may 14 2010 review by pcstats
Conclusion:
This board is a bit of a stripped version, but all-right for a media-center or HTPC, the Radeon HD 4290
supports HDMI 1.3 output and hardware acceleration for BluRay and H.264. The TA890GXE draws very little power when
combined with a low TDP processor and the retail price is very low, because of omitting the SidePort memory, no USB
3.0 support and not enough USB 2.0 ports.
Benchmarks:
SYSMark 2007, Sandra, PC Mark Vantage,3D Mark 2006, 3D Mark Vantage, F.E.A.R., Call of Juarez, Crysis, power
consumption.
Overclocking:
The reviewer went for Base Clock overclocking with a A Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition they reached a 250MHz BCLK, on
an another mobo with the 890GX chipset their result with a BCLK of 285MHz was much higher. The Radeon 4290 IGP was
OCed to 975MHz.
Compared to:
ASUS M3A78-T, ASUS M4A785TD-V Evo, ASUS M4A78T-E, ASUS M4A89GTD-Pro, ASUS P5Q-EM, Biostar TF8200 A2+, ECS A780GM-A,
Foxconn A690GM2MA, Foxconn A7DA-S, Gigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H, Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P, Intel DG45ID, MSI 790GM-E65.