ASUS M4A89GTD PRO Pro Reviews

Although there are areas that ASUS need to work on with the M4A89GTD Pro, what they’ve managed to do is set a paper baseline around the $150 mark that is going to be hard for any vendor to compete against. We think ASUS are bang on the money with BIOS layout, automated overclocking, fan control and core unlocking features.

AMD has launched their 890GX chipset to a lot of accolades for bringing the HD 4200 integrated graphics and SATA 6 Gb/second to the masses. Integrated graphics on this board are faster than any of the previous chipsets, and support DirectX 10.1 features that are the minimum they should support for today’s video chipsets. There is a caveat however, the integrated HD 4290 is not much faster which is a bit of a disappointment on AMD’s side of things. ASUS has done an outstanding job with this new chipset, adding USB 3.0 support via a NEC bridge chip, and bringing many of the features that they have implemented in their higher-end boards to the mainstream with the M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 board. This is a very solid motherboard and is not too overly priced to be affordable as well as being readily available to the public.