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Today we are using the MSI 890GXM-G65 motherboard with the latest V1.7 bios released a short while ago. We have read some negative reports about this board in recent months, with some instability issues mentioned – however in our testing since it was released our board has been extremely well behaved and a fantastic overclocking product.
It isn't a particularly high end board either, costing only £100 inc vat in the UK. We achieved no better overclocking results with the Asus Crosshair IV Formula board we have in our labs.
Performance settings for this series of results at reference speeds were kept to the bios defaults.
MSI literature for the board is as follows:
World Leading Motherboard and Graphics manufacturer, MSI, launches their brand new 890GXM-G65 Motherboard using the AMD 890GX chipset to fulfil the increasing demand for the perfect home theatre PC. In addition to tailoring to the latest AMD Phenom II processors, the 890GXM-G65 provides full support for the DirectX 10.1 and UVD 2.0 Multimedia standards to significantly enhance High-Definition audio and video effects. Along with a wide variety of output interfaces, the 890GXM-G65 allows users to build a high quality HTPC combining both high performance and high stability
The 890GXM-G65 is not only a perfect HTPC motherboard, it also allows users to unlock the full potential of their CPU for maximum performance. By allowing users to unlock up to six cores the MSI 890GXM-G65 enhances performance and saves energy. unlocking addition cores on the CPU has become the hot topic of PC users lately and this board with integrated ATI Radeon HD 4290 Graphics redefines the first choice of a fully featured motherboard.
The 890GXM-G65 includes support for DirectX 10.1, ATI Hybrid Crossfire, ATI CrossfireX for installing two high performance ATI graphics cards, USB3.0 and native SATA-III (6Gbps) for maximum data transfer speeds.
Key Features
- AMD 890GX chipset based
- Supports USB 3.0 and SATA 3.0
- OC Genie Lite: Easy Overclocking Technology
- Superb Stability: Military Class Components
- Fully-equipped Digital Output Connectors: HDMI & DVI
- Lossless 24bit/192kHz HD Audio
- Highly-efficienct HeatPipe Thermal Design
Specifications
- Support for AMD Athlon II & Phenom II Processors
- HyperTransport 3.0 supporting speed up to 5200MT/s
- AMD 890GX and SB850 Chipset
- Integrated ATI Radeon HD4290 GPU
- 4x unbuffered DIMM DDR3 800/1066/1333/1600*/1800*/2133* (OC) DRAM, 16GB Max
- 2x PCI Express x16 slot (8x 8x in multi-GPU configuration)
- 1x PCI Express x1 slot
- 1x PCI slot, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface
- One IDE port Supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133 mode
- 5x SATA III (6Gbps) support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 mode
- 1x eSATA
- Flexible 8-channel HD audio with jack sensing
- Gigabit LAN
bloody hell, nice overclock man. that is a cracker processor.
Love the cinema4d information, i use an older quad core for rendering a lot and this seems like my next upgrade. price point is better than I thought. I remember the 1090t was 250 when it came out.
Like the idea of a review/OC guide. I never know how the fuck to overclock my chips. the 1055T guide you did helped me alot.
Id love to say ill get this for my upgrade, but its a bad time of the year, maybe in the new year.
Love it. well done.
Nice overclock. I only managed to get 500mhz out of my 1055T which was pretty poor. Good to get your views on voltage also, not many ocing guidelines on that and hard to know from forums who is talking out of their ass and who is right.
OCUK are selling this for £225 inc vat? thats a deal and a half, just ordered one.
Ive been holding off on a new platform for ages. Im a multiple core fan, I bought the first core quad eons ago and havent upgraded since. Might look into this in the new year when I have some spare cash to burn.
I agree this is one of the best looking AMD chips yet, the overclocking potential seems high. that noctua NH D14 cooler is insane however, covers the motherboard basically !! not exactly easy to work around it.
unusual review style, but I like the overclocking guide concept. My friend used the 1055T guide here months ago and it helped him. headroom seems higher on this chip, but I think it might be a hand picked review sample? possible ?
If you arent overclocking then its not worth the premium over the 1090t. pointless really. I hope this review sample is a good indication of headroom. I watercool and I got the 1090T to 4.3ghz easy enough with 1.65 volts. potential for 4.5ghz here.
I like this editorial. its a boring release so getting the max from air cooling is a nice way to differentiate the test results. Seems to be a good purchase, but its hard to fault for the price. its a strength of AMD’s releases in the last year. aim for the lowest point possible and max the cores.