ECS A890GXM-A 890GX @ OC Club
“This is the second ECS board that would not overclock my AMD 955BE and it might be due to the high voltage requirement of the CPU, but I have overclocked it on many boards successfully, just not any ECS offerings, as of yet. The 890GX chipset is not fully registered by CPU-Z and is shows up as 785GX/SB750 in the Mainboard page.”
ASUS P6X58D Premium @ Motherboards.org
“ASUS has taken the successful X58 chipset and added features like support for the next generation Intel 6-core CPUs, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.0 and more to their X58 lineup. These results in the most feature-rich motherboard on the X58 platform I have ever seen. Performance is as to be expected from a high-end board like this one and the layout of the motherboard is excellent.”
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 @ PCStats
“ASUS’ M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 motherboard is built around the 55nm AMD 890GX and SB850 southbridge. It features 128MB of onboard DDR3-1333 Sideport memory for the integrated DX10.1 ATI Radeon HD 4290 graphics. Its AM3 CPU socket will accommodate AMD Phenom II and Athlon II processors, right through to the six-core Phenom II X6 (code name ‘Thuban’/140W CPU).”
ECS A890GXM-A @ Au-Ja!
“Meet the brand new ECS A890GXM-A: This mainboard offers three slots for graphic cards. It supports CrossFire X and Hybrid Crossfire. The integrated ATi Radeon HD 4290 graphics core supports DirectX 10.1 and ECS inludes four display outputs: VGA, DVI, HDMI and Display-Port. AMD’s 890GX chipset is the first to include SATA III 6 Gbps and ECS adds two Gigabit-LAN controllers with teaming.”
Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H @ Techware Labs
“Check out the new Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H Motherboard. This is Gigabytes first board to include AMDs new 8-series chipset, the 890GX. Check out what’s the future holds inside! The new Phenom II X6, Thuban will also be supported by the 890GPA-UD3H.”
ASUS P6X58D Premium @ PureOC
“The P6X58D appears to be an evolution of the vaunted ASUS P6T, not only with a new colour scheme but also several other design and functional improvements. Indeed, the P6X68D Premium is positioned to be the successor to the P6T going forward in the ASUS product lineup. Let’s take at a closer look at some of these new features and see if the P6X58D Premium can successfully continue to evolve and improve the LGA1366 platform.”
Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H @ Hexus
“An AM3 socket with a 4+1 phase power design takes up a chunk of board space and supports – you guessed it – all existing AM3 CPUs, as well as upcoming hexa-core AMD Phenom II X6 processors, codenamed Thuban and expected to arrive sometime in April. Memory, meanwhile, is catered for by a set of dual-channel slots supporting DDR3 at speeds of up to 1,866MHz.”
WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD Review @ PC Perspective
“Sequential transfer rates are competitive with most modern units and can best Intel in write speeds. That said, this new offering leaves something to be desired when it comes to random access performance. While the drive is true to its rated 5,000 IOPS, that figure is just not high enough to truly compete with the competition offering as high as 35,000 IOPS in the same form factor.”
WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD Review @ TweakTown
“As it sits right now I have no idea what controller is in the Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue. To further aid to the confusion the cache is larger than anything we have tested before. The good thing is that when we buy SSDs we are rarely buying a name or the laser etches found on the controller.”
WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD Review @ Hot Hardware
“Storage is going solid state and the move to acquire Silicon Systems back in March of 2009, was a very deliberate course of action for WD that spoke clearly about their intentions. We’ve heard rumblings of offerings forthcoming from WD’s primary competitor, Seagate, as well but today WD makes it real with their new SiliconEdge line of SSD products.”
WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD Review @ Legit Reviews
“The new WD SiliconEdge Blue SSDs are available in capacities of up to 256 gigabytes (GB) and feature a SATA 3.0 gigabits per second (Gb/s) interface with sequential read speeds up to 250 megabytes per second (MB/s) and sequential write transfer rates up to 170 MB/s. Not bad performance for a mainstream consumer SSD that has is part of the ‘blue’ series of SSDs from WD.”
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 @ Extreme OC
“AMD is releasing yet another chipset (the 8-Series), starting with the 890GX & SB850. The biggest feature of this combo is the SB850 now supports SATA 6Gb/s! We will also be taking a look at the ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 motherboard, one of their first models to utilize the new 8-Series chipset.”
Gigabyte 790XTA-UD4 @ iXBT Labs
“The support for the new interfaces will be attractive for those who upgrade rarely. The Socket AM3 platform is a good choice for rare upgrades, by the way, because there will be at least one more processor family for it that will include hexacore solutions.”