Tuesday, September 3rd 2013
ASUS Offers Full Support for AMD FX-9000 Series CPUs with Existing 990FX Boards
ASUS today announced that its existing 990FX-based motherboards all support the new flagship AMD FX-9000 Series processors at memory speeds up to 2400 MHz, without the need for a BIOS update.
The ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z, Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 and M5A99FX Pro R2.0 motherboards all feature AM3+ Socket with full support for AMD's extreme-performance FX-9370 and FX-9590 processors. With eight-cores and unlocked clock speeds up to 5 GHz, the FX-9000 Series requires incredible amounts of power and generates considerable heat - AMD recommends a 1200 W power supply and liquid processor cooling.
Existing ASUS 990FX motherboards not only take the FX-9000 Series in their stride, straight from the box, but also support rock-solid stability at memory speeds up to 2400 MHz - something that currently cannot be attained by 990FX-based motherboards from other vendors.
"ASUS is a market leader in the motherboard industry, thanks to the quality and innovation of its products," said Roy Taylor, Corp Vice President of Global Channel Sales at AMD. "The out-of-the-box support for AMD FX-9000 Series processors offered by its 990FX-based motherboards is further proof of the solid design and high-quality components for which ASUS has long been renowned. In fact it's so good, I used the same motherboard in my PC at home."
The ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z, Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 and M5A99FX Pro R2.0 motherboards all feature AM3+ Socket with full support for AMD's extreme-performance FX-9370 and FX-9590 processors. With eight-cores and unlocked clock speeds up to 5 GHz, the FX-9000 Series requires incredible amounts of power and generates considerable heat - AMD recommends a 1200 W power supply and liquid processor cooling.
"ASUS is a market leader in the motherboard industry, thanks to the quality and innovation of its products," said Roy Taylor, Corp Vice President of Global Channel Sales at AMD. "The out-of-the-box support for AMD FX-9000 Series processors offered by its 990FX-based motherboards is further proof of the solid design and high-quality components for which ASUS has long been renowned. In fact it's so good, I used the same motherboard in my PC at home."
39 Comments on ASUS Offers Full Support for AMD FX-9000 Series CPUs with Existing 990FX Boards
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You can probably cook an egg on that. :laugh:
add a waterloop etc etc 1200w isn't so overkill
I don't understand the dislike on overkill tbh, but what AMD said is laughable.
also theres been a lot of talk on the asus M5 series boards with heavy throttling on high overclocks, so I don't know how that would handle a 9590 full load?
Damn asus even branded their M5A78 to support Fx8 cores when they throttle 4core cpus.
As far as the FX-9590 power consumption is concerned the total power consumption is 220w but the TDP is closer to 165w based on testing of overclocked FX-8350 CPUs to 5.0 GHz.
Asus is talking smack as usual because most highend AM3+ mobos will support the FX-9000 series CPUs without issue, such as Gigabyte's new board, Asrocks 990FX Fatality and Extreme9, etc. This is just Asus desperately seeking sales as the PC market continues to die with the Asian, U.S and UK economies.
"Due to the high TDP, please be noted there are limitations while using this CPU(i.e. special thermal required..) "
If the person is paying $500+ for a CPU it is reasonable to assume they are also going to have at least dual graphics cards, so throw in some 7970s and you can easily hit the 900w mark. So having some headroom with a 1200w unit would be the smart thing to do.
"MORE POWA!!!!!!"
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and I agree with you tbh!