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MSI's 890FX-GD70 motherboard brings next-gen SATA, USB and six PCIe x16 slots
MSI's new motherboard sticks with the company's often used black and blue color scheme. Other visible features include four DDR3 DIMM slots, a five-phase digital DrMOS, various on-board overclocking functions, and a NEC controller chip which, at the very least, handles a pair of USB 3.0 ports on the rear I/O panel.
The 890FX-GD70 is based on AMD's upcoming high-end Leo platform, which will be headlined by the company's six-core Thuban processor and consist of an 890FX or 890GX northbridge with SB850 southbridge, and Radeon HD 5000-series graphics. An exact release date for the 890FX chipset is not available, but the Thuban chips are expected to arrive in the second quarter of next year. More details will likely emerge during next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
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You are wrong it is a true gen2 board with 4- 16x slots.....
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But Musting not crap
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Where's the NB chip?
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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
Alot of people making uneducated statements like the one above. If people would educate themselves before making statements such as above, they would know that the MSI 790FX motherboard with 4 slots, the 790FX-GD70, runs Dual CrossFire at 16X+16X and Quad CrossFire at 8X+8X+8X+8X. All they had to do was look at what the previous generation chipset, the 790FX, did and have a bit of common sense to extrapolate that this will at the very least have dual crossfire of 16X+16X on two of the slots and know that no motherboard with 16X PCI-E slots that run less than 4, much less at the ridiculous suggestion of 0.5. Must be alot of Intel fans here.
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PCIe is everywhere for everything, this board makes a lot of sense, especially if it had a HyperTransport slot for a stick of GDDR5 for that IGP, or just to act as a general purpose dual-ported "L4" type of cache.
This is a great post and shows how AMD fans are more aware of technology than many mind-numbed Intel fans are. All Intel has is a CPU technology but no compelling technology to support it.
Meanwhile, AMD+ATI has very effective CPU technology, not necessarily the fastest, but far and away above just enough, and are developing great platforms to complement it.
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Its supposed to support 16x/16x/16x, 16x/16x/8x/8x, ?16x/8x/8x/8x/8x?, and ?8x/8x/8x/8x/8x/8x?. (?xxxxxx? means in theory)
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i need that MSI as u-ATX. Else i just as well go with http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-review
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will be using crossfire fool
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