ASUS M4A89TD PRO Motherboard Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅29-07-10
Conclusion

We’ve seen a stack of exciting ASUS motherboards arrive this summer on both Intel and AMD platforms. Most notably we’ve seen the likes of the Rampage III Extreme and Crosshair IV Formula two astounding examples of pure power loaded with feature after feature.

These boards whilst very appealing carry a big price tag, and not all of us were born into royalty so along has come a wave of new boards, with not dissimilar features to these gargantuan but at a smaller price tag. One such board, is the one we have looked at today.

The M4A89TD PRO comes with some fantastic features and if you have read this review you will be aware that it certainly performs. It’s good to see that such a new board has the ability to host the new X6 chip and that both work hand in hand to provide some great overclocking potential. There are two versions of the M4A89TD PRO one with USB3 and one without. The price difference is just £10. Now to me, it seems a little strange to offer two variations for such little price difference when USB3 is backwards compatible. The argument from ASUS is that you shouldn’t have to pay for something if you don’t want it, but when it doesn’t come at a premium I don’t personally see the need to provide two examples. Surely its better to have it, than to not have it.



One of the things I found very handy about the M4A89TD PRO was the CMOS reset button which has been conveniently placed on the back panel of the motherboard by the USB ports. This saves copious amounts of time removing side panels, locating the battery and in some cases removing components such as graphics cards.

There’s no denying this is an excellent board of choice for those wanting to upgrade to X6 or even start a new setup based around AM3. You get the performance and feature set of something similar to the Crosshair IV (which is also using the same chipset) with a more appealing price tag.

Pros
+ Great performance/price ratio
+ Overclocks easily
+ Lots of useful features
+ SATA 6G support

Cons
- There are none!

With the above in mind, it\'s quite obvious that the ASUS M4A89TD PRO deserves the Gold Award.



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