GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD7 (2.

0)
Product Guide
GA-890FXA-UD7
 Undisputed Innovation Leadership
Continuously Delivering Top Notch Technologies

Delivering World’s Best

Innovations Only from GIGABYTE

Innovative Onboard
Accelerated
technologies

World’s 1st 2oz

World’
Copper PCB Motherboard

World’s 1st Dynamic

World’
Phase Power Switching
Energy Saving Technology

World’s 1st Low RDS(on),

World’ RDS(on),
Ferrite Core, Solid Cap
Motherboard
World’s 1st All Solid
World’
Setting Industry Quality
Capacitor Motherboard Standards Year by Year

2006 2007 2008 2009

 Native PCI-E Gen2 Bandwidth
for SATA3 6Gbps & USB3.0

Native PCI-e x1 Gen2 Bandwidth

Gen2
1* PCI-E x16/x8
1* PCI-E x8
USB 3.0 5G 5 Gb/s 1* PCI-E x16/x8
controller 1* PCI-E x8

SATA3 6G
6 ports 6 Gb/s

World’s 1st Chipset Featuring Native Support for SATA

6Gb/s
 Multiple Display Support with 4-way CrossFireX™

PCB Size:
XL-ATX
(325x244mm)

Intelligently scales graphics performance by combining

multiple graphics solutions in 890FXA-UD7
GA-
GA-890FXA
890FXA-UD7 Gets Support

PCIE
PCIE

PCIE

PCIE
8

2 2 2 2
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0 0 0 0
x
x

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8 16 8 16
/x

8 /x

PCB Size:
XL-ATX
(325x244mm)

Greater Jump in Graphics performance

with AMD 890FX Chipset
 3D Graphics Comparison
4/3/2-
4/3/2-way CrossFireX
•CPU: AMD AM3 PhenomII X6 1055T
•Memory: Kingstone DDR3-1866 2GBx3
•VGA: ATI Radeon HD 5870 x4
•HDD: Segate 320GB
•OS:WIN7 (64bit)

4way (4*x8) vs 3way (x16+2*x8) vs 2way (2*x16) Comparison

15805
16000 15360
81% Better !
14000 13267 76% Better !
1way

12000
52% Better ! 2 Way
3 Way
10000 4 Way
8733
8000
(Score)
3D Mark Vantage @ Extreme mode (1920x1200)
Note: ATI is constantly updating the 4-way CrossFireX driver support for performance improvements.
 3D Graphics Comparison
4/3/2-
4/3/2-way CrossFireX
•CPU: AMD AM3 PhenomII X6 1055T
•Memory: Kingstone DDR3-1866 2GBx3
•VGA: ATI Radeon HD 5870 x4
•HDD: Segate 320GB
•OS:WIN7 (64bit)

4way (4*x8) vs 3way (x16+2*x8) vs 2way (2*x16) Comparison

2000 1934
1718
243% Better !
1500 205% Better !
1way
2 Way
978 3 Way
1000
73% Better ! 4 Way
564
500
(Score)
DX11 GAME (Heaven Benchmark v 1.0)
Note: ATI is constantly updating the 4-way CrossFireX driver support for performance improvements.
 Auto Unlock

Featuring a unique Core

Boost micro-processor
which enables the
processor’s hidden cores.

Core Boost micro-processor

Cor
Boo e
st

Note: The ability to unlock the

hidden CPU cores may vary by
processor.
 Auto Unlock
Unlock the hidden cores using a simple click in Easy Tune 6

Before

After

Just 1
simple click

4 Core!!
Note: The ability to unlock the hidden CPU cores
may vary by processor.
 Auto Unlock
CPU Spec. Current price*
Athlon II X2 250 3.0GHz, 65W USD 66
Athlon II X3 440 3.0GHz, 95W USD 87
Athlon II X4 640 3.0GHz, 95W USD 122
Price was based on AMD Feb 10 Price list

CineBench R10 Multiple CPU score 87% up

41% up

Note: The ability to unlock the hidden CPU cores

may vary by processor.
 ON/OFF Charge
Delivers the best recharging capabilities for the
iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch

• Enables FAST Charge for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

• GIGABYTE 3X USB power to provide sufficient charge power
• Supports charging in working state, standby, hibernate and power off
mode
Charge Your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch Anytime

• Supports power hungry iPhone/iPad/iPod

Touch Charge from USB ports
• Charge when your PC is turned off
• Shortens the charging time by up to 40%!
 On/Off Charge Theory and Rules

On/Off Charge USB port

Supports iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch charging
while PC is in Hibernation and power off modes

Connect On/Off charge USB pin

pin--
header to front panel USB ports
 On/Off Charge Theory and Rules

S3 S4
S0 S1/S2 S5
Suspend Suspend
Working Standby Shutdown
to RAM to DISK

On/Off
Charge V V V V V
USB port

Standard V V V
USB port
* *
Other
Motherboards X X X X X

V X
Works * Device needs to be connected to PC before entering S4/S5 Doesn’t Work

Notice: Maximum 3 devices can be charged at the same time,

charge current can vary by PSU 5V stand-by spec
 On/Off Charge Comparison
Traditional Motherboards On/Off Charge Motherboards

Slow WIN !
charge
Fast
Charge
System On System On

WIN !
Fast
NO charge
Charge

System OFF System OFF

GIGABYTE 333 Onboard Acceleration Technology
GIGABYTE 333 Onboard Acceleration Technology

Featuring AMD SB850 NATIVE high speed SATA 6Gbps

storage 6 ports interface with RAID 0,1,5,10 support.

Featuring SuperSpeed USB 3.0 from NEC with superfast

data transfer rate of up to 5 Gbps.

Featuring 3X USB Power Boost through a unique

hardware design for greater USB device compatibility
and stability.
World’s First Native SATA 3.0 Solution
Integrated Into the AMD SB850
 SATA 6Gbps
2x Faster than SATA 2, 4x Faster via RAID 0

Provides the latest AMD SB850 NATIVE high speed SATA 6Gbps
storage offering 6 ports with superfast 4x speed with RAID 0, 1, 5,
10 support

AMD SB850

SB850
 Better Performance with SATA 6Gbps
AMD SB850 Beats Marvell SE9128 on
HD TACH performance test (using SATA2 SSD HDD)

450 438.3 280

262.3
260
45% Faster 20% Faster
240
219.6
220
350 200
180
301.9 5% Faster
160
140.7
Marvell AMD 140 Marvell AMD 133.4
SE9128 SB850 SE9128 SB850
250 120
(MB/Sec) (MB/Sec) Average Read Average Write
Burst Speed
Marvell SE9128 AMD SB850 Marvell SE9128 AMD SB850
SATA2 SSD HDD: System:
Intel 80G AM3 PhenomII X4 965, GA-890GPA-UD3H; Intel i7-860, GA-P55A-UD4P
SA2M080G2GC Win7-32bit, HD Tach 3.0.1.0
 Better Performance With SATA 6Gbps
AMD SB850 Beats Marvell SE9128 on
PC Mark Vantage- HDD test (by SATA2 SSD HDD)

23674
23000 21% Faster

20500
19567

Marvell AMD
SE9128 SB850
18000
(Score)
PC Mark Vantage (HDD Test)

Marvell SE9128 AMD SB850

SATA2 SSD HDD: System:

Intel 80G AM3 PhenomII X4 965, GA-890FXA-UD7; Intel i7-860, GA-P55A-UD4P
SA2M080G2GC Win7-32bit, 3DMark Vantage (HDD Test Suite)
 World Breaking SATA3 Performance!
3 SATA3 SSDs in RAID 0!
500 461.6 473.9
689.5 699.4
700.0 400
332.4 325.3
300
242.5
500.0
200
349.4 147.3

100
300.0
(MB/Sec)
(MB/Sec) Average Read Average Write
Burst Speed
SSDx1 SSDx2 SSDx3 SSDx1 SSDx2 SSDx3

SATA3 SSD HDD: System:

Micron 128G C300 AM3 PhenomII X4 965, GA-890GPA-UD3H; Intel i7-975, GA-X58A-UD7;
Win7-64bit, HD Tach 3.0.1.0
 World Breaking SATA3 Performance!
3 SATA3 SSDs in RAID 0!
70000
60925
60000 56582

50000

40000 38722

30000
(Score)
PC Mark Vantage (HDD Test)
SSDx1 SSDx2 SSDx3
SATA3 SSD HDD: System:
Micron 128G C300 AM3 PhenomII X4 965, GA-890GPA-UD3H; Intel i7-975, GA-X58A-UD7;
Win7-64bit, HD Tach 3.0.1.0
World’s First USB 3.0 Logo Certified Solution from NEC
 SuperSpeed USB 3.0
5 Gbps transfer rate from
NEC USB 3.0 host controller

10X FASTER
5 Gbps speed USB 3.0 offers 10x performance gain over USB 2.0

Instant Connect
Sync-N-Go technology to minimize user wait-time

Optimized Power Efficiency

No device polling and lower active and idle power requirements

USB 2.0 backwards compatibility

Devices interoperate with USB 2.0 platforms.
Hosts support USB 2.0 legacy devices
 SuperSpeed USB 3.0
5 Gbps transfer rate
from NEC SuperSpeed USB 3.0

10X
10XFASTER
FASTER!!!

USB 3.0
GIGABYE AMD 800A Series Motherboards
 SuperSpeed USB 3.0
No More Waiting

With USB 3.0, transfering a 25GB HD movie is no longer a pain…

14 minutes drops to 70 seconds only!

*Source: NEC
 SuperSpeed USB 3.0
Better Data Transfer Efficiency

USB 2.0 USB 3.0

One direction data transfer Bidirectional data transfer for efficiency

GIGABYE AMD 800A Series MB
Utmost Compatibility with 3x USB Power Boost
 3x USB Power Boost
Offer USB Devices More Power
Featuring 3x USB Power Boost
by unique hardware design

USB ports power delivery comparison

Better!

Better!

Standard Standard
 3x USB Power Boost
Up to 4x Lower Resistance

Better Compatibility
Better Performance Lower resistance fuse
Each USB port protected by (up to 4x lower)
dedicated fuse to ensure lower voltage drop!

ALL USB ports are 3x USB Power compatible

 3x USB Power Boost
3X Power Boost performance for USB power
by unique hardware design

Better protection via dedicated fuse on each port

More stable, less power spikes

Better USB device compatibility

Supports more USB devices through USB hub

Supports power hunger USB devices

No longer requires ‘Y’ USB cable for external DVD-RW/HDD

(Before) (Now) Better!

Needs 2 USB 1 USB plug
plugs to work! can work!
 Great Connectivity
Total 4 SATA ports and 10 USB ports in Rear
provide impeccable connectivity
Coaxial and optical
2 1394 ports Smart DualLAN
S/PDIF Out connector

10 USB ports (2*USB 3.0 + 6*USB2.0 + 2*eSATA/USB Combo)

Supports 2 eSATA
storage by
10 SATA ports (6*SATA3 + 2*SATA2 + eSATA cable
2*eSATA
2*eSATA/
eSATA/ USB Combo)
Combo) for flexible capability
ALL USB ports are 3x USB Power compatible
 eSATA/
eSATA/ USB combo connectors
2 eSATA/
eSATA/ USB Combo connectors for
enhanced storage flexibility with no need for
additional power source

2-in-1 combination connector

design capable of accepting
eSATA & USB cable plugs

Power eSATA eSATA HDD USB drive

Provides connection between a PC and an external storage drive. Similar to existing USB
connections, but supports up to 3 Gb/s SATA data transfer rates

ALL USB ports are 3x USB Power compatible

 All New Thermal Solution Design
Aero-dynamic MOSFET heat-sink allows more
efficient cooling from the CPU cooler air-flow

Large heat-sink for north-bridge chipset allows

better cooling performance during overclocking

Heat-pipe design enables better

conductivity away from heat
source

Stylish and aero-dynamic engineering delivers the ultimate cooling solution

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 Extreme Cooling Solution

Unique Screen Cooling High performance Copper Heat

thermal design effectively Pipe with sintered process,
reduces the temperature designed for ultra efficient
around the CPU zone, and thermal conductivity
removes the heat between
NB and SB area

Large-Area heat sink rapidly

transfers heat from components to
enable effective heat removal
Unique Hybrid-Silent Pipe 2 combines Air cooling and Liquid Cooling to enable
effective heat removal for near zero noise operation
 The Difference 2X Copper PCBs Make
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™
Durable™ 3 is the industry’
industry’s 1st consumer desktop
motherboard design featuring 2X copper for both power and ground layers

PCB electrical waste is reduced by 50%

Improved signal quality

Reduced temperature around
critical onboard components

Power
1 oz Copper PCB Design Layer 2 oz Copper PCB Design

Electrons Traveling Through the Copper Electrons Traveling Through the Copper

Ground
Layer
2x Copper PCB Design Benefits

Lower Better Power

Temperature Efficiency

2X Lower Lower EMI

Impedance

Better Better
Overclocking ESD Protection
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 3 Classic
motherboards all adopt 2X Copper PCBs
High Quality Motherboards MUST HAVE

50,000 hr. Japanese

Solid Capacitors Longer Life time

Lower RDS(on)
MOSFETs Lower Temperature

Ferrite Core
Chokes Lower Power Loss

2oz Copper
PCB Lower Impedance

GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 3 Motherboards lead

the industry for quality standards
GIGABYTE Unique O. C. Features

1 2
• Hardware Over Voltage Control IC

1 2 • Provides more voltage control options

for CPU, Chipset & memory than before

• HW linear real time voltage control, with

no delay compare to previous GPIO
controller

• Finer stepping of up to 10 mV min

(0.001V)

GIGABYTE AMD 800A series

motherboards are all equipped with
OV control IC
 Smart Dual LAN
Blisteringly Fast and Seamless Connectivity
GIGABYTE Smart Dual LAN technology features intelligent LAN port auto-
switching between the 2 physical Gigabit LAN chips; offering hassle free,
zero downtime, high speed network connectivity.

How Smart Dual LAN Works

LAN Chip 1 encounters hardware failure, resulting in
network outage for LAN 1…
Traditional Design Smart Dual LAN

Server
Standard Spec.

Users are required to With Smart Dual LAN,

reconnect the network by LAN Chip 2 automatically kicks
switching the network cable to in without requiring users to
LAN 2 physically switch the network
cable
 Smart Dual LAN
Blisteringly Fast and Seamless Connectivity
Experience blistering fast network data access of up to 2Gbps bandwidth
transmission with the Teaming function enabled, and enjoy added power
savings with the Green Ethernet feature.

Performance Enhancement with Dual

How Teaming Works
PCIE 8111D

With the Teaming function enabled, the network

68% Better!
bandwidth of both systems are grouped together,
doubling the bandwidth of up to 2 Gb/s.
Gb/s.
 Security Leadership
Delivering the highest level of protection
from hardware failure and data theft

GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ Technology

b
8M

b
8M
How DualBIOS™ works?
BIOS H/W Boot sequence Boot
check check ON Up!
Pass Pass
Boot
Start
Backup Restore
Boot BIOS data to
Fail kick in main
BIOS

Re-start BIOS Boot Up sequence

 Powerful Audio Technologies

• DOLBY Support
Delivers vivid surround sound for music, movies, and
games, using two to eight speakers or any set of
headphones

• ALC889 Codec
High-performance DAC (Digital-Analog Converter) with
108 dB Signal-to-Noise ratio playback quality

• Blu-ray Support
Enables high quality Full Rate Lossless Audio for Content
Protected media
 Features of 890FXA
890FXA-UD7(2.0)
8+2 Power Phase for CPU VRM
Max headroom for AMD high-TDP 140W CPU
with 8+2 power phase design, ensuring
maximum overclockability, optimized power
delivery and lowest VRM temperature

AMD Future CPU Headroom

Supports the latest 45nm AMD 6core & multi-
core Phenom™II/ Athlon™II processors with
socket AM3 and HT 3.0 technology support

eSATA/USB
eSATA/USB combo connectors
Supports 2 eSATA/USB combo connectors for
enhanced storage flexibility with no need for
additional power source

USB 3.0 Support

Supports newest NEC SuperSpeed USB 3.0
with superfast transfer rates of up to 5 Gbps

PCIe 2.0 Graphics Interfaces

6 PCIe 2.0 graphics interfaces support 4/3/2-
way ATI CrossFireX™ (running at 4*x8/
x16+2*x8/ 2*x16) for ultimate graphics
performance. The remaining 2 PCIe 2.0 x4 slots
is for add-on cards usage.
Features of 890FXA
890FXA-UD7(2.0)
Precision OV
Unique hardware controller IC providing more precise voltage
control and finer stepping for CPU, Chipset and memory

New Levels of Memory Performance

Supports Dual Channel DDR3 1866+(OC)/ 1333/1066
memory (* Please refer to GIGABYTE website for detailed memory
support information)

Onboard Quick Switches

Onboard Power, Clear CMOS, and Reset buttons allow for
quick and easy tweaking for power users

SATA 6Gbps via AMD SB850

Provides 6 ports of native SATA3 storage with SuperFast
6Gbps link speeds and RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support

Onboard Debug LED

Simplifies motherboard troubleshooting by identifying and
displaying error codes

Auto Unlock
HW-based solution for unlock AMD hidden CPU cores
further to unleash system performance

On/Off Charge
Unique On/Off Charge delivers the best recharging
capabilities for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
 Spec of 890FXA
890FXA-UD7(2.0)
Processor Internal I/O Connectors
AMD PhenomII/
PhenomII/ AthlonII processors 6 x Serial ATA 6Gb/s connectors
Socket AM3 with HT3.0(5200MT/s) 2 x Serial ATA 3Gb/s connectors
1 x FDD connector
Chipset
1 x IDE connector
AMD 890FX+SB850 Chipset
1 x LPT connector
NEC USB 3.0 controller
1 x IEEE 1394a connector
T.I. IEEE 1394a controller
3 x USB 2.0/1.1 connectors (supports 6 ports)
JM363 / JM362
1 x S/PDIF In header
2 x RTL8111D LAN controller
1 x S/PDIF Out header
8 Channels ALC889 Audio controller
1 x COM port header

Memory
Rear I/O Connectors
Dual-
Dual-Ch DDR3-
DDR3-1866(OC)/1333/1066
2 x eSATA/
eSATA/ USB Combo connector

Expansion Slots 2 x USB 3.0 ports

2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (@x16,x16) 6 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports

2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (@x8,x8) 2 x LAN ports

2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (@x4,x4) 1 x coaxial S/PDIF Out connector

1 x PCI slot 1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector

2 x IEEE 1394a connector
Size PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse
XL-
XL-ATX (325x244mm) 6 x audio jacks
Leader in Motherboard Innovation