MSI's 890FX-GD70 motherboard brings next-gen SATA, USB and six PCIe x16 slots

hello...

this is A.W.E.S.O.M.E ... where & when can i buy?

cheers!

Most impressive.

The chipset looks promising,what i don't understand is why MSI put covers over the heatsinks.

Umm, called me silly or something, but what would you need SIX PCIe x16 slots for? Hex-SLI (Hex-el-eye, Hex-sly) Video? or do other cards use PCIe x16 other than video?

lol good luck running SLI on an AMD chipset...

Going to be very niche. Not necessary with other GPU techs, unless you want to go... 64 monitor.

All I can think right now is how much folding@home you can do with this mobo. 6 core cpu, and ~5 gpu's. Danng.

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Why is it that MSI mobo's look great but never seem to live up to the billing?

Put 6 dual gpu cards (12 way CF) and maybe you'll be able to play crysis at full details on 6 30" lcd's using amd's eyefinity (if drivers support it). I wonder what PSU you will need for that (maybe a second PSU for video cards) and how many watts it will draw.

f*ing awesome! six undeniably remarkable pciex16slots! you can do a what..? 3x SLI/Crossfire? or a quadsli and a crossfire?haha thats nuts.. like that'll work. wait will it?

It's very nice looking. Too bad it's an AMD motherboard.

I so agree,they should put the 890FX chipset on a i5 board

New stuff like this makes me want to buy stuff I don't need. I'm good for a while with my Phenom II x3 720 and 790FX mobo, but now I want to buy a 890fx mobo and a new CPU

I wonder if that means AMD will support 6-way crossfire. But really I think it's more for flexibility, as it allows a combination of 3 cards with decent spacing or 4 dual slot cards.

great mobo, everyone must have that, carefully unpack, take hammer and nail it up to the wall

I wonder what speed they the slots will be limited to in a 6 card configuration...

1 card = 16x
2 cards = 8x
3 cards = 4x
4 cards = ????
will it follow the trend? 16 > 8 > 4 > 2 > 1 > 0.5

1) why would you run a six card setup? you can only have 4 gpu's running in SLI/Crossfire.

2) You do not lose any performance running in PCIE V2 X8 mode....you lose only minimal running in X4 for that matter.

3) the superfluous PCIE slots are for flexibility in choosing to run single slot cooling or dual slot cooling solutions.

This is why you would run a 6 or more video card setup- though gaming performance is not the idea:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/university-of-antwerp-stuffs-13-gpus-into-fastra-ii-supercompute/

Also, people do not seem to realize that PCIe slots are not restricted to use for graphics cards. Nowadays, almost every type of expansion card can be found in some form of PCIe. Having them all as full sized slots simply gives you flexibility.

^^^ Agreed.

Even 1X PCIe can be use in the 16X PCIe Slot. Not limited to GPU card only.