There's also 128MB of DDR3-1333 SidePort memory to go along with this. How high? How would 700MHz sound? That's equivalent to the Radeon HD 4290 found on the 890GX chipset. Speaking of which, the integrated Radeon HD 4250 on the ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 is clocked significantly higher than the 560MHz default. So, while the typical AMD 880G board could usually do Hybrid CrossFireX (currently only certified for Radeon HD 5450) with the integrated graphics, this board can actually do CrossFireX with two discrete graphics cards, including even dual-slot cards. We attribute these additions to the more than adequate PCB area, which also allows ASUS to include a second PCIe 2.0 x16 slot for CrossFireX. To drive home the point that this is a premium 880G board, other features like USB 3.0 and FireWire are found. Essentially, one gets a small performance boost for 'free' and we aren't one to say no to that.īesides the proprietary stuff, ASUS included an IDE connector onboard to supplement the five SATA 6Gbps ports and the sole eSATA port. Turbo Unlocker, which we covered in some detail here during our testing of the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, is a slight but useful, automatic overclock of any AMD Phenom II X6 processor or 'Black Edition' quad-core. Core Unlocker allows users to unlock any hidden cores on their AMD processors and is increasingly prevalent among motherboard vendors.

Among the more familiar names like ExpressGate and EZ Flash 2, are newer ones like Core Unlocker and Turbo Unlocker. The ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 is the only ATX board among the three and the extra PCB allows it to bone up on the usual proprietary features. ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3

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