MSI 890FXA-GD70 Socket AM3, AMD 890FX chipset, CrossFireX, SATA3 and USB3.0, ATX Motherboard. MSI 890FXA-GD70 Motherboard is the ideal foundation for a powerful PC. It delivers awesome power, dependable performance and unparallel multiple I/O scalability for the most demanding tasks and future upgrades. Also, the MSI 890FXA-GD70 Motherboard provides extreme power saving experience. The MSI 890FXA-GD70 Motherboard intelligently reduces operation noise and dissipates heat through advanced and environmentally friendly methods to accommodate user needs. Don’t change yourself for a computer. Instead, let the MSI 890FXA-GD70 Motherboard improve the quality of your work and life.

Features:

Superb Stability: Military Class Components
In order to further improve stability of MSI mainboards, MSI adopts Hi-C Cap, Icy Choke and All Solid CAPs. This provides for highest stability even
under long-term full loading. Now users don’t need to worry that during hardcore gaming, your machine might potentially overheat to crash or delay.

OC Genie: Easy Overclocking Technology
• Best overclocking capability
• Auto-BIOS detection offers the best overclocking configuration
• Optimized for best system performance
• CPU performance 26% up
• Increase 148% CPU performance by OC Genie + Unlock CPU Core

Unlock CPU Core: Unlock hidden CPU core and potential
• Boost system performance
• Help user to unlock hidden CPU Core quickly
• Freely choose lock or unlock CPU Core(s)
• Easy to upgrade system performance
• Boost CPU performance 104% up

DrMOS: Best power efficiency
• Excellent energy-saving capability and offers high-computing performance.
• Provide superior energy-saving function and maintain an ultimate low temperature operation.
• Comes with three incredible features.

USB 3.0
• Revolutionary SuperSpeed USB 3.0, 10x faster than USB 2.0
• Up to 5Gbps bandwidth, boost data transfer rate between PC and USB device

SATA 6Gb/s
• Support next-generation SATAIII, up to 6Gbps bandwidth
• Double the data transfer rate of SATAII (3Gbps)

Lossless 24bit/192kHz HD Audio
• The loss-less content protection technology with full-rate audio enjoyment from Blue-ray Disc
• Support for 24-bit / 192kHz sample rate offers high quality digital decoders and speakers
• support 7.1 channels playback, plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output (multiple streaming) through the front panel stereo outputs

Specifications:

CPU
64bit AMD® Phenom II X6/X4/X3/X2, Athlon II X4/X3/X2 and Sempron CPU.
Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.

Hyper Transport Bus
HyperTransport 3.0 supporting speed up to 5200MT/s

Chipset
AMD® 890FX and SB850 Chipset

Main Memory
Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 800/1066/1333/1600*/1800*/2133* (OC) DRAM, 16GB Max

Slots
5 PCI Express 2.0 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
- PCI_E4 supports up to PCIE x4 speed