.AMD 1100TG.Skill RIPJAWS X 16GB򜩀MSI 890fxa-gd70WD C/B 1t SataIIIXFX 6970

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Very good board.. nothing at all undesirable... none.. IF you do not know what your executing it may possibly can be difficult, got a d1 code on the board so i messed with the ram and fixed that issue, but other then that quite good board.

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Fantastic board and to the MOSFET Fry club or whatever, you require to update the BIOS, particularly if you are going to overclock! There was a thing with the original BIOS that didn't distribute the voltages accurately and fried the boards. I've been running my 6 core, water cooled, at 3.8GHz for months with no problem and I had it as high as four.2GHz with no difficulty. The only issue I see with this board and to me it's a huge one. I'm operating two vid cards Crossfire and the only way to run it is one particular card in slot 1 and a single in slot five. The one and only PCIe X1 slot is absolutely blocked and unusable and the 1 and only PCI slot is blocked and unusable and I have water blocks on the cards which tends to make them thinner however. I have two Asus Xonar sound cards, one particular PCI and one particular PCIe X1 and I can't use either a single and I have tow AverMedia television tuner cards and I can't use either one of those. I have a five.1 surround sound process I can't hook up to have superior sound and I can't watch television on this laptop or computer which I like to do now and then and use it for a DVR as well. Even if you only have 1 vid card installed it blocks the PCIe X1 slot. If you are going to spend this substantially for a board, you shouldn't have to make sacrifices on what you can use and what you can't. Sure, it's a monster performance board for those that know what they are undertaking but hey, widespread.... a single PCI and one X1 and you can't use either 1??? Why ever place them on the board???? I'm glad I got this board as a gift as an alternative of purchasing it.

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Lots of space on the board to function with. Had to RMA the bord to newegg three occasions and following I recived it a third time from newegg I RMA'ed it to MSI. Now that I got it back about a month ago it operate fine untill I installed my new sound card. It does not like the PCI X1 cards at all. negative bord. Had to a lot of concerns with this board from the get go and now I only wish I could send it back to get my money back. This board does not like Crossfire either. none Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Consumer,We would like to apologize for the issue you have knowledgeable with this distinct mb. Please email me directly by means of usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial number and your total get in touch with info, subject heading "EAH890FXA". I would like to enable you get this resolved.Ideal Regards,User AssistanceMSI Product Help

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I've been constructing for 12 years, A+ certified, blah blah blah, I've been loyal to MSI for 12 years, built servers on desktop boards that have taken 1 million uniques a month with no hickups and so forth, when I decided to obtain this board for my personal program I had high expectations and this board exceeded those expectations. It's an overclockers dream, it's fast, it's stable, it supports every single am3 there is, it has more than adequate onboard hookups than you need and then they send along a pci slot high speed usb port with 2 much more hookups and a pci firewire hookup as effectively. If you want the very best of the finest when it comes to a gaming board or for benching overclocks don't waste your money on a name, obtain this board, in 12 years MSI has under no circumstances let me down, I've under no circumstances had a board returned to me from a buyer. The people on this overview board that complain about MSI, I seriously have to question what is going on, perhaps they are overvolting the board and then blaming MSI when they screw up. not a single single con to finish my above statement, I think alot of men and women think they know what they are undertaking but truly don't simply because if in 12 years working with nothing but MSI I haven't had a customer complaint or return that says alot and if MSI had as quite a few bad boards as people claim on this review board they wouldn't be able to afford to remain in business with the quantity of RMA's it would take to keep up so that says one thing to. MSI is a solid corporation, they sell a solid item designed by competent engineers. I bet you all didn't know either that all these corporations have their boards built by Foxconn did you. The engineers design the boards and send the blueprints to Foxconn and have them built. I didn't know this either until recently when I was watching a tech video and they made this point. But back to my main point, unless the board truly goes up in smoke then most probably it's anything other than the board causing the difficulty and suitable trouble shooting would conserve alot of RMA's

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Nice looking board, Came with tons of wires and adapters.Had no problems installing or beginning up. The 6 SATA ports are angled at 90 degrees, generating it a discomfort to eliminate or set up a plug

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don't know, due to the fact it didn't operate. Highest Computer listed it as the current ideal socket AM3 board. DOA, refused to POST. The only LEDs that lit were for the memory, which indicated it was in dual channel mode (iirc). The on-board numerical troubleshooting display didn't function at all. Executing as many of MSI's generic troubleshooting procedures as achievable (minimum install with one memory stick, checking jumpers, and so on) didn't change the scenario. And when I submitted an online tech-help request, all MSI did was reiterate their list of generic troubleshooting procedures! I don't care if the replacement board cures cancer, brings about globe piece, and tends to make me a sandwich, tech help like that deserves ZERO eggs! (note: I'm posting this from a library computer lab open to the public.)This was meant to be a replacement for a 5-year-old socket 939 board that blew a capacitor. Which meant new RAM, new CPU no matter what. I also had to get Win7 since the old computer was employing an OEM version of WinXP. Which also meant I couldn't "insert recognized operating components" mainly because I *didn't* *have* *any* that fit the board.Also, MSI's on the web form lists BIOS version as a needed piece of information. I have a board that won't POST. The only way to get the BIOS version is to get the board to POST. See the issue? What started out as becoming an inconvenient four days with no a pc is turning into a major two-three week outage. I purchased this board simply because of the Optimum Pc endorsement and the high New Egg rating. In 20ተ hindsight nearly *any* socket AM3 board would have met my needs just fine. And if the replacement board doesn't work, I'm grabbing a <贄 mobo and writing off MSI forev Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Client,We would like to apologize for the challenge you have knowledgeable with this certain mb. Please email me straight by way of usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial quantity and your full make contact with info, topic heading "EAH890FXA". I would like to help you get this resolved.Best Regards,User SupportMSI Item Support

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I purchased this board to compliment a new AMD Phenom two X6 1090T and I have to say it's a fantastic unit. Almost everything you could want on the board is here.The 4 PCI-E slots are good for many graphics cards and the status lights on the board are awesome. It cannot cook food for me.

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Lots of attributes, straightforward to install if you know what your undertaking. None nevertheless. I see a couple of men and women having troubles getting the FF code. I got this code also until I realized I didn't have the eight-pin energy connector connected to the board. Make positive you have this connected and make sure you have a psu that can help the energy this board demands. Once I connected the eight-pin it booted up no dilemma.

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Effortless install and a very good excellent board. All the elements are quality which you can tell when you open box. Can effortlessly see the cpu temp on the board lcd and difficulty shoot any troubles. Posted initially shot and hasn't hiccuped given that. Software program installed nicely. Overclocks the cpu properly and all functions work as promised. Audio is nice and 6g/s sata. High quality quality excellent Wish I could run sli on this board as well as crossfire. Limits me to one gigabyte 480 soc. Even so, runs the one particular 480 with no dilemma. Would also like to see a triple channel memory compatibility . I also had to take a heatsink off of dim 1 ram slot to fit a coolermaster hyper 212 plus. 1090t amd blackgigabyte 480 soc6gb corsair dominatorocz vertex 2 ssd

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paid for this board and didnt get it didnt get the board i bought. no mobo in box!!!possibly given that im always employing gigabyte its a sign

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Tons of PCI-E slots (and lanes in the chipsetနx16 crossfire.6Gb/s SATALots of overclocking functions.Will retailer up to 6 distinct BIOS configurations. Yet another overclocking plus. Wish the 2nd 16x PCIE lane was in the 4th pci-e slot and not the 5th as it covers up the error LED display and HDD led on the board. Minor quibbles though. I got this board as an open box item. It's worked nicely for me. Don't know why it was returned, but I'm glad because I got this board for the value of a 790fxa board.The photos don't do this board justice. The northbridge and southbridge heatsinks appear gorgeous and would really set off a nice case with a window. I'd get this board yet again in a heartbeat.

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Consists of good hardware monitoring application. Supports two x16 PCI-e SIMULTANEOUSLY, and not “two" PCI-e x16, exactly where one particular is x16 and the other is x4. Tons of SATA and PCI-e ports. The diagnostic LED is just beneath one particular of the PCI-e ports, so if you have a GPU installed more than it, you won’t be capable to see the screen. OC Genie seems like a great idea, but it OCed my CPU to be really unstable. But then again ATM I am operating the cheapest CPU I could locate, and have an unlocked core. Drivers seem to work fine in Win 7 x64. Haven’t tried RAID although. Touch sensitive buttons on the board are convenient.

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this board was straightforward to set up and also easy to make newby errors when plugging every little thing in. oc genie is a nice touch that offers me a .four ghz enhance on my cpu to three.6 ghz devoid of me having to do something really. and lets face it im lazy. none to consider of at the moment when plugging anything into the board particularly the ramm. it uses a one particular sided clip make positive the side devoid of the clip is seriously all the way plugged in that was my one particular problem with installation lead to i am applied two dual clips from ramm i didnt check to make sure the ramm was installed all the way after 2 hours of checking everything i realized it and boom ideal. such a stupid nub point to do but hey we all do it sometimes.

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Simple install, booted initial time powered up, been operating for a week no concerns Win7-U 64bit. none

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All the PCIE two.0x16 ill ever require.All the sata hookups ill ever need to have.Cost:)A lot of consumers seem to dislike msi client service but i need to admit they responded to me inside 24 hrs with the answers i was looking for Smoked my dvd drive. Had to replace inside a month. I feel it was just the IDE connector considering that i read other evaluations with identical difficulty. recommend staying away from the IDE. Doesnt appear to like windows 7 64bit. Heck of a time trying to discover updates compatible with 64bit, but msi buyer service pointed me in the proper direction. And man what an awful time i had installing a msi hawk 5770 video card. You would feel it wouldve been a cinch taking into consideration theyre produced by the identical business but not so much. All mentioned and carried out this mobo has held its personal. only been up and operating for about a month. But following a week of installing drivers and uninstalling and reinstalling and on and on, im content where im at.

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neat capabilities died immediately after 3 days, didn't even get to do any overclocking, it was a shame, ran good up until death Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Consumer,We would like to apologize for the concern you have experienced with this particular mb. Please e mail me directly by way of usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial number and your total make contact with details, subject heading "EAH890FXA". I would like to help you get this resolved.Ideal Regards,User SupportMSI Product Support

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Very Rapid Board, Incredibly Happy with buy Quick, Quick, Fast See my specsMicrosoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bitKey Board - MSI 890FXA-GD70CPU - AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition (With Arctic Silver five)ZALMAN CNPS9900ALED 120mm 2 Ball Low-noise Blue LED CPU CoolerLG WH10LS30 10X Blu-ray Burner (SATA)LG Black 24X DVD Burner (SATA)x2 (RAID FOR OS) OCZ Vertex two OCZSSD3-2VTX90G three.five" 90GB SATA II (SSD-SATA2) Kingston SSD S100 SS100S2ቬG two.5" 16GB SATA II (For Page File)G.Skill Ripjaws X + Turbulence II Series 8GB Ɣ x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 No Cons I Dual booted XP Pro x86 SP3, considering that Windows 7 x64 has driver troubles with some devises, there is no floppy for the raid Drivers, I did get a usb floppy but it didn’t perform, so I had to integrat the raid drivers and make my own windows disk with nLite, just a heads up if your gonna use XP x86 in RAIDI also employed 2 OCZ SSD drives in RAID (Stripped) its quick, really quickly. (Just make positive if you do get an SSD that it Supports the windows you are going to install and RAID)

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The board functions to the factory specs flawlessly is a great addition to my technique. I like the bios that comes with this method extremely user friendly and easy to navigate and adjust your hardware to desired specs. Just got this board unfortunately my video card was possessing sum problems so its not totally tested. I have to w8t an additional week or two on my return and selecting a new card. Pcie 3. is dropping soon i wish i w8ted if i new that i would go threw all this with the video card i would have. im still thinking of RMA this model given that i cant use it for two+ weeks. fired right up with the new amd t1100 x6 out of the box.