AMD may have launched their 9-series motherboards a couple of months ago, but that won’t stop a few manufacturers from bringing more to market when the Bulldozer-based FX-Series CPUs land, hopefully, later this month. MSI’s 990FXA-GD80 and 990FXA-GD65 have been on the market for a while now, but thanks to a post over at VR-Zone [...]
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Reviews for motherboards sporting AMD’s new 9-series chipsets (990FX, 990X, 970) and AM3+ socket are starting to roll in, so in a similar manner to our Z68 review roundup, we thought we might as well get a 9-series review roundup going that will be updated as more reviews are published. Be sure to check back [...]
Yesterday, GIGABYTE published their official product pages for the, already previewed at Motherboard News, GA-990FXA-UD7 and GA-990FXA-UD5. Well, this morning we have three more 9-series motherboards from GIGABYTE for your preview pleasure – the 990FX-sporting GA-990FXA-UD3 and GA-990FXA-D3 as well as the 990X-equipped GA-990XA-UD3.
It is looking like AMD’s upcoming Bulldozer / Zambezi / FX-series processors may see launch after motherboards sporting AMD’s 900-series chipsets launch sometime next month. The folks over at SweClockers are reporting that Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers are ready to launch their 900-series motherboards, but they have yet to use real FX-series production CPUs and have [...]
While Jetway may not be a well-known motherboard manufacturer in North America, however NewEgg does sell their products, the folks over at IT.com.cn have posted photos of one of Jetway’s upcoming AMD motherboards, which features a true black AM3+ socket and 990X chipset.
It’s motherboard season, folks! Next up we have a photograph of the ASUS M5A99X Evo leaked by Taiwanese tech site, XFastest. This AMD-based motherboard is sporting the new AM3+ black socket, the AMD 990X chipset (with SB 950) and an all-new design!
Turkish hardware site, DonanimHaber, has published a slide outlining AMD’s busy June announcement/launch schedule. We have been expecting June to be the month of Bulldozer/Zambezi/FX-series, but now it seems like it will be much more as there will also be official 900-series chipset, Fusion and Llano/Sabine announcements
File this one under “finally”! VR-Zone is reporting that NVIDIA SLI support will indeed be present on the upcoming 990-series chipsets from AMD. Flagship chipset, the 990FX, will support both 2 and 3-way SLI, while the 990X (not to be confused with the Intel Core i7 990X processor) will support 2-way SLI. Keep in mind [...]















