http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/ Engadget Comments for AMD's new AMD 890GX HD chipset announced, reviewed, lauded http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/Mar 3rd 2010 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/Mar 3rd 2010 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/It supports simultaneously decoding multiple streams (good for picture in picture or watching 5 movies at the same time)]]>Mar 3rd 2010 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/Mar 3rd 2010 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/Mar 3rd 2010 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/I wouldn't say it's awful.The system with the AMD quad core 965 has the same idle power consumption as the dual core i5 661 PC.]]>Mar 3rd 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/
What? so in other tests the Intel HD beats a 4290 onboard gpu? I rather get the much more reliable, proven and still affordable Intel based motherboard.]]>Mar 3rd 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/Intel's newest GPUs integrated in the i3 and i5 processors are doing quite well in synthetic benchmarks (in gaming they are still way below the nVidia and AMD IGP offerings).]]>Mar 3rd 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/Intel HD Graphics is slower in key tests like Call of Duty 2 and World of Warcraft. In other tests only Core i5 661 performed as well as AMD combo and i5 price tag is over $200.]]>Mar 3rd 2010 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://techreport.com/articles.x/18539/6]]>Mar 4th 2010 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/
It also traided blows with Intel HD graphics, winning in some games, losing in others.

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3755&p=2]]>Mar 3rd 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/Mar 3rd 2010 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/
Nvidia still doesn't have a GPU that can bitstream HD audio. ATI does, but they're too lazy to stick it in a northbridge. That means that anybody who wants to build a proper HTPC is stuck using an expensive H55 board with an expensive Clarkdale chip, or spend the extra money on a discrete video card. It's madness.]]>Mar 3rd 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/
Llano will be out before the end of the year. This is probably why AMD took a shortcut with the integrated solution. ]]>Mar 3rd 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/
Of course, you could spend the extra 70 bucks or so instead of getting the 3400 and get a card that performs several times better than the both of them together. But it is an interesting concept, provides reasonable performance on a budget, and also provides a good option to drive a second display should you need it.

I hope that ATI has expanded upon this idea with the 890GX, and I'll be reading some reviews to learn more...]]>Mar 3rd 2010 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/Mar 3rd 2010 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/Mar 3rd 2010 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/I'm in the same boat, only I got mine a couple months ago. It's a great board, just don't try to use the "Hardware RAID" SATA ports (the blue ones). They're slower than the AMD controller and, in my case, caused write errors. AFAIK that's it's only problem. I'm fine with having a last-gen chipset as long as the features are the same and it supports AMDs six-core processor.]]>Mar 3rd 2010 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/amds-new-amd-890gx-hd-chipset-announced-reviewed-lauded/Apr 24th 2010 9:35AM