MSI 890FXA-GD70

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General Specs

Socket
AM3
Chipset
AMD® 890FX+SB850
Release Date
2012
Specs
  • 5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots
    • PCI_E1 supports up to PCIE x16 speed (when PCI_E3 is empty)
    • PCI_E5 supports up to PCIE x16 speed (when PCI_E6 is empty)
    • If you want to install two graphics cards, please use PCI_E1 & PCI_E5 slots
    • PCI_E3 & PCI_E6 support up to PCIE x8 speed
    • If you want to install four expansion cards into PCI_E1, E3, E5 & E6 slots, these four PCIE x 16 lanes will auto arrange from x16/ x0/ x16/ x0 to x8/ x8/ x8/ x8
  • PCI_E4 supports up to PCIE x4 speed
    • 1 PCI Express 2.0 x1 slot
    • 1 PCI slot, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface.

Devices

Component Name HardwareID Status Driver
Processor AMD Phenom II X6 CPU -- ACPI
HDD - SATA AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller 1002:4390 OS2AHCI, DANIS506
Audio AMD SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)) 1002:4383 Uniaud
Network Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller 10EC:8168 MMRE or R8169
Video AMD R480 [Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition] 1002:5D4D SNAP Graphics
Video AMD R480 [Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition] (Secondary) 1002:5D6D SNAP Graphics
USB (EHCI) AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller 1002:4396
USB (OHCI) AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller 1002:4397
USB (OHCI) AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller 1002:4399
IDE Controller AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller 1002:439C

General Comments

Report by Dariusz Piatkowski

ArcaOS is working using the full 6 cores of my AMD Phenom II X6 CPU.

MOTHERBOARD - MSI 890FXA-GD70
CHIPSET
AMD 890FX+SB850
STORAGE
SATA III & II, IDE & AHCI, AHCI supported with OS2AHCI v2.07, but causes intermittent WPS hang/pause, run very fast using non-AHCI with DANIS506 driver
AUDIO
Realtek ALC889, works fine with UniAud (32-bit: 2.02.04, 16-bit: 1.09.7).
NIC
Realtek PCI-E GbLAN controller RTL8111DL, works fine with both latest MMRE (1.01.3) as well as the last R8169 (1.00.2) specific drivers
MEMORY
8G total, 4G for OS/2 system use (3.3 recognized), 4G Ramdisk.
USB
2.0 and 3.0
2 USB 3.0 ports by NEC® D720200
CPU - AMD Phenom II X6, M3
Mainboard supports both MPTS 1.1 and 1.4, running in 1.4 mode.
WPS boots up fine with all 6 cores enabled, no issues
VIDEO - ATI X850XT PE, 256M, PCI-E
SNAP drivers correctly recognize and accelerate the video.
Running in dual-head config, 2 x 1920x1200 mode.

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