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Asus announces 790FX motherboard with SB750

by on29 July 2008

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The M3A79-T Deluxe

Asus has announced its first AMD 790FX/SB750 motherboard, the M3A79-T Deluxe. According to the press release, Asus has developed a new power regulation design for this motherboard that should allow it to work with 140W processors. The improvement over older 790FX motherboards is that with the new SB750, you should be able to overclock the AMD CPUs much higher.

Feature-wise, you're looking at four x16 PCIe 2.0 slots, although we're not sure how Asus has distributed the bandwidth between the slots, as the chipset doesn't support more than a dual x8 configuration, although if Asus was to throttle back the speed, it would be possible to do a four x8 PCIe 1.1 configuration. It also has two PCI slots.

Other features include a PS/2 port for the keyboard, six USB 2.0 ports, eSATA, FireWire, 7.1-channel sound with optical and coaxial S/PDIF out and Gigabit Ethernet. There's also six SATA ports, three headers for an additional six USB ports and a header for an additional FireWire port.

The chipset is cooled by a fancy heatpipe cooling system, although the largest part of it seems to reside on the power regulation area and normally the cooling here isn't as large as what Asus has put on this board.

You can find the press release and a picture here
Last modified on 30 July 2008
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