ASRock 890GX Extreme4 Motherboard

Conclusions

This is a “First Look” article, but you can check the performance of AMD 890GX chipset on our ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 review. Traditionally motherboards based on the same chipset achieve the same performance.

Even though the AMD 890GX chipset presents a higher 3D performance than AMD 785’s, the truth is that you can barely play games with on-board graphics solutions. Therefore this motherboard should be seen more like a mainstream motherboard that happens to come with integrated graphics – especially because its feature pack puts it far away from low-end motherboards with on-board video.

The ASRock 890GX Extreme4 brings very nice features, such as five SATA-600 ports, one eSATA-600 port, four USB 3.0 ports with a nice aluminum 3.5” adapter for putting two of them on the front panel of your computer, three PCI Express x16 slots, two FireWire ports, several overclocking options, and a good voltage regulator circuit, making this motherboard an interesting option to more expensive socket AM3 products. The other model from ASRock that we wrote about, the 890GX Extreme3, comes with one extra SATA-600 port, but on this other motherboard the eSATA port is SATA-300, not SATA-600 like on the Extreme4.