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

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Just to clarify for people that do not understand. You can plug in any PCI Express x1, x4, x8 & x16 expansion cards etc. in any PCIE x 16 slot. They are not limited to just PCIE x16 graphics cards. You can easily use a PCIE x1 SATA600 or WIFI card in a PCIE x16 slot or a PCIE x4 card in a PCIE x16 slot.

 

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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-reviews/29767-asus-crosshair-iv-formula-am3-890fx-motherboard-sneak-peak.html

 

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will be using crossfire fool