The Biostar TA890FXE 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 Biostar TA890FXE Motherboard provides extreme power saving experience. The Biostar TA890FXE 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 Biostar TA890FXE Motherboard improve the quality of your work and life.

• Supported Socket AM3 processors AMD Phenom II / Athlon II processor

• Supported AMD Mutil Core(x6,x4,x2)

• AMD 140W processor support

• AMD 890FX Chipset

• 4 DIMM supported DDR3-1800(OC)/1600(OC)/1333/1066

• Supported SATA 6Gb/s 2X speed than current SATA 3G

• BIOSTAR G.P.U ( Green Power Utility ) for green power saving your desktop

• AMD OverDrive™ with ACC feature (Advanced Clock Calibration) supported

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Exclusive Features

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BIO-unlocKING

BIO-unlocKING technology enables the ACC function on AMD processors and unlocks extra 3rd or 4th core with a super-simple click on the keyboard.

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2 Phase Memory Power Design

2-phase independent power design increases memory voltage stability and durability.

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100% Solid Caps

With armor-plated Biostar Technology, all capacitors are placed with 100% solid capacitors that have a lasting life cycle, durability and stability for crucial components.

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G.P.U (Green Power Utility)

BIOSTAR G.P.U (Green Power Utility) is a new function that enhances energy efficiency by disabling extra phases while CPU is under light loading. It integrates a friendly GUI to monitor the resourcing and response of your CPU thus optimizing the power saving function in your system. G.P.U. constantly sets up the best power efficiency in your system, be it for heavy 3D gaming, Internet or MSN charting.
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Chipset-CPU Features

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ATI CrossFire X™ Technology

ATI CrossFireX™ is the ultimate multi-GPU performance gaming platform. With game-dominating power, ATI CrossFireX technology enables two or more discrete graphics processors to work together to improve system performance. It supports up to four ATI Radeon™ HD graphics cards, making it the most scalable gaming platform ever!

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SATA 6Gb/s
High Efficiency of Data transfer rate

SATAIII 6Gbps provides a higher bandwidth to retrieve and transfer HD media. With this super speed data transfer, SATAIII allows an incredible data boost which is 2x faster than the SATA 3G.

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eSATA

TWO external SATA 3Gb/s ports connectivity with minimal host overhead and host to device latency.

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IEEE1394 on board

IEEE 1394a is a serial bus interface for high-speed communication and data transfer. Major applications are in desktop, digital video/audio and other portable devices.

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S/P DIF Output on board

Onboard Optical & Coaxial connector supports your desktop in transferring the non-distortion digital audio output to the AV amplifier and professional speaker system.

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BIOS-Software Features

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BIO-Flasher

Update BIOS effortlessly from a USB flash disk before entering the OS. BIO-Flasher is a convenient BIOS update tool. Just launch this tool and put the BIOS on USB pen driver before entering the OS. You can update your BIOS with only a few clicks without preparing an additional floppy disk or other complicated flash utility.

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BIO-ReLife

BIO-ReLife Technology lets you recover crashed BIOS data from a USB flash pen driver that stores new BIOS file. This practical BIOS utility can restore your system and recover from a BIOS crash situation.

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O.N.E

Biostar offers 3 kinds of overclocking settings (V6/V8/V12) that provide good, better, best O.C settings. The motherboard features the Biostar T series motherboards that allow users to conveniently load preset BIOS settings.
These BIOS settings give users freedom to enjoy overclocking with simple instructions.

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Other Features

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Rapid Switch 2

Engineered by BIOSTAR, the exquisite onboard switches allow you to easily shut down and restart your system.

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Rapid Debug 3

Rapid Debug3 posts critical POST code information in a digital LED display. When system malfunction occurs, it auto-detects the device’s failure and translates the error codes on the digital LED. It also shows the CPU temperature on the same screen.

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Tweak Tech

Biostar has a unique engineering PWM layout with low ESR and high ripple conductive solid state caps that provide sufficient, stable power supply to the CPU. The same philosophy applies to our DDR design to enhance the memory’s voltage stability.

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Chipset   AMD 890FX / SB850 HIGHLIGHTS                                 MAIN                             CPU SUPPORT   AMD Phenom™ II X6 Processor AMD Phenom™ II X4 Processor AMD Phenom™ II X3 Processor AMD Phenom™ II X2 Processor AMD Athlon™ II X4 Processor AMD Athlon™ II X3 Processor AMD Athlon™ II X2 Processor AMD Sempron™ Processor Maximum CPU TDP (Thermal Design Power) : 140Watt HT   Support HT 5.2G MEMORY   Support Dual Channel DDR3 1800(OC)/1600(OC)/1333/1066/800 MHz 4 x DDR3 DIMM Memory Slot Max. Supports up to 16GB Memory EXPANSION SLOT   2 x PCI Slots 4 x PCI-E x16 2.0 Slot (x16,x16, x4, x1), support CFX x16 STORAGE   5 x SATA3 6Gb/s Connector 1 x eSATA2 3Gb/s Connector 1 x IDE Connector Support SATA RAID: 0,1,5,10 USB   6 x USB 2.0 Port 3 x USB 2.0 Header IEEE 1394   VIA VT6330 1 x IEEE 1394a Port 1 x IEEE 1394a Header GbE   Realtek RTL8111DL - 10/100/1000 Controller CODEC   Realtek ALC892 8-Channel HD Audio REAR I/O   1 x PS/2 Mouse 1 x PS/2 Keyboard 1 x eSATA2 3Gb/s Connector 1 x FireWire IEEE 1394a Port 6 x USB 2.0 Port 1 x RJ-45 Port 6 x Audio Connector 1 x S/PDIF Out Port INTERNAL I/O   3 x USB 2.0 Header 5 x SATA3 6Gb/s Connector 1 x IDE Connector 1 x Front Audio Header 1 x Front Panel Header 1 x S/PDIF-OUT Header 1 x CPU FAN Header 2 x System FAN Header 1 x Serial Header 1 x FireWire IEEE 1394 Header 1 x CIR Header DIMENSION   ATX Form Factor Dimension: 30.5cm X 24.4cm ( W x L ) OS SUPPORT   Support Windows XP / Vista / 7 ACCESSORIES   4 x SATA Cable 2 x SATA Power Cable 1 x I/O Shield 1 x CD Driver 1 x User Manual

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