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 |
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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 | ![]() |
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USB (OHCI) | AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller | 1002:4397 | ![]() |
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USB (OHCI) | AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller | 1002:4399 | ![]() |
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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.